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Title: Download Link: https://github.com/DirkJanJansen/Pandora<p>ERP Application in PyQt5 and PostgreSQL relational database system.<p>Python3 powered. Interface: Sqlalchemy-Core.<p>Modules: Inventory, Sales, Purchase, Manufactory, Employees, Calculation, Accountancy (portal), Payroll administration, Management modules for inventory control and financial control with graphs are included.<p>For documentation and database structure see Documentation directory.<p>For instructions, installation and several screenshots see Installation directory.
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Title: Hey HN (using a throwaway account for obvious reasons, but I've been on HN for 10 years),<p>I was just recently offered a job at a FAANG company. I'm pretty excited about the company, but the only potential issue is that I have a criminal history and I'm not sure if I'll pass the background check.<p>For context, two years ago I was part of an animal rights group that would investigate factory farms and rescue sick, injured animals from them. The investigations were public, and I was indicted on felony burglary and theft charges in Utah for one rescue. I ended up pleading guilty "in abeyance" to misdemeanor attempted theft and misdemeanor riot. Because the pleas were "in abeyance", the pleas are sealed as long as I don't commit any other crimes.<p>I read up a bit about California employment law, and it seems like California companies aren't allowed to use arrest records (I technically wasn't arrested, but I did have an arrest warrant out for me and I turned myself in) and sealed court records against you. So I'm not sure if I should even bring it up. That said, I've asked a couple lawyer friends and they think I should bring it up early (though they're not specialists in employment law).<p>Any advice or lawyer recommendations would be appreciated.
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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 <i>not</i> 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,
please 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=23042616" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042616</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042617" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042617</a>
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Title: Lyft just updated all interns with an e-mail; they are cutting the internship to just 8 weeks, and slashing the hourly rate (variable amount depending on function). Not sure how to handle this...
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Title: What are some good source for learning the fundamentals and specifics of the contemporary software business?<p>What software-specific business books would you recommend?
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Title: What are some of really intellectually simulating podcasts/talks/videos you have come across. In any of the categories.
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Title: What is the best book for personal finance and investment? I am interested in how to construct a diversified portfolio for myself and would like know some credible resources. I'd love to hear your suggestions.
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Title: What are some one-man teams (i.e. sole founder without a team) that got into YC (or managed to secure seed investment) mainly due to their product/ability as a technical founder (but not so much because of their personal connections e.g. a harvard grad who knows all the angels in town, etc) and doing so without much self-capital?<p>I'm wondering whether this is even possible in 2020 (or 2021, etc) when you have almost no captial to hire people, and you are working on your start-up all by yourself, and maybe you have a product that you've worked on for a while with maybe some (none-paying) users each month - what are some good examples of one-man team like this that got into YC or have gotten seed-funded (not through crazy personal connections)?
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Title: I'm truly baffled! There are probably 1000s of consumer (B2C) SaaaS example and OSS apps in virtually all languages. But there is virtually ZERO examples or OSS projects that talk about B2B multi-tenant apps! The worst part is that even companies like Google Cloud don't provide an example.<p>What I'm looking for is: A SaaS app that allows people to create tenants (companies), and allows admin of the tenant to login and manage group of users, keep track of billing for each tenant, have super-admin who can access any tenant. But the rest of the app code is shared across the tenants.
I'm looking for code that's either in Java or JavaScript(NodeJS). Are you in the same boat as me? If not, could you please point me to something? I really appreciate that!
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Title: on occasion i've had need to send faxes. most of the time i don't have access to a fax machine and so i end up paying some service that'll let me upload a pdf and charge me $10 for 50 pages.<p>what is it about fax technology that i can't just program my phone to send a fax? what are fax machines doing that i can't emulate in software???
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Title: I often feel overwhelmed by the amount of things I either wish to know or that I should know already.<p>Be it theoretical knowledge about ML, CS, mechanics, math topics. Or lack of experience e.g in some algorithms I need to understand, control problems, programming lanuages.<p>And I really struggle to organize a propper study schedule. What should I do next? Should I continue learning this one programming language? Continue reading this ML book? Try to set up and solve some control problems? For each topic I would like to learn, I already have the right material (books, problems to solve, etc.), so at least this is not a problem.<p>Often I am so overwhelmed that I just watch stuff on youtube.<p>I wish I had a tool or found a methodology to a) stay focused on the things I want to learn and b) to somehow track my progress.<p>Are there any tools or methodologies that you can recommend? Please don't tell me "just use pen & paper", I tried and I would like something more interactive.
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Title: In 2015 at the age of 21 I got a Mechanical Engineering bachelor's degree. Afterwards I worked for two years at a place I didn't like very much and I learned some Python. Then, there was an opening at the school I graduated from for an assistant instructor and I took it. I then went on to teach in courses such as 3d modelling, FEA and transducers and electrical prototyping. I have great fun with it and learn a tonne as well as I get to interact with lots of smart and ambitious students.<p>So why leave a job like that?<p>It's mainly the pay but I also sort of fell in love with software this year. I started learning JavaScript last year, learned about databases, servers, React and Linux stuff. Loads of really exciting fun stuff!<p>So now I don't know how to transition to a software role. Many places I apply to want people who have experience in software development or they want to hire a junior for some super low pay.
I can't put the words "software developer" on my resume but I have written a lot of programs for my classes and in hobby projects.<p>It feels like nobody looks at your GitHub profile though. I've got lots of projects I've done in the last year. But maybe that's just the grind? Just need to apply to enough places?
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Title: Google was going to turn off access for LSA apps soon, and this includes IMAP for Gmail. However, with the pandemic they delayed this indefinitely.<p><a href="https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/less-secure-app-turn-off-suspended.html" rel="nofollow">https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/less-secure-app...</a><p>Since May 1st, using IMAP to access a G Suite account stopped working, though, with a message:<p>> IMAP command 'AUTHENTICATE PLAIN <authdata>' returned an error: NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)<p>I know the credentials are good because they work in the browser. Maybe an automated process somewhere kicked in?
