I know there are blind software engineers out there. My main questions are:
- Are there blind frontend engineers?
- What kinds of software engineering lend themselves to someone with limited vision? Backend only?
- Besides a screen reader, what are some of the best tools for building software with limited vision?
- Does your company employ blind engineers? How well does it work? What kind of engineer are they?
I'm really trying to get ahead of this thing and prepare myself as my vision is degrading rather quickly. I'm not sure what I can do if I can't do SE as I don't have any formal education in anything. I've worked really hard to get to where I am and don't want it to go to waste.
Thank you for any input, and stay safe out there!
Edit:
Thank you all for your links, suggestions, and moral support, I really appreciate it. Since my diagnosis I've slowly developed a crippling anxiety centered around a feeling that I need to figure out the rest of my life before it's too late. I know I shouldn't think this way but it is hard not to. I'm very independent and I feel a pressure to "show up." I will look into these opportunities mentioned and try to get in touch with some more members of the blind engineering community.",,zachrip,3270,1587332026,2020-04-19 21:33:46+00:00,story,22918980,,473.0,, 1,Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?,,"In May of 1963, I started my first full-time job as a computer programmer for Mitchell Engineering Company, a supplier of steel buildings. At Mitchell, I developed programs in Fortran II on an IBM 1620 mostly to improve the efficiency of order processing and fulfillment. Since then, all my jobs for the past 57 years have involved computer programming. I am now a data scientist developing cloud-based big data fraud detection algorithms using machine learning and other advanced analytical technologies. Along the way, I earned a Master’s in Operations Research and a Master’s in Management Science, studied artificial intelligence for 3 years in a Ph.D. program for engineering, and just two years ago I received Graduate Certificates in Big Data Analytics from the schools of business and computer science at a local university (FAU). In addition, I currently hold the designation of Certified Analytics Professional (CAP). At 74, I still have no plans to retire or to stop programming.",,genedangelo,2634,1590890024,2020-05-31 01:53:44+00:00,story,23366546,,531.0,, 2,Is S3 down?,,"I'm getting
{ "errorCode" : "InternalError" }
When I attempt to use the AWS Console to view s3",,iamdeedubs,2589,1488303958,2017-02-28 17:45:58+00:00,story,13755673,,1055.0,, 3,What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?,,"Hey HN,
I'll probably get a lot of flak for this. Sorry.
I'm an average developer looking for ways to work as little as humanely possible.
The pandemic made me realize that I do not care about working anymore. The software I build is useless. Time flies real fast and I have to focus on my passions (which are not monetizable).
Unfortunately, I require shelter, calories and hobby materials. Thus the need for some kind of job.
Which leads me to ask my fellow tech workers, what kind of job (if any) do you think would fit the following requirements :
- No / very little involvement in the product itself (I do not care.)
- Fully remote (You can't do much when stuck in the office. Ideally being done in 2 hours in the morning then chilling would be perfect.)
- Low expectactions / vague job description.
- Salary can be on the lower side.
- No career advancement possibilities required. Only tech, I do not want to manage people.
- Can be about helping other developers, setting up infrastructure/deploy or pure data management since this is fun.
I think the only possible jobs would be some kind of backend-only dev or devops/sysadmin work. But I'm not sure these exist anymore, it seems like you always end up having to think about the product itself. Web dev jobs always required some involvement in the frontend.
Thanks for any advice (or hate, which I can't really blame you for).",,lmueongoqx,2022,1617784863,2021-04-07 08:41:03+00:00,story,26721951,,1091.0,, 4,What books changed the way you think about almost everything?,,I was reflecting today about how often I think about Freakonomics. I don't study it religiously. I read it one time more than 10 years ago. I can only remember maybe a single specific anecdote from the book. And yet the simple idea that basically every action humans take can be traced back to an incentive has fundamentally changed the way I view the world. Can anyone recommend books that have had a similar impact on them?,,anderspitman,2009,1549387905,2019-02-05 17:31:45+00:00,story,19087418,,1165.0,, 5,What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?,,"I have Raspberry Pi and I mainly use it for VPN and piHole. I’m curious if you have one, have you found it useful? What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?",,xylo,1741,1561392145,2019-06-24 16:02:25+00:00,story,20264911,,1069.0,, 6,How to self-learn electronics?,,,,sidyapa,1681,1523038312,2018-04-06 18:11:52+00:00,story,16775744,,302.0,, 7,Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?,,"I have been working as a software developer for almost two decades. I have received multiple promotions. I make decent money, 3x - 4x my area's median salary, so I live a comfortable life. I have never been fired or unemployed for more than a few months total over my entire career. Through most of that time I have averaged roughly 5 - 10 hours of actual work a week. I'm not even discounting job related but non-coding time as not work. There are literally days in which the only time I spend on my job is the few minutes it takes to attend the morning stand-up. Then I successfully bullshit my way through our next stand-up to hide my lack of production.
No one has ever called me out on this and my performance reviews range from mediocre to great. I'm generally a smart person. I went to a top 30 university, but it's not like I'm a genius or I'm coasting off connections made while getting a Harvard education. I wouldn't consider myself an abnormally talented developer. I often don't understand the technical details other engineers discuss in meetings. I have probably bombed more tech interviews than I have passed. All my jobs have been between 2-5 years so I'm neither finding a place to stagnate or leaving before anyone could judge my production. It feels like I am in the middle of the bell curve in terms of career success. So what gives?
Are most of us secretly lying about how much we are working? Do people regularly run into coworkers like me during their career and simply ignore it because they find it too awkward to criticize them? Have I just been incredibly lucky and every boss I have had is too incompetent to notice? Do I have imposter syndrome and I am actually a 10x developer whose laziness makes them a 1x developer?
These questions have kept popping up in my mind over the last year. Remote work during the pandemic has allowed me to finally be honest with myself and stop pretending I am working when I am not. I want to know if I was the only one pretending.",,ConfessionTime,1665,1639676530,2021-12-16 17:42:10+00:00,story,29581125,,1058.0,, 8,What are the best MOOCs you've taken?,,,,csdrane,1665,1522766429,2018-04-03 14:40:29+00:00,story,16745042,,315.0,, 9,Gmail account security,,"I have a gmail account that I rarely use, but I know the password. I enter it correctly and get the following message:
You’re trying to sign in on a device Google doesn’t recognize, and we don’t have enough information to verify that it’s you. For your protection, you can’t sign in here right now. Try again from a device or location where you’ve signed in before.
Even if I get the code from the recovery email account, it won't work. Is this the AI hell Google throws you into if you get a new phone and computer in the same year? Has anyone else on HN run into this and found a solution?",,caseyf7,1508,1642976125,2022-01-23 22:15:25+00:00,story,30051054,,774.0,, 10,Successful one-person online businesses?,,"This question was asked 2 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535) by mdoliwa, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays.
> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?
> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.",,gajus,1474,1571815915,2019-10-23 07:31:55+00:00,story,21332072,,656.0,, 11,What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?,,"A lot of what hackers do takes years of building knowledge upon knowledge. That's also true for physicists, marketers, salespeople, managers, etc.
Are there any quick wins that 30 ~ 60 minutes of intense concentration can generate?
For example an average person, if focused, can learn to read (but not understand) Korean decently in under an hour.
A person can also learn a few guitar chords and possibly play a carefully-chosen song in that time.
But those aren't valuable skills in themselves.
Do you know of any simple + valuable wins in your area of interest?
("valuable" intentionally left vague)",,newsbinator,1460,1574228344,2019-11-20 05:39:04+00:00,story,21581361,,1076.0,, 12,Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?,,Reddit constantly hassles me to use their app on mobile.
Why do they care so much?
I really don’t want to use their app. I just wish they’d give up and let me use the browser in peace.,,blickentwapft,1403,1597833479,2020-08-19 10:37:59+00:00,story,24208958,,644.0,, 13,What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?,,"Howdy HackerNews!
Dustin Kirkland here, Product Manager for Ubuntu as an OS platform (long time listener, first time caller).
I'm interested in HackerNews feedback and feature requests for the Ubuntu 17.10 development cycle, which opens up at the end of April, and culminates in the 17.10 release in October 2017. This is the first time we've ever posed this question to the garrulous HN crowd, so I'm excited about it, and I'm sure this will be interesting!
Please include in your replies the following bullets:
- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core]
- HEADLINE: 1-line description of the request
- DESCRIPTION: A lengthier description of the feature. Bonus points for constructive criticism ;-)
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: (Optional, your job role and affiliation)
We're super interested in your feedback! Everything is fair game -- Kernel, Security, Desktop apps, Unity/Mir/Wayland/Gnome, Snap packages, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Juju, MAAS, Landscape, default installed packages (add or remove), cloud images, and many more I'm sure I've forgotten...
17.10 will be our 3rd and final "developer" release, before we open the 18.04 LTS (long term support, enterprise release) after October 2017 (and release in April 2018), so this is our last chance to pull in any big, substantive changes.
Thanks, HN!
:-Dustin
https://twitter.com/dustinkirkland",,dustinkirkland,1374,1490961003,2017-03-31 11:50:03+00:00,story,14002821,,1145.0,, 14,I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?,,"I joined Google straight from college 6 years ago as a SWE, and by now I'm used to the style of work of "do the minimal work possible to do the job", I never challenge myself to deeply learn about what I'm doing, it's almost like I've been using only 10% of my mental capacity for work (the rest was on dating/dealing with breakups/dealing with depression/gaming/...). Even when I get a meaningful project, all I do is copy code from the internal codebase and patch things together until they work. I was promoted only once.
Now that I'm thinking of jumping ship to other interesting companies, I'm having serious doubts that I really learned what I should have learned during all those years. Especially since I'm considering companies with a higher hiring bar than Google.
How can I keep myself accountable while I'm still at the company to deeply learn the FE/BE technologies to be better prepared for other companies? Should I start by preparing a checklist of technologies and dive into each of them for a month and continue from there?",,futur321,1337,1578237366,2020-01-05 15:16:06+00:00,story,21961560,,970.0,, 15,What's your quarantine side project?,,"For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on / building / learning?
I've been making excessive amounts of bread.",,dhr,1336,1589398724,2020-05-13 19:38:44+00:00,story,23170881,,2248.0,, 16,What's a promising area to work on?,,"What's an area that people think is up and coming? (e.g. like social networks were in 2004, mobile apps in 2010, or vlogging in 2014)
I've finished several projects simultaneously and I'm looking to work in an area with lots of users, but as yet few producers. Wouldn't even need to involve programming, but probably would need to be online, as I'm pretty introverted!",,richtapestry,1331,1571758214,2019-10-22 15:30:14+00:00,story,21324768,,918.0,, 17,What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?,,"I'm incredibly fortunate to have a chairman on our board who brings so much clarity of thought to the business.
He's unemotional yet thoughtful. If he doesn't have an immediate answer for something, he instinctively understands how to search for the answer. He has a natural sense of the real priority of work and discussions.
So I asked him for some of his favourite brain hacks...simple tricks he uses when he has a mental challenge to overcome. A couple of his insights were very useful to me, so I thought I'd share them here and ask HN for their personal brain hacks in response.
Artificial deadlines
He has a clever technique for bringing tough choices to a conclusion and avoiding procrastination. This is especially useful for life changing decisions such as moving country or taking that new job.
To put an end to the decision making process he sets a deadline for the decision to be made. Say 6pm on Monday. At five minutes to 6 he usually doesn't know the answer but in those 5 minutes something clicks, and by 6pm the answer is always there.
10/10/10 rule
This is something I've read before but he applies this. The 10/10/10 is the framing of the outcome of a decision across three timeframes:
How will he feel about the outcome 10 minutes from now? How about 10 months from now? How about 10 years from now?
The answers to these questions provide a different perspective and usually help him to find the correct answer without being misguided by circumstances at the time of making the decision.
This will all be over by 6pm
If there's an important meeting with stakeholders, a scary appointment with the doctor or a tough chat with an employee - he simply keeps in mind the fact that by "X time", the thing will have passed and won't matter anymore.
If it doesn't matter after X time, chances are it probably doesn't matter now.
Edit: Formatting.",,simonswords82,1322,1543845382,2018-12-03 13:56:22+00:00,story,18588727,,366.0,, 18,How much do you make at Amazon? Here is how much I make at Amazon,,"To people who work at Amazon, how much do you make? I work at Amazon, and my pay is below.
Discussing pay is awkward, so most people don't. But this creates an imbalance of power in salary talks. A person I trust who was recently promoted was offered in the range of $55K for their new role. However, I know of one or two people who were hired into the same role from outside the company who apparently started at $70K+.
I suspect that internal candidates have less leverage in pay negotiations than do external hires. I think most people probably won't decline a promotion, even if the raise is weak, because the alternative is no promotion and no raise. Transparency corrects this imbalance.
Me:
Position: Developer (not classified as SDE, do not manage ppl) Tenure: 2 years Job Level: 5 Base Pay: $73,000 Signing Bonus: $25k Year 1, $21k Year 2 2016 Stock Vest: 104 shares LY Review Score: Exceeds LY Pay Increase: 4%, plus 35 shares of AMZN Most Recent Promotion Increase/Stock Grant: N/A - no promotions Gender: M Native English Speaker: Yes
If you're wondering about Native English Speaker, I included it because I think it might be interesting.
I'm not aware of any Amazon policy which prohibits sharing one's own compensation, but I still made a throwaway. A shift of power is never welcomed by those whose authority is diminished.[2]
To non-Amazonians, perhaps you could start an "Ask HN: How much do you make at XYZ" for your own employer so you and your coworkers can share the same thing. Comparing compensation for different companies could also be interesting.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation
[1] That isn't to suggest that I suspect Amazon of taking part in any illegal activity. I don't believe Bezos would even entertain the idea. I like Amazon, and overall I'm happy here. What I want is a more fair salary negotiation process.
[2] http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/frederickd134371.html",,boren_ave11,1213,1458319393,2016-03-18 16:43:13+00:00,story,11312984,,690.0,, 19,What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?,,What is the main thing that made your business take off and start to see success that you're kicking yourself you didn't start doing it much earlier?
Thanks HN!,,greatatuin,1147,1644828478,2022-02-14 08:47:58+00:00,story,30329762,,467.0,, 20,Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?,,"I’m Jared, one of the partners at YC. When I joined YC, one of the things that I most wanted to do was to help make hiring and getting hired suck less. I have a business reason and a personal reason for this. The business reason is that YC's job is to help the startups we fund, and helping with hiring is one of the biggest things we can do. The personal reason is that before I joined YC, I did a lot of hiring for my startup, Scribd, and for me it was the most rewarding part of starting a company. Some of the people who joined us had life-changing experiences - they moved across the world, jump-started a new career, grew with the company and became leaders, or used their experience to start their own successful companies. I wanted to help more people have those experiences and not feel stuck in jobs where they don't have much impact.
So, a few of us at YC have been building Work at a Startup (https://www.workatastartup.com/), with the goal of making it easier for startups to hire, and engineers to get hired, at a YC company. We started with the same insight that everyone else has: the hiring process is broken and inefficient, and decided to look for ways we could make it better for everyone, at least within the YC ecosystem. For example, we could get rid of the burden for applicants of having to send a resume and cover letter to every company by creating a simple way to apply to all YC companies at once.
While working on this, though, and talking to engineers and HN users about it, I realized that there's a more fundamental question: why should people want to work (or not!) at a startup in the first place? This question has a history and has gone through several phases. In the early heyday of YC and HN and pg essays there was a ton of enthusiasm about startups, the freedom and creativity and opportunity they offer. In more recent years, when I read HN threads (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15916350, to pick one close to home), it's common to see people arguing that, for early employees, joining a startup isn't such a good idea. And frankly, some of their points are good ones. There are issues that need to be fixed. One of the big things that YC did in the early days was move the needle in favor of founders. That was an adjustment that badly needed to happen, and it did happen. I think the next phase is to move the needle in favor of early employees. Just how to do this is one question I'm hoping we can discuss in this thread.
So, HN: what are the pros and cons of joining a startup in 2018, particularly as an early employee? And where there are cons, what would fix them? If there are concrete ways we can find to shift the balance, YC is interested in doing that.",,snowmaker,1139,1528741514,2018-06-11 18:25:14+00:00,story,17286939,,939.0,, 21,What is your money-making side project outside programming?,,"Always wondered this. Sometimes I feel the need to do something else outside my field, and possibly get some money out of it.",,napolux,1134,1555854571,2019-04-21 13:49:31+00:00,story,19712057,,717.0,, 22,What has HN given you?,,"I wonder what opportunities, interesting insights, or otherwise has this community given to you. Thanks for the answers!",,jxub,1095,1518999283,2018-02-19 00:14:43+00:00,story,16409768,,570.0,, 23,How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?,,"I am turning 35 years soon and I feel like I haven't achieved much, both personally and professionally. I have held jobs in small and big companies for mostly for 1-2 years each, traveled and lived in different countries, had 2 failed startups, and have about $500k in savings. I am single and haven't had a serious relationship for many years now.
As time went on, I started feeling less excited about everything, personal or work related. I used to be excited about new technologies, but not these days. I feel like I've seen most things before, and it's all just different iterations of the same. I increasingly wish I could go back to my 20s. Now I feel too old to go to festivals, bars and clubs and make new friends that way.
This has been a recent change for me. When I was ~30 I still considered myself young and able to do anything I could do when I was in my 20s. But not anymore now. I feel like my time for everything is running out. Have you been through a similar thing? How did you deal with it?",,trendingwaifu,1094,1644137793,2022-02-06 08:56:33+00:00,story,30230620,,850.0,, 24,Who is firing?,,"The startup I work at will soon be undergoing an exodus of staff due to a failure in leadership and management by the founders. Really painful, sad, situation for all involved.
So, I figure if we're allowed to talk about who is hiring, why not the other way around? At the very least, we can get a pulse on those companies which smells like roses on the outside, and reek of something more earthy on the inside.",,wellworld,1087,1478056207,2016-11-02 03:10:07+00:00,story,12851987,,432.0,, 25,Name one idea that changed your life,,"Inspired by David Perell's tweet - https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1257484391204352002",,yarapavan,1084,1588781311,2020-05-06 16:08:31+00:00,story,23092657,,815.0,, 26,Who is hiring right now?,,"We thought it might be helpful to do this sooner than usual. The next regular monthly thread will be in 9 days.
This was suggested by a user who wishes to remain anonymous. Thank you, masked man!
There's a corresponding thread for job seekers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665396
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Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,1083,1584980029,2020-03-23 16:13:49+00:00,story,22665398,,788.0,, 27,What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?,,"Since low-coding is super trendy these days, I was wondering if there are actually useful apps not only for non-devs but also for lazy-devs?
I tried couple of no-code apps, but found them inflexible –not really giving you the opportunity to dive-in and customize.",,sureklix,1081,1586106895,2020-04-05 17:14:55+00:00,story,22786853,,279.0,, 28,What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?,,"What are the good channels for developers on YouTube to learn about e.g., programming techniques or best-practices?",,justanton,1081,1476381113,2016-10-13 17:51:53+00:00,story,12702651,,171.0,, 29,Are you put off building something because it already exists?,,"Big market, check. Validated demand, check. Product or service exists, uh-oh.
I set out to build a reverse address book. Instead of updating your address book with changes from everyone else, you update your own details and it pushes to everyone else. Turns out someone beat me to it and my inspiration evaporated.
Zoom is a recent and great example of competing in a crowded market and winning. For you builders/founders out there, are you on a never ending quest to find something new/unique or do you prefer another quality in your idea to start a project?",,strimp099,1046,1556499766,2019-04-29 01:02:46+00:00,story,19774997,,292.0,, 30,What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?,,I'll start --- I once spent a couple days on a summer job looking through industrial incidents related to the Great Boston Molasses Flood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood). Wikipedia is definitely full of very interesting rabbit holes.,,karim,1036,1477317776,2016-10-24 14:02:56+00:00,story,12778836,,454.0,, 31,What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?,,"For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job
1. Hasura 2. Strapi 3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. Integromat 5. Appgyver
There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves.
What's on your 'to watch' list?
[3]https://www.forestadmin.com/
[5]https://www.integromat.com/en
[6]https://nodered.org/",,iameoghan,1006,1590178621,2020-05-22 20:17:01+00:00,story,23276456,,669.0,, 32,How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?,,"In other words, how do you decide between what you want to work on and what should be worked on?
I've been stuck with trying to figure what to do with the rest of my life. I can't decide whether I should be working on what I want to work on (Energy, AI) or whether I should work on what I believe should be worked on (Healthcare).
It's a short life, so I want to be careful with this decision, to avoid any future regrets. Because I can't decide on this, I end up not getting anything done. Time continues to march on, while I'm still stuck with not knowing what to do.
Has anyone had any experience with this before? If yes, then what and how did you make your decision? What was the outcome? Is there a middle ground or silver lining, where you managed to work on both cases?",,amadk,985,1546764419,2019-01-06 08:46:59+00:00,story,18837334,,439.0,, 33,Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?,,"Hi Hacker News,
I’m Andrea and I have a strange problem with Google that I’m wondering if any of you here can advise about. It’s affecting several people with the same name as me, whose lives are being impacted.
In January 2021, I published a non-fiction book about a difficult, traumatic topic: my victimization and sex crimes that I witnessed toward other women. Because I am a victim, I chose not to put a photo of myself online. In fact, I have never ever taken a selfie nor had a photo of myself online.
Four months after I published my book, Google created a knowledge panel for me and, because I didn’t have a photo online, they just grabbed a photo of another Andrea Vassell who lives in Canada and displayed it alongside my book and claimed this woman was the author. After spending weeks sending feedback and trying to get help from Google support, they finally deleted the woman’s photo, but then promptly replaced it with another Andrea Vassell who is a pastor in New York. She, the pastor in New York, wrote to me that she has been “attacked” because people believe she is me.
I contacted Google again and asked them to please delete the knowledge panel because I did not have a photo on the Internet; therefore, any photo that they displayed alongside my book would be of the wrong person. By this time, some of the characters in my book were also being negatively affected because now it seemed they had harmed a pastor of a church.
I kept contacting Google and finally at the end of May, the knowledge panel was deleted, only to return a week later with a photo of a man who had been fired for his threats toward me. That photo remained until July 2021, and was then replaced with the pastor in New York again, although this time it’s a different photo of her.
I know that I am not a celebrity or an important person, but I spent two years writing a very difficult and personal book and to have a large corporation come along and continuously and consistently misrepresent my work and cause distress to others is becoming exceedingly stressful for everyone involved.
I contacted the Federal Trade Commission and they told me to contact the BBB and IC3.gov. I received an automated response from BBB and I don’t understand the reasoning behind contacting IC3.gov. I am currently working on a second book which I assume will be added to this knowledge panel with the photo of the wrong woman.
