prompt
stringlengths 16
15.6k
| completion
stringlengths 4
6
|
|---|---|
Title: What are your favorite blogs run by individual people?<p>For example, some of the ones I like are:<p>- <a href="https://jvns.ca/" rel="nofollow">https://jvns.ca/</a><p>- <a href="https://www.joshwcomeau.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.joshwcomeau.com/</a><p>- <a href="https://ciechanow.ski/" rel="nofollow">https://ciechanow.ski/</a>
Upvote: | 819 |
Title: It’s pretty clear that microservices have fallen out of favor on HN. As someone who’s currently experiencing pain on both sides pro and con here, I’m curious to learn more about the argument. Is there more to it than “you’re not Google, don’t act like Google” for small startups? How about companies that are scale?
Upvote: | 41 |
Title: I'm not new to the field and I have nearly a decade years of experience under my belt. I'm currently job hunting and decided I'm not gonna shy away from LeetCode type of interviews as before (I used to refuse to proceed with any company that had this as part of their interview process) and actually give it a shot.<p>As I'm doing some Hackerrank/LeetCode exercises, I'm actually enjoying solving these puzzles. I'm wondering if anyone who went through this prepping for an interview ended up being technically better overall. I know that I rarely needed this kind of skill in my career, but also I'm wondering if there were cases where I did need them and I didn't know.<p>Cheers!
Upvote: | 137 |
Title: What are your favorite resources to improve your SEO and google rankings?<p>For example, some of the ones I like are:<p>- https://www.goldhatseo.com/<p>- https://ahrefs.com/blog/<p>- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNEsahyXxNJvYNsMhru-UzQ
Upvote: | 63 |
Title: Hey HN! I'm Andrew, a solo founder building a free, easy-to-use visual editing app called NextUX (<a href="https://nextuxdesign.com/" rel="nofollow">https://nextuxdesign.com/</a>).<p>NextUX makes it easy to design your website or web app collaboratively with your team. Hacking a design together in the browser can be a much faster way to do this than making changes to a pixel-perfect file using professional design applications.<p>With NextUX, you work on your design in your browser, then share feedback and sketch options by capturing screenshots and adding comments and markup on top. You then share your iterations through a direct link. It is entirely browser-based, including an extension that does the screen capturing: <a href="https://nextuxdesign.com/screen-capture/" rel="nofollow">https://nextuxdesign.com/screen-capture/</a>. There's a video on that page showing some examples.<p>NextUX works with any existing website or web app and includes simple tools to cut up your currrent design, rearrange it, and add elements. You can also create designs from scratch and share them with anyone. You can pick permissions to control who you share with. And that's about it!<p>I worked as a designer in Silicon Valley for a decade at large tech companies and startups—most notably as Flexport's first designer. Through this time, I've seen how websites and apps evolve and how tools can help or hinder development. Current design tools are overkill for quick fixes, small features, and fast iterations. Digging through layers and nested components of someone else's complex design file just to explore a simple change takes too much time, even for experts.<p>Also, many design contributions are made by non-experts—people without "design" in their title. PMs, engineers, founders, and others have valuable ideas that should be articulated visually, but instead get buried in long emails. Meanwhile the actual designs are accessible only in expert editing programs. This is a tools problem! I want to flatten the learning curve of design tools, so everyone can visualize their ideas and share them with each other directly.<p>I originally went through YC in the summer of 2019 and was encouraged to pivot after running into considerable roadblocks. As the pandemic hit and the world locked down, I had a lot of time to think about the issues I've encountered as a designer. During this time, I helped dozens of startups by reviewing their UX and providing advice. I learned a lot about how these companies approached design and what I could build to help them.<p>My goal is to help teams create, collaborate, and communicate visually and make it all much faster. I like to think of it as "scratch paper for the web". Even with just 'scratch paper' you can get pretty close to professional-quality designs, made stronger by the fact that the entire team has been able to work on them.<p>There are free templates at <a href="https://nextuxdesign.com/free-resources/" rel="nofollow">https://nextuxdesign.com/free-resources/</a> that you can duplicate and use, and which are good starting points for poking around the product. They include a simple design system, web form UI, and card design wireframe components. I will be updating this page with more templates and resources over the coming months. Stay tuned!<p>I'd appreciate your feedback on the app, and invite you to share your thoughts and experiences on how to streamline design iteration and feedback. Thank you!
Upvote: | 77 |
Title: My father-in-law passed away three days ago. As it happens with these things, it was too soon. It's always too soon. He was like a second father to me.<p>He had a career in the Italian navy, a retired Admiral. He was a great storyteller, and had a tough and difficult character, but lots of good things, deep inside. Full of integrity, honorable.<p>Thankfully we moved back to Italy a few months ago after a dozen years abroad, and spent this time mostly with him and his wife, in their hometown, Venezia. I can't imagine what it would be if we stayed in San Francisco, and this death happened at distance.<p>Does any of you have a time machine at hand? Both me and my wife would like to tell him how much we love him, and hear his great stories one last time.<p>Missing that, any suggestion on how you coped with death?<p>It is not my first time; but it is the first time in the last decade or so. I know, I'm lucky.<p>One last thing: I don't want to just "ask", but I'd like to contribute something. This is my suggestion for you, actually my prescription for you: if you still have parents, or parents-in-law that you really love, invite them out for dinner, and ask them to tell you stories of their past. Then, before saying goodbye, tell them how much you love them. One day, far away in the future I hope, you will thank me.
Upvote: | 263 |
Title: Hello,<p>I'm a developer and I struggle to "get a life".<p>My job is my passion. And this is the problem.<p>I spend my weekend thinking about bugs I have to solve and most of the time trying to learn a new language/framework.<p>Sometimes It just doesn't feel right especially when you hear some colleagues talking about their weekend in the mountains or just hanging out with their friends.<p>While it's satisfying to be up-to-date and having a certain level of expertise, I really feel that I'm not enjoying life but instead just working all the time.<p>Question : Did anyone have that issue ? How did you manage to disconnect from work and forget about it during free time ?
Upvote: | 83 |
Title: Trying to figure out what to upgrade to...Is anyone running any adjustable frames out there?
Upvote: | 84 |
Title: Many people here like to think HN is some bastion of intellectual conversation, and it is to some extent, but it's still a social network. Or maybe just a social space, because there isn't much of a network since profiles aren't used much.<p>Post titles are a jumping off point to socializing, and generally reading the article isn't necessary to converse with strangers on the internet. I won't write more, you probably won't read it :)
Upvote: | 90 |
Title: I have recently finished interviews for Frontend dev role with a remote company and expect a decision from them by next week. During my first interview with the HR I set an expectation of $40 for my hourly rate. But during my subsequent interview with the CTO, he complained about my hourly rate and said that it was too high compared to your skillset and expertise. I deliberately pitch too high in the start so I can get away with a good deal later.<p>The interviews are over, right now it is not guaranteed they will go with me. But assuming they give me an offer, I have a feeling they will offer me some where around $30/hr (just this rate, no other compensation) for this position which I am happy to accept.<p>The question is, when they offer me with a lower rate how should I deal with the situation so that I don't loose the position and get away with the best deal?<p>P.S The company is US-based with a development team spread all across the globe. I am from South Asia and even $30/h is a very big deal.
Upvote: | 177 |
Title: One day I would like to try to build a business. There is lots of information how to do it good, which to some extent come with survivorship bias. But we can also learn from mistakes. So could you tell me: Why did your business fail?
Upvote: | 51 |
Title: With Google ending its free photo storage policy in a few days[0], I'm considering switching to another service. I've poked around a few recommendation sites[1], but am curious to know if anyone has suggestions for new and/or under-the-radar services they would recommend?<p>[0] <a href="https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-changes/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-changes/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.techradar.com/how-to/best-google-photos-alternatives-in-2021" rel="nofollow">https://www.techradar.com/how-to/best-google-photos-alternat...</a>
Upvote: | 362 |
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.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/" rel="nofollow">https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/</a>.
Upvote: | 113 |
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.
Upvote: | 101 |
Title: Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that 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=27355390" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355390</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355391" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355391</a>
Upvote: | 365 |
Title: In reaction to a post yesterday [1], I was wondering how HN readers are organizing their life and work as it was a frequent answer to the « desktop problem ».<p>More precisely, how do you identify and formalise your workflow ? Are there tools for that ? Once you have your workflow, how do you consistently stick to an organization ?<p>[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27344010
Upvote: | 72 |
Title: Is your job terrible? Would a sense of relief wash over you if you didn't need to come in tomorrow?<p>Talk about it with your friend, the internet!
Upvote: | 74 |
Title: Hi all,<p>Been experimenting a lot with Mobile development recently and learned Flutter. I am currently trying to build a collectibles app for games like Pokemon Go. Was curious to see what you guys are up to these days!
Upvote: | 77 |
Title: Hello HN, I’m supposed to answer the above question to a group of HS students and would love to get HN’s collective wisdom.<p>And just to be precise the point isn’t to expand their horizons or show them other ways to measure success etc, just what to work on to get rich in 2021 as young people seem very confused with the current landscape.<p>Thanks.
Upvote: | 43 |
Title: When I started programming as a kid, I had a Commodore 64 and later an amiga 500. Those machines came with very simple software and expected you to write some, rather than giving you thousands of pre-made packages to learn and play with.<p>A lot of existing software was video games. They were much simpler than those people play nowadays but they were still a lot of fun. Part of the fun was low latency.<p>I started working on a gaming console based on the raspberry pi that would have the kind of low latency that older home computers and gaming consoles had, and found a way to do that.<p>At some point, I realised that users would want to use a keyboard, read and write files, connect to the internet, stuff that is taken for granted with computers today.<p>So I wanted not to run on bare metal anymore, I needed an OS. Writing one from scratch would take me years and it probably would not be as good as an existing one.<p>But existing desktop operating systems tend not to be good for games, as they introduce latency and are able to stop a game at any time to do some other task, which can result in stuttering that the game developers cannot fully control or avoid.<p>I modified the OpenBSD kernel for the raspberry pi with gaming related extensions, in such a way that when the game runs there is no latency and no stuttering.<p>A game on my own fork of OpenBSD has the same performance of the bare metal code that I have written previously. And it can do file I/O, connect to the net and all that kind of stuff.<p>And when you quit the game it's just like normal OpenBSD so you can program it and make games yourself, browse the web and do all sort of stuff.<p>I am thinking that other people may want to have something like that, both for nostalgic reasons and for learning programming, so I thought of asking around and, if enough people like the idea, turn this into a product.