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Title: For context, I am a university student just finished my first year, studying mathematics and a mostly unrelated humanities subject. That said, general advice in the topic is probably welcome for other readers. I was drawn to mathematics from a young age; however, in recent years my attention has been taken by my other subject. That said, I don't regret taking the course at all and I enjoy it, although some topics I prefer to others.<p>My institution gives a very significant incentive to those who excel academically in their early years. I would beat myself up if I did not use the unique opportunity of vast free time this summer to advantage myself in this regard.<p>My question is essentially for those who have experience studying the subject at university level, or self-studying to an approximately equivalent degree, with emphasis on the pure and problem-solving end over the applied. What strategies, resources, and tips would you advise for learners?<p>Also, I understand that this type of question is asked fairly regularly. Due to the nature of this forum, much has been said about approaching applications of mathematics for those in other disciplines or for the purpose of self-study. But I think that most would agree that from the outset, pure mathematics and abstract problem skills appear arcane from university-level on.
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Title: When I read academic articles or blog posts written by functional programmers it feels alien to me because of the terms used in their writing. I am not just talking about monads, monoids etc, but the general programming terminology itself is different to what I regularly hear and read as imperative OO programmer. For e.g. this sentence "abstraction over type constructors"; whenever programmers from C++, Java etc world will read that they are sure to say, "eh?!?" and fall off their chair.<p>So how does a programmer from non-functional world become fluent in understanding sentence such as "abstraction over type constructors"?
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Title: I feel like I'm seeing an increasing number of well reasoned, well written comments being downvoted here simply because folks don't agree.<p>Back in the mists of time when I signed up here I remember reading downvote etiquette is to bury comments which don't add value to the discussion. You can disagree sure, but you don't down vote based on just that.<p>Did I imagine that?<p>I fear that ever increasing downvotes are going to discourage reasoned and wide ranging discourse from both sides of the spectrum. It would be a shame if we ended up as another one sided echo chamber and we'll certainly be the worse off for it.<p>Am I the only one seeing this?
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Title: Ideally without getting fired.<p>I've voiced some of my concerns to management but that hasn't gone anywhere. I know I'm not alone amongst my coworkers in feeling concerned for Fulfillment Center (FC, Amazon's term for their retail warehouses) employees. How can we in AWS organize and campaign for better working conditions for our FC teammates?<p>This is of course inspired by Tim Bray's recent departure from Amazon (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23065782" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23065782</a>). I'm a software engineer (surprise surprise) if it matters.
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Title: It's been on my account for at least 3 years. Nothing ever seemed worthy of investing it. How does one find the confidence to invest large sums? Do you start small? How to get rid of the pressure knowing that money is just collecting dust?
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Title: Google's reCAPTCHA is everywhere, they seem to have the monopoly of checking if the user's not a robot.<p>CAPTCHA systems are essentials to the web, and it seems important to me to have a (good) FOSS alternative, but I can't find any.<p>Are all CAPTCHA closed-source to make it harder for attackers? Am I missing something?
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Title: I've been managing servers for quite some time now. At home, on prem, in the cloud...<p>The more I learn, the more I believe cloud is the only competitive solution today, even for sensitive industries like banking or medical.<p>I honestly fail to see any good reason not to use the cloud anymore, at least for business. Cost-wise, security-wise, whatever-wise.<p>What's a good reason to stick to on-prem today for new projects? To be clear, this is not some troll question. I'm curious: am I missing something?
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Title: Inspired by David Perell's tweet - <a href="https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1257484391204352002" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1257484391204352002</a>
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Title: I am using pelican to self host my blog/website. What is the best way to self-host comments?<p>What is the scope of GDPR compliance with storing these comments?
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Title: This one works for me "Picking the right thing to work on is the most important element of productivity and usually almost ignored." from Sam Altman. I take the time each day to prioritize my tasks, meetings, etc.
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Title: Related to the discussion on sticking with on-premise servers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089999) - I want to know HNers' opinions on companies that will provide dedicated servers.<p>Do people have recommendations for services they've used? Principally interested in reliability, quality of support, etc..<p>I'm looking for use in our business though experiences with personal projects would probably be useful too.
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Title: I switched careers and got into coding about five years ago and I have always wondered about this and am a little embarrassed about it.<p>Sometimes after finishing a big implementation, I just go back and read my own code ... and I like it! I feel proud that I translated some kind of abstract problem solving into a concrete solution, and somehow it works!<p>I feel like I created something that flows according to my ideas and it’s a joy to look at. Are there analogous feelings in other creative pursuits you practice?<p>Of course not everything is like this, only novel problems I encountered have potential to give this feeling, CRUD back-end endpoints are routine by now. Also I don't feel like an exceptional programmer, feel more like an impostor, so please don't read this as bragging.
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Title: Since Keybase is being acquired by Zoom (see <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102430" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102430</a>), it would be lazy to not start looking at alternatives already<p>I myself mostly use the following features from Keybase: Chat, KBFS, Git repositories and encrypting messages sent out-of-band via PGP in Keybase (and the various cryptographic tools [signing, validation etc])<p>What alternatives have the features outlined above, but are ideally either FOSS or at least not run by a for-profit company? I mainly used Keybase to make using those features easier, so please don't suggest the cli of gnupgp (or similar) as alternatives.
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Title: As a hypothetical, imagine that you are 40, and you are strapped for cash. No retirement funds or other accounts other than a checking account, and you are collecting unemployment. Your first priority may be to get a full-time job for a more stable source of income. At that age, it still doable to retire early with financial independence in 10-15 years? And do you think there is an event horizon where FIRE is no longer achievable?
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Title: I just received a DMCA takedown request for a GitHub repo of mine because my fork of EdgeFS (I started working on a Illumos / SmartOS port) uses sources of EdgeFS. Apparently Nextenta has (more then 9 months later) has come to the conclusion that they want to "un-opensource" it and want to put the OSS genie back in the bottle.<p>Is this even possible?<p>The most interesting excerpts:<p>-------------8<---------<p><i></i>Please provide a detailed description of the original copyrighted work that has allegedly been infringed. If possible, include a URL to where it is posted online.<i></i><p>After DDN’s acquisition of the NexentaEdge source code (as described above), it was renamed “EdgeFS” and was subsequently improperly open sourced under [private] without DDN’s permission.<p>-------------8<---------<p><i></i>Is the work licensed under an open source license? If so, which open source license? Are the allegedly infringing files being used under the open source license, or are they in violation of the license?<i></i><p>No. EdgeFS was improperly contributed as open source without the authorization of DataDirect Networks, Inc. or its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nexenta by DDN, Inc., the copyright owners.<p>-------------8<---------
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Title: I've been working on implementing the compile-time approach to memory management described in this thesis (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf) for some time now - some of the performance results look promising! (Although some less so...) I think it would be great to see this taken further and built into a more complete functional language.