I would greatly appreciate any input about how to get this corrected so that I and others can move on. I know this is probably just an algorithmic glitch, but it’s affecting not only me but several others, and at this point I have no idea how to get Google to take it seriously.",,AndreaVass,964,1629249759,2021-08-18 01:22:39+00:00,story,28216733,,282.0,, 34,Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?,,"I'm looking for mind games, plot twists, brain expanding books, and literally anything that transforms me into a smarter, wiser person.",,behnamoh,961,1589265839,2020-05-12 06:43:59+00:00,story,23151144,,719.0,, 35,How to get started with machine learning?,,"How should a software engineer with no machine learning background get started on the subject? Do you think that getting started by learning a framework like TensorFlow is a good idea or should I gain a background knowledge first?",,georgehdd,950,1476515077,2016-10-15 07:04:37+00:00,story,12713056,,125.0,, 36,Who Wants to Be Fired?,,Each of us have limits as to the things we're willing to put up with at a job. What's taking you near your threshold?,,billions,942,1569986309,2019-10-02 03:18:29+00:00,story,21133181,,831.0,, 37,What Skills to Acquire in 2020?,,What are some skills (technical or not) you think someone should consider acquiring in 2020?,,xcoding,930,1580823108,2020-02-04 13:31:48+00:00,story,22235279,,862.0,, 38,What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into,,"15 years ago I learned Python by studying some O'Reilly books and I have been a hobbyist programmer ever since.
The books went into detail and since reading them I've felt confident writing scripts I needed to scratch an itch. Over time, I grew comfortable believing I had a strong grasp of the practical details and anything I hadn't seen was likely either minor quibble, domain specific, or impractically theoretic.
This was until last year when I started working on a trading bot. I felt there should be two distinct parts to the bot, one script getting data then passing that data along to the other script for action. This seemed correct as later I might want multiple scripts serving both roles and passing data all around. Realizing the scripts would need to communicate over a network with minimal latency, I considered named pipes, Unix domain sockets, even writing files to /dev/shm but none of these solutions really fit.
Googling, I encountered something I hadn't heard of called a message queue. More specifically, the ZMQ messaging library. Seeing some examples I realized this was important. The step of then plowing through the docs was nothing short of revelatory. Every next chapter introduced another brilliant pattern. While grokking Pub/Sub, Req/Res, Push/Pull and the rest I couldn't help breaking away, staring in space, struck by how this new thing I had just read could have deftly solved some fiendish memorable problem I'd previously struggled against.
Later, I pondered the meaning of only now stumbling on something so powerful, so fundamental, so hidden in plain sight, as messaging middleware? What other great tools remain invisible to me for lack of even knowing what to look for?
My question: In the spirit of generally yet ridiculously useful things like messaging middleware, what non-obvious tools and classes of tools would you suggest a hobbyist investigate that they otherwise may never encounter?",,nathanasmith,927,1557765251,2019-05-13 16:34:11+00:00,story,19900955,,401.0,, 39,What language-agnostic programming books should I read?,,Until now I've read:
- The Healthy Programmer
- Clean Code
- Test-Driven Development by Example
What should I add to my library?,,robschia,927,1496660598,2017-06-05 11:03:18+00:00,story,14486657,,337.0,, 40,Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?,,I'm a software engineer in the bay area and have been thinking about moving somewhere cheaper (in USA or aboard) where I can live cheaply and focus on my own intellectual pursuits. I'd love to be in a place where the living costs are low and where there exists a thriving intellectual community (I've noticed cities near top academic institutions tend to create that sort of atmosphere but not necessarily). I'd prefer a place where English speakers are common enough such that I won't feel isolated by a language barrier. I haven't traveled too often and would love to hear from HN community about any places that match this general description. Thank you in advance!,,throwawaygoaway,911,1538973880,2018-10-08 04:44:40+00:00,story,18164189,,1088.0,, 41,What is your blog and why should I read it?,,Looking for awesome new places to read things written by actual human beings.
So where can I find your blog? why is it awesome? And why should I (and everyone else) read it?,,jppope,910,1586230436,2020-04-07 03:33:56+00:00,story,22800136,,655.0,, 42,A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010),https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681,,,tcharlton,908,1577979513,2020-01-02 15:38:33+00:00,story,21936234,,437.0,, 43,What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?,,,,spacesarebetter,897,1529822195,2018-06-24 06:36:35+00:00,story,17385291,,731.0,, 44,What are some good technology blogs to follow?,,I check hacker news daily. Is there any other blogs which provides good technology content daily basis ?,,buddies2705,893,1489300164,2017-03-12 06:29:24+00:00,story,13849430,,187.0,, 45,"Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?",,"Although I know self help books are of little value, but wondering if any author has really nailed the topic? Would be even be better if the book is specific to tech leadership.",,learnaholic,882,1575553628,2019-12-05 13:47:08+00:00,story,21712194,,209.0,, 46,How did my LastPass master password get leaked?,,"Hi,
I've just had a bizarre thing happen and wanted to see if the HN community could come up with some theories as to what happened.
LastPass blocked a login attempt from Brazil (it wasn't me). According to an email I received from LastPass, this login was using the LastPass account's master password. The email doesn't look like it's a phishing attempt.
What troubles me is that the master password was stored in a local encrypted KeePassX file.
I can imagine that someone has my KeePassX file and the (completely different) password to this file. If that's the case, I'm in a world of hurt.
But are there any other possibilities? Is the email from LastPass accurate i.e. was the login attempt actually using my master password? Is there some LastPass extension installed on some computer still having a valid auth token allowing them to login as me to LastPass..?
I'm really confused, and scared.
Thanks for your help.
P.S. The LastPass account had 2FA set up, but I was able to simply remove it (since I didn't have access to the token anymore). That's scary too -- what's the point of a 2FA you can remove...??
---
Update:
- the email was truly not phishing -- the same information regarding the login attempt appears in my LastPass dashboard. I also talked to LastPass support over the phone, and they confirmed seeing the same information.
- There are 2 separate users in the thread below confirming that the same exact same thing happened to them, from the exact same IP range as me.
Either the 3 of us had the same malware/Chrome extension or somehow had our master passwords compromised...? Or...? Is this a LastPass issue?",,gregsadetsky,877,1640633798,2021-12-27 19:36:38+00:00,story,29705957,,515.0,, 47,Urgent connection to Twitter support,,"HN,
For the past few hours Israel and Gaza have been exchanging rocket and missile attacks, with many casualties on both sides.
I am the admin for an automated emergency alert twitter feed that thousands of users depend on to receive alerts on incoming attacks.
Currently, we are approaching API limits and require immediate relaxation of some of the limits.Support tickets have been filed, but no answers just yet, and escalation is required.
Any connections to Twitter support staff that can help us expedite handling of this ticket would be awesome, and would be helpful to many who depend on this feed during this difficult time.
Thanks, @yuvadm",,yuvadam,875,1404855472,2014-07-08 21:37:52+00:00,story,8006869,,127.0,, 48,Best books you read in the past decade?,,"Now that the decade is coming to a close, what where the most (personally) influential books you read? Which impacted you the most either personally or professionally? The ones you learned the most from?",,Anon84,873,1577556285,2019-12-28 18:04:45+00:00,story,21900498,,417.0,, 49,Best alternative to Gmail?,,"With the recent thread on privacy in Chrome, I'm thinking of switching off Gmail. What email service is best for privacy? Or if you self-host, what email client do you like best?",,egonschiele,867,1537755387,2018-09-24 02:16:27+00:00,story,18054574,,568.0,, 50,Pick startups for YC to fund,,"Here at HN HQ we've been wondering: if Hacker News could fund startups, what startups would it fund?
Hacker News users have many diverse perspectives on technology and business. Perhaps if HN picked startups, it would pick differently than YC. Maybe different startups would be motivated to apply, if they knew that the interviewing and deciding would be done by the HN community. Interesting things might happen, or they might not. We'd have to try it and see.
I ran this by Sam and he ran it by Kevin and we all got excited, so we're going to try this as an experiment. Starting today, there's a new track for YC applications: applying directly to the Hacker News community. We'll call it "Apply HN". Note that word experiment! We'll start small and figure it out as we go. But here are the initial conditions.
YC’s Fellowship program will fund a minimum of 2 startups selected by the HN community for this summer's F3 batch. (They name their batches sequentially.) The Fellowship is the YC program that fits best here since it’s designed to be experimental and inclusive and doesn’t require people to move to the Bay Area.
All the interviewing and evaluating will be done in regular HN threads, and everyone is welcome to participate. For this summer's batch, Apply HN will accept applications starting now and ending April 27.
If you'd like to apply to the HN community for YCF funding, simply post a submission whose title begins with "Apply HN" and explain what your startup does. Hopefully community members will ask you questions and good discussion will ensue.
If you'd like to help pick which startups to fund, simply jump into any Apply HN thread that interests you. Ask questions and post comments that you think will help the community make the best decisions. These will be regular threads, with all the same voting and so on, but with one additional rule: Be Nice.
Be Nice is a stronger version of our usual rule, Be Civil. Anybody who applies to HN in public this way is putting both themselves and their baby in a super vulnerable position. We're going to rise to the occasion by being not only civil, but nice. When interviewing startups, by all means be curious and probing—but only if you can also be nice. The word "nice" originally meant "not knowing". Then later it meant "precise and careful". And now it means "kind and thoughtful". Let's put all those qualities together.
At the end of the month, we'll rank the startups and YC will fund two. The ranking will depend both on upvotes and on the quality of discussion, similar to how the ranking of stories works. We can talk about this in the comments, but to answer one question I know will come up: Upvotes are an important factor but they're too brittle to rely on exclusively; doing so would encourage the wrong kind of trying to game the system. So we're going to gauge community interest both by upvotes and comments, and in case of doubt I'll make the final call—or better, figure out a way to put the final call to the community.
That's what we're thinking so far. If it seems unstructured, that's on purpose: we don't want to bias it along the lines of how YC already operates. We want to see what the community comes up with.
Questions or suggestions? Let's discuss and refine this together.
Edit: As discussed below, we'll add a top link for these a la /ask and /show. I won't get to that till later, though, so in the meantime, use the following link to find Apply HN discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22apply%20hn%22&sort=byDate&d...
Edit 2: Here's the link describing how YCF works: https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/. Read it to make sure you're eligible. It's a lot more flexible than YC Core, but there are still some restrictions.
Edit 3: There's now a ranked page of applications at https://news.ycombinator.com/applyhn, a complete list at https://news.ycombinator.com/applynew, and a random sample at https://news.ycombinator.com/applyrand.",,dang,867,1459966771,2016-04-06 18:19:31+00:00,story,11440627,,286.0,, 51,How to learn sales?,,"First time entrepreneur here. I am creating a product that will solve address a large potential. The more I think about it and read about startup, I am finding that a key to early and often success is Sales.
I am been engineer by choice and engineering manager by profession. I have never done sales. I understand you learn by doing similar to driving. I am a bit talkative but sometime I have hard time not getting bogged down by emotions.
How do I get started? Can you share books, videos, tutorials, prior recorded sales call references?
Where can I learn about metrics to track? Any ideas?",,northpoleescape,865,1601149495,2020-09-26 19:44:55+00:00,story,24601579,,231.0,, 52,What are you learning?,,What are you learning right now? My last side project was recently derailed and I am curious to hear what other people are spending their time studying/learning about.,,blululu,865,1586102176,2020-04-05 15:56:16+00:00,story,22786287,,876.0,, 53,Are you ok?,,"https://www.ruok.org.au/
My Australian friend just linked this to me and I thought it would be good question to ask HN. IME HN and perhaps software development in general contains a lot of at-risk personalities in stressful work environments that don't get asked this question enough. I think you are all interesting, intelligent, hard-working people and mental health is unfortunately still stigmatised in the tech community. Feel free to ask any coworkers today who have been struggling as well.",,quantumwoke,857,1568296446,2019-09-12 13:54:06+00:00,story,20951444,,864.0,, 54,My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?,,"My wife will be undergoing significant oral surgery in a few weeks and there is a SMALL chance she may lose the ability to speak. I'd like to prepare, just in case, to have technology to reproduce her voice from keyboard or other input.
My ideal would be an open source "deepfake toolkit" that allows me to provide pre-recorded samples of her speech and then TTS in her voice. Unfortunately most articles and tools I'm finding are anti-deepfake. Any recommendations?
Fallback would be recording her speaking "phonetic pangrams" and then using her pre-recorded phonemes to recreate speech that sounds like her. I feel like the deepfake toolkit is the way to go. Appreciate any recommendations... There must be open source tools for this??",,tech4all,855,1591890759,2020-06-11 15:52:39+00:00,story,23490115,,217.0,, 55,What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?,,A continuation of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086 which has been incredibly useful to me.
I recently finished this phenomenal book called "Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications":
https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/building-enterprise-javascript-applications
Which takes the reader from zero to building a non-trivial production fullstack application with JavaScript. I also recommend "Building Git". The title is self-explanatory:
https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/
Other resources:
https://github.com/AlgoryL/Projects-from-Scratch
https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning,,Shosty123,852,1581434882,2020-02-11 15:28:02+00:00,story,22299180,,178.0,, 56,What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?,,,,lainon,850,1538288855,2018-09-30 06:27:35+00:00,story,18104814,,272.0,, 57,What's your favorite tech talk?,,"Simply put, what are your favorite talks or trainings? It could by a one-off lecture about a specific concept or a series of talks about a language. Maybe it's a TED talk or a session from a con. Either way, what's that one talk that changed the way you think and you feel everyone needs to see?",,mngutterman,848,1475601597,2016-10-04 17:19:57+00:00,story,12637239,,255.0,, 58,Best business advice for software developers,,"For those of you who made the jump to entrepreneurship, what is the one thing you wish you knew before starting out ?",,zabana,847,1492599359,2017-04-19 10:55:59+00:00,story,14146850,,312.0,, 59,Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?,,What are your favorite nonfiction books of 2018 (Read in 2018),,jestinjoy1,842,1545524848,2018-12-23 00:27:28+00:00,story,18743465,,332.0,, 60,"I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?",,"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...
I'm a one person company and have no idea what to do.",,jblake,833,1624286907,2021-06-21 14:48:27+00:00,story,27579693,,308.0,, 61,Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?,,"Been doing application development, primarily backend development, for a number of years. I've always found it quite easy to move up and down the stack and work anywhere from UI down to the bare metal in a number of environments and languages, and always the 'fast learner' who quickly knows the system inside-out, even when thrown into some area that I've never seen.
Lately I've been doing some web development on a fairly long-lived and large code-base, but I'm finding it MUCH harder to wrap my head around than application development ever was. I think my difficulty is that the whole environment feels so... HACKISH... everything is a horrible hack on top of a horrible hack. (yes, I'm familiar with the history, been using the Internet since before the web) I'm not even talking about the fact that everything has to be stateless, in fact I develop desktop apps as stateless even driven UIs as well, but just the fact that it really feels like there's no consistent way to do anything, there are 1000 different frameworks, all with their own way of doing the most basic tasks, and my experience is that they all ... well... suck.
Am I missing something? Is it me resisting change? Is web programming really that bad? Is it really just that I need a new mental paradigm?
Can you recommend any good resources to help me orient my mind to this new way of thinking?",,barefootcoder,822,1473654555,2016-09-12 04:29:15+00:00,story,12477190,,661.0,, 62,Favorite Blogs by Individuals?,,"What are your favorite blogs run by individual people?
For example, some of the ones I like are:
- https://www.joshwcomeau.com/
- https://ciechanow.ski/",,zffr,819,1622118549,2021-05-27 12:29:09+00:00,story,27302195,,272.0,, 63,A New Decade. Any Predictions?,,"2020's version of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681",,napsterbr,815,1578008659,2020-01-02 23:44:19+00:00,story,21941278,,1096.0,, 64,What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?,,I'm about halfway through 'Build You Own Lisp' and I'm really enjoying it. Each chapter builds on the last by adding something new to the same project (and thereby explaining some new concept). I find that the books I'm least likely to bail on are the ones that lead me through the building of one big project like this. What are some of the best titles in this little subgenre?,,kyoob,813,1487255596,2017-02-16 14:33:16+00:00,story,13660086,,229.0,, 65,What projects are you working on now?,,"With the quarantine being placed in effect in a lot of cities across the world, we all likely have a little bit more time to focus on personal projects or learning something new from the comfort of our homes. What are you guys up to these days?",,sakopov,809,1584814008,2020-03-21 18:06:48+00:00,story,22648431,,1236.0,, 66,The “I want to do everything but end up doing nothing” dilemma,,"I've had a problem for more than a year now and I seem to be coming to grips with it as of late.
As a CS student / junior engineer there is an absolute abundance of subjects that I either a) need to cover or b) want to cover. Ranging from the theoretical, say discrete mathematics, to the practical, starting a business.
All of these different topics, when made accessible immediately and in most cases for free or at a little cost (libraries, MOOCs, youtube videos, books, etc), result in a sort of "information paralysis". There's too much to do, too easily, and I end up doing nothing.
This really got my attention yesterday morning when I was watching an Algorithms lecture, and my girlfriend pointed out that the lecturer looked familiar. That's because I had watched the same lecture 12 months ago and she caught a glimpse then also.
I could have done the course twice over, if I had stuck with it and not gotten distracted. But I didn't, and 12 months later I know nothing more than I did back then about this subject. This scares me.
This scares me especially because I'm at the start of a 4-5 month stretch where I absolutely need to cover 4 highly technical subjects, on my own and unguided, to continue my studies. (Details omitted for brevity)
I've faced this dilemma before and tried to tackle it on my own, and failed. So I'm posting here in the hops that some other students / professionals have encountered a similar problem and found a solution. It may not be perfect, but it might give me a step in the right direction.
Thanks in advance for any comments.
Michael",,goralph,806,1423906435,2015-02-14 09:33:55+00:00,story,9049208,,214.0,, 67,Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?,,"This question might come across as dumb, especially for a 30 year old, but I come from a culture where this aspect of work was never emphasized and at this point, I don't know who to ask.
Basically, since as long as I can remember, I've had issues motivating myself to work and focusing on a single task.
I've used everything from rewards ("If I work for X hours, I'll play a video game") and punishment ("If I don't work for X hours, I'm a complete failure") to get myself to work.
I have to come up with elaborate new schemes to get myself to focus. I've tried awarding myself "points" for doing a task, turning my work into a virtual RPG. I've tried keeping elaborate spreadsheets of my work habits. I've tried the Seinfeld method of mapping out my "win" and "fail" days.
Essentially, I come up with a new tactic to motivate myself every couple of months. If I don't do so, I find myself struggling to meet my goals and distracted.
Part of the reason for this is perhaps the nature of my work. I'm a freelancer and have been one since I graduated from college. I make a decent enough earning because I've acquired a niche set of in-demand skills. But I struggle to meet deadlines and never have enough dedication to meet any of my long-term tasks (such as building an app or starting a business).
For years, I thought this was "normal". But I'm now starting to think that maybe I just don't have a regular case of procrastination.
Does anyone else feel this way? Is work such a complicated endeavor for you as well? Am I suffering from some form of undiagnosed ADHD?",,throwawayqdhd,802,1519031007,2018-02-19 09:03:27+00:00,story,16411662,,369.0,, 68,Have you been laid off?,,"I work remotely as a front-end developer at a VC-funded, series B startup. Funding has dried up as investors with financial exposure to anything retail or entertainment-related are hemorrhaging cash. The company leadership told us that starting immediately, all employees (including the fully-remote workers like myself) are on mandatory unpaid leave.
Job cuts in 2019 were already up a whopping 351% from the previous year[1]. Considering the COVID-19 outbreak, I'm concerned that many other tech workers like me might be updating their resumes and entering a stagnant job market. Alternatively, organizations may view this as a great time to gain additional market share. What do you think?
If you're a tech worker, have you been laid off or do you expect to be laid off soon? If you are a hiring manager, what is the current hiring status at your company?
[1] https://www.challengergray.com/press/press-releases/2019-year-end-job-cuts-report-fewest-monthly-cuts-july-2018-yoy-10",,Peretus,800,1584550933,2020-03-18 17:02:13+00:00,story,22618788,,645.0,, 69,Successful one-person online businesses?,,"This question was asked 3 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243) by kweball, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays.
> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?
> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.",,mdoliwa,800,1483618694,2017-01-05 12:18:14+00:00,story,13326535,,629.0,, 70,What is your favorite CS paper?,,,,lainon,793,1503577460,2017-08-24 12:24:20+00:00,story,15089476,,257.0,, 71,Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?,,I have started re-learning college level Physics and am thoroughly enjoying Feynman's Lecture on Physics. Are there similar books available for Mathematics (& Chemistry) - books that are fundamental and easy to read?,,pirate_is_back,788,1571934990,2019-10-24 16:36:30+00:00,story,21346272,,171.0,, 72,Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell,,"It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.",,folli,782,1640297531,2021-12-23 22:12:11+00:00,story,29667095,,839.0,, 73,How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?,,"I find it hard right now to share knowledge with everyone on the team and to turn knowledge into actual learnings.
I don't know how you guys do it, but I would love to know. We are now 50 people in the company and I don't know anymore how to make this scale. What is your process? Do you use any tool for it? How good is it? What needs improving?",,gavribirnbaum,781,1571642952,2019-10-21 07:29:12+00:00,story,21310030,,296.0,, 74,Dark mode for HN please?,,"Of all places, HN should be dark mode by default, without any of us using a plugin or specific browser. I don't want my eyes to burn when I'm browsing HN at night on my phone. Anyone?",,krm01,780,1589579767,2020-05-15 21:56:07+00:00,story,23197966,,445.0,, 75,Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?,,"I've been managing servers for quite some time now. At home, on prem, in the cloud...
The more I learn, the more I believe cloud is the only competitive solution today, even for sensitive industries like banking or medical.
I honestly fail to see any good reason not to use the cloud anymore, at least for business. Cost-wise, security-wise, whatever-wise.
What's a good reason to stick to on-prem today for new projects? To be clear, this is not some troll question. I'm curious: am I missing something?",,aspyct,779,1588766552,2020-05-06 12:02:32+00:00,story,23089999,,755.0,, 76,What was your best passive income in 2016?,,"Any side projects, Game, OSS, Hacks.",,djadmin,779,1481444489,2016-12-11 08:21:29+00:00,story,13150144,,678.0,, 77,Favorite teachers on YouTube?,,"Currently I am watching Daniel Shiffman (example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5IH0L63wo) and I really like his enthusiasm. I've watched a whole bunch of high production, paid courses (udemy, udacity etc) and somehow Shiffman's free videos are more fun to watch and learn.
Any other teachers you like? Doesn't need to be math or computers, other subjects welcome too",,akudha,770,1537114747,2018-09-16 16:19:07+00:00,story,17999659,,189.0,, 78,Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?,,"I'm only a mid-level developer. I've been offered a position as a tech lead with the aim of building a team. What advice would you give a new, inexperienced, and ambitious tech lead?