Upvote: | 65 |
Title: I am thinking about changing my job to fully remote as pandemic is nearing its end, and I am trying to find the list of companies that went fully remote so I can apply to those companies. Thank you
Upvote: | 81 |
Title: Edit:<p>What is your playbook for building a profitable SaaS without taking outside investment(debt or equity)? And how much time it took to reach profitablility?
Upvote: | 69 |
Title: So, I am working on a side project and the way I deploy my (golang) application is basically:<p>- build binary<p>- copy binary, config files and static assets to the production server<p>- do blue green deployment (with nginx) to get zero-downtime deployment<p>- profit<p>(This is automated of course! I use Ansible, and I can easily rollback if needed. I can also deploy the same app to multiple machines if needed).<p>On my local machine I use Docker to test the Go code, but I don't really see the benefit of deploying my Go app in a container. My colleage told me "it's easier to deploy Docker containers. You just pull the image and voila!". I don't see how my approach could be "more complicated". Also, isn't my approach better in terms of performance? If my golang app runs "bare metal" instead of via a container, then sure the performance should be better, right?
Upvote: | 41 |
Title: If you google “tank man” and click on images in Bing and DDG either nothing shows up (Bing) or unrelated photos shows up (DDG). Images show up in Google.<p>What does HN make of this? I would think that Bing/DDG would have separate search results in China so I’m quite surprised to see this happening outside of China.
Upvote: | 560 |
Title: Hey everyone, we’re Thomas and Raj, cofounders of inBalance (inbalanceresearch.com).
inBalance forecasts electricity price, demand, and generation by source up to 72 hours
ahead, helping utilities and independent power producers utilize their responsive assets
such as energy storage, backup generators, flexible demand, etc more efficiently.<p>We met playing ultimate frisbee in Cambridge, UK, and quickly found common interests in
statistics and optimization. Thomas had previously worked on wind turbine placement
problems, providing experience with power markets, and we discussed them but didn't see
an immediate entry point, so Thomas continued his statistics PhD and Rajan worked in ML
research and GPU algorithm design at a startup.<p>A year ago we heard of a need for better wind power forecasts and started to look at the
market more closely. We found a gap emerging from the increase in the prevalence of
storage, especially lithium-ion, grid-scale batteries. It seemed like an interesting and useful
real-world application of machine learning, particularly with the possibility of reducing carbon
emissions, so once the business case looked tenable, we decided to go ahead!<p>Electrical power markets have become increasingly volatile due extreme weather events and
increased prevalence of intermittent renewables. In response to this, producers are bringing
on more flexible generation assets such as batteries to even out fluctuations in supply, and
electrical consumers are aiming to increase their ability to modulate demand to better take
advantage of cheap intermittent power. These assets don't fit into the day-ahead markets
designed for mostly traditional steam power plants, making it difficult to choose when to use
them. Our forecasts help traders better align their use with power availability, who now do so on gut feeling or low-quality coarse-grained forecasts. We hope this
will increase the value enough to make transitioning to renewables more financially
appealing.<p>Most standard machine learning approaches struggle in particular with price forecasting due
to the limited data, large number of factors, heavy-tails, high noise, and underlying
complexity; even given the bids for each producer and consumer, solving for the prices
across a power network taking into account transmission, energy balance, and AC power
flow constraints relies on an NP-hard mixed-integer programming problem that can take
hours to solve. Of course in reality we don't even know the bids ahead of time, and we still
haven't won the battle against the heavy tails today!<p>Our pilot experiences with a major East Coast utility looking to trade power, a major New
England utility managing their demand response program, a battery storage operator in
Texas, and a wind trader in Texas, have shown us that every participant has differing needs
for their particular asset collection, so we dedicate time to each of our customers to make
sure that the product is tailored to their needs. Along the way we've developed a generic
forecasting system tuned for power markets to speed up customization, but we know we
have a long way to go before we support the full range of forecast granularity, location,
range, risk metrics etc we've heard interest for.
With over 3000 market participants operating in open electricity markets (including Texas,
California, New York, New England, and the mid-Atlantic), we’re hoping to hit 7 figure
revenue within the next year.<p>We need huge amounts of storage to facilitate a transition to zero carbon grids long term, so
we hope to minimize risk and maximize the reward for building new storage assets.<p>We’d love to hear your thoughts, questions, and comments!
Upvote: | 55 |
Title: I have been tasked with getting traffic from AWS, to a colo, and out through a private link to a third party. I am a bit out of my depth here. How can I quickly learn to design and configure networks? I learned the basics of networking in university, and can work my way around all of the cloud provider networking primitives.<p>However, this seems like a different beast. I need to learn about cross-connects, DHCP, ARP, BGP/ASNs, firewalls, etc. The reason I have found this difficult so far is that educational content I am discovering falls roughly into two categories:
1) Network programming, i.e how to use Unix sockets and system calls
2) Virtual networking, i.e AWS/GCP networking primitives which are useful and important but I believe I need to go further.<p>I am not exactly sure where to start and am hoping for some direction. A Cisco certification course? An MIT OCW networking 101 course? I have limited time and am looking to become simply proficient and provisioning and configuring to get my team unblocked.<p>Thank you so much in advance.
Upvote: | 50 |
Title: Being very good at writing and speaking are very valuable skills that come in handy in all situations in life.<p>What books have you read or want to recommend to enhance these skills?<p>Any specific book that changed how you articulate your ideas and thoughts?
Upvote: | 160 |
Title: I burnt my self out a few years back after spending 3 years working full-time on a startup. Since then I've been working for a FAANG.<p>One thing I've never really recovered is the passion I had for side projects. Worse than that, I can't actually think of anything worth building, or even tinkering with, which is sad, as spending some of my free time on side projects was something I really enjoyed.<p>If you've found yourself in a similar position, how have you dealt with it?
Upvote: | 187 |
Title: I have recently been using the Linear Algebra book by Jim Hefferon to study the subject. This is because I'm taking a linear algebra course in college, I am visually impaired, and the books I get from college are literally unusable.<p>As a person who has to use a Screen Reader, math in PDFs is almost impossible to read for me. The problem is almost insurmountable if the PDF is a collection of images, but even if it is a LaTeX-generated PDF, reading anything but the simplest of equations is very, very hard. In these cases, having the LaTeX source to read is a godsend.<p>To the authors who publish the source of their books: thank you, thank you. I cannot express how grateful I am. To anyone who is related to /working in the publisher space: it would be incredibly useful if there was a process to get the LaTeX source of books upon request, although I understand how copyrights/etc might make this difficult.<p>Some other books I would like to point out for being open source: Apex Calculus, Open Data Structures.
Upvote: | 506 |
Title: Hey HN --<p>This is Quinn and Kristine of Quadrant Eye (<a href="https://www.quadranteye.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.quadranteye.com</a>). We’re a cataract surgeon and software engineer duo who are spearheading the at-home eyecare revolution. Our goal is to provide comprehensive eyecare to people at home, and as a first step, we're tackling online glasses/contact lens prescriptions renewals.<p>I (Quinn) started the company after I took care of a grandfather who tragically went blind during the Covid lockdown. This could have been prevented if he had had access to reliable at-home eyecare. During my training, I had seen countless similar scenarios play out around the country, but to have it happen in my own clinic was the last straw.<p>Eyecare is a weird and tricky space. On the one hand, there are legitimate reasons why eye doctors and their patients are tied to a physical office, and they mostly center on bulky hardware limitations (e.g. the slit lamp biomicroscope.) On the other hand, there are actually few legitimate reasons healthy people without eye disease need to be making routine in-office visits. In fact, the American Association of Ophthalmology (AAO) recommends that folks with healthy eyes, good vision, and no risk factors for eye disease get a comprehensive exam just once in their 20s and twice in their 30s.<p>With this context, it’s absolutely wild that while millions of people are overexposed to eyecare via unnecessary pupillary dilations and air puff tests (which by the way are wildly inaccurate,) millions more can’t access even basic eyecare services, including refractions (aka the measurement of one’s eye prescription.) After all, 24% of U.S. counties have no optometrists or ophthalmologists!<p>Online eye exams are a first step toward addressing this pervasive access and resource allocation problem. We’re building our own version (feel free to play around with the prototype but please <i>access via deskop/laptop only</i>: <a href="https://app.quadranteye.com/va/creditcard" rel="nofollow">https://app.quadranteye.com/va/creditcard</a>) which is an asynchronous exam that assesses your vision and eye health; the exam results, along with a glasses/contact lens prescription uploaded by the patient, always get reviewed by an offsite MD/OD. Our online exam is live and we've been renewing prescriptions for a few weeks now!<p>Unfortunately, online eye exams are limited in their scope and utility -- for one, they are unable to measure essential eye vitals such as pupillary response and eye pressure. These exams also happen to be extremely controversial, especially since they disrupt the traditional "go into the eye doctor's office, renew your prescription, buy your glasses/contacts from your eye doctor" model. For evidence that the $18B domestic optical industry stirs up strong emotions, check out this previous HN thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653437" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653437</a> (and dang tells us there have been many others!)<p>We believe online eye exams are a good catalyst for change, but they are definitely just a stepping stone. We’ve got our eyes on a much bigger vision — true at-home eyecare, including the ability to measure eye vitals — and we’re excited to have everyone follow along!<p>Thanks for reading and see you in the comments below. :)<p>Cheers,
Quinn and Kristine<p>P.S. We’re in the middle of a redesign and would love your feedback on how to improve the flow + ux!<p>P.P.S. We can't talk much about the details right now, but if you want to be notified when we roll out the beta version of our comprehensive exam (which includes hardware,) please fill out this survey: <a href="https://qhqh.typeform.com/to/whuiAFHo" rel="nofollow">https://qhqh.typeform.com/to/whuiAFHo</a>
Upvote: | 131 |
Title: If you're a hiring manager, have you felt the burn trying to find and attract people to full-time roles? And if so, what are you seeing?<p>Sourcing has become near impossible with most candidates bombarded by recruiters, so even as hiring manager, your message is likely being ignored. Inbound applications are down and convincing experienced folks to switch jobs has become harder than ever.<p>The pandemic has also made moonlighting more universal and more people looking for remote/part-time/fractional work.<p>I wonder if anyone else is noticing this too. On the flip side, I wonder how folks looking for full-time roles are faring.