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Title: I recently started integrating tmux and vim into my workflows. Obviously, it was a huge efficiency booster. What are some other tools (custom built or off-the-shelf), hotkeys, workflows that were game-changing for you as a dev? I'm interested in hearing about anything and everything (stuff from ctrl+l to clear the terminal to little-known git commands to larger-scale strategies like CI/CD)
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Title: I'm curious over what others website, people regularly visit in addition to NewsYcombinator? As aggregator, I finds it great, especially for topic that are out of my area.
But is there similar websites in your daily feed or blog you follow?<p>Any insight would be appreciated.<p>Cheers.
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Title: I'm familiar with tech blogs, and semi-follow a handful. Which product/design blogs does HN follow? Any recommendations? Thanks!
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Title: The obvious answer here is to reduce choices. However the past few months I am struggling hugely with anxiety which is rendering me incapable on some days to make any real progress on my goals; startup, learning & side projects.<p>When the pandemic began, and we lost our clients I have found myself in a constant state of ideation and future thinking, but once I start one of these (semi-pivots) I get worried that there is a better idea and go back to the drawing board.<p>How does one stop this process?
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Title: Hello Hacker news,<p>I have trouble writing. It is hard to get ideas out of my head onto paper. For example this paragraph I have re-written multiple times from scratch. Many of the times I do not know where to start, or how to express a simple idea effectively on paper.<p>I have been working on my side project NearBeach (https://github.com/robotichead/NearBeach) for a few years now, and I still do not know how to write it's blog posts or documentation. A good example of my skill would be the following links;<p>- Documentation https://nearbeach.readthedocs.io
- https://nearbeach.org/index.php/2020/03/10/nearbeach-beta/<p>My first opinion of my writing skill is that it does not flow and seems very UN-professional.<p>Thank you for your advice
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Title: I remembered this post from six years ago, and thought it would be good to have a post like it on HN today. It's especially important to call important people in your life today with the pandemic, both for the caller and the person (or people) being called. It may also be worth setting up a Zoom (or Jitsi Meet, or Google Hangouts, or Facebook, or another group video call service) gathering. I joined one for my little brother's birthday late last month, and it was really good for feeling connected.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728411" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728411</a>
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Title: I think keeping notes is really useful especially in a career like software engineering. How do you manage your notes or knowledge base that you build everyday
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Title: Most of my leanings fades away as time elapses, except for those which I get a chance to correlate/apply often at life. How do you manage your leanings ?
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Title: https://imgur.com/Yqh9ILg<p>I've been seeing this on multiple sites. The blue/green/purple text in the divs changes as I mouse over them
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We’re JY & Julien, co-founders of Data Mechanics (<a href="https://www.datamechanics.co" rel="nofollow">https://www.datamechanics.co</a>), a big data platform striving to offer the simplest way to run Apache Spark.<p>Apache Spark is an open-source distributed computing engine. It’s the most used technology in big data. First, because it’s fast (10-100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce). Second, because it offers simple, high-level APIs in Scala, Python, SQL, and R. In a few lines of code, data scientists and engineers can explore data, train machine learning models, and build batch or streaming pipelines over very large datasets (size ranging from 10GBs to PBs).<p>While writing Spark applications is pretty easy, managing their infrastructure, deploying them and keeping them performant and stable in production over time is hard. You need to learn how Apache Spark works under the hood, become an expert with YARN and the JVM, manually choose dozens of infrastructure parameters and Spark configurations, and go through painfully slow iteration cycles to develop, debug, and productionize your app.<p>As you can tell, before starting Data Mechanics, we were frustrated Spark developers. Julien was a data scientist and data engineer at BlaBlaCar and ContentSquare. JY was the Spark infrastructure team lead at Databricks, the data science platform founded by the creators of Spark. We’ve designed Data Mechanics so that our peer data scientists and engineers can focus on their core mission - building models and pipelines - while the platform handles the mechanical DevOps work.<p>To realize this goal, we needed a way to tune infrastructure parameters and Spark configurations automatically. There are dozens of such parameters but the most critical ones are the amount of memory and cpu allocated to each node, the degree of parallelism of Spark, and the way Spark handles all-to-all data transfer stages (called shuffles). It takes a lot of expertise and trial-and-error loops to manually tune those parameters. To do it automatically, we first run the logs and metadata produced by Spark through a set of heuristics that determines if the application is stable and performant. A Bayesian optimization algorithm uses this analysis as well as data from past recent runs to choose a set of parameters to use on the next run. It’s not perfect - it needs a few iterations like an engineer would. But the impact is huge because this happens automatically for each application running on the platform (which would be too time-consuming for an engineer). Take the example of an application gradually going unstable as the input data grows over time. Without us, the application crashes on a random day, and an engineer must spend a day remediating the impact of the outage and debugging the app. Our platform can often anticipate and avoid the outage altogether.<p>The other way we differentiate is by integrating with the popular tools from the data stack. Enterprise data science platforms tend to require their users to abandon their tools to adopt their own end-to-end suite of proprietary solutions: their hosted notebooks, their scheduler, their way of packaging dependencies and version-controlling your code. Instead, our users can connect their Jupyter notebook, their Airflow scheduler, and their favourite IDE directly to the platform. This enables a seamless transition from local development to running at scale on the platform.<p>We also deploy Spark directly on Kubernetes, which wasn’t possible until recently (Spark version 2.3) - most Spark platforms run on YARN instead. This means our users can package their code dependencies on a Docker image and use a lot of k8s-compatible projects for free (for example around secrets management and monitoring). Kubernetes does have its inherent complexity. We hide it from our users by deploying Data Mechanics in their cloud account on a Kubernetes cluster that we manage for them. Our users can simply interact with our web UI and our API/CLI - they don’t need to poke around Kubernetes unless they really want to.<p>The platform is available on AWS, GCP, and Azure. Many of our customers use us for their ETL pipelines, they appreciate the ease of use of the platform and the performance boost from automated tuning. We’ve also helped companies start their first Spark project: a startup is using us to parallelize chemistry computations and accelerate the discovery of drugs. This is our ultimate goal - to make distributed data processing accessible to all.<p>Of course, we share this mission with many companies out there, but we hope you’ll find our angle interesting! We’re excited to share our story with the HN community today and we look forward to hearing about your experience in the data engineering and data science spaces. Have you used Spark and did you feel the frustrations we talked about? If you consider Spark for your next project, does our platform look appealing? We don’t offer self-service deployment yet, but you can schedule a demo with us from the website and we’ll be happy to give you a free trial access in exchange for your feedback.<p>Thank you!