Thank you HN",,Voxoff,766,1580989445,2020-02-06 11:44:05+00:00,story,22255301,,251.0,, 79,Why the Microsoft hate?,,"When new the Nokia tablet was announced yesterday, submissions made it to the front page but were promptly flagged off by many saying "this wasn't relevant to HN;" regardless of all the excitement over the new iPad.
So is HN basically becoming Slashdot where Microsoft hate occurs by default? Is it ethical to flag something because the article is related to a company you don't like, even if the source is generally reputable (theverge, engadget, ars)?
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft (research) and my wife works for Nokia; so ya, ouch.",,seanmcdirmid,763,1382489598,2013-10-23 00:53:18+00:00,story,6596038,,530.0,, 80,Has Google search become quantitatively worse?,,"I used to have better time googling in the past. I struggle to find things I remember finding in the past using google. I think I might be stuck in some old habits of googling and I've lost touch with modern google.
For example, google seems to want full sentences instead of just keywords now. "How do I do X?" seems to get me better(?) results then "X + some relevant keyword". But I can't seem to get past this "most popular responses" google things I need. I do appreciate youtube videos marked at certain times but watching video isn't always what I want to do. Tangentially, has youtube search been integrated to youtube search or something now? I used to be able to search obscure music in youtube. "Sal dulu a" would both recommend "Sal dulu antasma" and list it but now unless i search for that particularly, it doesn't show up.
Any pro tips on how to google (or use search engines) like a modern human would be appreciated. Or modern version of google dorking (which also seems to not work like it used to for me). Thank you.",,itchyjunk,755,1638283836,2021-11-30 14:50:36+00:00,story,29392702,,494.0,, 81,One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?,,"Hi HN,
Do you know any one man SaaS app that are profitable?
I'm asking this because I'm considering starting a SaaS app as a side project, and I'm looking for some inspiration.
Thanks!
Note: this is was previously on HN here[1], but it's been few years, and I'm sure a lot of one person startups are thriving than before.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924009",,phoenix24,752,1555698461,2019-04-19 18:27:41+00:00,story,19701783,,358.0,, 82,2018 Summer Reading List?,,It become somewhat a tradition for YC to publish a reading list for the vacations months. This hasn't happen for a while. I have discovered some very intersting books there apreciate suggestions from similarly minded people.
I recently stumbuled upon this list [1] and the selection seems quite good. I read _The Oracle Year_ which I liked a lot.
My question for the community here is: Have you read somthing interesting recently?
[1] https://geekdad.com/2018/06/5-reasons-to-read-5-great-books-june-2018-edition/,,gozzoo,746,1531395252,2018-07-12 11:34:12+00:00,story,17513576,,391.0,, 83,Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?,,"Hi HN,
I realize this isn't super on topic but I also feel like this is the best place I know of to ask for this advice, so here goes. I need some entry-level, remote-based work. What should I do? Help desk work seems the most promising / practical, but I haven't been able to find anything yet. The remote jobs I see posted are nearly all for higher-end positions.
I live in the poorest region of the United States, but I do the best with what I have. I’ve worked on my family’s farm and done a couple stints at retail beauty supply shops that friends own. I helped open two of those shops. That’s the extent of my non-existent resume. Given a chance to interview, I believe I would do ok. Maybe even exceed expectations for the sort of job I'm looking for.
I need to work remotely for family reasons. I have a special-needs sister and I look after my youngest brother. They are what's most important to me, which is why I don't want to relocate. I have another brother who was helping me, but he accepted a job offer far away. Now I am the only relative near who'll be able to care and look over them. I have time for a full-time job, though, and I need a way to support us.
I do have a job offer that would require me to move by March 13th. The problem is that it is far from my family, and with my brother gone, I would be leaving them on their own. The job is at is an auto body repair shop paying minimum wage. I would be stressed every day worrying about my family back home. What I want is a way to work that lets me stay at home, fulfill my family responsibilities, and make money to keep things afloat.
I am a techie at heart. I’m a Linux/MacOS person, but I easily adapt to other technologies. My first PC was a Compaq Presario that ran Windows 3.1. My father saw the ‘future’ in it, and he hoped I would be part of that future. To use it, you needed to enjoy torture to some extent. Still, it sucked me in. Something about that mysterious DOS prompt promised treasures if only I learned its magic. A few years later, I was dual-booting an ugly Dell machine (Windows 98 SE and Ubuntu). In between that time, my school still had an Apple IIe on which I loved playing Oregon Trail. I bought one a few years back for nostalgic reasons, but I had to leave it behind at my old residence. I miss it a lot. I hope it got a good home.
I am currently working through the freeCodeCamp course and intend to pick up Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke soon. I use VS Code and Spacemacs as my editors. I google like a madman. I have fun playing ukulele and guitar, and I’m teaching my youngest brother about the different parts of a Raspberry Pi. Oh, and I love to read. I am a habitual reader. There’s a lot more, but those are the kind of things that interest me.
I learn quickly, I am flexible, and due to working in customer service (beauty supply shops) I have a calm and understanding demeanor. I am a friendly person and I am always willing to find a solution, even when a solution seems impossible.
I would be grateful for any advice, and I am particularly thankful for dang's / Daniel's time in editing this to be a better Ask HN submission.
I can be contacted at AskHNremote2021@gmail.com and I can provide my GitHub as well, which is mostly documentation editing. I have been told I am a competent writer, if that counts for anything.
Edit: I know that this is an unusual Ask HN post and I am grateful to anyone who takes the time to read through it. I'm curious how others in my situation managed to find remote work. I feel lost in all of this. To say that this has been a stressful time would be an understatement, but I'm turning to HN in the small chance the right person sees this and can give me suitable advice or point me in the right direction. I have always found comfort in this community, so this is where I've turned. Thank you.",,AskHNremote2021,740,1613592488,2021-02-17 20:08:08+00:00,story,26171008,,199.0,, 84,What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?,,"Frequently while browsing this site I see a comment that is profoundly insightful about culture, mindset, career, relationships, coffee grinders, etc.
I realized today that I’ve always considered them in the moment and let them go. Perhaps I should have been bookmarking them and revisiting with a different perspective.",,pardavis,740,1555905266,2019-04-22 03:54:26+00:00,story,19716401,,184.0,, 85,Anyone know any funny programming jokes?,,"Can be super esoteric or super generalized, I love it when I get them, or when I just learn something new.",,arthurcolle,740,1611170670,2021-01-20 19:24:30+00:00,story,25850739,,852.0,, 86,Is all of FAANG like this?,,"This last year I finally landed a SDE job at a FAANG company! However, I'm considering quitting because I am not happy.
The good: I get paid better than my last jobs. I can browse internal resources to satisfy my curiosity about how things work.
The bad: Basically no work gets done and there's no motivation to do any.
The dev tools, docs and tech debt impart such a slow iteration speed that even when I am working a full 8 hours, only a few very small changes get done, yet somehow this is even more than most of the rest of my team can muster during an entire week.
Because of this, I normally work about one day trickle out my changes during the the week. The other days I only open my computer for standup and if I get an IM. As far as I can tell, if I can be just barely the best on the team by doing there's nothing the company will offer me to work harder. If I get asked about why it takes long to make a simple change I can point to the environment and shrug my shoulders. Of course, it's possible the rest of the team is doing that too, but I have no way of knowing.
This amounts to a glacial development pace and when I look back at the progress made since I joined and estimate the cost to the company (salary, servers, etc) it's frankly disgusting. I don't feel what I'm doing is ethnically wrong, because the company is evidently pleased with my current productivity, but I find it unsatisfying and like a waste of my time on earth.
So my question is: Is all of FAANG like this? If the market value of such incompetence if FAANG salary, how can I do good work and get paid preportionally?",,faang0722,738,1595426838,2020-07-22 14:07:18+00:00,story,23917131,,614.0,, 87,What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?,,,,algobuddy,733,1539754999,2018-10-17 05:43:19+00:00,story,18236396,,491.0,, 88,Best Talks of 2020?,,"2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858866
2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740939
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16045859
2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239
Ever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217762
It's been a weird year, wonder if there were still good tech talks in 2020.",,sid6376,729,1608912813,2020-12-25 16:13:33+00:00,story,25537230,,170.0,, 89,Keybase Alternatives?,,"Since Keybase is being acquired by Zoom (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23102430), it would be lazy to not start looking at alternatives already
I myself mostly use the following features from Keybase: Chat, KBFS, Git repositories and encrypting messages sent out-of-band via PGP in Keybase (and the various cryptographic tools [signing, validation etc])
What alternatives have the features outlined above, but are ideally either FOSS or at least not run by a for-profit company? I mainly used Keybase to make using those features easier, so please don't suggest the cli of gnupgp (or similar) as alternatives.",,capableweb,726,1588862055,2020-05-07 14:34:15+00:00,story,23103386,,228.0,, 90,What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?,,,,mirianbert,717,1539584428,2018-10-15 06:20:28+00:00,story,18217762,,171.0,, 91,What programming blogs do you read daily?,,,,t3rcio,716,1318858351,2011-10-17 13:32:31+00:00,story,3120380,,116.0,, 92,When did 7 interviews become “normal”?,,"edit: I love this community! Thank you so much for all the insight. For those who complained, I'm sorry if this post comes across as complainy or redundant, I respect the HN hive-mind and was genuinely curious about everyone's thoughts on the matter.
Hello fellow travelers, I'll do my best to keep this brief(ish).
I've been in IT professionally since Y2K, data entry->QA->SysAdmin->PM->consultant->founder->sold and with the money took some years off, bought some property and a fixer upper and went to school and got a BSBA degree (never graduated from high school but wanted to show my kids the importance of a degree). I missed working and creating things with people so decided to reenter the job market in the PM space. So now that my hat is in the ring I have been told by recruiters what I need to "expect" in this "new market."
I was told "5 to 7 interviews is normal". What? I genuinely feel like I'm having a 'Blast from the Past' moment in this whole thing (good 90s romcom kids, look it up).
When did a hiring manager lose their authority and the trust of the organization to do their job? Am I just out of touch? How is a process like this in any way shape or form efficient or productive? Am i missing something? HN, please help!",,geeky4qwerty,711,1648913968,2022-04-02 15:39:28+00:00,story,30889019,,813.0,, 93,Who is hiring? (November 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,711,1478012686,2016-11-01 15:04:46+00:00,story,12846216,,1134.0,, 94,Best talks of 2018?,,"What's your favourite talks of 2018? It can be anything, programming, management, life, anything.",,avrmav,710,1545492687,2018-12-22 15:31:27+00:00,story,18740939,,194.0,, 95,Best way to get started with AI?,,"Hey guys -
I'm a intermediate-level programmer, and would like to dip my toes in AI, starting with the simple stuff (linear regression, etc) and progressing to neural networks and the like. What's the best online way to get started?
Thanks!",,hackathonguy,709,1510601514,2017-11-13 19:31:54+00:00,story,15689399,,91.0,, 96,What's the best paper you've read in 2020?,,"I know there are classics that get posted every time this question comes around, so bias them towards more recent ones :)",,luizfelberti,705,1607441359,2020-12-08 15:29:19+00:00,story,25346456,,192.0,, 97,Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?,,I'm no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic.
Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?,,throwwfh,702,1611066289,2021-01-19 14:24:49+00:00,story,25833639,,529.0,, 98,What is your favourite tech talk?,,Could be related to software engineering or any other field that is enabled via technology.
Do include a link to the talk if it is available online.,,ratpik,701,1523728286,2018-04-14 17:51:26+00:00,story,16838460,,147.0,, 99,How do I switch from being a passive consumer to an active producer?,,"Lately I've realized that I consume way too much. Be it Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, HackerNews, Youtube, etc. Even though I have a job and I deliver value to society on a dialy basis, I feel like I could contribute more.
Another thing that is holding me back I think is the fear of commitement. I have a partially ready youtube channel, with two videos, not listed. I tell myself that I'll open the videos to the public and then start realising videos on a weekly schedule but the commitement seems like a such a burden on me that I don't think I'll be able to keep up.
I also would like to contribute to open source software projects, or write more for my blog, but I just can't force myself to do it. This is kinda a mix of fear (of what?!) and procrastination habits.
Am I pressuring myself too much to make the switch? How did you do it?",,humaninstrument,699,1495357306,2017-05-21 09:01:46+00:00,story,14386394,,270.0,, 100,What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?,,"Inspired by PG's tweet - https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1215673204125073408?s=19",,yarapavan,698,1578732618,2020-01-11 08:50:18+00:00,story,22018946,,727.0,, 101,Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?,,"The latest version of Firefox (96.0 and 95.02) seems to have a problem where as soon as you enable DOH (DNS over HTTPS) the browser is unable to establish any connections. Disabling this feature once enabled doesn't resolve the issue, closing the browser leaves processes hanging in the background consuming resources. Several of my friends have reported (Windows/Linux) seeing the same issue but we haven't been able to find a solution.",,killdozer,696,1642061420,2022-01-13 08:10:20+00:00,story,29918052,,395.0,, 102,How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?,,"Disclaimer: Not myself, but a good friend of mine is suffering from rapid vision degradation and will be fully blind within a few months. I want to do what I can to help them prepare. Anything from software and tool suggestions to general workflow and tips would all be very much appreciated, thanks!",,MathCodeLove,696,1644877240,2022-02-14 22:20:40+00:00,story,30339187,,171.0,, 103,What's your favorite HN post?,,"Been asked several times but interested to see references to more recent posts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996652",,rkhraishi,692,1473859219,2016-09-14 13:20:19+00:00,story,12496558,,137.0,, 104,What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?,,It's ok to "forget" what you read (https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/its-okay-to-forget-what-you-read-f4ef1c34cc01) as books update our mental models or how we perceive the world. What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?,,baran,692,1504358469,2017-09-02 13:21:09+00:00,story,15155833,,247.0,, 105,Who is hiring? (February 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,690,1485964839,2017-02-01 16:00:39+00:00,story,13541679,,1228.0,, 106,Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?,,"More and more often when I search (using text queries, not image search, which I know has been polluted by Pinterest for years), I get pages upon pages of Pinterest results, sometimes the same Pinterest page but from the different pinterest country domains like pinterest.fi for Finland and pinterest.se for Sweden. Does anyone know if Google gives Pinterest preferential treatement in SEO rankings?
Edit: A few comments were asking what my queries were to generate search results where Pinterest dominates, so clarifying that a bit. I run a site that has a colour search engine for lipsticks and since Google is one of the dominant ways in which people land on my site (searching for things like "nyx budapest lipstick dupes"), I was studying various makeup related queries to see which sites ranked highest .
Edit2: Edited the title for clarity - I mean text search, not image search",,Winterflow3r,689,1608925945,2020-12-25 19:52:25+00:00,story,25538586,,312.0,, 107,"What to do after $8M (all cash, post tax) exit?",,"Going anonymous for this. I am just an average project manager who happened to be at the right tech company at the right time. They had a big exit and suddenly my stocks are worth $8M (the money came in my account last week).
I am just an average guy. I am 43 and middle level tech manager.I know coding (but nothing superb). I know business (but nothing much). I am not particularly very hardworking or particularly super intelligent. Not dumb or lazy - just average.
The point is I can probably find another similar job but probably nothing much higher.
I have two kids and a nice wife. I have a nice, small house and two small cars. Everything paid for. I have no debts or “vices”. I do not like smoking, drinking or going out. I do not think I have any real hobbies.
Just a simple guy with simple life and then this happens. What should I do? Should I donate it? Should I hire a personal wealth manager? Should I retire?
I am freaking out. Please provide some guidance.",,throwaway8m,687,1543937269,2018-12-04 15:27:49+00:00,story,18600220,,508.0,, 108,How can I pick a side project and stick with it?,,"I'm a web developer and DevOps engineer. I know a few languages and frameworks very well, I can find my way around with a good deal of other languages and frameworks, and I'd like to learn a lot more.
My problem is that I cannot seem to be able to pick a project (any project) and stick with it long enough to do any meaningful progress, let alone finishing it. It's been several years since I've managed to work on a side project for more than two days continually.
I sit before the computer thinking: I know! I'll write a roguelike in X! Five minutes later, I'm thinking: fuck roguelikes! I'll write a graphical solitar card game with Y! Five minutes later, I don't care for it anymore, and would rather write an isomorphic strategy game in Z.
The same thing happens with tools I might need, applications I think about, experimental stuff, etc.
Has anyone else experienced this, and, more importantly, found their way out? How?",,corecoder,686,1586173444,2020-04-06 11:44:04+00:00,story,22792829,,364.0,, 109,Best way to learn modern C++?,,"Do you have some good advice or know any useful resources to learn in a proper way how to code in C++? For the context, I know some C, but C++ seems a different kind of beast, and it's easy to get lost in the huge variety of features and libraries it offers.",,jxub,686,1520425194,2018-03-07 12:19:54+00:00,story,16535886,,173.0,, 110,How Do You Read?,,"Hi HN. Recently I have been wondering how other people read. I recently realized that once I finish a book I immediately replace it for the next one on my to-read list. As soon as I swap titles it kinda feels like the value of the previous book slowly starts to fade and gets lost. Obviously not all of it, and especially on novels I'm in for the ride and getting into the story. But in more informative/instructive stuff I feel like there must be a "better" way to read and get the most out of each book.
For example, recently, I started taking notes into the margins and I find I feel more "engaged" to the reading experience and the content. So I wonder what is other people's take on reading?",,vilvadot,686,1567271322,2019-08-31 17:08:42+00:00,story,20847508,,247.0,, 111,What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?,,I've heard success stories of people making millions from adsense or from creating software products. It's made me think who has been the most successful at building a company as a sole proprietor.
I guess we should discount companies that have single ownership but outsource all the work.,,1ba9115454,685,1496043498,2017-05-29 07:38:18+00:00,story,14437921,,308.0,, 112,Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?,,"For instance what they use for stuff like
Or I don't know how to describe it, because right now I can't find an example, but more "comic" like maybe. I know that Venka Subramanian once had such a nice article about Akka with beautiful diagrams, but can't find it either :(",,lichtenberger,681,1546161473,2018-12-30 09:17:53+00:00,story,18788244,,212.0,, 113,Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?,,It seems like most book recommendation threads end up being filled with a load of self improvement type books. Do you have any fiction book recommendations that have positively impacted your life? Maybe a book that helped you through tough times or made you change your outlook on life?,,sondog,679,1585486488,2020-03-29 12:54:48+00:00,story,22718592,,584.0,, 114,Who is hiring? (October 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company please.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,678,1506956414,2017-10-02 15:00:14+00:00,story,15384262,,1131.0,, 115,Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?,,,,lsr_ssri,675,1537230208,2018-09-18 00:23:28+00:00,story,18011332,,440.0,, 116,Who is hiring? (July 2015),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company. No recruiting firms or job boards, please.",,whoishiring,673,1435762922,2015-07-01 15:02:02+00:00,story,9812245,,1092.0,, 117,How Can I Learn Music Theory?,,I self taught myself a few things over the years and I can play my way through a lot of songs. But I'd like to dig deeper into music theory and have never been able to sift through a vast array of music theory blogs and tutorials to find something that made sense. I want a different perspective from the HN crowd. How did you teach yourself music theory?,,deanstag,673,1576648388,2019-12-18 05:53:08+00:00,story,21822225,,239.0,, 118,What's the best computer science book you've read recently?,,,,bobnarizes,670,1484517603,2017-01-15 22:00:03+00:00,story,13406638,,186.0,, 119,"Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?",,"I've spent the last decade in two FANG companies, and I've got to a high level where my total compensation is ridiculous.
The problem is that it bores me to tears, and I don't want to do it anymore.
At first thought, maybe I am burned out? However, I can still come home and write code for a side-project, so I don't think this is "burn-out". I don't know to be honest. I think the best description is that I am cynical of the "mission", and I can't connect my work to people I care about. How do I know what the source of the problem is?
However, I wanted to pose two questions.
First, what is the environment like for exiting high-level former-FANG employees?
Second, what are some of the surprises post-FANG that I would be in for if I wanted to start a company?
Thank you for your time.",,throwaway1m,670,1574827011,2019-11-27 03:56:51+00:00,story,21645117,,400.0,, 120,A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?,,"Whatever the intent of the GDPR was, the practical result is that now I have to click away the annoying "we're using cookies" popup on every website.
Is there any way to do this automatically? If there isn't - there should be. Maybe people should use some special tag for them, so that it would be easy for users to block them on all the websites, if they want to.",,rayalez,668,1592168904,2020-06-14 21:08:24+00:00,story,23521399,,338.0,, 121,Best way to host a website for 500 years?,,"Say you wanted to host a personal page that can outlive you and be seen by the children of your grandchildren. Other than asking your progeny to keep paying the hosting bills, is there another way?",,adamkochanowicz,666,1634912672,2021-10-22 14:24:32+00:00,story,28957573,,787.0,, 122,How do you manage self-study?,,"I often feel overwhelmed by the amount of things I either wish to know or that I should know already.
Be it theoretical knowledge about ML, CS, mechanics, math topics. Or lack of experience e.g in some algorithms I need to understand, control problems, programming lanuages.
And I really struggle to organize a propper study schedule. What should I do next? Should I continue learning this one programming language? Continue reading this ML book? Try to set up and solve some control problems? For each topic I would like to learn, I already have the right material (books, problems to solve, etc.), so at least this is not a problem.
Often I am so overwhelmed that I just watch stuff on youtube.
I wish I had a tool or found a methodology to a) stay focused on the things I want to learn and b) to somehow track my progress.
Are there any tools or methodologies that you can recommend? Please don't tell me "just use pen & paper", I tried and I would like something more interactive.",,ruph123,666,1588490060,2020-05-03 07:14:20+00:00,story,23057411,,222.0,, 123,Share your personal site,,"It was fun reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929345 to see people linking, debating, and critiquing/admiring each other's sites. So what's yours?",,MaxLeiter,665,1649263713,2022-04-06 16:48:33+00:00,story,30934529,,1389.0,, 124,16-hour work week jobs?,,"I have had an extremely good experience doing a 4 hour per day, 4 day per week job, in which I was mainly doing a greenfield project for a startup company.
Hands down, it was best work experience I have ever had. I was asked to do little every week, so I always had an extreme desire to outperform expectations, which led to an extreme drive to work, great work / life balance, and a very(!) productive throughput every single workday!
Another curious side-effect was to (on several occasions) actually work beyond the required ~16 hours per week, out of sheer pleasure.
I still remember that the same day I started working full time for that same company, my energy/happiness/productivity levels plunged, to only be lowered along the years.
I sincerely think it is quite unrealistic to ask a knowledge worker consistently deliver at full throttle for 40 hours every week (never mind the enslaving 60+ hours on many companies)
So my questions are the following:
- Are these 4/4 jobs easy to find? In which areas / programming language domains?