Upvote: | 51 |
Title: Hi HN! I’m Gabriel, one of the co-founders of Runway (<a href="https://runway.team" rel="nofollow">https://runway.team</a>). We’re building a SaaS platform that makes it easier to coordinate your team’s mobile app releases. Runway is an integration layer that sits on top of mobile app teams’ existing project management and development tools, making it possible to understand at-a-glance the status and progress of release cycles and to communicate tasks and blockers — allowing teams to spend their time on improving their product instead of managing releases and tooling.<p>When I was an iOS engineer, my team rotated everyone through the release manager role for each release cycle. I remember dreading the weeks I was assigned this role - I’d get stuck spending a few hours with multiple Chrome tabs open checking on the status of different tools, killing time while waiting for builds to upload, Slacking the owners of various tasks, and referring back to a 40-line spreadsheet that was often out of date. . I also felt out of practice each time it was my turn - it was hard to remember the sequence of stuff that needed doing, and there weren’t any guardrails to guide me through the process again. New additions to the team felt even more lost when it was their first couple of turns in the role!<p>If anything, the problem has worsened over time as mobile apps became first-class platforms at lots of companies, and tech orgs naturally started to grow those development teams and implement more robust and complex toolchains to support them — but much of the process of coordinating those people and tools in order to release regularly has remained frustratingly ad hoc.<p>While some build-centric tasks can be automated (e.g. using fastlane or scripts), we see that a lot of the overhead of releases is actually very people-centric: keeping your PM up to date on progress, looping in marketing for release notes, or syncing with QA on the status of regression testing. We also noticed that, even with a solid CI/CD pipeline in place, there are often still lots of manual tasks along the way - build selection, branching and tagging, compiling changelogs, pinging the right people with status and updates, etc.<p>We built Runway to connect all those dots. It pulls in all Jira tickets and code relevant to the release, side-by-side, to surface and resolve any out-of-sync tickets or code. You can set up custom, interactive checklists with item-specific owners to replace the monster Google spreadsheet, and our Slack integration will ping the appropriate people or notify everyone when important milestones happen. Design/marketing can enter ‘What’s New’ release notes directly in Runway for all localizations (with a handy list of new features in the release to reference) without you having to hunt them down. Plus, Runway helps teams maintain good workflow hygiene by automatically tagging releases in GitHub and applying missing labels to Jira tickets.<p>Typically, tasks like these represent lost time that adds up quickly and silently for teams and release managers, between context-switching, monitoring jobs for completion and waiting to get someone’s attention on Slack (all of which only gets harder as teams become more distributed with remote work). In talking to lots of companies, we’ve also noticed that some larger orgs eventually try to build something like Runway in-house, but at a steep cost of dedicated engineers, time, and recurring maintenance.<p>Runway is made for any team building and shipping mobile apps – we currently support both iOS and Android, and have built-in support for OTA (over-the-air) deploys as well as SDK releases. And, we’re language and framework agnostic: whether you write in Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, or Java, or use a framework like React Native, Expo, or Flutter, Runway has you covered. We envision Runway as a better way for most teams to manage the release process — one that can save an average-sized mobile team releasing bi-weekly about $50K a year.<p>We’re still experimenting with pricing strategy, but for now we’re charging a monthly subscription fee per app – there's a lower tier to access most features, and a higher tier with added features is in the works. Currently the product is in private beta, but we’re actively onboarding new teams of all sizes. If you and your team are interested in trying Runway out, head to <a href="https://runway.team/demo" rel="nofollow">https://runway.team/demo</a> for a detailed demo video and we’ll get you onboarded right away!<p>There are lots of possibilities for further automation and intelligent monitoring on a platform that serves as the glue between the pieces of a release workflow, and we’re excited to hear from the HN community about their unique release process challenges (and general thoughts as well!)
Upvote: | 93 |
Title: I don't know why but I cant help but feel that domino pieces are in place and whole thing is about to crumble.<p>Stock prices feel weirdly high, when thousands of people were dying they were rising fastest.<p>Crypto/NFT/Coins feel like graph of a chaotic equation that starts going crazy the longer it goes on.<p>The housing market seems to be on steroids too, house prices have doubled in last few years.<p>I feel either very bad inflation is about to happen to or huge correction, or both<p>Am I just imaging it?
Upvote: | 123 |
Title: I'm getting some new gear to improve my WFH productivity--for example, I've just got a better webcam and an ergonomic mouse. Last year I got a raising desk accessory and that helped quite a bit with back pain. So does my leg rest and ergonomic office chair.<p>I'm now wondering if I've overlooked something. For example, I'm not very happy with lighting in my home office (this room is facing Northwest, so it only gets some light in the afternoon).<p>What hardware, piece of furniture, or hack has made a difference in your remote work comfort?
Upvote: | 47 |
Title: SMS-based Two-Factor Authentication is not Secure. I’ve read this before but brushed it off. It wouldn’t happen to me. It did.<p>I am with Boost Mobile. On Sunday night I received a text message that my PIN was changed. Within minutes I confirmed this to be true on my PC. I used the Boost application on my phone to change the PIN and received a confirmation text.<p>A few minute later I received a text message welcoming me to Metro PCS.<p>A few minute later I received emails to my business email that my account security information was deleted from my person email account. They used SMS authentication to my mobile number, that they now have control of to gain access.<p>A few minutes later I received an email there was an account recovery attempt on my coinbase.com account.<p>It took less than 30 minutes for these events to transpire.<p>I've spent about 15 hours trying to get my phone number and my email address back to my control.<p>I've accumulated a list of eight other people in the Boost Mobile Reddit.com forum where the exact same thing happened to them.<p>I filed a police report and filed a report with the FCC. I received a response from the FCC that they have started the inquiry and contacted Boost.<p>I finally did get my cell phone number ported back to Boost. I have not gained control of my Microsoft email address.<p>I didn’t realize I could only have messages of 2,000 characters. So I will wrap this up.<p>When account settings were changed, Coinbase gave me a link to lock my account, Microsoft gave me a link to log in to my account, which I no longer have control of.<p>Unlike competitors, which allow pins from 6 to 15 characters and for accounts to be administrative locked, Boost offers none of these options. The last Boost operator suggested I pick a more secure PIN.<p>I am calculating my losses and documenting all interactions.
Upvote: | 628 |
Title: Curious how you folks manage the release process with larger customers that ask for advance notice (ex: 2 weeks) or previewing of any features before release or general availability?<p>We have a single sandbox environment currently, but different customers are asking for varying amounts of delay before feature release. How do you manage bug fix deploys in these cases as well?
Upvote: | 56 |
Title: Antoine and Tomas here - we are excited to share Okay (<a href="https://www.okayhq.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.okayhq.com</a>) with you! Okay is an engineering analytics platform focused on detecting bottlenecks and annoyances that prevent engineering teams from being fully productive. We connect with all the devtools in your company and give you a query and alerting engine to find and solve common bottlenecks like long review cycles, after-hours on-call pages, heavy interview load, etc. Think Datadog or Grafana, but for team analytics.<p>For the past 12 years, we’ve been engineers and then managers of teams of 5 to 150 in several types of companies - startups and big tech. We’ve seen the dev experience being affected by the same problems everywhere: maybe it’s a slow build on your local machine, too many meetings and interviews, or inefficient code review practices that force you to open 10 PRs in parallel to make progress on a given week. We personally struggled with automated tests suites that would take 4 hours to complete and we saw teammates become so desensitized to heavy oncall load that they would stop complaining and just give up.<p>We also learned that the discussion about engineering metrics always falls into a false dichotomy: don’t measure anything because engineering is creative work (it is!) or measure engineers in intrusive ways along meaningless dimensions like lines of code. We believe that the way to overcome this false dichotomy is to apply quantitative measurements <i>empathetically</i>, that is, with a clear understanding of the human impacts of what's being measured on the people doing the actual work - for example, by measuring how noisy on-call pages disrupt an engineer’s life after hours. The key is to focus on bottlenecks instead of output, and on the team level rather than on individuals. So we set out to build a product where you can see all the data from all your dev tools, query it, make sense of trends, and build alerts for when things go wrong.<p>At its core, Okay is an end-to-end analytics platform focused on engineering data. First, we ingest data from tools like Google Calendar, Github, Pagerduty, etc. We join it with the team structure that we find in services like Workday. In addition to pre-built integrations, you can also use a tracing-like API to capture e.g. how long local builds are taking. Then, we clean up and enrich the signal: tagging interviews correctly, rebuilding the full history of a PR as a connected chain of review events, inferring dimensions like tenure (which can e.g. help capture new hire experience). Finally, we expose all this data in a query builder UI that closely maps to the underlying SQL query, and we enable users to choose from visualizations we built specifically for representing engineering work: time series of course, but also calendars (e.g. to understand the life of a PR) or heatmaps (e.g. to identify a painful on-call rotation quickly). The opinionated part of Okay is all in the data modeling we do on behalf of users - we aim to reflect our values (team-based vs individuals) and to retain a lot of expressiveness so that users can ask questions like “what is the code review experience of our new hires in our NYC office compared to the SF office?”.<p>You can check how Okay works by going to our website (<a href="https://www.okayhq.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.okayhq.com</a>) or checking our product video (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzzo3m4280k" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzzo3m4280k</a>). We don’t have free trials because once you identify bottlenecks and set the right alerts to create new habits, it usually takes several weeks to see the changes happen - we’re talking about humans working together after all, so it does require a little bit of upfront investment. We price based on the number of users and engineers on the team.<p>If you are interested or have specific questions for your use-case, we’d love to connect with your team directly in the comments. Thanks!