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Title: For the past year or so, I have discovered that my motivation levels are super high(relatively speaking) on a Monday morning. That is true even when I didn't really have a good week or weekend prior to that. True even when I didn't have enough sleep the night before. I am just up with a resolve to fix things that didn't go my way. I experience more of self-compassion.<p>I have heard people talk about Monday blues and have experienced it myself for several years when I was working regular tech job. Now, I work on my own startup and it's not like it is doing great esp. in current times. In-spite of that I experience the above quite often.<p>Do other people feel the same ? Is it just normal 'stuck at job' vs 'excitement at startup' effect ? How long will this last ? I feel like there is more to it. I wished I had a way of creating this effect when I was working at a job. Do people have productivity hacks to trick your brains into recreating this mid- week ? Does this effect have a name in psychology literature ?
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Title: Background:<p>I'm a CS junior (about to become a senior) and in our last year, people choose their capstone project that they work on for the entire year. For some years (say since 2017), deep learning projects completely dominate the other projects in term of number and the awards that they go on to win. I understand the principles behind it, even find it cool, but the whole inscrutable nature of it is problematic to me.
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Title: I'm looking for mind games, plot twists, brain expanding books, and literally anything that transforms me into a smarter, wiser person.
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Title: This topic seems to come up time and time again on here. As someone young and new to the industry I have only ever experienced open plan offices, so I don't really know what the alternative is like. However I'm inclined to say I don't think I would enjoy cubicles or private offices. I feel like you'd miss out on so much collaborative effort and serendipitous & spontaneous conversations with colleagues that solve problems out of the blue. I also think it's just plain isolating being on your own in a room all day. What's wrong with just putting some headphones on if you want to put your head down and do some deep, quiet work?<p>Having said all that as I admit I haven't experienced the alternative so I'm open to being convinced I'm wrong.
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Title: My company had some lateral movement which, somewhat surprisingly, resulted in me being promoted to "Lead Architect". It's just a fancy title because we don't have any other designated software architects. There was, in any case, technical responsibility that needed to be redistributed, so that's what happened, and titles shifted accordingly.<p>In the past, I had used my training budget for software architecture certifications, which was met positively by my team lead and management.<p>While I _wanted_ to take on that role _eventually_, I was surprised to have it happen so early. What are the things I need to learn ASAP? What things do I need to do? What should I study/read?
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Title: I received an email today from Skype that someone had changed the email address on an old Skype account of mine. Presumably this means that they were able to gain access to a password. There was no mechanism in the email to block the action. Next, I received an email that said "Someone started a process to replace all of the security info for the Microsoft account." Again, there was no way to block this action.<p>Both emails encouraged me to contact customer support. I did so only to be met with a request to fill out an online form with an incredible amount of personal information to verify the account. Why would I provide 10X the personal info that might then be made accessible to a user whose email address was swapped into the account with no verification at all?<p>Does anyone have any advice on how to resolve or escalate to Microsoft? Ideally the original email address on the account would be restored and more broadly, Live / Skype should update their security procedures to avoid this type of "easy to steal accounts" security policy while hard to block the stealing of accounts.<p>Any help / suggestions appreciated.
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Title: Hi guys,<p>I run a SaaS business in Canada, and I had an individual attempting to gain access to one of our customer's account illegally via social engineering (pretending that she's an employee of the customer)
I asked for her phone number as a part of verification process (completely made up), and I was able to speak with her briefly. During our phone call, she blatantly lied about being my customer's wife when I know for fact that he's single.<p>I checked out the government's website about reporting a cybercrime, but it seems to have very little resources available. Their office's closed right now, so I'll give them a call tomorrow.<p>Has anyone experienced a situation like this?
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Title: For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on / building / learning?<p>I've been making excessive amounts of bread.
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Title: With all the layoffs from Uber, Lyft, AirBnB and others, I'm guessing a lot of great people are about to build new projects and startups.<p>Want to post below what you're working on and ask for the help you need? This is about finding collaborators/cofounders, not jobs/employees.<p>I'm also starting a list of people who are working on new things & want collaborators/cofounders, or people who are ready to build but are casting about for what to work on. Post your projects and ideas and email/chat/Zoom with the people you find interesting.<p>I'm putting it behind a form so that recruiters don't jump on and spam message everyone. If you wanna get on the list, sign up here: https://bmac-design.typeform.com/to/RbA4JL
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Title: For those who are developing with Django, what are you working on / building / learning?<p>I've been building https://builtwithdjango.com and learning how to integrate Stripe.
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Title: I'm Patrick, one of the 8 mentors & founders of Mozilla's new startup incubator: Mozilla Builders (https://builders.mozilla.community). We started this new incubator out of Mozilla in order to work with & invest in developers, startups, and technology enthusiasts who are building things that will shape the internet and have a positive impact without needing to hyper focus on the bottom line. We call this our”fix-the-internet” incubator. This summer we’ll be investing $75k and $16k in teams for a summer cohort to help “fix-the-internet”.<p>Collectively we've built and sold companies, raised $$, and shipped many apps used by millions around the world. At our core we're hackers, doers, and makers. We've also seen the side of business where employees are burned out solely for the pursuit of profit, where user data is a commodity and not your privacy, where "growth at all costs" costs companies everything. We believe there's a better way!<p>We’ll be here to answer any questions people have on startups, give product feedback, advise people on how to get your first users, how to raise money, how to build for community inclusion, and in general just chat.<p>How would you “fix-the-internet”?
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Title: Is Youtube not working for anyone else? Front page isn't properly loading recommendations for me on Chrome and I clicked a post and got a 404.