- Only greenfield projects make sense for this kind of work schedule?",,thy_inquisitor,662,1404659725,2014-07-06 15:15:25+00:00,story,7994673,,261.0,, 125,What problem in your industry is a potential startup?,,,,takinola,658,1481300744,2016-12-09 16:25:44+00:00,story,13139638,,705.0,, 126,My GitHub account got suspended without any notice,,"Hello friends,
I'm a Full Stack Developer from India. I'm a maintainer at Gatsby, Open Sauced and Triager at ExpressJS, Nest.land, JSHttp etc. I use GitHub a lot, but recently my account got suspended midnight without any notice, From my knowledge I haven't spammed GitHub, I review 3 - 6 PRs in Gatsby per day, It's been a week without GitHub, I have three sponsors in GitHub, they are asking me tons of questions and one of my sponsor stopped sponsoring me (my payout balance got reduced). All of my office work got stopped, I'm the admin of the org that is used in our company. All employees now don't have access to the repo because it is returning 404. I got support from lot of people in Twitter but GitHub is not responding to my ticket for a week. I also created a petition is change.org https://www.change.org/p/github-inc-my-github-account-suspen... some people supported me over there too. It would be great if GitHub unsuspends me.
My support ticket number: 763327
GitHub Profile: https://github.com/yg
Save Open source developers!
Hope Nat Friedman and GitHub will see this!",,ygcodes,657,1594737275,2020-07-14 14:34:35+00:00,story,23832437,,263.0,, 127,What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?,,"What are some market segments / areas that are ready to be disrupted? If you're a VC, what are some problems you don't see a lot of startups trying to solve?",,seahckr,657,1486350750,2017-02-06 03:12:30+00:00,story,13576236,,1002.0,, 128,How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?,,"Hey HN community, I've been looking to get deep and build my math skills from the foundation up. I have the time to dedicate to this endeavor and I'd love to hear if you have any specific resources/curriculums you recommend.
Something like https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics would be ideal, but more focused on applied math.
One idea I had was to complete the MIT open courseware courses for the Applied and Pure math fields",,hsikka,654,1547825287,2019-01-18 15:28:07+00:00,story,18939913,,227.0,, 129,Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?,,"Recently I decided that I wanted to run my own MTA. Downloaded qmail, applied a couple of patches and it was done. The problem is making sure my mail is not marked as spam by the major MTAs out there, gmail and hotmail both mark my mails as spam. So far I've:
- made sure I'm not running an open relay (obviously)
- made sure a reverse lookup to my IP matches my host
- made sure my IP wasn't already in any spam IP blacklist
- added SPF
- added DKIM
- run a lot of tests at glockapps.com
It's still not enough. I don't know what else to do, is it possible to run your own MTA, for personal use in 2016? Who, here, is doing it successfully?",,jdmoreira,648,1471109113,2016-08-13 17:25:13+00:00,story,12282231,,299.0,, 130,Who is hiring? (June 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,644,1464793263,2016-06-01 15:01:03+00:00,story,11814828,,1006.0,, 131,Best Talks of 2019?,,"2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740939
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16045859
2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239
Ever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217762
Bonus: https://link.medium.com/GYN66jgmD2
Thanks.",,ignoramous,643,1577040671,2019-12-22 18:51:11+00:00,story,21858866,,84.0,, 132,How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?,,"I'm a youngish developer (28y/o), and the constant recent comments of people predicting a new burst have made me curious about how life changed for developers at the time, and maybe what to expect if such a thing were to happen again.
I've heard stories of rich startup founders losing everything back then, but not much about what happened with the average devs. What was it like, living through those times? Did many people change careers? was there still a thriving industry in less risky tech companies? did salaries drop? I'm basically clueless about the whole thing.",,kace91,642,1571700353,2019-10-21 23:25:53+00:00,story,21318704,,400.0,, 133,Are we overcomplicating software development?,,"I have recently been involved in the overhaul of an established business with poor output into a functioning early/mid stage startup (long story). We are back on track but, honestly, my lessons learned fly in the face of a lot of currently accepted wisdom:
1) Choose languages that developers are familiar with, not the best tool for the job
2) Avoid microservices where possible, the operational cost considering devops is just immense
3) Advanced reliability / redundancy even in critical systems ironically seems to causes more downtime than it prevents due to the introduction of complexity to dev & devops.
4) Continuous integration seems to be a plaster on the problem of complex devops introduced by microservices.
5) Agile "methodology" when used as anything but a tool to solve specific, discrete, communications issues is really problematic
I think overall we seem to be over-complicating software development. We look to architecture and process for flexibility when in reality its acting as a crutch for lack of communication and proper analysis of how we should be architecting the actual software.
Is it just me?",,ian0,639,1484752838,2017-01-18 15:20:38+00:00,story,13426896,,368.0,, 134,Who is hiring? (July 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,635,1499094043,2017-07-03 15:00:43+00:00,story,14688684,,975.0,, 135,Best Command-Line Applications?,,"I really enjoy using a command-line interface instead of a graphical user interface, and was wondering if anyone had any solid recommendations for applications that one can use in a terminal window.",,jaydouken,634,1542588981,2018-11-19 00:56:21+00:00,story,18483460,,385.0,, 136,Books you wish you had read earlier?,,"Any book or set of books you wish you had read before a certain age, regardless of topic.",,_6cj7,631,1496516086,2017-06-03 18:54:46+00:00,story,14477851,,270.0,, 137,What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?,,I read a similar thread on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4v3ts4/what_was_your_why_didnt_i_start_doing_this_sooner/) and thought that it would be interesting to know such moments from the HN community!,,throw94,630,1469798328,2016-07-29 13:18:48+00:00,story,12186587,,767.0,, 138,Programs that saved you 100 hours?,,"I learned about a ton of useful CLIs, desktop apps, and SaaS products from this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13887237).
But it was posted 3 years ago, and perhaps some useful stuff has emerged in the interim, hence my starting this thread.",,zJayv,629,1586708533,2020-04-12 16:22:13+00:00,story,22849208,,516.0,, 139,What technologies did you learn in 2018?,,"What technologies have you invested time in learning that you are going to keep using/experimenting/learning about in the next year?
I'm a professional Android engineer, and as for me: I learned Kotlin and use it at work every day, and so far I like it a lot. I also learned a little bit of iOS development with Swift. I also experimented with Flutter developing non-trivial "Hello world" apps, and I feel that it reduces a lot of friction that a lot of native mobile developers encounter.
What's your favorite tech in 2018?",,vchernobyl,629,1545568732,2018-12-23 12:38:52+00:00,story,18745763,,601.0,, 140,What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?,,What maths must be understood to enable pursuit of either of the above fields? are there any seminal texts/courses/content which should be consumed before starting?,,chrisherd,628,1503927101,2017-08-28 13:31:41+00:00,story,15116379,,135.0,, 141,Who is hiring? (November 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company please.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,624,1509548473,2017-11-01 15:01:13+00:00,story,15601729,,1190.0,, 142,What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?,,"What was the specific mistake, what did you learn from it, and how did you change the way you do business as a result?
For example, I was told by someone who started a project without taking an advance, only for the client to decide not to pay. So he now refuses to take on a project without at least 30% advance.
What lessons did you learn the hard way?
I'm setting up my own consulting practice: kartick.org and would like to learn from other people's mistakes rather than repeating them myself.",,_qjt0,622,1575692140,2019-12-07 04:15:40+00:00,story,21728436,,268.0,, 143,What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?,,"Hey guys, I like to read blog bosts about developers that run some kind of project (rentable or not) and usually are pretty open about its development and how things are going.
However, it's really hard to find some of those, unless you found those somewhere. Hacker Newsletter today had a pretty good article https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-2/
I'm mostly looking for something similar since this kind of blog post can give some good insights.
Thanks.",,lucasfdacunha,621,1581127372,2020-02-08 02:02:52+00:00,story,22273224,,144.0,, 144,Who is hiring? (October 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,620,1475506897,2016-10-03 15:01:37+00:00,story,12627852,,985.0,, 145,How to self-learn math?,,"I have a new found appreciation and fascination for maths and would love to study maths from the bottoms ups. I'd love to know the paths I should take and books I should read.
EDIT1: If the question is very broad, it'd be much helpful to know how did you learn math? What courses you took, books you read.
EDIT2: My current proficiency level is pre-high school mathematics as I didn't pay much attention in high school, learning effectively nothing.",,sidyapa,618,1520756461,2018-03-11 08:21:01+00:00,story,16562173,,208.0,, 146,How do I overcome mental laziness?,,"I have realized that I easily give up when I face a hard problem. This is hurting my career prospects. I have been thinking and it may have become an issue because I grew up in a high pressure environment, where a lot is expected from you. How do I change myself ? I have observed that a lot of times I have a vague idea of a problem I am trying to solve but I don't put in the effort to nail it down. This affects my confidence and I don't want to lead whenever I get an opportunity. How do I get out of this habit ?",,fickleycurious,618,1587339057,2020-04-19 23:30:57+00:00,story,22919697,,262.0,, 147,Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users,,"As an update to [0] and [1], the scammers have now completely deleted my page of 50k subscribers.
I am devastated. 10+ years of building a heavy metal community, gone like a puff of smoke, just like that. And Facebook still hasn't replied to a single message. I hate to imagine what would have happened if I was an actual business...
I am reaching out to the HN community one last time. If anyone has any advice or can help me talk to an actual human being at Facebook and restore my page and ownership, please get in touch!
(or if not, at least vote / comment your own frustrations or horror stories below, to help get my story be seen by such a person, if you think this post deserves it...)
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706571
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29876423Unfinished and novel ideas are of course most interesting, so feel free to share anything you're thinking about!",,capableweb,614,1635805267,2021-11-01 22:21:07+00:00,story,29073996,,841.0,, 149,What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?,,"... any blog post that had a major impact on your life, workflow, career, understanding, etc. qualifies.",,michalu,614,1629368306,2021-08-19 10:18:26+00:00,story,28232165,,380.0,, 150,What are the best unknown books you have read?,,"Reading a tweet by Tommy Collison¹ reminded me that the best book I have read about musical harmony is practically unknown²
What are the best unknown books you read?
¹ https://twitter.com/tommycollison/status/1215008546657423361
² https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-its-systemic-phenomenological...",,bogoman,613,1579450160,2020-01-19 16:09:20+00:00,story,22092108,,388.0,, 151,What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?,,"What things (books, activities, courses - anything really) have richly rewarded the time you invested in mastering them?",,Carl_Platt,613,1538202061,2018-09-29 06:21:01+00:00,story,18098992,,564.0,, 152,Who is hiring? (April 2018),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,612,1522681288,2018-04-02 15:01:28+00:00,story,16735011,,1075.0,, 153,Who is hiring? (January 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,612,1483372861,2017-01-02 16:01:01+00:00,story,13301832,,935.0,, 154,"What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?",,"There have been many, many posts about how toxic advertising and Facebook are (I've written many myself[1][2][3]) for our internet ecosystem today.
What projects or companies are you working on to combat filter bubbles, walled gardens, emotional manipulation, and the like, and how can the HN community help you in your goals?
[1]http://veekaybee.github.io/facebook-is-collecting-this/ [2]http://veekaybee.github.io/content-is-dead/ [3] http://veekaybee.github.io/who-is-doing-this-to-my-internet/",,vkb,609,1496950332,2017-06-08 19:32:12+00:00,story,14516538,,424.0,, 155,What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?,,"I've been studying viruses lately, and have found that the line between virus/exosome/self is much more blurry than I realized. But, given the niche interest in the subject, most articles are not written with an overview in mind.
What sorts of topics make you feel this way?",,qqqqquinnnnn,607,1587927572,2020-04-26 18:59:32+00:00,story,22989280,,813.0,, 156,Best Way to Contact YouTube,,"I woke up this morning to an email from YouTube stating that my channel is banned for repeated violations. They didn’t specify what I violated but it could be anything from copyright to hate speech.
Let me explain the content of all 5 videos on my 11 year + old channel.
1) a video of a squirrel that carried half a loaf of French bread along a fence and jumped into a tree. He dropped the bread during the jump but somehow managed to one hand/paw catch the bread and save it.
2) a friend of mine who was unable to ride a spring horse on a playground.
3)my son reacting to a scene from the movie hot rod(cool beans) this was a private video.
4) music video of my own music. No samples or other copyrighted material contained. 5) another music video also with no copyrighted material.
I submitted a request to the YouTube forum but I suspect that is a black hole where support requests go to die.
I’m not really all that upset and I have all the videos that are on the channel locally but the 1 strike you are banned seems awfully extreme. The fact that I wasn’t told that something was flagged or given any sort of heads up is really what bothers me. How can I get YouTubes attention?",,S_A_P,604,1639411008,2021-12-13 15:56:48+00:00,story,29540708,,166.0,, 157,Who Is Firing?,,Times are bleak.,,justforfunhere,604,1587025956,2020-04-16 08:32:36+00:00,story,22887346,,558.0,, 158,Recommend me a course on Coursera,,"My university just provided us with free Coursera accounts until the end of summer. However, there's so many courses to choose from that I don't know where to start! Please recommend me a course that you liked, preferably from the following areas:
- UX design
- bioinformatics
- statistics for data science
- mathematical analysis
- algebra or category theory
But of course, you don't need to stick to those categories, I'd love to learn about anything new!",,Eugeleo,603,1586463317,2020-04-09 20:15:17+00:00,story,22826722,,135.0,, 159,Building a side project that makes money. Where to start?,,"I work for a tech company. The fallacy is that I have so much information about day to day job in my head that I have lost all creative juice. I can code in python with some help but my skills are more towards management and backend data processing.
I want to build a side project. Especially, one that makes money. Even if it brings in $100, I feel that it will provide more satisfaction than my current job.
I don't have any frontend dev skills. Where should I start?
Should I outsource the website development part? I am 31. I am pretty sure learning FE development is not going to be useful anytime soon. With tech stacks, if you don't practise you tend to forget things eventually.
Can you provide some ideas on where to start? What are some simple things I can build by myself? Any ideas?",,ihoys,602,1491358787,2017-04-05 02:19:47+00:00,story,14039135,,248.0,, 160,Who operates at scale without containers?,,"In other words, who runs operations at a scale where distributed systems are absolutely necessary, without using any sort of container runtime or container orchestration tool?
If so, what does their technology stack look like? Are you aware of any good blog posts?
edit : While I do appreciate all the replies, I'd like to know if there are any organizations out there who operate at web scale without relying on the specific practice of shipping software with heaps of dependencies. Whether that be in a container or in a single-use VM. Thank you in advance and sorry for the confusion.",,disintegore,601,1647963452,2022-03-22 15:37:32+00:00,story,30767393,,432.0,, 161,Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?,,,,tixocloud,600,1509552131,2017-11-01 16:02:11+00:00,story,15602538,,77.0,, 162,What're the best-designed things you've ever used?,,"I'll go first. I think this kettle is exceptional: https://www.amazon.com/Sori-Yanagi-Stainless-Steel-Kettle/dp...",,whitepoplar,597,1487547804,2017-02-19 23:43:24+00:00,story,13682949,,1064.0,, 163,Successful one-person online businesses?,,How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?
Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.,,pyeu,594,1519819484,2018-02-28 12:04:44+00:00,story,16482392,,267.0,, 164,What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?,,"Whenever i am trying to google a code issue i have, there is countless low quality sites just showing SO threads with no added value whatsoever. It is so annoying it actually drives me mad.
Does anyone know what's up with that?
I am really disappointed because the guys creating these sites (i guess for some kind of monetization) must have some relation to coding. But i feel this is an attack against all of us. Every programmer should be grateful for the opportunity to find good quality content quickly. Now my search results are flooded with copy & paste from SO. They are killing that.
Am I the only one experiencing this or being that annoyed by it?
P.S: I don't name URLs because if you don't know what I am talking about already, you probably don't have that issue.",,endofreach,594,1638369287,2021-12-01 14:34:47+00:00,story,29403947,,316.0,, 165,Who is hiring? (August 2020),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038518
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038519",,whoishiring,592,1596466855,2020-08-03 15:00:55+00:00,story,24038520,,829.0,, 166,Who is hiring? (March 2018),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,592,1519920058,2018-03-01 16:00:58+00:00,story,16492994,,1179.0,, 167,Who is hiring? (December 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company please.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,592,1512144071,2017-12-01 16:01:11+00:00,story,15824597,,990.0,, 168,"Help, HN'er in trouble, we need a laywer in Delhi immediately",,"Hello Hacker News,
A fellow HN'er (who has to remain anon for a bit) is in serious trouble in India. She's been taken into police custody to be presented in front of a magistrate without representation. We URGENTLY need a lawyer on the ground in Delhi but it being Sunday there found that it is very hard to reach anybody there.
If you have contacts in Delhi or are in Delhi yourself please help us to find a competent criminal lawyer in the next few hours.
You can reach us through j@ww.com phone + 31 6 30 366 241
Jacques Mattheij (jacquesm) & Daniel Tenner (swombat).Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,589,1493650811,2017-05-01 15:00:11+00:00,story,14238005,,1089.0,, 170,"Developers with kids, how do you skill up?",,"I recently had one of my colleagues comment on my GitHub account graph - 'There won't be many green boxes in your account once you have a kid'. This was in response to my suggestions on how we should all keep learning.
I argued many good programmers have family with kids and still manage to keep up. They brushed me off saying it's just not possible or they don't look after their kids.
When i look up the internet I find people doing full time job delivering products while having a family and some still find plenty of time to blog or write books. How is this possible? Are these people super-human? How are you all doing or managing if you have kids/family?",,fatherofone,589,1488932303,2017-03-08 00:18:23+00:00,story,13816627,,511.0,, 171,Who is hiring? (May 2018),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,587,1525186932,2018-05-01 15:02:12+00:00,story,16967543,,1187.0,, 172,Who is hiring? (January 2019),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807015
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807016",,whoishiring,587,1546444910,2019-01-02 16:01:50+00:00,story,18807017,,959.0,, 173,What non-work task have you automated?,,,,Kevin_S,586,1507742723,2017-10-11 17:25:23+00:00,story,15451442,,704.0,, 174,What are the signs that you have a great manager?,,"Overheard that people don't leave jobs, they leave managers. I am relatively new to software engineering professional field (about 2.5 years).",,rahulskn86,585,1561008135,2019-06-20 05:22:15+00:00,story,20230133,,214.0,, 175,I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay,,"Hello,
This my third and final time posting this post, first time it was labeled as spam and the second time someone suggested that i edit it and so i did.
I have 4 years remaining in my U.S visa, each visit i can stay 6 months, i don't want to break any U.S rules that's why i want to code for your startup for no money, just food and a place to live in transportation would be nice too but i am not going to take money from you and i am not going to ask your for health insurance or be your employee, i don't want to break any rules, i have +8 years of experience in JS, PHP, Ruby mainly as a full stack web developer i also do game development using Unity3D + C#, i'm a Musician since over 15 years at my free time and i can design sounds and soundtracks i work with many DAWs, i'm bilingual i speak fluent Arabic and English beside having many more skills.
I am doing this because i live in a war torn country, some issues happened and i've lost all my savings, I'm 31 years old and i don't want to spend the rest of my life in this place, i've been to California in 2014 and i loved it so much, i can't get an H1B visa because i don't have a university degree although i have a high school diploma and a college diploma in business management and e-commerce.
If you'd like to interview me please send me an e-mail to life.will.get.better.2016@gmail.com, thank you.
Thank you for reading my post.
ps: Please if you can't help me at least try not to be negative in the comments i already have enough negativity going on in my life and i could really really use some motivation, but after all you are free to write whatever you want of course and i appreciate it.
One more thing, thank you "dang" for telling me about the spam filter and helping me.",,codeornocode,584,1439171543,2015-08-10 01:52:23+00:00,story,10032299,,278.0,, 176,How do you set prices?,,"I'm helping a friend's startup figure out pricing for their products. What are some tools/services that you use to do this? Are there any pricing analytics platforms that you'd recommend?
I can't find anything that wasn't enterprise focused ("Call for pricing!"). Are there any services that your company uses that you're happy with? Ideally, it would help calculate common metrics & make suggestions for pricing experiments (& help run them!).",,fnbr,584,1489167082,2017-03-10 17:31:22+00:00,story,13840282,,175.0,, 177,Books you read in 2018?,,"I'd like to know which books HN read in 2018. Which of these would you recommend? Which of these surprised you, because they are not the usual suspects.",,rwieruch,578,1544591404,2018-12-12 05:10:04+00:00,story,18661546,,347.0,, 178,Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?,,"Discovering unknown paths of the web seems almost impossible with google et al..
Are there any earch engines which exclude or at least penalize results from, say, top 500 websites?",,cJ0th,578,1589632116,2020-05-16 12:28:36+00:00,story,23202850,,228.0,, 179,“Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects,,"I am looking for writings/tutorials/videos which describe a specific technology or feature by implementing them, ideally in no more than few thousands lines of code (and not just 10-20 line code snippets). Idea is to teach about underlying technology by a hands-on project, which is not overwhelming like trying to implement full-feature game engine and yet captures the essence of technology. Some examples are -
* Build a simple database (https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/)
* Containers in 500 lines (https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html)
* Malloc tutorial (https://danluu.com/malloc-tutorial/)
* Nativecoin - build your own crypto-currency (https://lhartikk.github.io/)
I'm sure there are great such projects/tutorials in domains like networking, filesystem, databases, compiler, web design, messaging, game design, fintech, etc. If you have come across such writings/projects, kindly share.",,n_t,576,1521114104,2018-03-15 11:41:44+00:00,story,16591918,,82.0,, 180,Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?,,"For the past weeks I've been receiving emails that are pretty obviously spam. Here's one I just got:
sender: Динасий Колпаков <kolpakovdinasij@gmail.com> subject: Q7425 7235 F0 8741 (empty body)
They all have similar formats, with a .htm attached file with ridiculous names like "Elon secret invitation" or "how to get free bitcoin".
They are all look like 90's era spam. Yet not only aren't they caught in the spam filter, they arrive to my main inbox, they aren't even classified as promotions or anything.
I can also see a long CC list, since it's not hidden.
Are any of you also having a similar problem?",,kace91,575,1632430848,2021-09-23 21:00:48+00:00,story,28635313,,282.0,, 181,What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?,,,,nightmarenate,575,1537333089,2018-09-19 04:58:09+00:00,story,18021782,,242.0,, 182,YouTube down?,,,,LiweiZ,575,1539738916,2018-10-17 01:15:16+00:00,story,18234750,,468.0,, 183,How do you organize everything you want to do?,,"I keep categorizing ideas that I really want to execute into groups like work, personal life, projects etc, and then try to allocate time to them. But even when I try to focus and narrow the list of things I want to do, life still gets in between. So how do you go about it?