Upvote: | 123 |
Title: I'm a CS freshman who got obsessed with lisps after using Scheme in my intro class.<p>Tangentially, as a side project, I made a spreadsheet to learn how their update mechanism worked[0]. For the formula language, I implemented a basic lisp that does math expressions.<p>That got me wondering- would making a fully functional lisp the formula language add substantial power to spreadsheets? Of course, macros add power to anything, but I'm wondering if there's specifically new interactions that would be possible with sheets using a lisp as opposed to, say, JS.<p>An initial idea was being able to call (apply A1 B1) to apply a procedure from one cell to another, but that's not the most groundbreaking concept. Hence the question to those of you who understand lisps more than I do.<p>p.s: Not a pro. Go easy on me HN!<p>[0]: <a href="https://lispread.sarv.repl.co/" rel="nofollow">https://lispread.sarv.repl.co/</a>
Upvote: | 68 |
Title: Hello world, my name is Nilay. My cofounder Jorge and I founded Slingshow (<a href="https://slingshow.com/" rel="nofollow">https://slingshow.com/</a>) and we're super excited (and nervous!) to finally launch on HN. Slingshow helps you build custom virtual events for your community. Think Zoom, but with a modern and flexible user experience that seamlessly flows between different ways of interacting with larger and smaller groups.<p>Last year, we were in YC W20 pivoting through several ideas, but then the pandemic hit. Suddenly, our YC batch was just a series of monotonous Zoom calls. We lost the magic of the social dinners, random conversations, and catching a speaker afterward for a personal chat. We quickly recognized that while Zoom was great for small meetings, the functionality and UI/UX made large group events unorganized and passive.<p>During the pandemic, many novel and sometimes gimmicky video platforms emerged targeting the social niche. But every organization hosts more than social events. We built Slingshow to have no learning curve for traditional use cases like panels and presentations while seamlessly incorporating newer social formats. We think the best virtual event formats are still in their infancy and are unique to every use case, so we wanted to create a flexible tool that would let organizers build their own experiences.<p>We were inspired by companies like Notion, Coda, Retool, and Airtable, which work in the UI/UX paradigm of creating functional modular building blocks. This means choosing a few simple, valuable abstractions like a table or a button and letting users mix and match these components to meet their needs. In our case, we’re starting with four fundamental blocks that organizers use to plan a schedule: Tables for free-flowing networking like interactions, Rooms for concurrent presentations, a Stage for classic webinar like presentations, and a Call to Action block for redirecting to external websites like forms, activities, etc.<p>Using our blocks, one of our enterprise customers (Fivetran) holds their standard webinar on our Stage block and then shifts into the Rooms block where attendees can choose to speak with the panelists. Another customer held a dating event that started with a Stage to introduce the event, then switched to Tables of 4, then 3, then 2 with different prompts to create more intimate conversations. We also have other customers hosting unique product launches, happy hours, live podcasts, cohort-based classes, and multi-day hackathons. While some platforms offer similar functionality, they’re heavy conference platforms with a large learning curve. They also require days of work to create specialized assets and often involve trained intermediaries like event organizers and planners.<p>We’re not focused on conferences but rather on simplicity, and Blocks help us achieve that. They're versatile and help simplify the organizer's event creation process by hiding complexity. Blocks are also a simple way for us to add new formats in the future. By just by creating a schedule with Blocks, Slingshow automatically generates the event page with registration, a cover image, and the entire attendee experience. Add a logo and brand color, and we'll automatically theme the entire event to make it feel like your brand.<p>We've chosen to launch late as nothing else matters if the video isn't stable and reliable for first-time users. One speaker failing to connect could ruin an event leaving a bad impression on everyone involved. We’ve spent several months working with early customers to gracefully handle errors and give helpful error messages for all the complexity of video: weak network connections, old browsers, mobile devices, firewalls, SDK edge cases, permission issues, etc. Depending on the use case, we also switch between multiple WebRTC video infrastructure providers. And lastly, following the lead of companies like Discord and Tandem, we built our backend using the Phoenix framework in Elixir because of its excellent support for WebSockets.<p>We still have a long way to go, but we feel confident with what we have and are ready to open up to a broader audience. We'd love to hear your feedback and experiences with the many virtual events you've probably experienced over this pandemic. Thanks! :–)<p>You can try out Slingshow for free here – <a href="https://slingshow.com/" rel="nofollow">https://slingshow.com/</a>.
Upvote: | 99 |
Title: Given some hundreds of dollars and breaking no federal laws, what kind of gene editing can a software dev get done in their kitchen?<p>Glowing single cell organisms? Color changing Fungi? Flowers with any #rrggbb as petal color? albino lizards? Jurassic Park?<p>Serious question. Looking for a project that teaches me something and has a tangible result.
Upvote: | 64 |
Title: I am looking for tools that you might have built to scratch an itch or quell a regular annoyance. My main motivation for asking is to looking a different things people may have built and a secondary motivation is to learn how they went about it. I'm also interested in tools which are small scripts or a bunch of commands piped into one another that have boosted your quality of life.<p>Thank you.
Upvote: | 288 |
Title: For me it's definitely their desire for everything to be a call. If I'm even remotely interested, that'll be a 30mins call to setup. I really only have 3 basic things I want to know to see if it's even worth perusing: Salary range, tech stack, team size. And when you ask them about those things: "Oh, well cover all the on the call".
Upvote: | 137 |
Title: I am looking for a simple, file-based nosql database. So basically the sqlite of nosql databases.
Upvote: | 58 |
Title: Hi,<p>I'd like to introduce, and ask feedback for, my newsletter <i>Interesting Things</i> [1][2].<p>It's a response to the notion that many interesting stories posted to HN flies past and are not seen. Maybe they could, and should, be surfaced again somehow. A newsletter seemed like a good way to do it.<p>I experimented by trawling through the 'newest' section of HN. The first few times were mind-numbing. Gosh, there's so much noise in there! . But eventually I became more selective and efficient and it became repeatable.<p>Then I evolved it and added stories from reddit, newsletters that I subscribe to, and some other places. Whilst a portion of the stories are still from HN, it's no longer only from there.<p>The criteria is 'What I find interesting' but, since I'm a typical HN reader, the interest profile ends up being similar. It's mainly tech but with splashes of startups, science, productivity, etc. I omit politics. I also try to omit product/press releases, big corp stuff, and stories that would be covered by the mainstream tech press.<p>There is little overlap with other Hacker-News-based newsletters and digests. This is intentional. They cover the top stories from HN. Mine does not. (Maybe there might be one or two 'tier 1' stories, but the majority are not.)<p>So anyway ... if you'd like to read interesting stuff (whether or not it was unnoticed by HN) please have a look at <i>Interesting Things</i>. I hope you guys like it and find it ... well ... interesting.<p>I'm also looking for criticism, feedback and suggestions for improvement. Some sample questions: Do you like the one-two liner blurbs? Are the blurbs useful? What do you think of the distribution of topics? Are there areas where you'd like to see more (or less) coverage? Please let me know. I'm happy to talk.<p>Thanks for reading!<p>[1] <a href="https://bengtan.com/interesting-things" rel="nofollow">https://bengtan.com/interesting-things</a><p>[2] <a href="https://bengtan.com/newsletter/sample" rel="nofollow">https://bengtan.com/newsletter/sample</a> (redirects to the latest public edition)
Upvote: | 220 |
Title: After years of living a semi-nomadic lifestyle and spending many thousands of dollars on the platform, it has finally happened to me: I got the dreadful "We'll be unable to support your account moving forward" email.<p>In my case, I was banned "because information on your reservation or your account may be associated with a pattern of activity linked to property damage".<p>When and where did that supposed property damage take place? No answer.<p>I assume I must have been wrongfully flagged by an ML model or something similar.<p>Unfortunately, traveling without Airbnb is hard, as they have by far the largest portfolio of vacation rentals.<p>I'm reaching out to Hacker News because it seems like this topic has been discussed here before (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523056).<p>Any information helps.<p>My attempts at contacting someone at Airbnb that isn't just a call center agent reading a script have so far been unsuccessful.<p>If you work at Airbnb and you're reading this, let me make you the following offer: You look into the supposed "property damage" and figure out what actually went on. Then:
- If it turns out I didn't actually damage any property: You unban me
- If it turns out I did (I must be suffering from amnesia): I pay for the damage, plus a crisp USD 1000 for you personally, and you don't even have to unban me<p>I hope the format of this is correct, I have read Hacker News for a long time but never submitted anything.
Upvote: | 65 |
Title: Does anyone know why archive.is tracks who has read an article. If we look at the HTML from archive.is we see they include an image link to a domain name that contains the user's IP address. Popular browsers not only run arbitrary Javascript by default, they also access image links by default. Thus the archive.is DNS server has a record of every time the page is viewed in one of these browsers (and the domain name is not cached). This includes the IP address of the person who retrieved the page.<p><pre><code> <img style="position:absolute" width="1" height="1" src="https://[ipaddr].[country].ABCD.1234567890.pixel.archive.is/x.gif">
</code></pre>
It seems some HN commenters have a preference for sharing links to <a href="https://archive.is" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is</a> as a way of avoiding Javascript obfuscation of text (so-called "paywalls").<p>The text being obfuscated is public, available to anyone, not only to subscribers. It is not password-protected. The website developer using the "paywall" technique simply tries to annoy the user into subscribing by obfuscating the text using Javascript. This only works if the user runs Javascript from the website. Popular browsers, most of them funded by advertising, run arbitrary Javascript by default, however Javascript can be disabled by by anyone by simply changing default settings. Most users do not change default settings. Most users use the same small number of popular browsers.<p>When we refrain from running Javascript and accessing image links automatically, the web becomes more readable and less annoying. We can choose a browser that is simpler than the popular ones and does fewer things automatically without user input, e.g., running Javascript and loading images.
Upvote: | 45 |
Title: I've spent several years working on side projects and would like to return to remote work. I have a bit of management experience and a bit of coding experience. I think the employment gap is hard to explain for either role. What is the best way for me to start doing remote work?
Upvote: | 251 |
Title: As the title says. Visiting either the domain (<a href="https://issuetracker.google.com/" rel="nofollow">https://issuetracker.google.com/</a>) or a specific issue (<a href="https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/190835083" rel="nofollow">https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/190835083</a>) presents only a sign-in screen.<p>This is for merely <i>viewing</i> issues, not submitting or commenting on them, so arguments about limiting abuse do not apply.
Upvote: | 69 |
Title: I have found that I'm unable to formulate well-thought responses in real time. In conversation, one might consider me unintelligent (hopefully wrongly), due to my lack of input into discussions.<p>But I usually think deeply about such discussions after the fact and when I have the time to consider arguments for/against something.<p>Why are some people more capable of formulating intelligent responses in real time? Can this be improved?