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Title: Compilers are one of the few major topics that was never covered in my CS education, but I've really taken an interest in them lately. They also seem like something that really would benefit from a structured curriculum.<p>Any recommendations for an online course?
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Title: I will give some context: I'm the father of two 6 and 9 children in Madrid, Spain. The recent school lockdown, since March and until September, has made me notice even more that children education could be vastly improved, at least in the fields I know about: math and science. I'm talking about quality more than quantity, I want to show the beauty of it and motivate them to learn more. For example, we have been doing experiments with electromagnetism lately and they love them. I don't want to just concentrate on science though so ideas for history, social sciences, etc... are welcome. If you have experience about long term plans for children education that would be great also.
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Title: What are some skills required to land a job in Trading Firm especially in roles like DevOps or developing software. How can a person excel at the technologies required by these firms
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Title: Background: technical founder wondering what reading to recommend to a business focused founder for them to grok the hacker mindset. I've thought perhaps Mythical Man Month and How To Become A Hacker (Eric Raymond essay) but not sure they're quite right.<p>Any suggestions?<p>(In case it helps an analogue in the mathematical world might be A Mathematician's Apology or Gödel, Escher, Bach.)
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Title: Of all places, HN should be dark mode by default, without any of us using a plugin or specific browser. I don't want my eyes to burn when I'm browsing HN at night on my phone. Anyone?
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Title: If I simply add this to the footer of my website, does that automatically have legal authority?
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Title: Discovering unknown paths of the web seems almost impossible with google et al..<p>Are there any earch engines which exclude or at least penalize results from, say, top 500 websites?
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Title: I've been thinking about things I have to do regularly, but are not worth the time.<p>Examples for me:<p>- manual tasks I didn't have time do automate yet (technical debt)
- writing boilerplate code
- unproductive meetings to discuss things that would be 1000x more efficient over text/a document<p>These are things I do regularly and they don't make me learn or improve at the rate of more interesting stuff.<p>Are these the same for you?<p>What are you doing that you wish you weren't?
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Title: This literally came to me in the shower.<p>A couple of recruiters posed the "5 years" question to me over the past week. In earlier days I would have signaled my ambition with "general manager with P&L responsibility" or some similar sentiment.<p>Well, the years have passed. I've cycled through a series of, well frankly, shitty tech jobs. I'm relatively close to FIRE status but forge ahead whenever there's an opportunity to learn a new skill, or to be around people that I like & trust. Hopefully both.<p>My question is, why not answer the 5Y this way: "As the technical master of <this domain at this company>. Nothing more, nothing less." Because I've had it with trying to look ambitious. It's just not worth the heartburn.<p>Counterpoints welcomed.
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Title: Hey HN! I wanted to know what are some of the hard-tech (loosely defined ranging from climate tech, space exploration, autonomous systems, biotech, nuclear to name a few) blogs that you follow?<p>My understanding is that hard tech companies usually face a different gamut of obstacles while building their tech and scaling their business, namely, unproven technology, iteration rate, endless research, uncertain milestones, regulation etc.<p>Please post away!<p>PS: Reposting this because there were no comments last time but got some upvotes, indicating interest.
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Title: There are seemingly a plethora of clients for Postgres [1].<p>What client(s) do HN use day-to-day? Why have you chosen it?<p>I'm looking for recommendations to use for <i>light</i> usage. Ideally, something that would help build the schema visually.<p>[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Clients
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Title: Hi all,<p>I am a software developer and I have been a part of the software industry for almost 5 years. I have trouble developing a learning strategy.<p>In the beginning, it was easy. I needed to learn the basics of things. How to write object-oriented code in Java, how to build a docker image, how https works, basic Unix commands, etc.<p>However, now, I feel that I need to know a lot of things. When I check my current skills, future goals, and job descriptions, the list of stuff I must learn is extremely long. AWS, advanced stuff in Go, distributed system theory, databases, queue systems, Istio, other fancy CNCF tools, networking in Linux, k8s controller patterns, oncall stuff, gRPC, authentication/authorization mechanisms, managing a REST API, scaling something with zero downtime, observability etc. I am already using some of these tools/techniques in my full-time job but it is impossible to experience all of them in a position. On the other hand, as far as I see, I am supposed to know many of them.<p>I am aware that my choices are going to deeply affect my path/opportunities in the future. For example, k8s controllers are a very niche field whereas being a skillful Go developer comes with more and more opportunities. To learn the theory of fundamentals is a relatively long-term investment.<p>Additionally, my time is limited. I am already spending some part of my weekends and nights to learn something new but it is very exhausting. I literally love developing software but it doesn't seem sustainable to me in the long run if I cannot develop an efficient/focused learning strategy. I'm afraid to fall behind the industry.<p>So, what is your learning strategy? How do you plan your time to learn something new? How do you pick a subject or tool to learn?<p>p.s. I am aware that having a full-time job that teaches you a lot is the most critical part of this strategy.
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Title: Modern browsers these days are powerful things - almost an operating system in their own right. So I'm asking the community, should everything now be developed as 'web first', or is there still a place for native desktop applications?
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Title: My online activity seems to be in a loop comprise of hackernews, email check, and google news recently. It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too frequently?<p>What interesting stuff are you browsing recently?
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Title: Or put another way, what was more appealing about a non-FAANG offer that made you reject a FAANG offer?
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Title: It seems that since I had a kid my career is in decline. I am currently working from home, but prior to this I would need to be home at a specific time to watch the kid. This obviously means I have less time to spend at work. Less hours means less dedication in the eyes of management.<p>On a side note, I took parental leave last year and was basically told by a manager friend that it means a lower rating.<p>What is your experience?
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Title: I have been using open source software for a while. I feel like sometimes Open Source software is better than the proprietary ones. Since it allows you to customize and it gives you more control.<p>But the question is how do you sustain yourself while working fulltime on building/maintaining open source software<p>What are some tips to get into open source and turn it into fulltime career
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Title: I was just alerted to YouTube censoring comments critical of China. I then tested this by commenting on one of my own videos with random hotkeys that I knew would trigger anything of the sort. About 10 seconds later, my test comments were gone.<p>Edit: I posted the following comment to my video, and this was deleted too. This could not be a spam filtering false positive:<p>"The world's sanitisation problem could be helped with more recycling of chinese trash, especially in wuhan. The green waste that's turned into compost in tiananmen square is a bonus to sustainability."