In the end I spend more time reorganizing my ideas than working on them >.<",,mezod,574,1547299847,2019-01-12 13:30:47+00:00,story,18891069,,288.0,, 184,What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?,,"Last February there was, in my opinion, a really uplifting thread with the same title¹. I'd like to see all the cool new things going on, and I'll steal the intro text from as89 to explain:
One where you don't care if it makes money or gets a lot of attention, but you are working on it regardless. I don't think I mean private hobbies, exactly, but projects that could or will be shared with others - you just don't care about the outcome.
¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992782",,JNRowe,573,1644477209,2022-02-10 07:13:29+00:00,story,30283264,,935.0,, 185,Who is hiring? (September 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,573,1504278114,2017-09-01 15:01:54+00:00,story,15148885,,970.0,, 186,Is the past disappearing on the web?,,"I have the habit of looking at the date of things I consume online, it gives me a sense of relevance and context, both when I'm looking for things that are "from now" but more importantly when I'm looking for things given a temporal context, for instance, programming for an old compiler, finding out how to do something with an old piece of hardware or electronics.
I feel like I'm encountering more and more sites and articles where I can't seem to find the date. Google will return irrelevant results from today rather than relevant results from 10 years ago.
I feel it's getting worse, is it just me?",,dusted,569,1643192597,2022-01-26 10:23:17+00:00,story,30083783,,316.0,, 187,Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?,,"If you were to choose one book (or maybe more than one :P) to lure a curious person to your field of study, which will you choose?
For example: How to Design Programs for Computer Science.
Note: It has to be inviting for someone that knows nothing about the field but becomes hooked after reading it. Not some epitome which is revered by experts only.",,debanjan16,569,1648403649,2022-03-27 17:54:09+00:00,story,30822339,,273.0,, 188,What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?,,"I recently started integrating tmux and vim into my workflows. Obviously, it was a huge efficiency booster. What are some other tools (custom built or off-the-shelf), hotkeys, workflows that were game-changing for you as a dev? I'm interested in hearing about anything and everything (stuff from ctrl+l to clear the terminal to little-known git commands to larger-scale strategies like CI/CD)",,kanyethegreat,566,1588968869,2020-05-08 20:14:29+00:00,story,23118940,,522.0,, 189,Who is hiring? (July 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,566,1467385281,2016-07-01 15:01:21+00:00,story,12016568,,898.0,, 190,Examples of great landing pages?,,,,iampaul,566,1522356994,2018-03-29 20:56:34+00:00,story,16710952,,231.0,, 191,I don't want to be a founder anymore,,"Hi HN,
Using a throwaway account because there's a lot to lose from speaking about how I feel.
I founded a company several years ago. Fast forward to today and we're profitable, growing steadily, debt free and are about to be acquired (there are LOIs on the table). You may ask what the problem is? Well, the problem is that I'm supremely unhappy.
Each morning for the past couple months, my first thought has been "What could today be like if I didn't work here?". I drift off into exploring what it would be like to work at Wal Mart, or the construction site outside, or as a bagger at a grocery store. It seems so stress free. Then, my phone starts ringing for the day and I'm snapped back to reality. This morning, I locked myself in the bathroom with the shower running (don't want wife to know) and cried my eyes out. I haven't cried in many years. It felt great, but only for an hour.
So, from my (possibly skewed) point of view, I have 2 options:
- Quit, which effectively kills any acquisition and likely the company as well
- Suck it up and work on the same thing for 2-5 more years
I'd been mulling over a third option (hire someone to do my day-to-day), but don't know how to make it work. The product is just too complicated (tons of domain knowledge required) for someone to come in and take over. Additionally, the product just isn't that interesting (glorified CRUD app) and it's been hard to retain developers.
Please tell me I'm missing something! Maybe I'm just being ridiculous- it's getting hard to tell. Is it common for a Founder to go through this train of thought before an acquisition? Is there a trick to convince yourself you want to keep doing this? Maybe I'm suffering from some kind of depression and need drugs.
Any advice appreciated.
- A founder in pain",,throwaway10595,565,1495724786,2017-05-25 15:06:26+00:00,story,14417758,,479.0,, 192,Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?,,"The MBP is by far the best laptop I’ve used. The graphics are amazing, and the touchpad is ergonomic. However, Apple has demonstrated their inability to be reliable. I bought my MBP in January of this year (2019) and tomorrow I’ll pick it up from its 3rd repair. I’ve grown tired of this repair routine. And after the 3 years runs out, they will start charging me.",,ryanmccullagh,563,1571548537,2019-10-20 05:15:37+00:00,story,21302412,,601.0,, 193,Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work,,"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.
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.",,awaythrown1,563,1624378135,2021-06-22 16:08:55+00:00,story,27593462,,398.0,, 194,“Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo,,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.
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.,,MaxHoppersGhost,560,1622822275,2021-06-04 15:57:55+00:00,story,27394925,,126.0,, 195,Who wants to be hired?,,"With the blessing of dang [1], I'm starting a thread to allow those looking to be hired by a company a way to communicate that to the HN community. Think of this as the inverse of the "Who is hiring?" monthly threads [2] -- except this is not a whoishiring sponsored or monthly thread (yet).
There are a couple of reasons why this thread may be valuable on HN. One, it gives those interested in looking to hire HN enthusiasts a quick view of who is looking for a job. Second, it also gives the HN community a way to give back by helping other HN members find a good fit through networking.
If you're looking to be hired by a company, please use this thread to let other HN members know.
If you're looking for talent, by all means, check out the candidates below and if you see a good fit, connect! Please no recruiters, unless specifically indicated (opt-in).
If you're not hiring/looking to be hired, take a look over the candidates below and connect with them if you're aware of a potential fit for them.
Up/Down Voting: I would propose that up/down voting be reserved to help promote high quality submissions, and push down those clearly not putting in much effort or are off-topic. Use sparingly.
I am loosely proposing the following format (obviously you're welcome to use any format you'd like):
[Location], [Remote | Relocation], [Full Time | Contract | Part Time]
Stack: [Comma delimited list of technologies]
Resume: [Link to resume]
Contact: [Email address or other means of contact]
[Brief overview, what you're looking for in a company, etc.]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682189
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679431",,jader201,559,1399032586,2014-05-02 12:09:46+00:00,story,7685170,,366.0,, 196,What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?,,,,avinassh,558,1514644800,2017-12-30 14:40:00+00:00,story,16035402,,129.0,, 197,How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?,,"I'm a 26 y.o. software dev working on going indie. All my life, I've struggled with procrastination. I find it very hard to sit down and work on a project without an external motivator, and on many nights I end up vegging out in front of the TV or aimlessly clicking around on the internet. As a result, even though I am successful on an absolute scale — CS degree from a top-10, worked at a startup and a large company, enough savings to last a few years of solo development — by my own metric of success, I am crippled by the feeling that it's "too late". Every day, I read an article by some hot-shot young dev who has a handful of fancy projects behind his belt (not to mention a great website and design sensibility) while I have exactly zero — and he's half a decade younger than me! How will I ever be able to catch up? Experience-wise, I'm still a junior dev.
It's a constant, irrepressible gnawing in my chest. Every morning, I take tally of my age. Whenever I encounter a technical article, I immediately and compulsively investigate the author's age. If I'm behind — which I always am — I will lock myself in my room and force myself to work, even though I still end up on HN half the time. It's exhausting and terrifying, but I also don't want to loosen up. At my core, I am intensely ambitious. I have so many great ideas, and knowing that the main obstacle between them and me is only myself keeps me in an endless state of panic.
It's been getting better. For the first time in my life, my procrastination is starting to get tamed. I've been working hard on my first big project, and I expect it's going to be a great one. But I can't help but feel that if I had started in earnest at 25, at 21, at 19 — then maybe the list of accomplishments at the end of my life will be longer. Mentally, I've resigned to the fact that I've procrastinated away a decade of valuable time, and it just endlessly haunts me.
Does anybody else have this problem? How do you deal with it?",,tastyface,558,1428449350,2015-04-07 23:29:10+00:00,story,9337863,,408.0,, 198,Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium,,"Let me put this as simple as I can: Writing tutorials on Medium means you are putting them behind a paywall, thus restricting learning opportunities.
Medium is not StackOverflow, it limits the number of articles that can be freely read.
If you ever learned something from a blog or from stackoverflow do contribute back by sharing your knowledge open on the internet not behind a paywall.",,gls2ro,556,1604065066,2020-10-30 13:37:46+00:00,story,24942037,,253.0,, 199,What happens to older developers?,,"I started wondering about this in the recent STEM thread. As someone now in their early 30s I'm starting to wonder what the mid-late career as a software developer looks like.
Do you have to go into management to continue progressing upwards in pay and influence? I know this isn't the case at some companies (e.g. Google), but is it rare or common to progress as an individual contributor?
Is there a plateau in pay? Is there a drop in pay switching jobs after a certain number of years experience because places are looking for 5+ instead of 20+?
Are older devs not looking for new jobs because they have families and want more stability/are focussed elsewhere?
Is becoming a specialist rather than a generalist the answer?
And lastly: if you're in your late 30s, 40s, 50s, what are you doing at your job? What are the older people in your workplace doing?",,JeffJenkins,554,1394461088,2014-03-10 14:18:08+00:00,story,7372997,,358.0,, 200,Are books worth it?,,"I have read less than 50 books in my life and probably less than 5 books in the past 10 years.
Growing up with the Internet, I always assumed that everything could be found for free online.
I spend most of my day reading online articles/conversations, watching videos, and listening to podcasts. I have thousands of non-fiction (mostly self-improvement) books in my reading list on GoodReads, but almost never bother to read any. I assume that the best part of the best books will surface in daily conversations, YouTube videos, CliffsNotes, podcasts, Reddit posts/comments, blog articles, etc. I even find myself reading the comments and not reading the article most of the time. I'm fine with bullet point style summaries and don't care much about the fluff that fills most books I've read in the past.
Up until recently, I didn't think I was missing out. I thought that online content was roughly equivalent to 80% of what I'd get from reading actual books for 20% of the effort. I also thought that most books probably don't age very well and that most of the bleeding edge stuff could only be found online. But I'm starting to wonder if that's true. I'm starting to see people online mention that books are infinitely better than online content. I read that millionaires and billionaires read tons of books. I wonder if I'm missing out?
One issue for me is that books are a very big time investment. I read very slowly and I don't remember everything I read either. The last few books I read were mostly filled with fluff, anecdotes, stories, jokes, and trivialities. Even if I wanted to read books, I just don't know which ones I should start with, out of the 1000 "must-read" books in my reading list.
Are books worth it? Is it more true for some fields than others? Is it more true for older books? Isn't most of the information from books freely available online? Am I missing out?",,miguelrochefort,553,1578150657,2020-01-04 15:10:57+00:00,story,21955258,,391.0,, 201,Who is hiring? (May 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,553,1462201314,2016-05-02 15:01:54+00:00,story,11611867,,937.0,, 202,What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?,,"Tired of the hype on the web/js (every week new library to learn about), I am thinking to switch career in the next 1-2 years, and move lower in the stack. I am into Rust in the last 3-4 months and I really enjoy it, but I would like to learn more, what would you consider essential books/papers/resources that a system's programmer should know?",,avrmav,551,1547192099,2019-01-11 07:34:59+00:00,story,18881649,,226.0,, 203,Best books under 200 pages for developers?,,Most of the highly recommended books for software developers are about 400 pages. Sometimes I want to start and finish a book in a weekend and 400 is too much for me. Which books under 200 pages do you recommend to software developers?
Bonus: Best non-tech books under 200 pages https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19194.Best_Books_Under_200_Pages,,erkanerol,551,1590864749,2020-05-30 18:52:29+00:00,story,23363595,,102.0,, 204,Which developers do you closely follow?,,"The one thing that keeps me inspired, more than anything, is following up with the activities of people whom I consider as masters.
When it comes to programming, which developers do you closely follow?
Please include blog/website/github links.
A couple of my favourites:
[TJ Holowaychuk](https://github.com/tj) - because he's a wizard. The number of premium open source projects he's been a part of, is just astounding.
[Dan Abramov](https://github.com/gaearon) - First hit on his redux talk, then drifted to his blog posts. I like his clarity of expressing the why's and how's.",,krptos,551,1485782577,2017-01-30 13:22:57+00:00,story,13520891,,264.0,, 205,Who is hiring? (May 2020),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042616
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042617",,whoishiring,549,1588345290,2020-05-01 15:01:30+00:00,story,23042618,,687.0,, 206,What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?,,"Looking to make 500$ a month - any examples of super simple SaaS that make at least 500 USD per month? I don't know where to start, so looking for inspiration/examples etc",,justaguyhere,548,1548674162,2019-01-28 11:16:02+00:00,story,19016569,,225.0,, 207,Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?,,"Looking at syscalls, I see Zoom desktop reads all processes and arguments.
[pid 3844872] stat("/proc/1", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
[pid 3844872] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/1/stat", O_RDONLY) = 4
[pid 3844872] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/1/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 4
[pid 3844872] readlink("/proc/1/exe", 0x20c0520, 1024) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
[pid 3844872] stat("/proc/2", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
[pid 3844872] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/2/stat", O_RDONLY) = 4
[pid 3844872] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/2/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 4
[pid 3844872] stat("/proc/3", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
[pid 3844872] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/3/stat", O_RDONLY) = 4
[pid 3844872] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/3/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 4
...
I’m now writing a book based on that story for Random House. Although it is about what happened to Peter, the broader story is about the problem of substance use (and often abuse) in white-collar professions, where the users are well-off, well-educated, working long hours, often with all the outward trappings of success.
What can you tell me about drug use as a professional or in your profession?
I know there is drug use in law, finance, medicine and technology, and am hoping that some of you will be open to discussing with me what you see and what you've experienced in your profession and professional environment. I’d like to use some of your comments in the book and will not know or need to know your names, so I hope you’ll feel comfortable being as candid as possible. I’m not here to make judgements, all I’m looking for is the truth about what’s going on.
I'm interested in whatever you can tell me about drugs you are using or observe being used in your field: which drugs, what effects you see, any stories you have, any details you can share. Thanks.",,Eilene,542,1519657623,2018-02-26 15:07:03+00:00,story,16465762,,615.0,, 211,What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?,,"I am still frustrated with the amount of incidental complexity required whenever I want to do this. My latest attempt was to use a Digital Ocean droplet with Django pre-installed. I guess the biggest issue there was setting up something so that I could easily deploy my local version to the droplet (ended up using git/Github), and ensuring those two environments were in sync. I looked into Docker in some detail about a year ago, and I think it's the only pretty good solution for this I've come across—but there's a steep up front cost in learning/setup etc. (or so it seems).
What services and technologies do you use when you'd like to quickly build a web app which may never be more than a prototype, but may also turn into something real? A big aspect of what I'm wondering is about automatically setting something up for keeping local/production environments in sync, quickly deploying to production, and not having to mess with a bunch of server configuration things, user accounts, security, etc.",,westoncb,542,1527985767,2018-06-03 00:29:27+00:00,story,17217210,,558.0,, 212,Are you working on interesting technical problems?,,I have been feeling disappointed that I haven't been able to use my computer science degree to it's full potential. Most of my work seems to be boring CRUD work where the challenge is gluing libraries together or figuring out business requirements. Actual interesting technical problems seems to be mostly wrapped in ready-made libraries / SaaS services.
Anyone in the same boat?,,obsession,542,1528186803,2018-06-05 08:20:03+00:00,story,17235832,,426.0,, 213,Go-to web stack today?,,"As a long time software developer who hasn't done full stack in awhile (since 2013), what's everyone's go to web hosting stack today? Wanted to quickly put together a simple website with react/node.",,capkutay,542,1546656062,2019-01-05 02:41:02+00:00,story,18829557,,441.0,, 214,What's the best book on modern UI/UX?,,"For designing websites like Stripe, Airbnb, Slack etc...?
What tools do they use?
What books they read or have written?
Which school teaches modern UI/UX?",,InGodsName,542,1544614229,2018-12-12 11:30:29+00:00,story,18662992,,150.0,, 215,Who is hiring? (October 2018),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
To search the thread, try kennytilton's https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, gadogado's https://hnhired.com/, or kristopolous' console script at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Did you know? There are actually three regular hiring threads. The other two:
- Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113146
- Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113145",,whoishiring,542,1538406130,2018-10-01 15:02:10+00:00,story,18113144,,1102.0,, 216,Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell,,Previously asked on 2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167,,deadcoder0904,540,1642607368,2022-01-19 15:49:28+00:00,story,29995152,,611.0,, 217,Who is hiring? (November 2018),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
To search the thread, you can try kennytilton's https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, gadogado's https://hnhired.com/, or kristopolous' console script at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,539,1541084448,2018-11-01 15:00:48+00:00,story,18354503,,1044.0,, 218,What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?,,"For the past several years I've been putting in a lot of time into learning and sharing people skills (without the bullshit).
I'm interested in skills from dealing with your own emotions, through communication with close co-workers to high-stakes negotiating.
I'm curious: what are some people skills that you wish you had learned earlier in your career or that you wish your co-workers had easier access to?
Also: what are your favorite books and/or other resources that helped you?",,mparkola,539,1563846435,2019-07-23 01:47:15+00:00,story,20503813,,423.0,, 219,What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?,,"Inspired by Paul Graham's phrase, I’m curating an open list of hacks/stories of real founders who did “things that don’t scale” to power through their initial startup days.
What are some of the hacks you have heard or have personally experimented? Thank you in advance!",,trulykp,539,1541606896,2018-11-07 16:08:16+00:00,story,18400020,,265.0,, 220,What do you self-host?,,"I know this is has been posted before but that was a few years ago so I wanted to restart the discussion, as I love hearing about what people host at home.
I am currently running an Unraid server with some docker containers, here are a few of them: Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Ombi, NZBGet, Bitwarden, Storj, Hyrda, Nextcloud, NginxProxyManager, Unifi, Pihole, OpenVPN, InfluxDB, Grafana.",,aeleos,538,1570911851,2019-10-12 20:24:11+00:00,story,21235957,,335.0,, 221,What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?,,"Subversion was created because the authors were frustrated with problems in CVS[0].
What's a piece of software you find essential that you wish you could replace or rewrite?
[0]: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.intro.whatis.html#svn...",,guu,537,1594486427,2020-07-11 16:53:47+00:00,story,23803539,,1500.0,, 222,How do you stay disciplined in the long run?,,"My typical cycle of execution is something like this
Find out something through HN/Reddit/Other medium --> Get motivated --> Get good knowledge about it through research --> See others succeed, get motivated a bit more --> Execute and get to, say, 25-50% of the journey --> Get bored --> Abandon --> be passive for couple of months --> repeat.
Be it creating new websites or new products (probably the reason I have not launched something as a personal project, despite having tried like 10-11 of them with varying degree of success), weight loss journey, running, meditation etc. I have tried breaking things into manageable chunks and then taking them one-by-one, or through methodologies like GTD, or by making others accountable (tough to find someone who takes personal interest in what I would do; also, I have strongly come to perceive myself as being driven by external accountabilities which makes me good at work at office but bad at executing personal projects).
I see folks who are disciplined, are ruthless executors, are self-motivated, and wonder, what could I improve or work towards to get things in a better shape. Any suggestions?",,djangovm,537,1556543222,2019-04-29 13:07:02+00:00,story,19777976,,171.0,, 223,"Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?",,,,macca321,537,1539257075,2018-10-11 11:24:35+00:00,story,18192534,,437.0,, 224,Who is hiring? (August 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,534,1470063716,2016-08-01 15:01:56+00:00,story,12202865,,944.0,, 225,I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing,,"I was watching a video game documentary about the history of the RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise, a theme park management game that had both an easy learning curve but with incredibly sophisticated dynamics. What really impressed me however was the origins of the first two titles: written by one man in assembly language.
At that point, I realized how mediocre and untalented I was. Nothing I’m doing in my life are anything that people will remember me for. Throughout my life, I’ve seen many awe inspiring projects done by extremely talented people, way more intelligent than I am, come to fruition. Over the years, I realized how shallow and dumb I really am. I’m uninteresting.
Most of my career revolved around software development, something that I’ve done since I was 17 (now I'm 30) until a few years ago. I found myself writing entreprise software usually in the backend and that’s all I really knew except for some server administration and scripting sprinkled on top. Sat beside me were full-stack developers with expertise in DevOps as well. They knew how to do everything I could on top of so much else. As for me, I can barely write basic HTML pages.
I meet with incredibly smart people with master’s degrees and PhDs knowing so much about their field of expertise while I’m a University drop-out. People who know world history so well while being able to talk about the hard problem of consciousness at the same time. YouTubers and Twitch streamers who are so talented at playing games and entertaining us along the way.
There’s people who have paved the way for innovation and foresight that I don’t have at all. Those who make so much money due to their talents and bringing them to life in this world of ours. I’ve watched so many documentaries about all sorts of people from racing drivers, to game developers, comedians, data science experts, cybersecurity nuts, music producers, video editors, documentaries makers and so much more. These are all things that come to mind thinking that I’ll never be able to do any of that.
I’m mostly a self-taught person teaching myself skills as I go along with my life. I generally don’t pick up much except for a few facts that I can repeat to others. I can barely do derivatives anymore in math or draw like I used to. My talents are shallow and honestly quite useless.
Today, I don’t do much with my life other than binging on YouTube documentaries and reading Wikipedia articles not helping my case. My motivation for learning is shrinking slowly and would much rather stare out of the window while I’m not doing my obligatory 8 hours of daily work.
Now, I’m an unimportant technical writer composing documents for developers and users. There’s no path for career growth if I stay in this specialty. My work doesn’t feel like it takes much talent and I was hired a few times without having any credentials in business writing.
I’ve been told by previous managers that I’m always in “learning mode” and quite “creative” but I can’t convince myself that these traits are actually true. I feel untalented, empty and dumb.
My dreams do exist but they starting to seem more and more superficial. There’s a lot of subjects and activities that I’m really interested of getting into but I can’t just dive into it. I blame it on the lack of time and laziness but I have strong time management skills and can conjure up much empty slots in my schedule. I sometimes wonder if my mental condition or my medication has had an effect on this: I'm bipolar schizoaffective and borderline.",,cdahmedeh,534,1637351485,2021-11-19 19:51:25+00:00,story,29281468,,336.0,, 226,Why is nearing completion so demotivating?,,"So I've been working on animation software for over two years. Part of me is very excited for launch so I can have money again ( I've been freelancing a minimum amount these last two years, and went car-less, moved, cut lifestyle into a third ). I should be wholeheartedly excited, but I'm feeling tired and generally sluggish regarding the project. I still make consistent progress, but it takes a lot of will power.