Upvote: | 83 |
Title: Hi HN! We are Kedan, Jeff, and Min Jin and we are co-founders of Revery AI. We've built a virtual dressing room for online retailers that allows customers to visualize any combination of garments on any model.<p>The rise of online shopping has posed significant challenges for fashion retailers. The lack of ability to try on and visualize outfits has made shopping less interactive, contributing to low conversion rates and high return rates compared to brick-and-mortar shopping. Virtual dressing rooms can recreate the lost experience of trying on clothes in person. There are other companies working on a virtual dressing room. However, the reason why this is not taking off is scalability. Fashion ecommerce platforms have thousands, if not millions of SKUs. Current approaches generally require custom Photoshop work or expensive 3D models which are difficult to scale. In contrast, our solution leverages our machine learning research to automate the entire process, resulting in the first scalable virtual dressing room that can be easily integrated with any large e-commerce platform with millions of SKUs.<p>Rather than time-consuming 3d modeling, our system works with basic images. The goal, of course, is to produce accurate and realistic visualizations of outfits on people. A naive solution would be to simply copy-paste the garment onto the model. This presents two problems. 1) If the poses of the model/garment are mismatched, copy-paste does not work. 2) Even with ideal poses, copy-paste does not take into account garment-garment, garment-model interactions and also ignores lighting, shadows, etc. We use deep learning to overcome this problem. For problem 1) we use a series of image warpers to warp the garment onto an approximate body location in the appropriate pose. This differs from current approaches that typically use only a single warp which is extremely limited. For 2) we train an image generator that takes in relevant inputs (includes the model image, garment image, pose, etc) and produces a realistic image of the model wearing the garment. Our system produces significant improvements in size, fit, and drape compared to prior art, allowing us to create realistic images of any model wearing any combination of garments. If anyone is interested in additional details, we published an earlier version of our system here <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10817" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10817</a>. We also have another paper that will appear in the CVPR2021 conference soon.<p>This approach makes integration with retailers far easier because it requires only a single garment image on a uniform background per SKU. Upon receiving their catalog, our team processes them at a rate of 1 million images per week. We then work with the retailer to create a widget that can be easily injected into their website. The simplicity of this solution means that clients can have a virtual dressing room live in as quick as a few days. A live demo can be viewed here:<a href="https://revery.ai/demo.html" rel="nofollow">https://revery.ai/demo.html</a>.<p>We’ve successfully integrated with several fashion e-commerce retailers. Through working with our clients, we’ve shown that our dressing room improves the average engagement of users by 6x and, more importantly, the conversion rate by 6x. Additionally, we’ve seen increases in average order value (AOV) and decreases in return rates. Our solution also presents several use cases beyond the virtual dressing room. Because image generation is at the heart of our business, clients have also expressed interest in using our services to generate photoshoot images to forgo expensive studio photography.<p>Funnily enough, we have never envisioned ourselves doing a start-up in the fashion space as our backgrounds are all in computer science and research. We are all computer vision Ph.D. students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and virtual try-on was initially just an academic pursuit. Kedan was researching fashion AI applications such as product recommendation while Min Jin was working on image generation and manipulation. Jeff was working on applied machine learning to practical problems like medicine and image search. We quickly realized that our individual expertise was compatible in tackling this difficult yet exciting problem. While image-based virtual try-on is an active research field in academia, no one has yet been able to productionize this technology. The transition from research to product is non-trivial - published research often operates on a largely simplified version of the problem. Generating realistic and accurate high-fidelity images of people and clothing is harder than it sounds. Inaccuracies are simply unacceptable for customers. People will not be happy if their miniskirt turns out to be a long skirt! It took us a year to get satisfactory results and at that point, we realized that this academic exercise can actually be a tool that real users want to use. That’s when we decided to launch Revery AI to bring a virtual dressing room shopping experience to all shoppers and retailers.<p>We would love to hear any feedback or answer any questions!
Upvote: | 103 |
Title: Hi HN! :)<p>CVPR is starting this week! To kick things off, we'd love to invite you to two CVPR panels on the future of datasets and next-gen ML infrastructure. Comment below if you want ask a question on the topics mentioned and we will do our best to include it in the discussion!<p>1. CVPR pre-game: the Future of Datasets
When: this Friday, June 18th at 12 pm EDT / 9 am PST. Clubhouse link (https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/PAD2Nnen). Guests include:<p>- Olga Russakovsky, ImageNet Challenge co-author, Princeton,
- Richard Socher, ImageNet co-creator, CEO You.com,
- Jeff Boudier, HuggingFace Chief of Product,
- Joseph Gonzalez, UC Berkley RiseLab,
- Jianing Wei, Google AI,
- Siddhartha Sen, Microsoft Research.<p>Topic: Currently, when companies train their ML models, they focus on optimizing their models rather than the actual data. But data sits at the core of a good model. How can we be more data-centric in ML?<p>2. CVPR Panel: Next-Gen ML Infrastructure For Computer Vision
When: Monday, June 21st at 3 pm EDT / 12 pm PST. Clubhouse link (https://www.clubhouse.com/event/mWV902w6).<p>Guests include:<p>- Tobi Knaup, CEO & Co-Founder at D2iQ,
- Lukas Biewald, CEO at Weights & Biases,
- Waleed Kadous, Head of Engineering at Anyscale,
- Glenn Jocher YOLOv5 creator, CEO at Ultralytics,
- Tianqi Chen, CTO at OctoML,
- Dillon Erb, CEO at Paperspace,
- Josh Tobin, ex-Open AI, CEO at Gantry,
- Davit Buniatyan, CEO at Activeloop.<p>Clubhouse is now available both on Android and Apple. If you'd like your question to be asked, please comment below and we'll pick the most voted questions/try to cover as many of them as possible. More on the panels: https://www.cvpr.activeloop.ai/.<p>If you need a Clubhouse invite you can join our community here at https://slack.activeloop.ai/ and let us know in #community channel. Cheers!
Upvote: | 55 |
Title: My therapist wants to explore an ADHD diagnosis, run tests and dive deep. My question to you is; how did this help you or impact your life?<p>I am in the later half of an adventurous and successful career. I continue to grow, have a long-term stable marriage, good savings, great life. I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we've come up to the ADHD talk.<p>They want to run neurological tests, said I'm 'twice exceptional' and I see this as an expensive and time consuming diversion of my goals. I do admit that there is some validity in the idea, I do see symptoms, but how would this help me at this point in my life?
Upvote: | 231 |
Title: Hi HN!<p>We’re Arthur and Sydney (cosydney). We’re building Axolo (<a href="https://axolo.co" rel="nofollow">https://axolo.co</a>) a bidirectional Github-Slack integration to help tech teams reduce pull request time and improve code review’s feedback.<p>Sydney and I met in 42, a software engineering school in Paris, and started working together on different tech projects last year. While working on our last business, a SaaS management platform for SMEs, we were in a squad of 4 to 5 people and often found ourselves writing direct messages in Slack about pull requests. We were telling each other things like ‘Hey Arthur, I’ve updated my last pull request feature/zoom_integration, do you have time to check it out soon?’ or “it’s been two days, do you have time to review feature/user_settings today, here is the link: github/axolo-co/api.axolo.co/pull/381?”. It was messy, took time and mental load to contextualize each pull request to each other.<p>We talked to over 100 companies about how they ship code. Here is the most common pattern: An engineer creates a pull request and asks someone or a dedicated team to review it. Notifications are poorly handled and people often ping again directly. Then, comments are made on Github and if a disagreement appears, the conversation goes on a voice call or in Slack.<p>This approach has two major problems. (1) Dangling pull requests are waste of time and a source of frustration for developers. They cause the code development process to slow down and prevent developers from focusing on a new task ahead. It’s difficult to dive back into a pull request you submitted two days ago. (2) Feedback on code is hard to convey between one developer to another. It can be misinterpreted or even worse: not given at all.<p>The ideal solution doesn’t need a new tool in our daily routine. Having in mind that most of the friction was in context-switching between Github and Slack, we decided to build a bridge between those two.<p>So we developed Axolo as a bi-directional Github-Slack integration. Each pull request creates a temporary Slack channel where Github notifications are sent (comments, reviews, actions & deployments). The creator, reviewers, and assignees are invited to that channel. Then when the pull request is either closed or merged, we save the conversation as documentation in the Github pull request and archive the channel.<p>We're not only a code review notification center. We consider each pull request as a small independent project where all people that take a part in it will be invited. Here’s a demo video (<a href="https://youtu.be/aoOZNGdBKlY" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/aoOZNGdBKlY</a>) of how it works, if you want to take a glance at our main features.<p>Our public beta started three weeks ago. To sign up on Axolo, you need to install our Github app on your organization (we do not have access to your code) and our Slack app. Most of our features are free for everyone, but if you’re looking for specific settings & analytics, the professional plan is 8$/ engineer / month that you can try (you don't have to enter a credit card upfront).<p>We know the Hacker News community is full of many engineers with deep experiences in code reviewing (and code shipping!) and we look forward to receiving your feedback on our work. Thank you!
Upvote: | 97 |
Title: As a technical founder going into a more sales-oriented role, I would like advice on the tools other founders / sales teams use in their day-to-day to give them an advantage in lead-generation and sales automation.<p>Although CRM suggestions would be OK, I am more interested in tools that help you do things such as:<p>- Create easily customizable email templates and their follow-up sequence.<p>- Automation software for LinkedIn outreach / email sending.<p>- Automation software for generating leads. For example: easily identifying companies' email formats, easily gathering companies' and their competitors' information, landing page generation automation, gathering lists of companies based on size, industry, needs, etc.<p>Essentially, if someone asks you what your day-to-day sales operations look like for a B2B SaaS product, how would you respond with hands-on suggestions? Assume that such person has no idea of the current trends of sales software.<p>If someone asked me the same question for a software tech stack, I would answer for example:<p>- Bitbucket / Github for version control<p>- Travis CI for continuous integration deployment<p>- React JS for front-end, combined with parcel as a bundler, Mobx State Tree for state management, etc.<p>- Ruby on Rails for back-end, combined with PostgreSQL.<p>Ideally, if you have information on how that product / strategy gives you some advantage it would be really hepful. If you have any resources that could also help a technical founder get into sales, with a step-by-step process, that would also be great!
Upvote: | 147 |
Title: Hey everyone, my name is Tom, and I'm the founder of Svix (<a href="https://www.svix.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.svix.com</a>) - previously known as Diahook. Svix makes it easy for developers to send webhooks from their service using a simple API. Think Twilio or SendGrid but for webhooks.<p>Webhooks are how servers notify each other of events, so they are a key component of many APIs such as Stripe, Shopify, Slack, Dropbox and Github.
They look easy to implement (just a POST request), but they come with a variety of challenges. For example, customer endpoints fail or hang much more often than you would think, so you would need to implement retries. You need to make sure such failures don't clog your send queue or the rest of your system. The webhook system is an additional system separate from your normal web server that needs to be scaled and monitored separately. There are also a variety of security implications such as SSRF, replay attacks, and attackers sending fake webhooks to your customers (so make sure to sign the payload and make it easy to verify!). You also want to avoid overloading your users' endpoints, so you want to automatically rate-limit webhook sending, as well as disabling failing ones, and notifying your users when you do.<p>I encountered these challenges at my previous company. Our users were constantly asking us for webhooks, but we kept deferring building them because we weren't willing to commit the engineering time, resources, and ongoing maintenance required of a webhook delivery system. This was the seed for Svix, but it's only after a friend of mine asked about adding webhooks to her own product that I realized "Oh, there's maybe a business here".<p>The idea behind Svix is to make it very easy for everyone to send webhooks. Developers make one API call and we take care of deliverability, monitoring, and retries.