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Title: I'm an independent developer and in this thread I will show you the succession of events that lead to Google ban of my app.<p>In september 2019 I decided to start developing as a fulltime project an Android app about physical events in Spain.<p>At the end of February 2020 I launched the app.<p>March 14 2020 started the confinement in Spain. Weeks later I decided to pivot the app to include online events, movies and tv shows ranking of online streaming platforms.<p>This May 2020, I launched the update and reoriented the app as a Things to do app (Only available in Spain). So I used the following description of the app:<p>Title: "Tintodo - Things to do"<p>Short description: "The best things to do, online events and movies"<p>Full description:<p>"Are you thinking of things to do when bored? Or are you planning what to do tomorrow? With this app you can discover online events and movies from your favourite online platforms.<p>Find out online events in your quarantine like activities, meetups, cooking recipes, business and networking events. You can also filter the types of events and if they are free or paid events.<p>Thanks to this app, you will never be bored tonight. You have a ranking of the best movies in all online movie platforms, which will allow you to enjoy this confinement and is one of the main sources of things to do in your free time.<p>Note: We don’t play movies in this app. This app allows you to browse movies in your favorite platform, some of the movies are free, some not, the owners of those platforms are the ones who own the rights of the movies."<p>17 May 2020, Google suspended my app for using keywords related to COVID-19.<p>This is my case, but in a near future, how I can advertise my users or future users that my app behaviour is different due to COVID, I have no chance. 8 months developing that lead to a suspension for using covid words, at least, It's not 9 years like the Podcast Addict app.
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I have a question.<p>One of Julia Evan's posts give amazing tips like maintaining a brag document. It's a log of every workday with a short description of what you have done that day [1]. When your performance review comes around, you can remember exactly what you did! There was a more debated, but in my mind interesting, post about a career cold start algorithm [2].<p>I am wondering, are there other tips that I should think about when one just joined a startup and had their first day?<p>I created a reflection document. I state what I did, what I thought went well and what could go better as I think it's more effective than a brag document as it helps with more processes (your own reflection, retrospectives and performance review). I also read the whole discussion on the career cold start and made my own variant of it. I call it: meet everyone one on one and get to know them.<p>One nuance: the place where I started, Triply [3], is seemingly not a pure startup. IMO, it is transforming to a scale-up, as they are looking for developers.<p>It made me realize that the tips might differ on the startup, scale-up and corporate level. So I wonder if people think whether there are certain tips that pertain only to a certain company size. Or how do things differ from US vs EU vs Asia vs <categories I forget>?<p>Second nuance: I know it's tough for some during the corona lockdown. It's one of the reasons why I mention that they are hiring. I hope it helps someone/somewhat.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20665225" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20665225</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16550270" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16550270</a><p>[3] triply.cc, based in Amsterdam. The name pertains to linked data (triple stores). But I like to think it pertains to "three times is a charm!" :D
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Title: If you had to choose 1 HN post, that you think every other HN visitor should read, which one would it be?<p>My suggestion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943749
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Title: Hey i heard about the Podcast Addict app, this is sad news for all of us, because the bots are banning everything that could be a reference to COVID-19 which is quite a hyprocrytical move. They changed their whole Google Hangout app to become Google Meet to profit of the virus.<p>I designed a game about the Pandemic in January 2017, i was slowly developing it being inspired by Reigns and Plague Inc.<p>After the COVID happened i continued my work on the game and released the game on 5th of April 2020 after successfull appeal to pre-release ban. I even successfully ran Google and Facebook ads for the game Pre-Register period.<p>Then after a week the game was banned. I appealed again couple of times but without a success. Now Google Play don't even reply to my emails.
Finally i decided to release the game on Steam, it will be available on 20th May. I put almost a 6 months of work on this game and i felt that i lost all this time because of this unfair ban, but i'm glad i can release the game on Steam without any problem or censorship attempts.<p>Also i want to emphasize that the game does not contain any COVID-19 references, nor any medical advices nor any propaganda. I designed it to be an universal pandemic/virus game. There are no words like corona, covid, or anything similar.<p>Screenshots with proofs that i'm saying the truth:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1RGfllIgAS5hJ2cHhWsmhaotb8H0FgrHy<p>Source Code from 2018
https://bitbucket.org/PassengerMan/samples/src/master/Cpp/PANGameplayTypes.h
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Title: Some MVNOs are offering plans as low as $6/mo. The only reason I'm keeping my cell is to make calls. Now I think by switching to a cheaper plan, I can save at least $30/mo. Have you done this? If it's not too much to ask, can you say which plans work better for calls?
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Title: I have gone through initial chapters of "Practical Common Lisp"[1] and "Loving Common Lisp" [2], and have a bit of intuition on lisp, and the power of macros. Haven't done any projects yet, but was also researching on real issues faced by adopting lisp, and ran into articles about abandoning lisp [3], adopting lisp [4],[5]. Could not find anything more recent; but what they mention in these articles - even the ones that are adopting lisp talk about issues like:<p>* poor ecosystem of libraries - few gems, most other half-baked<p>* poor community coordination<p>* Dependency management limitations with quicklisp<p>And some specific red flags like:<p>* poor support for json[6]
* poor support for async<p>* have to restart the server every 20 days because of some memory leak [3]<p>* hack to tune GC [5]<p>If you are using lisp in production for non-trivial cases,
do these issues still exist? is there a way you can quantify effort is resolving them, and if yes, what is it?
and, finally, if you had to re-do your project, would you chose lisp or something else?<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp/read#quicklisp" rel="nofollow">https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp/read#quicklisp</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/why-turtl-switched-from-lisp-to-js/" rel="nofollow">https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/why-turtl-switched-from-...</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/why-deftask-chose-common-lisp/" rel="nofollow">https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/why-deftask-chose-common...</a><p>[5]: <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-production/" rel="nofollow">https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p...</a><p>[6]: <a href="https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/#s48-st-json" rel="nofollow">https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/#s4...</a>
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Title: Currently I'm working on a project on a consultancy basis for a large enterprise. There's a lot of talk about private clouds, private endpoints, virtual networks, security zones and a lot of things I've never really come into contact with as a regular application developer. I'd like to understand more of the problems we're facing so I can participate in the discussions.<p>What are some good resources for learning about enterprise networking and security?