Part of me thinks it might be an aversion to sales. Part of me thinks this could have been built up so much in my head that anything short of overnight millions would be a disappointment (though I would be happy with 1500 bucks a month ), part of me thinks I might be scared of success ( or scared of surpassing my parents )(media attention), part of me fears the attacks that might come with success ( having something to lose ), part of it is the un-fun-ness of mature projects where the focus is on polish and bugs rather than broad new features, and part of me is scared of commitment: if I succeed I have to stick with this (freedom value), part of me wonders what will happen when more people become involved, if I will be able to maintain my creative direction, since I'm scratching my own itch. Part of me wonders if diet and exercise isn't a factor.
A combination, likely...",,danschumann,534,1527113099,2018-05-23 22:04:59+00:00,story,17138794,,165.0,, 227,What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?,,"I am looking for papers which are easy to understand, papers which are for undergraduates. I often stumble upon papers which require lots of reading to do and soon I have dug into a recursive rabbit hole. I would like to know about papers which have minimal citations/dependencies and only require knowledge of CS basics.
A good example of such paper would be Bitcoin. You don't need to be a CS wizard to understand the paper. Plus, you can ignore the math part and yet appreciate the beauty of Bitcoin.
Some other examples: Bit Torrent, TOTP RFC.",,avinassh,534,1510670273,2017-11-14 14:37:53+00:00,story,15695326,,91.0,, 228,Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?,,"Just lost my fourth job this year. I can't definitively claim it is because of my blindness, I may just not be very good at software development. But one thing is for sure, there are many dev tools that are either hard or impossible to use if you're blind. I'm looking at you JIRA, GitLab, Chrome Dev Tools, etc.
I'm tired of feeling helpless. I want to build tools that make my life easier. Any other blind devs in the same boat who would be interested in collaborating?",,blinddev,530,1477681036,2016-10-28 18:57:16+00:00,story,12819482,,133.0,, 229,What Apple alternatives are you switching to?,,"Due to the controversy around Apple's CSAM backdoor plans, it seems like quite a few people are wondering what kind of alternatives are available. Let's share them!
My choices:
- Desktop: Manjaro Gnome, because it feels like macOS. It even does the 3 finger swipe up to see all your apps with Apple's Touchpad. My wireless Apple Keyboard also works fine.
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/UYPfgkC
To install it on my older MacBook Pro from 2014, but I had to use Android internet tethering to install the WiFi driver. To install it on my super new desktop, I had to use an ISO with a newer Kernel (5.13) due to the Radeon 6700 XT graphics card. I got that one from https://github.com/manjaro/release-review/releases/ instead of the Manjaro main website.
- Phone: I considered a Pixel with CalyxOS, but ended up buying a OnePlus 8T with microG variant of LineageOS from https://lineage.microg.org
Alternatively a Pixel phone would also run this version of LineageOS. MicroG (https://microg.org/) re-implements some parts of Google Play Services, while safeguarding your privacy, like push notifications. It also has some other Google-specific features re-implemented. I have over 40 apps and only found 1 that didn't work so far (which is Uber Eats, because they seem to require Google Advertisement ID). I pushed a modified Google Camera app to it (from https://www.celsoazevedo.com/), so my camera is better supported. I think only 3 out of 4 cameras are working, but I don't care.
- Watch: Amazfit GTR 2e with the official app. Alternatively it should work with Gadgetbridge if you don't want to use the offical app ("Zepp"). Amazfit GTR 2 is a better option if you want it to have WiFi and want to store music on it. Alternatives I considered: OnePlus Watch and Fossil Hybrid.
Apple features that I gave up:
- Apple Carplay: Because I don't want to use the Google ecosystem, Android Auto is not an alternative. I'll use my car's own GPS system, or I'll end up using my phone's offline maps.
- Apple Pay: My bank luckily has a contactless payment app for my phone, but I won't be making payments with my watch anymore.",,ByteWelder,529,1629295021,2021-08-18 13:57:01+00:00,story,28220968,,470.0,, 230,What are you working on?,,"Hi HN, I'm curious to see what cool things everyone's building. What side projects are you developing? What are you applying to HN with?",,dvt,529,1610661026,2021-01-14 21:50:26+00:00,story,25783152,,1232.0,, 231,How can a unhireable person get a job?,,"I've been trying to get a job for over a year now. I've interviewed at Google, Facebook, Dell, Airbnb, Palantir. Too many to list. I've applied to companies from the whoishiring thread every monthly. workatastartup etc. Always ending with ghosting, or a impasive rejection letter. I tried improving my interview skills. Reading Meyers, Knuth etc. books. Reading advice on Reddit etc. But I still always get rejected. I worked at EA (QA on Apex Legends), and IBM (dev) at 18. Quit due to lowpay/no insurance. Got referrals etc. dropped out my freshmen year at a top 40 college. Was on the cyber security team etc. College was too expensive so I had to dropout.
Got a low level customer support role at Amazon. But I only made $15 with no health insurance. Found some flaws within the anti-fraud system at Amazon, and wrote a detailed e-mail to the VP in charge of the anti-fraud system. It was fixed by 1am. Also was concerned about support reps being able to access any customer's data simply by pressing 'bypass' on the security question promt page. I couldn't transfer internally until a year later as well. Would ping your manager each time you apply as well. Have to delete your emails constantly due to only having 1gb email space. Assessment was similar to the one I took for CIA. Cognitive based assessment.
I even got ghosted after a interview for a manual labor job at Home Depot. I tried cold contacting executives at a few companies. Got meeting with SVP at Dell, Cisco etc. was fruitless though. Spoofed number to bypass contact whitelist etc.
I welcome any and all advice that any of y'all could offer. Even if it's brutally candid. I need a job with decent health/dental insurance. Medicaid is useless. I might be homeless soon. I'm scared, and I don't know what to do. I'm afraid that I'll end up like Bill Landreth.
e: dude@member.fsf.org will reply with a different email address.",,snakedoctor,529,1618514608,2021-04-15 19:23:28+00:00,story,26825017,,819.0,, 232,Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?,,"With all the craziness this week in the stock market I've become interested in learning about how money works in our society. Fiat currency, the federal reserve, the stock market, etc. Any good book recommendations?",,mx24,527,1584160324,2020-03-14 04:32:04+00:00,story,22573204,,204.0,, 233,Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?,,What resources are available to get into these two and related topics?
Would be also better if there are papers/books that introduces to these concepts (and toy implementation)?,,nepger21,526,1507096605,2017-10-04 05:56:45+00:00,story,15398550,,116.0,, 234,What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?,,"I'm thinking of tiny projects along the lines of single-function tools like domainr. But also game-changing ebooks, newsletters, courses.",,shovel,526,1479211983,2016-11-15 12:13:03+00:00,story,12957371,,868.0,, 235,CS papers for software architecture and design?,,Can you please point me to some papers that you consider very influential for your work or that you believe they played significant role on how we structure our software nowdays?,,avrmav,525,1511609319,2017-11-25 11:28:39+00:00,story,15775548,,99.0,, 236,Is there still a place for native desktop apps?,,"Modern browsers these days are powerful things - almost an operating system in their own right. So I'm asking the community, should everything now be developed as 'web first', or is there still a place for native desktop applications?",,Jaruzel,524,1589722315,2020-05-17 13:31:55+00:00,story,23211851,,752.0,, 237,What is the best money you have spent on professional development?,,"I'm a software engineer with a budget for professional development, I'm looking for a good way to spend it. I'm curious what other people have found valuable, it could be a book, MOOC, conference etc",,sondog,524,1605704550,2020-11-18 13:02:30+00:00,story,25136258,,540.0,, 238,Is UK government insane or genius?,,"While virtually all countries adopt the lockdown strategy to eliminate the virus spread, UK is apparently going on with 'herd immunity' strategy. It's pretty well explained in this tweet: https://twitter.com/iandonald_psych/status/12385183716516495...
Basically, the idea is to get the young infected, as the virus seems to be relatively inoffensive for young people, and thus becoming immune. Once the country reach a threshold percentage of immune population, the virus cannot spread effectively anymore, hence protecting the vulnerable ones.
My gut feeling is that this is the rational thing to do, however only in theory. In practice, people won't be disciplined about isolating vulnerable ones in the first phase, thus leading to disaster.",,TheAlchemist,524,1584208490,2020-03-14 17:54:50+00:00,story,22577132,,741.0,, 239,What's the best technical talk you've heard?,,,,karamazov,523,1365427094,2013-04-08 13:18:14+00:00,story,5511466,,191.0,, 240,Who is hiring? (September 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,521,1472742007,2016-09-01 15:00:07+00:00,story,12405698,,910.0,, 241,"If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?",,"Recently, I cannot help but notice how shy and socially awkward I might be at times, which is quite frustrating.
To be fair to myself, I am not awful in social situations in that depending on the context I can be seemingly confident and calm, especially when I am among people I know and the context is familiar.
When it comes to new people and places, everything changes dramatically. My voice changes, my posture changes, everything changes. I can start being awkward in all possible senses.
The discomfort gets to the point where I blush and this physical state of vulnerability and self-doubt of course makes things even worse :)
I understand that all of that relates to self-esteem and phychology in general therefore my question.
It's common to advise hitting on the gym, which I just started doing last week. Funnily, the gym is the place where I last noticed my awkward behavior :)
If you have managed to deal with that and improve in that regard, what is your success story?",,dondraper36,520,1648320562,2022-03-26 18:49:22+00:00,story,30814248,,543.0,, 242,How to Be a Good Technical Lead?,,"Dear HN,
You've been a source of great information before, and I'm sure I won't be disappointed by your advice.
I worked as a Software Developer all my career (more than 15 years now), but now I'm interviewing for a Technical Lead position. I have almost two weeks before the interview.
I'm interested in resources and advice on how to be a good Tech Lead, regarding both technology and people skills. Of course I've seen and taken note on how other leads work, but still feels like a big step for me.
The development environment is Microsoft.NET. The main product is a complex software. The main goal would be to develop it so that it is "loosely" built, split into separate modules so that each one can be modified without touching the others.",,Evgeny,520,1444934183,2015-10-15 18:36:23+00:00,story,10395046,,174.0,, 243,Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?,,"After reading (and resonating quite a bit with) "Developer Hegemony" by Erik Dietrich, which was one of the recommended books in the "what did you read in 2018" posts, I think about steering my career to a manager instead of a developer position.
For all those of you who've done the same or planning to do the same: What are the most important skills or what's the most needed knowledge in such a position? Where can I learn it? What should I read?",,mseo,519,1546606416,2019-01-04 12:53:36+00:00,story,18823616,,182.0,, 244,What habits make a programmer great?,,"A quote by Kent Beck: I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
So what are the habits I should cultivate to be a great programmer or even a good one? What are the bad habits that I should drop?",,zachng,518,1499319277,2017-07-06 05:34:37+00:00,story,14708350,,183.0,, 245,How do you find freelance work?,,"I'm a software engineer with a full-time job, but I have lots of spare time in my off hours. I'd like to monetize this time, but finding freelance work has been extremely daunting.
I don't have a ton of networking skills, so I don't have a network I can tap for opportunities. I don't really know how to find opportunities otherwise. I have the approvals I need from my full-time job to do this, but it's still not something where I want to splash my name all over the place. I also don't have a lot of public code, so no big portfolio I can point people to.
I'm not looking for massive pay, just something to occupy my time and some side money. But I want to leverage my skills, not do mechanical turk work.
How do you find freelance work?",,i_am_nobody,518,1521742257,2018-03-22 18:10:57+00:00,story,16651077,,204.0,, 246,What are the best personal project websites you've seen?,,"I just finished graduate school and am trying to design a small personal website that showcases the research I've done to potential employers and explains how and why my skills would be useful in an industry/startup setting. I also want to give a little background about myself.
I've been looking at a variety of people's personal websites; however, I've noticed most of the researchers I follow tend to highlight their papers/publications on their website, which doesn't seem quite so useful for someone who wants to work in industry (in most of my interviews so far, I get the impression that publications are secondary to the technical skills I've acquired).
What are the best personal project websites you've seen? Something that a potential employer would look at and think "I need to hire this person".
Thanks!",,Xcelerate,516,1477570346,2016-10-27 12:12:26+00:00,story,12804406,,291.0,, 247,What is the most exciting development in your field right now?,,,,yellow_viper,516,1486292974,2017-02-05 11:09:34+00:00,story,13571847,,424.0,, 248,What are the best-designed things you've ever used?,,"I'll go first. I think the Bialetti Brikka is exceptional: https://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-Stovetop-Producing-Crema-Ric...",,whitepoplar,515,1637959844,2021-11-26 20:50:44+00:00,story,29353980,,973.0,, 249,Who is hiring? (June 2020),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something—it's off topic here. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job. Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads: Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379194 and Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23379195
Note that these threads are paginated and usually end up with several pages of comments. Click "More" at the bottom of each page to go to the next.",,whoishiring,515,1591023663,2020-06-01 15:01:03+00:00,story,23379196,,663.0,, 250,What's the best book you read in 2021?,,Yearly thread. It can be books published on 2021 or in previous years (but that you read this year.),,AccountAccount1,515,1640304895,2021-12-24 00:14:55+00:00,story,29668228,,631.0,, 251,Who is hiring? (January 2018),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company please.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Note for this month: please don't go through these posts and downvote them in bulk. Users who do that eventually lose downvoting rights.",,whoishiring,513,1514908508,2018-01-02 15:55:08+00:00,story,16052538,,899.0,, 252,Which books have made you introspect?,,"Hi all, Nearly an year ago, I faced a life-shattering crisis that completely wrecked my world view. Since then I have rebuilt up from scratch, and I have found that a lot of the things that I used to believe were false. Books such as Man's Search for Meaning have been very pivotal in that regard. What books could you recommend for the same?",,deathWasp271,513,1526027963,2018-05-11 08:39:23+00:00,story,17045790,,374.0,, 253,Huge enterprise customer wants to see our source code,,"We are a small 5-person enterprise software startup, operating in the data analytics/ML space. We are working on starting a proof-of-concept with a huge potential customer ($50+bn in revenue). We recently identified our first use case, and are ready to get into contract negotiations.
But then they got back to us with an odd request: they want to see our source code (likely upon completion of the PoC). Given that our core IP is our models and algorithms, we are reluctant to agree. Their justification is: "we want to see how your algorithms made their decisions."
We know that they have lots of resources and are building up internal data science team. And yet it was pointed out to me that their goal might not necessarily be to outright steal our IP, but rather to cover their bases. But we are still worried they might be "inspired" by the parts they see and get their internal teams to replicate across other sites or use cases. And we don't have the resources to litigate, nor any way of knowing they do this.
My questions: 1) Has anybody run into a request like this? How would you respond? 2) How likely do you think their goal is to genuinely "see what happens under the hood" as opposed to replicate in the future? 3) Are there any legal protections we can put in place to prevent them from not just copy-pasting our code, but also from "learning from it" or so?",,throwawaysource,513,1512578563,2017-12-06 16:42:43+00:00,story,15862494,,277.0,, 254,Why is everything changing too fast?,,"I'm getting on (I'm nearly 50) - not a software dev (thank god) but more a project manager. I do a lot of the "knitting together" type work between developers, UX people, designers, content owners, etc.
Until recently, we used to do things like write cheatsheets and other help docs for our clients for tools like Google Analytics. This was all fine, and they were appreciated, as clients just don't know how to use these tools.
But recently, the rate of change has just made this untenable. I'd log into a tool like GA and the whole thing would be different. Not just the upgrade to 4, but then incremental changes there, too. So cheatsheets, training workshops, anything around support - just becomes untenable.
Another example: I log into Teamwork (my project management tool of choice) - and they're "retiring" the plan I've been on (and very happy with) for years. Instead I have to choose "Growth" and now my dashboard is littered with a whole bunch of stuff I neither want or need. Nothing is where I'm used to it being.
And: we do a bunch of work with Wordpress. The rate of change here is insane, too - every single update brings new features, none of which is documented, bedded in or understood. None of which can be written about, supported or workshopped.
And: Trello. It was fine. And then Atlassian bought it and it became this horrific behemoth of "features", all of which just clutter everything up, none of which seems to actually do anything useful.
And on, and on.
Is this rate of change supportable? Am I just too old? Help me put this in context, HN!",,dmje,513,1638784722,2021-12-06 09:58:42+00:00,story,29457930,,381.0,, 255,Who is hiring? (April 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,513,1491231666,2017-04-03 15:01:06+00:00,story,14023198,,949.0,, 256,Who is hiring? (November 2015),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,512,1446476477,2015-11-02 15:01:17+00:00,story,10492086,,886.0,, 257,Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?,,"Tomorrow UC Berkeley is removing all of their lecture videos from Youtube. Thousands of hours of content will be lost to the public. (This has already been discussed at length on HN.)
I'm in the process of archiving some of the most important Computer Science courses, mainly for my own benefit, but I intend to make them publically available. (This is a throwaway account b/c I don't want to run afoul of any legal issues.)
What I have so far:
- CS61 Series (61A, 61B, and 61C)
- CS162 Operating Systems (Kubiatowicz)
- CS164 Programming Languages & Compilers (Hillfinger)
- CS186 Intro to Database Systems (Hellerstein)",,berkeleyarchive,512,1489495407,2017-03-14 12:43:27+00:00,story,13867016,,148.0,, 258,"How to speak like a leader, not like an engineer?",,"I am a technical manager and currently in a leadership role. My manager who is an executive, keeps telling me“ don’t talk like an engineer, talk like a leader” when I go to him for any people or operational Issues. I always see from an engineer lens and possibly missing leader or executive perspective. How do I develop or change the way I talk as a leader. Did any one face this issue in the transition. Any pointers can be of great help.",,yogrish,511,1552181797,2019-03-10 01:36:37+00:00,story,19349676,,211.0,, 259,What was your experience starting a tech consultancy?,,"Basically share anything. Advice. Warnings. Stories. About the time you considered and also actually starting a consultancy.",,amolo,510,1557488368,2019-05-10 11:39:28+00:00,story,19876825,,257.0,, 260,Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?,,"Hi, I'm Clint Ehrlich, a hacker/law student who helped get an innocent man released from prison. I'm here on HN asking for advice about how to help my new friend get back on his feet.
A year ago, I saw a Dateline NBC episode about an Iraq-war vet, Sgt. Ray Jennings, who allegedly killed an 18-year-old girl in a parking lot. The evidence didn't persuade me, so my dad and I started our own investigation.
We wrote a 34-page letter to the DA's office, which you can read here: http://www.ehrlichfirm.com/criminal-cases/raymond-lee-jennin... The letter persuaded them to reopen the murder investigation.
Last week, after 11 years behind bars, Ray walked out of court a free man. But he was released onto the street with no resources. Do any of the great minds at HN have any ideas about how I can help him get money for housing, food, and clothes?
The most obvious answer is litigation. And in a year or two, Ray will probably receive some compensation from the State. Unfortunately, there's no way to access those funds in time to cover his immediate expenses.
In the future, Ray also may be able to earn some income talking about his story. Unfortunately, the charges against him won't be formally dismissed for another 2 months, and until then he is understandably reticent about speaking publicly.
I have set up a GoFundMe campaign. It did well, but momentum has stalled. I'd appreciate any recommendations about how or where to promote it:
https://www.gofundme.com/RayJennings
Thanks for your help. I'm sorry that I was a bit caustic in previous posts asking for help with this case. I contacted the Mods, and they encouraged me to try again with a different approach.",,ClintEhrlich,510,1467312265,2016-06-30 18:44:25+00:00,story,12010760,,200.0,, 261,Who is hiring? (August 2015),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company. No recruiting firms or job boards, please.",,whoishiring,504,1438614037,2015-08-03 15:00:37+00:00,story,9996333,,973.0,, 262,Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?,,"I want to start by saying this is anecdotal, and I feel paranoid for even thinking it. But often my internet will feel very slow, so I'll open speedtest to check if something's wrong. When I do, all of my stalled tabs suddenly spring into action and finish loading.
The tinfoil hat wearer inside of me speculates that my internet provider is overloaded and throttling my bandwidth, but immediately prioritizes me when it senses that I'm trying to check if I'm getting what I pay for.
Has anyone else noticed this pattern? Is there a way I can test this more scientifically?",,halgir,503,1650218465,2022-04-17 18:01:05+00:00,story,31062799,,301.0,, 263,What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?,,"A friend pointed out a bunch of the 'tell us about your successful side project' threads suffer from a survivorship bias. They're still great for inspiration, but I suspect we could learn a lot about challenges and wrong approaches from each others' failures.
So what's a side project you built hoping to generate revenue from it, that hasn't actually earned you much / any money?
Why do you think it hasn't been as successful as you thought it would be / what would you do differently if you did it again? How much time/money did you spend building it, and what kind of iterations / improvements did you make to try and salvage it?
Appreciate any and all answers!",,JayNeely,503,1499433654,2017-07-07 13:20:54+00:00,story,14718089,,452.0,, 264,What are best tools for web scraping?,,,,pydox,502,1510658019,2017-11-14 11:13:39+00:00,story,15694118,,228.0,, 265,Who is hiring? (May 2015),," Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.",,_whoishiring,501,1430488994,2015-05-01 14:03:14+00:00,story,9471287,,894.0,, 266,Resources/Steps for Becoming a Consultant?,,"I recently put in my notice at work with nothing lined up. Do any of you operate full time as a consultant? I'd love to hear about how you got started and what resources, pitfalls, experiences you came across along the way.",,MichaelEstes,499,1553190629,2019-03-21 17:50:29+00:00,story,19455224,,114.0,, 267,"Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?",,"Hey HN,
I'm a seasoned backend developer and systems administrator, with over 10 years of full-time programming experience. I've worked with anything from Assembly, C, Rust all the way to Python, Erlang, Elixir, PHP, Haskell, Lisp, Clojure.
When it comes to frontend, I have used React, Vue.js, ReasonML, Clojurescript and Elm extensively, and I know my way around web technologies in general. However, ever since I first started programming, I was NEVER able to get the gist behind CSS. I can't center my divs properly. I can't say "hey, CSS, this is the parent div, and all child divs must obey its size". I can't do anything basic on CSS without turning for help.
Incidentally, but very likely related, I always failed to have any glimpse into how design works. I have no idea which colors "go" with which ones, and pretty much all fonts look like the same for me.
I'd like to know the experience from fellow programmers. Is CSS an "art" thing? Is it common for other developers to have issues with it, or is it just me? Is there any material out there that made CSS "click" for you?",,napsterbr,499,1548714884,2019-01-28 22:34:44+00:00,story,19021719,,340.0,, 268,My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Suggestions?,,"E.g. Paperwork not to forget, items to document, things to expect when dealing with insurance, etc. I'm looking to avoid stupid mistakes from things I just didn't think of.