We also have a pre-built management UI that our customers can offer their users to manage their webhook endpoints, as well as inspect, debug, and replay failures.
This is in addition to a variety of tools, libraries, and tutorials to make both sending and consuming webhooks easy.<p>We have previously done a Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399672" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399672</a>) and got a lot of great feedback from the community.
A lot has changed since then, for example, we now have libraries for Python, JavaScript (TypeScript), Java and Go; a first version of the Ruby and PHP libraries, and a CLI for interacting with the service.
We have improved the management UI, made it easy to embed it in an iframe, and improved the onboarding and documentation to make it even easier to get started.
And finally, we have scaled the backend to keep up with the growing needs of our customers.
We have a lot more planned for the coming months, and we've grown the team so improvements are going to come at an even higher pace.<p>One of the common questions from our Show HN was: "Don't developers need to handle deliverability and retries to Svix?"
Deliverability to user endpoints (servers) is very different to deliverability to Svix.
User endpoints fail all the time and for various reasons, and each of them can fail independently.
This means developers need a robust and scalable delivery system that can deal with failures on an ongoing basis.
With Svix, outages are rare, and are dealt with as incidents, the same way you would with SendGrid, Twilio and other API providers.<p>Our goal with Svix is to make it easier for developers to add webhooks to their service. Webhooks make APIs that much more useful and enable a lot of automations and integrations which benefit both the products offering them, and the communities around them. Just think of all the cool Slack bots made possible thanks to webhooks. I'd really love to see every service out there offering a great API!<p>I'd love to hear about your experience building (or using) webhooks systems. What's a must have? Any war stories to share? Got any questions? Suggestions? Please let me know!<p>Docs: <a href="https://docs.svix.com/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.svix.com/</a><p>Docs for consuming webhooks: <a href="https://docs.svix.com/receiving/introduction" rel="nofollow">https://docs.svix.com/receiving/introduction</a><p>API viewer (and OpenAPI specs): <a href="https://api.svix.com/docs/" rel="nofollow">https://api.svix.com/docs/</a>
Upvote: | 117 |
Title: Despite my best efforts, in the past few years I have had no luck with desk chairs--each one I've had grows uncomfortable after 10-15 minutes of working. This discomfort manifests as sore legs, sore back, feeling too warm, poor seating posture, and similar inconveniences. I recognize the need to stand up and stretch periodically, but these uncomfy chairs make it really difficult to get into the zone.<p>Have you found a chair that makes you happy? Given the amount of time I must spend at a keyboard, I am willing to spend real money. For reference, I am a 40ish 5'10" male with an average build (pandemic deterioration notwithstanding).<p>I also have a treadmill desk, and it's great for humdrum work, but sometimes it is necessary to sit down and dig in when the task at hand is more challenging.
Upvote: | 211 |
Title: Anyone else get the email today from [email protected] (mail headers match), with subject "Integration Test Email #1", and message "This template is used by integration tests only"<p>Oops.
Upvote: | 54 |
Title: We’ve all been there — a seemingly huge mistake as an intern or Junior developer that you were sure would get you fired. What’s your story?<p>Mine: I nearly took down production by joining multiple large tables on non-indexed columns. Every time a product was updated on the site, MySQL would run my query and join across millions of records.<p>Infrastructure folks couldn’t figure out why the DB servers kept rubbing out of memory, and I very nervously made the fix. Thankfully the team was understanding (and appreciated that the person reviewing my code had messed up), but it was a terrible day.
Upvote: | 303 |
Title: Hello HN.<p>I've read a few books for a couple of programming languages (go, rust), but I still need some kind of project to really see the big picture and think deeply.<p>What kind of project (besides some CHIP-8 emulator) would you recommend?<p>Thank you and I'm more than curious about your answers.
Upvote: | 76 |
Title: Hey HN! We're Taylor, Colton, and Jason, the founders of Hedgehog (<a href="https://hedgehog.app" rel="nofollow">https://hedgehog.app</a>). We're building a portfolio manager to help you learn about, keep track of, and trade cryptocurrency in one place.<p>We track 2000+ actively traded currencies across 550+ wallets, aggregate data from 20 different providers, and support trading on 130+ exchanges. This helps users make informed choices about investments and find the best prices across exchanges, with price differences as high as 0.5%. We also combine live usage data with detailed research on how each coin works, so you can see for yourself why a coin could be valuable--or not.<p>We know that HN tends to be divided on cryptocurrency-related topics, with some people interested and involved and others skeptical or critical. Obviously we find ourselves in the prior camp, but we also completely agree that the excessive hype and outright scams are a problem. Somebody has already created a scam token with our name on it!<p>As early team members at Acorns (the mobile app that invests your spare change), we helped simplify traditional investing and hope to bring that same level of transparency, clarity, and rigor to cryptocurrency.<p>We first got into this space in 2017. We were running a small consulting agency when three of our clients broke their contracts in the same month: one went bankrupt, one got sued by an ex-partner, and one was based in Alabama and decided that because we were in California they simply didn't have to pay us. We lost $30k that month.<p>That's when we learned about Ethereum and smart contracts, and a light bulb went off. Price and volatility aside, if we simply could have used a smart contract where money is automatically deposited upon project completion, we would have ensured payment.<p>But getting into cryptocurrency is complicated, painful, and it leaves new users particularly vulnerable. Taylor once spent $20k worth of ETH on fees, simply because of a bad interface. Add in secret keys and exchange hacks and you quickly find yourself in chaos. And yet, over half of cryptocurrency owners report that it was their very first investment, ever--and their most commonly used tracking tool is Excel.<p>That’s why we built Hedgehog, to give you fine-tuned control over your portfolio: our average client trades on at least 3 exchange accounts and automatically syncs balances across more than 10 different wallets. You can also group your assets into stacks like “Banking” or “Ethereum Tokens”, apply investing strategies, and even set up a rebalance calculator to help you distribute your funds based on live metrics like market cap, daily active addresses, or transaction volume.<p>We're already helping individuals and investment firms manage $40 million in cryptocurrency, and we are acquiring the necessary financial licenses to offer a custodial wallet that connects users directly with the best price. You will no longer need to connect your own exchanges and wallets, we’ll manage multiple currencies across multiple exchanges for you. This allows us to earn revenue by making our own markets and keeping some of the difference between prices offered by buyers and sellers.<p>Love it or hate it, the fact that there's over $48 trillion in annual cryptocurrency exchange volume at this point makes it unlikely to go away, and there's a ton of work to be done in wrangling it into some sort of level playing field that makes sense to people.<p>We'd love to hear what you think, even if it’s just “this market shouldn’t exist in the first place.” If you're active in cryptocurrency (or want to be), we'd love to have you as a user and are dying to ship features you want. Please try us out at <a href="https://hedgehog.app" rel="nofollow">https://hedgehog.app</a>! Happy to answer any questions and hear your feedback in the comments!
Upvote: | 158 |
Title: I have a few years of experience as an ML Engineer, however I recently changed jobs and I was shocked to learn that my new employer has a very different job definition for ML Engineer than the one I was familiar with. I <i>thought</i> that the standard definition of an ML Engineer is an engineer who specializes in building machine learning models, essentially a subtype of a data scientist. At my new company, an ML Engineer is someone who supports ML models but never works on machine learning directly. At this new company, ML Engineers are Data Engineers who support machine learning applications.<p>What is the generally accepted definition of an ML Engineer?
Upvote: | 56 |
Title: I have recently been introduced to Poetry. I am a pretty experienced Python dev with both back-end and ML in my project basket. However, I have been using pip/requirements.txt/setup.py so far for every single project I had done. But once I have tried Poetry, I do not think I will ever go back.<p>I was wondering why is it not more popular? What is holding it back? What do you think?
Upvote: | 80 |
Title: I’ll be here for the next 3 hours and then again at around 12 pm for another 3 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 recently reinstated International Entrepreneur Parole Program (or IEPP). 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>Previous threads we've done: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts</a>.
Upvote: | 276 |
Title: The web (including this site) is full of discussions/articles about how the job market for software engineers is hot, and getting hotter after the pandemic. People say it's a seller's market.<p>Some other people say it's actually a sucker shortage, meaning that employers do not compete on salary.<p>Then Triplebyte wrote (1): "Engineers are almost completely unique as a labor force. There is far more demand for engineers than there is supply, and that makes engineers powerful in a way other professions are not."<p>A handful of software engineers produce software used by millions, and therefore generate an immense amount of value.<p>Open source contributors give away a lot of value, since if everyone had to re-create their work (including its dependencies, its dependencies' dependencies, and so on), there would be 1,000,000 times the demand for software engineers than there is today and innovation progress would be much much slower.<p>Do software engineers really have leverage?<p>How could we increase our leverage?<p>Why don't we choose to use our rare skills for our own profit (as everyone else does), and instead many of us give away immense value (and power/leverage) by open sourcing our work?<p>[1]: <a href="https://triplebyte.com/blog/rethinking-triplebyte" rel="nofollow">https://triplebyte.com/blog/rethinking-triplebyte</a>
Upvote: | 198 |
Title: I am a software engineer for the past 10 years, and did frontend and backend development. I am learning Rust at the moment and have the following books:<p>- "The Linux Programming Interface"<p>- "Systems Programming with Linux"<p>- "Adavnaced UNIX Programming"<p>What I struggle with: How to get exposure to projects to learn for a future job? I had a Rust job for around half a year, where people build web servers and came from a C and C++ background. Half of the stuff they wrote I didn't understand (flushing, opening another channel just for logs so we don't fill up the other ones etc. etc.).<p>Now I wonder how I can get access to this type of information, how to properly learn it?
Upvote: | 336 |
Title: What advice do you have for people with the aforementioned years of experience.
Can be about programming, engineering in general, life, whatever you want
Upvote: | 65 |
Title: Have you studied for a cloud certification? If so, i'd like to ask the following:<p>- Which one?<p>- Why?<p>- How many times did you try before succeeding?<p>- Was it useful?<p>- How did you prepare ( resources, ... )<p>I'm planning to certify for "Azure Solutions Architect Expert" and some feedback on usefullness ( in general or specific) would be nice.