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Title: Seeker of logic programmers!
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Title: Hey HN! I'm Andrew, one of the makers of Satchel. (<a href="https://satchel.com" rel="nofollow">https://satchel.com</a>). We write SaaS buying guides. We vigorously test products in different SaaS categories, write reports about our findings, and then try to identify the best product for a typical early-stage startup. Along the way, we uncover and share info that should be obvious (but isn't), and point out any caveats and pitfalls you might encounter.<p>We're like The Wirecutter / Consumer Reports for SaaS, minus the affiliate links / paywall (more on this later).<p>There's a real information problem in B2B software. Without prior experience, it's hard to know how to evaluate a product, figure out what differentiates it, learn all relevant background, and compare against alternatives. Many times, it's difficult even to decipher what exactly a product does. As a buyer, you're often in the position of having to make a high-quality decision on something you're far from being an expert on. If you're anything like me, you often don't even know what you don't know.<p>There are plenty of crowd-sourced review sites out there, but they usually all end up filled with 5-star reviews that boil down to "I used <i>X</i> [and only <i>X</i>] and it was good." There is also an abundance of startup tool lists and directories, yet the problem is less about seeing what tools are out there and more about figuring out which one to use.<p>We're taking a different path, one that others have tended to avoid. We do hands-on testing and write in-depth long-form for each category of tools (with plenty of summaries to make it useful even when skimming), which can't be replaced with code (even though we, as engineers, sincerely wish that weren't the case). We're not reliant on vendors, so we can say what we actually think about a product, both upsides and downsides, instead of being pressured to normalize everything we say around "pretty good."<p>I see us as fundamentally helping you do something akin to time/information arbitrage. If lots of startups are each spending, say, ten hours doing the exact same research and testing, why doesn't someone spend 100 hours doing that research and then freely distribute the results? Everyone would save time yet get higher quality information.<p>Right now, we have three longform guides geared towards startups just starting out: store of money (<a href="https://satchel.com/store-of-money" rel="nofollow">https://satchel.com/store-of-money</a>), incorporation service (<a href="https://satchel.com/incorporation" rel="nofollow">https://satchel.com/incorporation</a>), and web analytics (<a href="https://satchel.com/web-analytics" rel="nofollow">https://satchel.com/web-analytics</a>). We have preliminary results (but not full writeups) for a lot more categories at <a href="https://satchel.com/handbook" rel="nofollow">https://satchel.com/handbook</a>.<p>We don't expect to support ourselves financially in the same way as The Wirecutter (affiliate program) or Consumer Reports (paywall). Affiliate programs are mostly conflict-of-interest-free when rates are standardized across products (e.g. via Amazon for consumer goods), but are a lot harder to execute properly in a fragmented market like B2B software's. I'm also personally opposed to paywalling our work (I spent a lot of my formative years as a bio researcher, and I'd sincerely claim that open-access was a saving grace). Instead, we think there are ways we can increase the efficiency of the SaaS procurement/purchasing process, and intend to monetize there based on value-add.<p>We would love to hear your feedback and your experiences with B2B software. I'm personally excited to be sharing this with HN, and I'll be here to answer any and all questions you want to throw my way!
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Title: I’ve recently changed job and now I am basically swamped in MSOffice documents. This makes collaboration very hard: people are fearful you’ll touch their precious files, there are manual procedures to produce “gold” documents, fixing a typo is an ordeal, and if the same slide is present in 15 Powerpoint decks any edit will require tons of mindless and error-prone copypasting... it made me realize how good developers have it with git, github, and the likes.<p>Is there anything out there, capable of working with MSOffice stuff in a granular and collaborative way? I can’t believe non-geeks have lived like this for 30 years.
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Title: Visual programming seems to unlock a ton of value. Difficult concepts can more easily be grokked in a visual form. Programming becomes more approachable to first-timers. Since text is difficult to manipulate without a physical keyboard, visual programming opens the doors to doing development on mobile devices. And yet it only seems to be mainstream in education (i.e. Scratch). Why?
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Title: The Fed seems to have no issue printing money to prop up financial markets. What is stopping them from printing what we need to fund the entire government? Is there a reason why we still pay taxes?
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Title: As my mother ages (she's 89) her hands are getting quite shaky, and she's finding it more difficult to use her iPhone. I've been looking through the Touch settings in Settings > Accessibility, such as Touch Accommodations, but I'm a bit confused by the number of variables.<p>Her hands don't shake so much yet that she triggers Shake To Undo, it's more about things like the screen detecting the start of a swipe when she wants to do a long press. I also think Touch ID can be a bit confused by slightly shaky fingers.<p>I'd really value guidance from people who've gone through the same process, either with relatives or themselves, whether through age or conditions like Parkinsons, so I can at least have a starting point to work from.<p>She recently bought one of the new iPhone SEs, but I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to get an XR with FaceID to avoid issues with TouchID.
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Title: One of my friends was working in call center. Now due to stay at home orders, he's been asked to stay home without any pay.<p>Please suggest some ways to generate income.
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Title: Given that Facebook, Google, Twitter, Shopify, Coinbase, and many more companies are announcing long term plans to allow for vastly more remote positions, what do you think the effects will be to:<p>* The economy overall?<p>* High priced localities (SV, SF, NYC, Seattle, etc)?<p>* Rural economies?<p>* Engineer pay?<p>* Workers on visas, H1Bs?
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Title: Is there any tools that can make making CRUD apps easier ?<p>It should allow creating forms for data input and updates and it should be preferably open-source.<p>I am thinking more like metabase for creating dashboards, does any such tool exists ?<p>I am using Rails currently
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Title: After 10 years of Frontend Development, I think I quit. What the HELL happened? I did some Vue.JS dev for a couple of years, (thank god Vue exists) but recently decided to dive into React & its' ecosystem. Is this: <a href="https://material-ui.com/styles/basics/#hook-api" rel="nofollow">https://material-ui.com/styles/basics/#hook-api</a> considered progress? I think I know what happened. Many ex-backend devs entered the field and being unable or impatient enough to understand and do CSS properly, decided to inline and JavaScripIze everything. Then came the Educators, the Wes's, the eggheads, the Public Speakers, Facebook and the like, and managed to convince the world all this is a good thing. I spent half an hour looking into the Material UI documentation trying to figure out how to add proper styles. This is sad. Fuck all of it.