I'll forward the discussion along to the thousands of others in a Facebook group facing the same situation.",,kbenson,498,1507681590,2017-10-11 00:26:30+00:00,story,15446364,,333.0,, 269,Why don't companies hire programmers for fewer hours per day?,,"Hello
Maybe this question doesn't properly apply to USA programmers since labor laws are a little different there, but let me try.
Rationale: we always discuss how programming makes us tired and stressed, how often we spend hours and hours per day just procrastinating or being completely unproductive while still trying to be. Also, we often discuss how programmers get paid nice salaries in comparison with most other professions. This leads me to the conclusion: I'd probably be very happy to take a 25% (or more) salary cut if I had to work 25% (or more) less. I mean, 8 hours per day is a lot and it's very rare for me to have a fully productive day. If I moved to 6 hours per day, I'm not even sure if I'd become less productive, I'd probably just spend less time chatting at the coffee room, and have a smaller chance to get burnout. Maybe a little less productive, but the company would be saving some money with me, and if they did this to other 3 people they would be able to hire another 6h/day programmer to balance things, maybe making the result even positive for them.
But, considering that no company does this, it looks like this isn't a good idea for employers. Why? Why do companies try to squeeze all the possible juice from employees instead of the alternative where they pay a little less, require a little less, and the employee becomes much more happy?
And the question to the workers: wouldn't you accept a proportional salary reduction for a proportional time-spent-inside-the-office-doing-whatever reduction?",,maythrowaway,498,1469481687,2016-07-25 21:21:27+00:00,story,12161693,,348.0,, 270,New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?,,"We just deployed a new attempt to make HN work better on mobile. Should we keep it? Feedback, please.",,dang,497,1446429498,2015-11-02 01:58:18+00:00,story,10489499,,287.0,, 271,What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?,,"tl;dnr: Unhappy at my job after >7 years. Love being a jack of all trades. Love learning new things. Hate being stagnant. Hate being the smartest person in the room. Need something new. What roles out there fit the skill set of someone that is good at a whole lot of things, but doesn't feel like a master/senior in any one of them?
-
I've been at the same small company for over 7 years. I started at the bottom, worked my way to the top after 3 years, and I've been here since. For a couple years I created new positions for myself because I hate being stagnant, but there's nothing else to do here.
I'm proficient in many things and enjoy doing all of them. Development (full stack), server admin, data center management, DevOps, project management, managing teams, VoIP, routing/switching, training, sales... the list goes on.
My issue is I haven't had formal training in a lot of it, and I didn't have any mentors or people above me to teach me more because this company is too small. I just love learning and love moving forward so I kept teaching myself new things, and then using them in the company. I don't actually feel like I have impostor syndrome, but I also feel like someone that is filling these roles at another company probably knows/does it better job than I can. I'm just a big fish in a small pond here.
So finally to my question: what role/job title I should be looking for? All the searching I do points me to one specific roles. PHP Developer. Systems Admin. Network Engineer. Etc. Are there any other "Jack of all trades" out there that can tell me what your job title is, and what I could be looking for?",,programbreeding,496,1581685023,2020-02-14 12:57:03+00:00,story,22326109,,207.0,, 272,Describe your first enterprise sale,,What was it like to make the first enterprise sale at your startup?
How'd the enterprise hear about you? What was the first meeting like? What obstacles and challenges did you run into? Were there other companies in the mix? What did you do wrong? What did you do right?,,hackerews,496,1460913509,2016-04-17 17:18:29+00:00,story,11515307,,96.0,, 273,Amazon delisted me – what do I do?,,"I'm at my wits end with big tech platforms. I run a popular photography product company (which was a Kickstarter project in 2014) [0] which gets a lot of love for its ability to help photographers take interesting images.
But I'm continually running into walls with BigTechCos. I'm just coming off the end of having had my Instagram account deleted by Facebook because a graffiti artist and his trolls were able to flag my IG account and left me unable to appeal[1]. 20k followers, 4 years of work gone. My entire customer base is primarily on IG and they are shocked to find that I'm not; so I feel the pain every day and the fact that I'm no longer advertising on FB because of it is a loss-loss in my opinion. Can not explain how upsetting it is for me.
To add insult to injury Amazon randomly delisted my product. I randomly received an email that they removed me [2]. I checked the listing and saw that a customer had left a bad review. I went to contact that customer [3] and saw that the seller in that instance wasn't me, it was Adorama, a retailer who sells the product I created. I figured this was the sale that got my account flagged, so I responded trying to explain that I sell an OEM product so I wouldn't sell anything used/broken[4]. They then respond that my response is not sufficient[5]. I then decide to give them what they want, contact my manufacturer, come up with a plan [6]. Pretty long, with evidence, a spreadsheet, and even more detailed notes at the end of the email.
Today they've just gotten back to me saying they refuse to reinstate it and that I'm shit out of luck [7]. I am livid at this point. What else did they want? And if they weren't going to reinstate me in the first place, why not just say that? According to my account dashboard my account is in perfect 'health'[8] and there is absolutely no indication that there is anything wrong. I feel like I am being trolled.
It feels so perverse because I live in Seattle so I am always rooting for Amazon. Now, after having finally taken the leap and quit my job and started a company that's beginning to do well, the companies that I've always applauded are totally screwing up my business and leaving me stranded with no options. Not even a customer support number. I don't typically get stressed but the helplessness in the hands of these companies has been keeping me up at night. I feel the stress.
Does anyone have any ideas of what I could do? I live in Seattle so are there any offices or people I could try reasoning with in person? And also if anyone can tell me what I did wrong. If anyone has any information that could be useful I would seriously appreciate it because this is quite literally my livelihood and my entire life.
Thank you for reading. Also sorry for the rant; I am not usually so forthcoming; the entire situation though, is just so dis-empowering.
Edit: here is also the product listing in question [9]
[0] https://www.getfractals.com
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19166053
[2] https://imgur.com/a/aQLThvj
[3] https://imgur.com/a/xm8dAoI
[4] https://imgur.com/a/8biKZlT
[5] https://imgur.com/a/ZSVz7vn
[6] https://imgur.com/a/IZgOfuA
[7] https://imgur.com/a/j81rJyk
[8] https://imgur.com/a/dP11fCc
[9] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OHD49R6?ref=myi_title_dp",,nikkwong,495,1554187300,2019-04-02 06:41:40+00:00,story,19551590,,97.0,, 274,"$1k+ side projecters, what was the best thing you did to market it?",,,,taphangum,494,1476648013,2016-10-16 20:00:13+00:00,story,12720636,,143.0,, 275,"Tools of the trade, 2013 edition",,"Few years ago, Joshua Schachter started this thread on HN for discussing hosted useful services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1769910
The contribution in thread introduced many interesting SaaS services which can immensely help in deploying services as well as development.
It's been three years since then. What do we have today?",,sharjeel,494,1361108119,2013-02-17 13:35:19+00:00,story,5235137,,159.0,, 276,What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?,,"I've found lots of resources for x86, but considerably less for x64. Pentester Academy has a promising course on it, along with shellcoding, but I'm not sure what else is out there.",,ssklash,492,1581201487,2020-02-08 22:38:07+00:00,story,22279051,,109.0,, 277,What are must-know concepts for back end development?,,I’d like to learn more about backend development but most of what I find while searching are results like “Build a nodejs backend in 20 minutes” or “learn backend development in an hour.” I think part of the problem is I don’t know enough to ask the right questions.,,chrisdsaldivar,491,1548091221,2019-01-21 17:20:21+00:00,story,18961793,,130.0,, 278,Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It?,,"I would like to know if HN thinks it is worth to go through Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science in Computer Science.
https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/
It is basically an online program of academic education in CS planned to be taken while working, costing around USD7,000 to complete.
My context: I am brazilian, living in Brazil, 37 yo, graduated in Economics and just recently made the career transition to become a developer. I basically studied more practical things about software development (web, mostly javascript) through free content available online. I am already working as a frontend web developer.
I believe this program is a good complementary source of knowledge to become a better software developer. I assume the more theoretical academic approach would benefit me as a complement to my more hands-on learning I had so far. And I also assume the Georgia Tech credentials will benefit my career.
So, what you think?",,soneca,489,1502803946,2017-08-15 13:32:26+00:00,story,15018002,,210.0,, 279,Who is hiring? (March 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,488,1456844448,2016-03-01 15:00:48+00:00,story,11202954,,819.0,, 280,How does your company manage its encryption keys?,,"We just had an interesting data loss at work, that was due to data being encrypted at rest. We somehow managed to delete the encryption keys (still figuring out how), which became an obvious problem once our main database instance was rebooted.
Luckily we were able to restore the data, but now I (we) really want to learn what a proper setup would look like.
If you have any clear overview reading on the topic I'd be very interested to to know about it.
In particular I'm wondering: how do you back up your encryption keys, or even put them in escrow somewhere? Assuming we don't rotate the keys constantly I would love to just save them in somewhing like a passsword manager that's secured with 2FA/FIDO.
Would love to hear your thoughts!",,2mol,488,1591105834,2020-06-02 13:50:34+00:00,story,23390966,,238.0,, 281,Who is hiring? (May 2019),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797592
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797593
YC Work at a Startup Career Expo, June 29: https://www.workatastartup.com/expo",,whoishiring,488,1556722891,2019-05-01 15:01:31+00:00,story,19797594,,1013.0,, 282,Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?,,,,superasn,488,1502364959,2017-08-10 11:35:59+00:00,story,14978631,,569.0,, 283,How can we destroy AMP?,,All ideas welcome,,buboard,486,1564829592,2019-08-03 10:53:12+00:00,story,20599752,,239.0,, 284,Top Coursera Courses?,,In any field that “interesting” to HN,,joshlk,486,1606658437,2020-11-29 14:00:37+00:00,story,25245125,,157.0,, 285,Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?,,What would you do if you were in charge of Mozilla? How would you save Firefox?,,feross,486,1644861696,2022-02-14 18:01:36+00:00,story,30335455,,906.0,, 286,How did you acquire your first 100 users?,,,,karthiksk2012,486,1493100454,2017-04-25 06:07:34+00:00,story,14191161,,183.0,, 287,Who is hiring? (September 2018),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
To search the thread, try kennytilton's https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, or gadogado's https://hnhired.com/, or kristopolous' console script at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,486,1535986863,2018-09-03 15:01:03+00:00,story,17902901,,914.0,, 288,I'm quadriplegic – can you help me with my security?,,"Hey Hacker News,
I've run out of places to look so I hope you guys can help me with this. I would like to:
1. Securely login to my various websites 2. Securely lock and unlock my MacBook Pro.
Easy, right?
Except I'm quadriplegic. I use DragonDictate[1] to input text, and invoke keyboard shortcuts verbally, and SwitchXS[2] with a single button switch[3] (to move the mouse around and switch between applications etc). With these I have nearly total control over my laptop.
I use a password manager and once I've spoken the master password out loud the rest of my password challenges are automated. This is necessary, but not so secure as my laptop is then just open to anyone who picks it up. But I can't password lock my whole laptop because OS X requires that password before it will load up any applications, and I can't put a password in without my apps.
I was thinking of getting a YubiKey, but for that I would need to touch the sensor on the key to activate everything, but as you might imagine the whole quadriplegic thing gets in the way of this!
Some other sort of hardware master key, maybe? What do you guys think?
A word on the adversary: I want my personal information secure from casual passers-by who after having a quick peck on the keyboard would more than likely give up; I'm not looking for PRISM dodging security here :-)
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated!
[1]: http://www.nuance.co.uk/for-individuals/by-product/dragon-for-mac/dragon-dictate/index.htm [2]: http://www.assistiveware.com/product/switchxs [3]: http://www.ablenetinc.com/Assistive-Technology/Switches/Buddy-Button-and-Big-Buddy",,escapologybb,486,1373993396,2013-07-16 16:49:56+00:00,story,6053047,,168.0,, 289,Where can I buy real software companies?,,"So I have a software company that is generating a good amount of cash. I'd like to buy another small software company and (ideally) optimize it and make some more money.
Problem - most of the sites, like flippa, have crap businesses for sale. Is there a real place that one can find $50k - $500k software businesses for sale? Side projects that people make money from but don't have the time for?",,bluedevil2k,485,1432308725,2015-05-22 15:32:05+00:00,story,9588901,,158.0,, 290,Who is hiring? (July 2019),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hackernews, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325923
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325924",,whoishiring,485,1561993206,2019-07-01 15:00:06+00:00,story,20325925,,898.0,, 291,Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?,,"You can find a lot of articles about the most successful startups / companies in 2019 but these lack information of one-man companies, unless you started as a one person and now you have dozens of employees.
My candidate is my friend. He built mobile app that generates revenue around 30 - 50k $ per year.",,robsun,485,1577654429,2019-12-29 21:20:29+00:00,story,21908577,,231.0,, 292,Favorite purchases of last two years?,,"I've abandoned all faith in reviews online. But the HN crew can give good advice and are extremely unlikely to shill garbage. Consumer Reports is great for finding which manufacturer/model to buy. But what product or service did you buy that you found really useful/entertaining?
I'll start: I caved and bought a robovac. Wow, unlike many techno-gadgets, this one really delivers. Real utility, not just taking up space. Low maintenance, runs while I sleep, and the floor is just cleaner.",,wyldfire,483,1621510071,2021-05-20 11:27:51+00:00,story,27219759,,1190.0,, 293,How to rediscover the joy of programming?,,"I remember in my teens I used to love programming. After 20 years of a career, I don't enjoy it anymore.
Have you rediscovered the joy of programming? Any advice?",,throwaway2951,483,1586815425,2020-04-13 22:03:45+00:00,story,22860682,,329.0,, 294,Google Doc email virus?,,"We just received multiple "google doc shares" that seemed sketchy and were not sent by the claimed sender.
They came from different companies that have no connection to each other, I assume others are seeing them too right about now. Anyone know whats up?",,eof,481,1493837729,2017-05-03 18:55:29+00:00,story,14258918,,209.0,, 295,Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?,,What is your favourite (video or written) tutorial for beginners – in any technology?
Mine is Django Girls Tutorial (https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/) because it does not assume any prior knowledge and has a good balance between the big picture and small details.,,mcbetz,480,1564666799,2019-08-01 13:39:59+00:00,story,20583581,,199.0,, 296,"As a person, what can I do to improve a city?",,"I live in a "Top 10 most dangerous cities in the U.S." What can I do to help? It seems like the most common solution for people who are educated and well off is to move. To get out of the situation, which is understandable. However, this causes a brain drain and leave the city in a worse place.
I don't want to do that, I want to uplift if I can. What is the micro thing I can do today, that can have a chance of a macro change tomorrow?",,davidn20,479,1604672116,2020-11-06 14:15:16+00:00,story,25007697,,332.0,, 297,"Notion is withholding my company data, what can I do?",,"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.
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.
I contacted them about this, and that's what they said at the time:
> Our engineering team is currently working through a large backlog, and there is no immediate fix for this issue...
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.
So today, 3 months later, I contacted them again to say I'm having the same issue. They replied with the same message:
> 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.
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.
They are basically locking me in. They, again, replied with scripted messages:
> Unfortunately, our engineering team is working through quite a backlog at the moment, and there isn't an immediate fix for this issue....
Any suggestions on what I can do? Thanks!",,bertdc,479,1624498802,2021-06-24 01:40:02+00:00,story,27612894,,194.0,, 298,Who is hiring? (March 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,478,1488384010,2017-03-01 16:00:10+00:00,story,13764728,,1058.0,, 299,Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?,,"Hi all! Sometimes the best days seem to be behind us, even in software development.
What closed-source, proprietary software that you once loved is not being developed/enhanced any more? What more features would you like to have it in the future? Would you pay for it to be resurrected?",,geff82,478,1544274125,2018-12-08 13:02:05+00:00,story,18635010,,807.0,, 300,How do you continuously monitor web logs for hack attempts?,,"what is the generally accepted best practice to be monitoring web logs for anomalous accesses ?
do you guys just throw cloudflare in front and forget about it ? Or do you have engineers who work like data scientists - eyeball the logs ?
I have heard suggestions of using a firewall - but I'm genuinely curious on how do security focus companies discover things like "oh, we got attacked by Bitcoin miners from North Korea". Are there sophisticated tools that do this for you.. or is there a generally accepted practice that has evolved for even regular engineers to do this ?
P.S. I'm personally more interested in an API-focused answer, but I guess the same thing applies for websites.",,sandGorgon,477,1525715640,2018-05-07 17:54:00+00:00,story,17014818,,224.0,, 301,How do I start my own consulting firm?,,"I work as a senior frontend developer in a company and have experience with backend stuff and devops, learning new things constantly. My colleague and friend is the team lead of our team at that company (10 members in the frontend department). Before working in the company I had a long successful path as a 100% remote freelancer (7 years of work).
The stuff we now work on in the company is quite complex - a realtime trading platform with tons of inner components, complex logic, large codebase. To me seems like we got quite experienced and gained precious expertise by the moment. We have the ability to extend our expertise to other fields as well.
Now I feel like my career path now is to establish something on my own and work on a product.
I talked to my colleague about his will to join me as a partner in growing our own business and it looks like we are on more or less the same page about what we want and should do.
Here is my plan:
1. Do preliminary research. Prepare the basement in form of a site with portfolio, our focus, expertise and articles.
2. Start looking for projects online to work on for companies as a contractor team. I will bring us some coins for the first time.
3. Setup the business processes and make the workflow stable and profitable.
4. Keep working as a team for clients and start working on our product ideas.
5. Switch from contract work to our products gradually.
Here are my questions:
- Willing to find projects for a small team (2-4 members) of developers/designers should I look for larger projects in a different way?
- How do I identify that a company might be in need of a team like ours? I don’t want to spam everybody trying to catch a project.
- Should I prioritize our online sales channels over local ones?
- Should I partner up with firms like ours? Contact them and show our offer so that they could be interested in subcontracting with us?
- Should we have mentors/coaches?
- Should I hire a salesperson to look for projects?",,cosmorocket,476,1489245769,2017-03-11 15:22:49+00:00,story,13845681,,112.0,, 302,What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?,,Preferably an elegant snippet rather than an entire (well engineered) codebase.,,seisvelas,476,1572230880,2019-10-28 02:48:00+00:00,story,21373852,,380.0,, 303,What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?,,"I love asking new colleagues this question, figured I would open it here as well.
What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?",,orbOfOrthanc,476,1609167041,2020-12-28 14:50:41+00:00,story,25559571,,1239.0,, 304,Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?,,"Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
If you're in San Francisco and alone on this special day, drop me a line. We'd love to have you!
Twitter: @MattMireles Email: iwantbeer@swigme.com
My girlfriend is making cranberry sauce, stuffing and sweet potatoes to go along with our gigantic turkey. GautamSivakumar (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gautamsivakumar) of MediSaS (who I first met through HN) will be joining us from England for his first ever American Thanksgiving.
I've been helped by strangers and friends and strangers who became friends. When I was 20, it was the people who picked me up on my cycling/hitchhiking mis-adventure down the California coast and let me stay in their homes on Xmas. When I was 25, it was the New Yorkers who welcomed me into a new city and taught me how to stay safe in my job as a paramedic. When I was 29, it was the entrepreneurs who introduced me to Silicon Valley and showed me how to get from Zero to 1.
And now, I feel compelled to return these favors in some way, small or large.
So...if you're in San Francisco and you need a place to call home for Thanksgiving, let me know. We saved you a seat at the table.
-Matt Mireles CEO, Swig!
SwigMe.com: The Liquor Store in Your Pocket. Get Beer, Wine & Booze Delivered To Your Door in Under an Hour",,MediaSquirrel,475,1353613493,2012-11-22 19:44:53+00:00,story,4819792,,94.0,, 305,5 months and counting waiting for Coinbase customer support. Advice?,,"So Coinbase's disastrous customer service has come up on HN before [1]. But my issue is rather more extreme than a wire transfer that takes a few weeks to go through - I've been waiting for over five months for Coinbase to unlock my account and allow me to access my funds. Since August 20 of 2017 to be exact.
I've never experienced or even heard of such a long wait time for action to be taken on an open customer support ticket and I honestly have no idea how to proceed. Should I start contacting the CFPB or BBB, writing registered letters, etc?
To be clear, I have had contact with various Coinbase customer service reps since August. I also have tried emailing and tweeting at the CEO and Coinbase executives. The refrain is always the same: "We're expanding fast and adding to our customer service team. Your case has been escalated for further review. Please bear with us." I've been patient for months now and am thinking that maybe I'm not following the right strategy - any advice?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16106793",,benbreen,475,1517264167,2018-01-29 22:16:07+00:00,story,16261136,,182.0,, 306,Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?,,"Just a simple question, I have seen stories of people who were hired based on the job postings threads. Never once have I heard of anyone getting anything other than recruiter spam from the Ask HN: Who wants to be Hired threads. I think it might be useful to hear stories either way.
Were you hired after someone contacted you?
Did you receive responses that weren't recruiter-spam from your posts there?",,threwawasy1228,474,1562024612,2019-07-01 23:43:32+00:00,story,20330818,,265.0,, 307,What are the most fundamental books on computer science?,,"I'm relatively new to CS (4 years) and I've seen a lot of great book recommendations here. But every discipline has it's most fundamental books ... e.g. philosophy -> Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, civil law -> code civil, christianity -> bible, etc. one should read to get a truly deep understanding.
What are those books for CS?",,michalu,474,1571659913,2019-10-21 12:11:53+00:00,story,21311302,,192.0,, 308,Which books teach mental models?,,"Read the piece by Mutaschak[1] yesterday and found myself agreeing with components of the piece but distinctly feeling that some well-crafted books take a more active role in conveying and teaching mental models than simply summarized facts (which can be done well, but is subject to being forgotten).
The question, then, is what books effectively introduced a new mental model or perspective?
Two recent examples from my own reading, non-fiction and fiction:
Loonshots (Bahcall) - model & "rules" for structure of innovation in orgs is introduced, discussed from various perspectives, examples given, summarized in text, repeated.
Overstory (Powers) - character stories all reinforce the perspective of an alternative relationship with trees and plants, the giant ecosystem and systems thinking.
[1] https://andymatuschak.org/books/",,wintercarver,473,1557705325,2019-05-12 23:55:25+00:00,story,19895407,,92.0,, 309,How to find profitable side project idea?,,"Hi there HNers,
Last summer I worked on a startup as lead developer. I learnt about running a startup and talking to users while working there. I have now quit working there to focus on my studies (second year university in London).
I would like to work on a side project that eventually would lead to some revenues this summer. My question is, how did you find problem(s) to solve ?
I have read books and blogs suggesting that the best problem is the one that I have faced before. I find it difficult to do this when almost every problem that I found, there has always been existing solution or the solution can be solved with some quick searches.
Any idea or thought is really appreciated. Thank you.",,adamfaliq,473,1550166764,2019-02-14 17:52:44+00:00,story,19164037,,202.0,, 310,Who is hiring? (April 2015),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.