Upvote: | 63 |
Title: This particular patent troll has filed lawsuits with at least a dozen of my competitors in the past year. Some were voluntarily dismissed, some ongoing, rest unknown (based on my limited research skills). The patent in question involves downloading a remote database to a mobile device used as a lookup table when scanning a QR code. Yeah...<p>I'm a one person company and have no idea what to do.
Upvote: | 833 |
Title: Specifically, what did you think was plausible and what did you think was around the corner (even if either really never came to fruition)?
Upvote: | 246 |
Title: Whether it be intellectual, financial, or personal, what's an investment you would recommend to your younger self and why?
Upvote: | 52 |
Title: SaaS, productized service, freelance - anyone doing it successfully with no-code, low-code tools?
Upvote: | 183 |
Title: Hi everyone! As we all know this last year was rather stressful and due to some additional life events and pre-existing health issues it hit me a bit harder than most of my peers. I work as a data engineer and I'm rather green (4 years out of college), but I find myself struggling to focus or find the energy to work most days. I used to be so passionate about what I do and if myself 2 years ago saw the projects and responsibilities I have now, I'd squeal with glee. I know this is common in our field and I feel a bit stupid/guilty for it happening to me so soon in my career. Does anyone have any advice on overcoming this? Thank you guys in advance.
Upvote: | 78 |
Title: For as long as I've been working professionally, I have been slacking around a lot of the time, reading blog posts, HN, often even reading (tech, biz-related) books and just doing the bare minimum for appearances sake but no one seems to notice. In the office I book a booth to work in to have some peace & quiet and have a couple of code commits prepared to not arouse suspicion. In companies with perf reviews I get some useful feedback here and there but most of the time it's positive, people love to work with me, I do get stuff done if I have to, but as soon as I can get away with doing close to nothing, I'll take the chance. I don't think I'm blocking other teams and I don't think I'm preventing my own team from having accomplishments and often people refer to me as being either partially or mostly responsible for shipping something because I manage to have a clear mind and focus when things get close to a deadline.<p>If I am motivated and the task/project/product is fun I throw myself into it but that isn't sustainable. I've read a few of these posts from people at FAANG doing almost the same so I don't really feel bad about it. I'm just wondering how wide-spread this is. One of my theories for this behavior is that this is related to 40+ hour work weeks. I think I'd be able to get my devopsy work done in ~3 hours/day if I manage my time well and schedule most meetings on Mondays.
Upvote: | 563 |
Title: http://www.presstv.com<p>https://almasirah.net<p>https://alalamtv.net<p>https://paltoday.tv<p>How is this possible? How can this be worked around?
Upvote: | 49 |
Title: I have always been an (a below) average engineer. I was a good student during my school. In college I started getting inferiority complex. From there it has been a downward spiral.<p>I work at FAANG and this is my third job. At second job I was fired, at first I was about to get PIP'd.<p>In my current job I have high and low phases. I don't feel respected at my job and it has had severe effects on my self esteem. I have been anxious/ depressed for around a decade-- I am taking anxiety medicines and planning to start therapy.<p>There are phases where I work with high motivation but it fades easily. I have found I work on my side things with interest but I am not a completer. I complete around 80% of things and then leave them.<p>I am not sure I can keep working this way. Not having a good relationship with my manager (I never feel secured or that they have my back) has made me tired and don't know exactly what to do.
Upvote: | 128 |
Title: Hi HN, we are Nils, Isabel, and Chris - the founders of Alpas (<a href="https://alpas.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://alpas.ai/</a>). We make it fast and easy for medium to large size manufacturers to find suppliers for industrial parts.<p>Why does this matter? Buyers at manufacturing companies face high pressure to cut costs. Supplier sourcing is still very manual and takes up to 45% of a buyer's time. Due to the lack of research time, buyers rarely close deals at optimal conditions. Recently, Covid-19 and material shortages have further accelerated the need for more transparent supply chains.<p>Isabel came across this problem during her work as an investment analyst. She realized that optimizing procurement – the buying of goods and services – is one of the most important ways for industrial firms to save costs: more than 50% of revenue is spent on COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) [1] and sourcing is reported to be the biggest value-driver in procurement [2]. As an investment analyst she was used to a much higher level of data transparency that is available from tools such as Bloomberg or CapitalIQ. Inspired by this, we set out to build a similar experience for buyers at manufacturers.<p>After talking to lots of buyers, we found out just how manual current sourcing processes still are: managing existing suppliers in spreadsheets, web research to find new suppliers, calling and visiting suppliers on the ground. Most buyers simply don’t have the time to do a thorough supplier discovery, let alone gather all key information about them to make informed decisions.<p>Solving this problem requires gathering and analyzing supplier and supply chain data from many sources. Building such a tool represents a massive data challenge: gathering, structuring, and indexing 10B+ parameters of 10M+ suppliers worldwide from 500+ data sources. Our two biggest technical challenges are a) providing a standardized mapping of the supplier’s product portfolios and b) continuously tapping into new data sources which need to be incorporated into our existing pipelines. We use NLP models to extract specific keywords in order to create a list of potential supplier candidates. We match the suppliers to various sources using NER, which allows us to filter down candidates based on specific parameters. The result is a final supplier list with detailed information on company facts, products, financials, and much more.<p>Based on this data, we run sourcing projects with our customers, which means finding suppliers for a specific product and region. Since our launch in January, we have been able to win several Fortune 500 companies, including BASF and ABB, as customers. Using our software, our customers have been able to reduce time and procurement spend significantly. On a recent sourcing project, we helped ABB find new suppliers for a custom lens made out of a special material and even suggested additional suppliers for a different material with similar properties. For this project, we saved ABB 40% in procurement spend and 3 weeks of manual work.<p>Our sales process begins with a demo exploring our tool with a subset of the customer's existing suppliers. Customers usually continue with a paid pilot - one sourcing project in a certain region. In order to access their data going forward and book more sourcing projects, customers enter into a yearly SaaS contract. Based on our current pricing, we estimate our addressable market to be at $15.8 B.<p>You can visit our HN-trial signup page (<a href="https://alpas.ai/hn-trial-signup" rel="nofollow">https://alpas.ai/hn-trial-signup</a>) to create a 48-hours trial account for our software with a demo sourcing project. Please note that we usually do a guided onboarding process with our customers and thus have not optimized our software to be self-serve.<p>We will gladly answer your questions and are excited to hear your thoughts, ideas, and feedback!<p>[1] <a href="http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/margin.html" rel="nofollow">http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...</a> and <a href="https://www.readyratios.com/sec/ratio/gross-margin/" rel="nofollow">https://www.readyratios.com/sec/ratio/gross-margin/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/consumer-packaged-goods/our-insights/driving-superior-value-through-digital-procurement" rel="nofollow">https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/consumer-packaged-goods/...</a>
Upvote: | 52 |
Title: Like how many people, from which countries, how many actually fill in their email, the average number of upvotes/favorites/submits by people, how many lurkers, etc.<p>It could be quite interesting to see those trends over time too.
Upvote: | 86 |
Title: I've been a paying customer from https://www.notion.so/ since 2017 with my company. In the early days, I even exchanged emails with the founders giving detailed feedback.<p>Around 3 months ago, I started having issues with their "Export" feature. Basically, you request to export all your data on Notion, and you're supposed to receive a link to download it. But the link never arrives.<p>I contacted them about this, and that's what they said at the time:<p>> Our engineering team is currently working through a large backlog, and there is no immediate fix for this issue...<p>I explained this wasn't a "nice to have" feature. It was a critical function that locks us with them and goes against their selling message of "you own your data".
I was ignored, with the same robotic tone.<p>So today, 3 months later, I contacted them again to say I'm having the same issue. They replied with the same message:<p>> Please accept my sincere apologies for the ongoing difficulties with this. Our engineering team is currently working through a large backlog, and there is no immediate fix for this issue. I’ve already alerted them to the issue and told them of your particular situation, and we’ll certainly follow up if there are any developments! Really appreciate your patience with us as we continue to improve. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help with in the meantime.<p>I'm again explaining the same thing - If the feature isn't working, this is a critical function that they should at least try to generate manually as per my request.<p>They are basically locking me in. They, again, replied with scripted messages:<p>> Unfortunately, our engineering team is working through quite a backlog at the moment, and there isn't an immediate fix for this issue....<p>Any suggestions on what I can do? Thanks!
Upvote: | 479 |
Title: Hello HN,<p>We have been gathering our requirements and doing our work breakdown structure (WBS) across Google Docs / Sheets and Word / Excel.<p>In most scenarios, the requirement is not finalized initially. It goes through multiple iterations. To track these changes needs document versioning. Although, there are ways to version both documents and spreadsheets there are either too technical (code version management system) or difficult to use (Google Docs etc.)<p>The same challenge exists for the WBS. Here, we can probably use Microsoft Project or something similar.<p>The question to all HNers -<p>For both requirement gathering and WBS, what I'm looking for -<p>1. Some organized way to gather information (preferably in some itemized form)<p>2. Automatic version management and an easy way to see how things have changed<p>A bonus would be to somehow link between the requirements and WBS.<p>This can be either a free, open-source, self-hosted or paid option.<p>Also, it would be useful to know if anybody is using software like Notion, Outline, OneNote for this purpose.
Upvote: | 88 |
Title: Hey Hacker News, what are you learning?<p>Personally I'm learning Elixir, and it's such a pleasant language. It feels great to write, and the packaging/build tools feel refreshing compared to the mess of Python.<p>Now, handing you the mic. Is there a new stack or language on your mind?
Upvote: | 222 |
Title: I usually enjoy reading something thick and technical during my summer vacation, to learn something new and not necessarily work-related. This year, however, I am not sure which book to pick up. I would love to see what's on your summer reading lists.<p>My recent favourites:<p>Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed, by Gelman et al<p>Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann<p>The Art of Electronics, by Horowitz & Hill
Upvote: | 129 |
Title: It's GPG is starting to show it's age, Debian abandoning it for signing packages and it's general lack of usage.<p>Was wondering how one could probably use <a href="https://github.com/FiloSottile/age" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/FiloSottile/age</a> or something.<p>(Not an emacs pro, so sure don't know some of the trivial ways to use this)
Upvote: | 75 |
Title: Outsourcing development is still a common topic. But how about outsourcing marketing?<p>I'm faced with the (I'd guess also rather common issue) that I'm sitting on a - what I believe to be - cool side project that should be capable of generating some recurring income. Not a lot, but some. I am absolutely not the kinda person enjoying the marketing side of things though and I lack people in my circle of friends for this too.<p>Does anyone have experience with outsourcing this somehow? I'm thinking someone who'd do social media and promotion and we'd collaborate on a revenue share model of sorts.<p>Is that a thing people do?