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Title: Hello HN community,<p>I permanently deleted my Facebook account about 2 years ago. Sometime in April, my wife and some family members asked me whether I had reactivated my Facebook account. To my surprise, the account had all the previous pictures and posts, even though Facebook promises to delete all your data after 30 days (I believe) of asking them to delete your account.<p>I've been searching around, and it seems Facebook does not have any sort of customer support. I have clearly not logged into the account, as I don't remember the password for such account.<p>What should I do?
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Title: Haven't heard anything about it in a while. Do you still use it or stopped using it. Why?
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Title: I'm a serial information hoarder, and often use screenshots in order to store comments, passages and fragments of conversations I find useful or insightful. This works well if I want to reference something recent, but obviously doesn't scale well. I'd like to integrate these into my personal archive, but don't know any frameworks (preferably for Go, Node, or Python) which could automatically extract the text from the images while retaining its formatting. I'm not against doing some image preprocessing myself, but I don't feel comfortable passing the images to a 3rd party service, since a portion of the images contain private or sensitive information that I can't readily sort out of my collection.
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Title: I feel my team was way more productive when we all were whiteboarding together when designing new solutions.<p>Recently I have been day dreaming about VR whiteboards and tablet assisted whiteboards as I feel the tactile sense of a pen would help.<p>What are you using today?
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Title: For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job<p>1. Hasura
2. Strapi
3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
4. Integromat
5. Appgyver<p>There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves.<p>What's on your 'to watch' list?<p>[1]<a href="https://hasura.io/" rel="nofollow">https://hasura.io/</a><p>[2]<a href="https://strapi.io/" rel="nofollow">https://strapi.io/</a><p>[3]<a href="https://www.forestadmin.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forestadmin.com/</a><p>[4]<a href="https://www.appgyver.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.appgyver.com/</a><p>[5]<a href="https://www.integromat.com/en" rel="nofollow">https://www.integromat.com/en</a><p>[6]<a href="https://nodered.org/" rel="nofollow">https://nodered.org/</a>
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Title: Fortunately this email made it through my spam filter. Looks like they want to take on LinkedIn and are planning to seed it by making existing accounts public unless you opt OUT within the next week:<p>Hey [redacted],<p>I’m excited to announce that we are expanding the reach of your Triplebyte profile. Now, you can use your Triplebyte credentials on and off the platform. Just like LinkedIn, your profile will be publicly accessible with a dedicated URL that you can share anywhere (job applications, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc). When you do well on a Triplebyte assessment, your profile will showcase that achievement (we won’t show your scores publicly). Unlike LinkedIn, we aim to become your digital engineering skills resume — a credential based on actual skills, not pedigree.<p>The new profiles will be launching publicly in 1 week. This is a great opportunity to update your profile with your latest experience and preferences. You can edit your profile privacy settings to not appear in public search engines at any time.<p>Our mission is to build an open, valuable, and skills-based credential for all engineers. We believe that allowing Triplebyte engineers to publicly share their profiles and skills-based credentials will accelerate this mission.<p>Thanks,<p>Ammon
Co-founder & CEO, Triplebyte
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Title: I'll quit my CTO position in a few months to become a Freelancer.
I know personal branding is an important part of the job to get customers.<p>In short: what do you do for that?<p>* Where do you ensure to be visible? LinkedIn, personal website, etc?<p>* Do you create and post content (blog, LinkedIn groups, etc.)?<p>* What content about you do you emphasize to find leads?<p>* Do you use your own name, or a company name?<p>* Did you chose to brand yourself a generalist Freelancer ("I'm a developper working with X and Y languages") or a specialist one ("I can be a CTO as a service building your MVP for your startup and help recruiting and train your team")<p>Thanks for sharing your tips and experience.
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Title: How to stay focused is a recurring topic on HN. But my problem is more of how to set goals.<p>While I don't expect a definite answer that fits everyone, I'm interested in how others set their goals and believing in them without being distracted / giving up midway.<p>Goals can be side projects, startup ideas, hobbies etc. I tend to be tempted to try many different sorts of things at the same time outside work, and ultimately achieve very little.
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Title: I'm writing a client library for my favorite project management app's API, in PHP. Are there any best practices that I can follow? Can you recommend a good example of such a library (either written by the API provider themselves or by a third party) that I can learn from?<p>Doesn't need to be in PHP - Java, JS etc works too
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Title: I’ve seen a few Elixir success stories posted here recently. Virtually all comments are from raving fans that have nothing but the best to say about Elixir.<p>As someone with primarily a Ruby / Rails background, I’m choosing a language for a new API project and considering Elixir. I’m interested in hearing some counterpoints to Elixir, especially in how a smaller ecosystem Of 3rd party libraries slowed down development.
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Title: I'm reacting to the Tell HN regarding Triplebyte [0]. A lot of people seem concerned for their job safety if they are suspected of job hunting, and I'm wondering if anyone has specific anecdotes regarding this.<p>[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837
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Title: Link: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/</a>
Old Reddit Link: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/</a><p>Hi HN,<p>Inspired by this post earlier this week: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237559" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237559</a>, I thought we could make blog discovery easier by having a place to find interesting, unusual, niche, or really any kind of non-marketing blogs that are posted by the people that write them.<p>There are a ton of interesting blogs on the web, probably more than there were when the web was new, but even though there's more they're a smaller percentage of the total internet and hard to find.<p>Search engines fail to help with this for a lot of reasons. They're both <i>not</i> incentivized to find this kind of non-ad, non-sales content, and there are lots of sophisticated actors trying to game search engines to show their own content.<p>Regular people just writing interesting blogs who don't have an interest in SEO will be lost in that shuffle.<p>HN and Reddit are great for link aggregations, but rely on submissions and upvotes which skew things to more generally popular content. The volume of posts also make it hard to compete (even though I really like HN and find the content interesting).<p>The restriction to only allow posts from the authors of the blogs should help and the writer can interact with the community.<p>The end goal is to generate a wiki on Reddit reminiscent of old 90s 'portal' pages with curated links to interesting content.<p>We have a small initial community from my HN comment on that other post (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239999" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23239999</a>), but if you write a blog and want to join please do!
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