Upvote: | 111 |
Title: Looks like they mined my Gmail account and got the e-mail.<p>From a damage control perspective (obviously I want this info known to nobody but me and my healthcare provider), what can/should I do?<p>Are LinkedIn's affiliates looking at this data?<p>Who are they sharing it with?<p>I'm hoping to publicize this enough that someone at LinkedIn takes notice.
Upvote: | 108 |
Title: I've found watching someone else code is immensely helpful and I was looking for more content like this. I saw some recommended in a different thread, so I thought I'd ask the broader audience.<p>Most of the content I see is aimed towards beginners so I was looking for context for experienced developers.
Upvote: | 147 |
Title: What was experience? How large was the team? Good things, bad things?
Upvote: | 81 |
Title: Is there a book you’ve read or a course you’ve taken that leveled up your game so much that it felt almost unfair?
Upvote: | 197 |
Title: Hi HN community,
first off, I'm writing from a throwaway account and the following problems might sound superfluous or insignificant for people well past my age, so I'm sorry in advance. To set the contex, I'm someone who is turning 23 years old this year.<p>Having spent a good proportion of the last decade in programming and mathematics - a time which brought me many joyful moments - I've also spent a significant amount of time, maybe even reaching the zenith in the past months, being very depressed, lonely, socially anxious; all are obvious hindrances in life.<p>For some inexplicable reason, a short circuit in my brain lead me to believe that creating a Tinder account might be a countermeasure for not feeling lonely anymore.<p>Seeing in the profile pictures what "normal", "well-rounded" people in my age are doing on Tinder, such as traveling, spending time with friends, etc., made my pain even worse, let alone the fact that I received zero matches. Feeling like a social outcast, and having an even stronger urge now in taking my own life - a decision I contemplated many times - ... I just feel very lost in life. I know that I'm a complete failure in life.<p>Over the years I've gotten to know this community quite well. I know that I'm probably not alone in dealing with these problems.<p>My hope is that, as so often, you people might have an insight, an idea, words of wisdom, or anecdotal experience in trying to rationalize my current feelings and situation. Thank you.
Upvote: | 223 |
Title: There is so much interesting content that I have a backlog of many articles I want to read but just can't find time to. That combined with RSS feeds, social network and news, it seems impossible to keep track of everything.
Upvote: | 47 |
Title: What is your best "and then I brought down production" story?
Upvote: | 273 |
Title: This came up on a slack of which I'm a member. I've heard of some companies here and there who have less than 40 hour weeks for their entire staff (googling for them reveals a few).<p>And I know individuals who have been at a company who have done it for a short time or a while.<p>But is there a list of US based companies that offer a 4 day work week or less? I did some googling and didn't find much.
Upvote: | 62 |
Title: A question like the following has been asked a number of times to me, and I've never quite known how to handle it well. Instead, I always lose my job or quit. Usually this happens when I've stopped meeting my manager's expectation somehow, likely as a result of burnout on the horizon. Now however, it's happening to my non-tech working partner, who's been working remotely for about a year on mundane work. Her performance is suffering, because she just doesn't really feel like she can put in the same hours on the same work week in week out anymore, while sitting in our apartment with the sun shining outside. It doesn't seem like there is another option for horizontal mobility within the company, and she needs the money.<p>The message goes something like:<p>"Hey X, hope you're doing well. Just wanted to check in and see if you'll still be doing N things from here on out, or if you've been spending more time doing ___. If there's anything I can help with please let me know."<p>To me, it just seems like disingenuous manager speak for "I've noticed that you're slumping, and really there are not other options, but let me know if you're planning on quitting or doing less".<p>Is there another interpretation? Is there a way to negotiate different or better terms at this point? How should she approach this?<p>The broader question is, how can a company expect to retain employees/contractors if the only work available is the same tedium over a long period of time, and no way to change that? It seems like everyone would inevitably just start performing worse over time, if they chose the performance indicator to be arbitrary and high. In software this would be the equivalent of just writing components or html for an extended period of time without any variety, which is soulcrushing.
Upvote: | 190 |
Title: With 'networking essentials' I mean software components which constitute the infrastructure which a webapp lives within: e.g reverse proxy, DMZ, firewall, etc.
Upvote: | 430 |
Title: What habits have you managed to introduce or get rid of, particularly if you are over 30 years old?
Upvote: | 51 |
Title: I've become convinced that "sales" is a pivotal skill that everyone should learn. You constantly have to sell: sell yourself, sell your ideas, sell your product, sell your vision.<p>However I see no easy way to learn how to sell. For sure the direct way seems preferable (learning by doing), but having a job already + living abroad makes it a bit hard.<p>Any tips would appreciated.
Upvote: | 260 |
Title: Hey!<p>- I've been working for around 10 years<p>- half of that was as a software engineer and the other half as a VP of Engineering<p>- I am good with people and I really love my industry, I don't consider myself at work<p>- I make something like 65k after taxes<p>- I live outside the states (not a US citizen) but I've been working directly with US companies (international contractor) for the last 7 years<p>- I have a family, 2 kids and my wife is pregnant<p>I love my work, love my team. I really enjoy it<p>When I look back at the last 3 years, I don't see a clear growth. I try to do things in the right way, go deeper with what I do (read books, and articles) and improve my skills<p>I feel that my career is steady and not growing fast enough at this time<p>I am not sure about how to move forward, but I am thinking about:
- should I look for a new adventure with some real challenges?<p>- should I stay and keep growing myself?<p>- am I underpaid? I mean, will I be able to get a better salary if I find a better fit?<p>- should I pursue a master's degree?<p>I appreciate your feedback and help!
Upvote: | 127 |
Title: This was just an idle conversation we were having at work. Imagine that one day you wake up and you've been sent back in time, where you are now a researcher at DARPA in the early 1960s. You've got the influence to effect fundamental changes in the next sixty years of the Internet's history, and can make your changes any time in the next sixty years - but you know that as soon as you change one thing in history, you'll be sent back to 2021, to continue living in the world you have wrought.<p>How are you going to make the Internet better?
Upvote: | 172 |
Title: Now that there are so many options like
AWS
GCP
Azure
Digital Ocean
Heroku
Render
Firebase
Supabase
etc..<p>I was wondering does anyone these days Self-host databases on their infra?
Upvote: | 183 |
Title: The New York Times: Opinion | Why Do We Work So Damn Much?.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-suzman.html
Upvote: | 44 |
Title: My name is Lukas. My co-founders (Benas and Tomas) and I are building Turing College (<a href="https://www.turingcollege.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.turingcollege.com</a>), a career school that ensures that students are work-ready on day one of their new position. We’re currently focusing on data science skills.<p>When the three of us entered university, we were taken back by the outdated teaching methods. We still smile when we remember learning Excel via a whiteboard! While studying, we were also running an IT and education consulting business that had an accounting return rate (ARR) of $0.6M and was expanding fast. This quickly taught us that the way developers are educated is not aligned with the hiring and onboarding processes of the tech companies looking to hire them.<p>We saw this issue from both sides of the hiring process. As students, we were learning subjects that didn’t prepare us practically to deliver results for companies from day one. As employers, we were frustrated when hiring students based only on their educational credentials, as these weren’t a good guide to future performance. So, we decided to organize a non-profit data analysis bootcamp, where the curriculum was supplemented with hiring partners' projects. First batches were oversubscribed and we were nudged to build a school, which would create specialized data science courses.<p>Our programs are self-paced, so we’re not a bootcamp in the sense of forcing more and more information on people each day, whether or not they have digested the previous material. Completing a course with us usually takes 9-12 months, but students can progress as fast as they like, and some experienced software engineers have completed 1,000 hours of coursework in 6 months. Conversely, students who are transitioning to data science from other fields, and lack fundamentals in maths or statistics, can go slowly and build solid foundations in these areas.<p>Students choose between several data science specialisations, including data analysis, requiring a solid understanding of statistics and mathematics and excellent data wrangling skills so that data analysts feel comfortable importing, cleaning, and manipulating data; and machine learning engineering, focused on building machine learning models that solve business challenges. Our curriculums are co-created with tech companies who we partner with, who tell us specifically what they are looking for in new hires. Since we started 6 months ago, we have had 17 companies contribute to our learning concept, including Moody’s and NordVPN. We teach current tech stacks and use specific problems companies have worked on as the basis for projects that students work to solve. These later turn into project portfolios that help them get hired.<p>Each student also gets regular industry professionals guidance from our staff and hired Senior Team Leads, working professionals in the data science field. They perform 1-on-1s, standups, do mock-up interviews, and more. These professionals are paid consultants who joined us from Waymo, Unity, and more. One student writes: “I studied in university, and at other coding schools, but Turing College is just something totally different. The best part is the ratio of personal tutoring hours we get - it is 10x more than in the places I have tried before!” We use standups and 1-on-1s with senior leads, and students get a weekly minimum of 3 hours of personal consultation with their leading peers and/or senior staff.<p>Students also get feedback, motivation and encouragement from their classmates. We have a diverse community, including fresh graduates in STEM subjects looking to specialise, right through to software engineers who want to enrich their data knowledge. This diversity enables mutual support. Those with backgrounds in maths and statistics can help those with pure coding background, and those with experience in business can support with soft skills. It’s a collaborative, community-oriented approach that we support and encourage through regular live and online meetups and events.<p>Students can track their performance via a personalized online learning platform. It unifies everything students need for work-like learning in one place: projects, standups, sprints, code reviews, etc. Upon graduation, such performance data is compiled into personalized reports for the students to show to prospective employers and get hired.<p>Crucially, these reports focus not only on hard skills but also on developing soft skills. Our hiring partners consistently tell us that 60% of their decision-making when hiring a junior role is based on a candidate’s soft skills. Our personal development program focuses on students’ time management and growth mindset, communication, and other interpersonal skills. Six workshops elevate our students’ soft skills awareness of each of these different skills. Then their progress is tracked throughout the course by having our students fill research-based self-reflection questionnaires and during 1-on-1 meetings with mentors and feedback sessions with staff and STLs.<p>We make money by charging students tuition fees. In terms of tuition fees, our goal is to take the most flexible approach possible. Students can pay in one up-front payment, make monthly installments, or defer payment until they are working via an Income Share Agreement (ISA).
We don't have a preference between any of these choices, but rather work with each student to figure out which is the best one for them.<p>We’re looking forward to your feedback as we are really aiming to make learning and hiring as integrated and as least biased as possible.
Upvote: | 79 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.