PS. No April Fools Day content please.",,_whoishiring,473,1427895516,2015-04-01 13:38:36+00:00,story,9303396,,952.0,, 311,I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology,,"Hello! I need some tech “show and tell” ideas for 5th graders.
I've been asked to come to a 5th grade (ages 10-11) at a school with mostly underprivileged kids, from low income, immigrant families. The presenters are encouraged to do a cool "show and tell" about their job, get the kids excited etc. For example, I heard a lawyer set up a fictional courtroom and gave the kids a script to perform. A baker came in and had the kids decorate cupcakes. A FBI agent came in and let the kids try on a bulletproof vest & an FBI windbreaker.
I'm a software engineer, now R&D product manager at a cloud platform software company. Aside from programming, I'm into video games, photography, video editing, drones, and similar techy/creative hobbies.
I'd love to hear what ideas you all might have to totally wow some kids, get them excited about science/tech... And obviously out-wow any firemen, FBI agents, that might be presenting. Give me a fighting chance anyway!!
Thanks!",,dv35z,473,1559403762,2019-06-01 15:42:42+00:00,story,20069714,,237.0,, 312,What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?,,"I've tried several times to understand the vocabulary and concepts of electricity - basic things like volts, amps, resistance - but I'm not having much success with self-led study. Can anyone recommend any good videos, books, courses, etc.? Thank you.",,farleykr,472,1592481175,2020-06-18 11:52:55+00:00,story,23562181,,180.0,, 313,Are there any reasonable alternatives to MacBook Pro for developer?,,"Hi,
I'm writing this on my late 2012 MacBook Pro. Time goes by and I know rather sooner than later I'll need to replace it with a new machine. In 2012 I paid around 1000$ for MacBook Pro + Samsung SSD (256GB) + 16GB RAM, I made modifications on my own.
I check notebookcheck from time to time. I read reviews, opinions about new laptops. The point is, I don't know if there is any machine that could be recommended in reasonable price. At work I'm using some new MacBook Pro which (i5/16GB/128GB SSD) which is noticeably slower than my current machine.
Performance of the computer is quite important for me. I'm an Android developer, compilation of a big project I'm working on takes enormous amount of RAM and CPU nowadays (with new Android Studio it's even worse). From time to time I work on web projects, so handling several instances of docker shouldn't be a problem for a new machine. I prefer Linux over MacOs over Windows, so good support for Ubuntu/Fedora would be nice.
I checked some computers in details but most of them fail in one or more aspects: - hinges - MacBook has superior hinges, if I pay more than 1000 - 1500$ I expect to have great hinges - price - performance - Linux support
Price is quite important for me, I'm from Eastern Europe. What computer would you recommend in, let's say, <2000$ ?",,robsun,472,1523183635,2018-04-08 10:33:55+00:00,story,16785507,,495.0,, 314,Why did you leave the tech industry?,,What's your story? What do you do now? Any regrets? And how come you still follow HN?,,PirxThePilot,472,1586946831,2020-04-15 10:33:51+00:00,story,22876241,,474.0,, 315,Who's not sucky to work for?,,"I've moved around quite a bit these past several years and I feel like every company has been the same. Management don't know what they want the product to be. Project managers don't know anything about technology. There's an offshore team in Traansylvania busy making it a legacy codebase. They don't want to give developers raises...
I see "Who's Hiring?" threads and "Who Wants To Be Hired?" threads. How about a "Who Doesn't Suck To Work For?" thread?
Not sure if this will take off or get deleted ...but if it does take off, it would be great if developers --not recruiters-- replied to this. Tell us why your company is a good place to work so we can apply there :-)",,edhowzerblack,471,1635970748,2021-11-03 20:19:08+00:00,story,29099746,,426.0,, 316,What is your best advice for a junior software developer?,,,,nothing_to_see,470,1538555007,2018-10-03 08:23:27+00:00,story,18128477,,453.0,, 317,"Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?",,"I'm @paulrouget. I'm part of the Firefox Developer Tools team (we are working on the builtin tools and Firebug). I believe that the HN community includes a lot of web developers and designers, so I guess you can help us.
We have recently added a bunch of new builtin tools in Firefox (please try Firefox Aurora or Firefox Nightly to see a recent version of these tools). We also redesigned the way we show these tools (screenshot here: http://paulrouget.com/e/toolboxTesting/).
We are now working on defining what should be our next moves, and I'm trying to gather as much feedback as possible.
The current plan is to build a bunch of performance-related tools (see https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.developer-tools/L9vfZ1-smUI), improve the user interface (better theme), make the tools remotable (for mobile development), and drastically improve the WebConsole (see an experiment here: http://paulrouget.com/e/jsterm.v2/).
But we really want to get as much feedback as possible to make sure we're going into the right direction.
What do you think we should add/remove/fix in our tools? Anything you miss from Chrome or Opera? Or anything you haven't seen yet you'll like to see part of the browser?
PS: because a lot of people have raised concern about ""cluttering"" Firefox: we are considering providing some of these tools only as addons, to keep the Firefox DevTools as simple as possible.",,paulrouget,470,1362501262,2013-03-05 16:34:22+00:00,story,5325445,,347.0,, 318,Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?,,"I want to broaden my horizon regarding how things are solved in the real world. Other than some very high-profile companies (like Netflix, github) and companies that I've worked at, it's hard for me to find easily digestible (20-60 mins) examples of actual working architecture of differently sized companies from different business verticals.",,PeledYuval,469,1649673565,2022-04-11 10:39:25+00:00,story,30986893,,102.0,, 319,Was the Y2K crisis real?,,"There was very little fallout to the Y2K bug, which begs the question: was the Y2K crisis real and well handled or not really a crisis at all?",,kkdaemas,465,1584016706,2020-03-12 12:38:26+00:00,story,22556156,,371.0,, 320,Is it me or ...?,,"Hi all,
I am a developer and I have worked at a few startups which I have subsequently quit.
Everytime I get hired by a company, I am 100% motivated and committed. I specifically choose companies whose business I find appealing. I am not an executant who can simply code anything for anyone. I like to work for projects I support. I care more about the project than about the salary and benefits. I suppose that's the case for most of us.
However, it seems after a year or two in the company, the honeymoon period ends and the only thing I can see is the bullshit coming out of management's mouth. Bogus business plans, inability to close deals, short-sighted decisions, petty management techniques, overly frequent pivots, you name it...
Am I 1/ Bad at choosing my jobs, 2/ Too demanding towards the companies that hire me, 3/ Mentally unstable, 4/ Unrealistic, 5/ Just a normal bullshit intolerant guy ?
Is there any way I can find a boss I respect beyond a couple of years?
Tell me about your experiences. Thank you.",,neutralino1,465,1395845627,2014-03-26 14:53:47+00:00,story,7473787,,256.0,, 321,How to stave off decline of HN?,,I was just asking RiderofGiraffes if he had any suggestions for fixing the decreasing quality of comment threads on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403449) and it occurred to me that I might as well ask everyone.
Anyone have any suggestions? We're on mostly uncharted territory here.
The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted.,,pg,465,1301861127,2011-04-03 20:05:27+00:00,story,2403696,,680.0,, 322,What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?,,"Could be engineering, interpersonal, strategic, etc. This is purposefully open-ended.",,jamestimmins,464,1542488536,2018-11-17 21:02:16+00:00,story,18477387,,422.0,, 323,What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?,,"Howdy
I joined a startup ~2 years ago as employee #2 (software engineer), and thus I've had the responsibility of essentially building every technical aspect of the company from the ground up, which I loved. Now, the company scaled up (about 45 people) but, instead of being happy, I feel like everything's been taken away from me:
- Technical strategy: I strongly shaped the technical direction of the company defining a lot of critical points, and now they brought in a VP of engineering
- Management: I managed an entire team of 10 people without ever missing a deadline of the whole team, and now they brought in an engineering manager
- Customer facing roles: I was having a lot of customer interaction and support, now they brought in a support engineer and I don't even know who our users are anymore
- Infrastructure management: I took care of building a state-of-the-art scalable and fully automated infrastructure in the public cloud, and now they brought in an operation guy
- Developer: This is the only thing I still do, full time
Essentially, and I understand it's just my ego speaking, I feel like there has not been any career advancement for me. The only benefit has been the gazillion things I learned in this ~2 years journey by doing the above roles.
I've been told that now, since I don't have to worry about the other things, I can focus on what I'm able to do best, just writing code (which I agree, all the tasks I did were less challenging than some critical parts of the code base I wrote from scratch), but still in the "about us" web page of startups just the management is going to be listed and take the credits. Where did I fail to claim my part when the company was growing?
I understand this is a first world rant and and I should just "be happy" it has been a success so far, but still I find it hard and I would very much appreciate the opinion of other people who went through something similar.
Thank you",,tootall,463,1421175922,2015-01-13 19:05:22+00:00,story,8881811,,186.0,, 324,My startup has basically failed. What now?,,"I've been working on a startup for ~9 months (as the technical cofounder) in the event tech space (B2B tradeshows) and I'm pretty sure we've failed to do anything productive (find product/market fit, find a problem/solution fit, learn anything valuable, etc.). We still have ~100k left but the main investors/advisors (from the 220k friends/family/fools round) pretty much feel like it's time to pull the plug. My personal opinion is that that's the most responsible thing to do (return money pro-rata) but there are simultaneous voices (paradoxically same investors) pushing to keep going (continue running pilots, building out the team [we just finally found a bd cofounder], crafting a pitch for a seed round). I don't know what to do since in my understanding we've failed at the most important thing: finding product/market fit. others on the team (advisors) believe that that's not the case and we can keep raising based on negative results.
re pilots: we got 5 pilots (some paying some not) by basically being persistent and doing really really high touch sales. two of them ran this week and they were miserable failures (for every reason from poor marketing/education to last minute catastrophic product failures). absolutely all of the metrics skew heavily towards 0.
i realize i'm being vague and maybe there's not enough detail in the post to give substantive advice but regardless any would be appreciated.",,mlevental,463,1524946090,2018-04-28 20:08:10+00:00,story,16949209,,220.0,, 325,How can I do social good through programming?,,Say I want to apply what I know to better our chances as a species and/or as individuals. What problems do i work on?,,simplicitea,461,1495197702,2017-05-19 12:41:42+00:00,story,14375014,,376.0,, 326,Who is hiring? (February 2021),,"(Update for Feb/March: Manara, a company in YC's current batch, has discovered many talented software engineers in the MENA region, half of whom are women. If this is of interest, see their launch thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849054.)
Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25989762
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25989763",,whoishiring,461,1612195265,2021-02-01 16:01:05+00:00,story,25989764,,1054.0,, 327,Who is hiring? (February 2015),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.",,whoishiring,461,1422803007,2015-02-01 15:03:27+00:00,story,8980047,,639.0,, 328,Who is hiring? (June 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,461,1496329234,2017-06-01 15:00:34+00:00,story,14460777,,990.0,, 329,What was the best decision you made in your career?,,,,sardaaraz,460,1537924749,2018-09-26 01:19:09+00:00,story,18071909,,472.0,, 330,"Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work environments?",,"The JS job market in STL just isn't cutting it for me so I'm thinking of moving to CA and jumping into the tech scene there. Women, non-binary, people of color, how do you vet companies for not having horribly toxic work environments? I feel like I keep getting the same canned PR response of how great the culture is (for assumedly white dudes), but ping pong tables and free beer doesn't mean shit to me if I'm going to be underpaid, harassed, or viewed as not-technical enough on the regular.
What kind of interview questions have you found useful in weeding out unsupportive environments? What factors attract you to one company over the other? What other tips can you provide for reassuring me that I'm not just multiplying my potential abuse factor by jumping into a sea of ego-inflated tech bros?",,z_shell,459,1496689144,2017-06-05 18:59:04+00:00,story,14490333,,474.0,, 331,Who is hiring? (December 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,458,1480608097,2016-12-01 16:01:37+00:00,story,13080280,,833.0,, 332,"What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?",,,,chefqual,458,1537512151,2018-09-21 06:42:31+00:00,story,18037613,,286.0,, 333,What do you use for authentication and authorization?,,"I am currently starting work on a new app/website. Currently planning to have 1 BE API set to start, probably graphql (which will be user data/information and need to check with the auth server about being protected). I will also have many client apps (web, mobile, potential partners) that will need to make queries to that BE. Do you usually roll your own authentication or use something like auth0/fusionauth/gluu/etc? This product is going to need to be secure as it will be in the healthcare space (so think oidc).",,nates,457,1545891419,2018-12-27 06:16:59+00:00,story,18767767,,236.0,, 334,Why would a government have created bitcoin?,,"I've long suspected bitcoin was created by a government. Bulletproof protocols usually require peer review, yet there have been zero leaks from the reviewers. Pools of crypto guys who don't leak stuff are usually employed by governments.
The part that puzzles me is why a government would do this. I can imagine several possibilities:
1. To finance their own black operations.
2. Because they thought digital currencies were inevitable, and they preferred bitcoin to some potentially more malevolent form. (Could bitcoin have been worse from a government's point of view?)
3. A friend suggested this: because they felt their currency would never become the standard reserve currency, and they felt it was better that no one's be if theirs couldn't be.
4. A variant of the above: the US did it because it seemed inevitable that the dollar would eventually lose its place as the standard reserve currency, and better to have it replaced by bitcoin that the yuan.
I realize some of these explanations are pretty far fetched, but so is an individual cooking up bitcoin as an intellectual exercise. Whatever the explanation of bitcoin's origin turns out to be, it will probably be pretty weird.
Anyone have opinions about these possible explanations, or other ones?",,pg,457,1365959519,2013-04-14 17:11:59+00:00,story,5547423,,294.0,, 335,"Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?",,"Of late, except for few headline-friendly fields (colliders, quantum computing, gravitational waves and astrophysics in general), I don't get to see/relate with a lot of activities in Physics. Also I have noticed a growing trend of physicists becoming data scientists post phD. Although I understand the money factor, are there any other reasons for this as well?",,sachin18590,456,1553689613,2019-03-27 12:26:53+00:00,story,19500151,,316.0,, 336,Who is hiring? (February 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,455,1454338863,2016-02-01 15:01:03+00:00,story,11012044,,789.0,, 337,Who is hiring? (February 2018),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company, please. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,454,1517500894,2018-02-01 16:01:34+00:00,story,16282819,,1060.0,, 338,Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?,,"I work at a startup with ~50 employees (and have always worked at startups). Love the work and the people. Recently we were acquired by $LARGE_CORPORATION and the experience has been a living hell for all of us. Things that should take a few days take a few weeks. Things that should take a few weeks take a few quarters. It's slowly driving me insane.
The experience is best shared as a story.
I'm working on migrating our apps to the parent company's VM launching and deploy platform. Should be fairly straightforward, I think. Unfortunately, the deploy tooling isn't entirely compatible with our app so I ask the team if they can implement $X feature to support our app.
The first engineer I talk to doesn't even attempt to answer my question but redirects me to their manager. Ok, that's odd, I think, but whatever.
Manager says sure, just fill out this feature request doc. It's a Google Docs template with 4 (!) pages of required documentation to just explain why I want this feature implemented. It asks for my team name, the motivation, why I can't solve the problem some other way, yada yada...ok, I guess it's good to document your work, so sure. I fill it out and submit it.
No response after two days. Then I get an automated email that their skip level manager has approved the work. Huh? This is followed by an email that the team's eng manager approved the work. Why do two layers of management need to approve work on something they have no knowledge about?
Finally, after many rounds of arguing about why this needs to be done in the first place (ahem: you told us to migrate to your platform, and it literally does not work for our app), they quote us a delivery timeline of end of Q1 in 2022.
At this point I am in absolute shock. This should take no more than a few days to implement.
So I reach out to the manager and ask what is going on. This is a simple task, I said. Why does it take an entire quarter for your team to deliver? He doesn't have an answer.
I tell him I'm happy to fix the issue myself, if they link me to the relevant codebase. "It shouldn't be too hard to dig in and submit a patch," I think to myself. He says he cannot give me access to the codebase for compliance reasons, and that only members of his team have R/W on that repo. What???
This is insane. And this entire time I was only alllowed to interact with managers and have not spoken to a single engineer about the actual technical details. It is impossible to get anything done here now.
Is this how it's like at all large companies? What should I do?",,lopkeny12ko,454,1640106813,2021-12-21 17:13:33+00:00,story,29639486,,444.0,, 339,What are your favorite statistics and probability textbooks?,,"I took stats in undergrad, but it was a very rudimentary "push x sequence of buttons on your calculator in y situation" ordeal and left me with less applicable knowledge than I'd like.
Since sometime after graduation, I've taken up serious study of higher-level maths as a hobby. I think it will be most useful in my career if I also have a strong grasp on probability and statistics.
[edit] The suggestions so far have been great, but it occured to me to add that I'm working through Spivak and Apostol right now with Dedekind's essays on the side. Hopefully that gives an idea of the tone/rigor I'm after. Answers to problems is also ideal.",,newguynewguy,452,1530907283,2018-07-06 20:01:23+00:00,story,17474646,,85.0,, 340,How would you turn Twitter around?,,"If you were the CEO of Twitter, what would you do in 2017 to make Twitter great again?",,bsvalley,452,1488220330,2017-02-27 18:32:10+00:00,story,13746549,,601.0,, 341,Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?,,"I've spent last year interviewing only to find out that I'm considered too old (I'm 45) for most shops around. They won't spit it out directly of course but people talk and what they say is that I need to be stellar or young to be hired. Companies won't invest in me the slightest bit, so the moment I miss a question in the long interview process I'm out of the door without second thought.
So...
1. I might be banging the wrong doors. E.g. FAANGs don't seem to be right. Any companies that don't drink/sell the youth cool-aid?
2. I might be searching at the wrong job boards. Any suggestions welcome.
3. Finally I might be better doing sth else altogether (but what?) rather than fighting a loosing battle against preconceptions that run so deep.
Anyway. Thanks for any non-insulting answers in advance.
PS: I'm based in EU and I'm a SW Dev working mainly in DevOps and Reliability.",,nonines,452,1590570230,2020-05-27 09:03:50+00:00,story,23320974,,445.0,, 342,Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?,,,,carlmungz,451,1492763324,2017-04-21 08:28:44+00:00,story,14163905,,135.0,, 343,Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?,,"This is more of a thought experiment, I know a multitude of ways to do this which require loads of setup, jumping through AWS hoops, etc. I'd like ideally way to deploy to a hosted service with a single command. Imagine Heroku but even easier.",,offtop5,451,1616777373,2021-03-26 16:49:33+00:00,story,26594242,,487.0,, 344,What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?,,"Lessons from Mythical man-month aside, what mistakes does management keep making and what do they never seem to learn? And of course the effects on those on you and your peers?",,oggyfredcake,451,1502935274,2017-08-17 02:01:14+00:00,story,15033156,,379.0,, 345,How to self-study physics?,,"Hey HN,
I'm a CS graduate student, and I do a lot of Deep Learning Research. I've always wanted to get a strong foundation in Physics, and while on lockdown because of COVID, I thought it would be a great opportunity.
I've run across this incredible guide https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-l... and I was also thinking about going through MIT Open Courseware following their bachelor's curriculum.
Do you all have any suggestions or tips? I really appreciate it!",,hsikka,451,1585124241,2020-03-25 08:17:21+00:00,story,22682837,,184.0,, 346,Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our production server,,"Anonymous person (under a nickname) sent screenshot as a proof that they managed to gain SSH access to our production server. The screenshot is legit, information displayed in it could not be faked without actual access.
Just a proof, not some ransom request or anything equal.
What would be a smart next step? Other than checking if there are any security updates for all the software in our stack.
We are a small company and don't have any security experts, etc.
Thanks!",,throwaway0727,450,1469624683,2016-07-27 13:04:43+00:00,story,12172379,,231.0,, 347,Who is hiring? (June 2018),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
To search the thread, try kennytilton's WhoIsHiring browser at https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ or kristopolous' console script at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,450,1527865272,2018-06-01 15:01:12+00:00,story,17205865,,904.0,, 348,Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery?,,"what are the pros and cons of sprints and daily standups in your experience
Coming from old school 'non-agile' financial world focused on bottom line I was in a bit of a shock learning about this daily standup ritual.
Besides being a dream for micromanagers, it seems to be more about signalling progress vs. actually making progress.
Do these extra bureaucracy layers, meetings, checkmarks and vague "man-points" estimates actually bring any value.",,andyxor,449,1614878925,2021-03-04 17:28:45+00:00,story,26345235,,695.0,, 349,Who is hiring? (August 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.",,whoishiring,449,1406904291,2014-08-01 14:44:51+00:00,story,8120070,,587.0,, 350,Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?,,I'd love to know what everyone is doing to scope out a workplace before they take a job there.
Do you email people who work there?
Do you just jump in and hope for the best?
Are there apps or sites you like?,,bwb,448,1551446763,2019-03-01 13:26:03+00:00,story,19280341,,167.0,, 351,How do you make sure your servers are up as a single founder?,,"I'm running a small business on AWS as a solo founder. It's just me. Yesterday I had a service interruption while I was in the London subway. Luckily, I was able to sign in to the AWS console and resolve the issue.
But it does (again) raise the question I'd rather not think about. What if something happens to me and there's another outage that I can't fix?
So - how do you make sure that your servers are up as a one person founder? Can I pay someone to monitor my AWS deploy and make sure it's healthy?",,thr0waway998877,448,1573041129,2019-11-06 11:52:09+00:00,story,21461617,,223.0,, 352,Who is hiring? (August 2018),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
To search the thread, try kennytilton's WhoIsHiring browser at https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ or kristopolous' console script at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,448,1533135713,2018-08-01 15:01:53+00:00,story,17663077,,1021.0,, 353,What is the best online resource to learn advanced SQL?,,I too often find myself getting stuck when it comes to more advanced SQL queries. I have never actively learnt SQL and realise that I don't have a great mental model of how it works. I would like to improve this as it is killing my productivity from time to time.,,rorykoehler,448,1484659992,2017-01-17 13:33:12+00:00,story,13417326,,97.0,, 354,What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?,,"A friend pointed out a bunch of the 'tell us about your successful side project' threads suffer from a survivorship bias. They're still great for inspiration, but I suspect we could learn a lot about challenges and wrong approaches from each others' failures. So what's a side project you built hoping to generate revenue from it, that hasn't actually earned you much / any money?
Why do you think it hasn't been as successful as you thought it would be / what would you do differently if you did it again? How much time/money did you spend building it, and what kind of iterations / improvements did you make to try and salvage it?
Appreciate any and all answers!",,notoriousarun,446,1609325795,2020-12-30 10:56:35+00:00,story,25580637,,582.0,, 355,How to found a company as a single founder?,,"As a single founder with a strong idea, how would you about founding your startup and possibly attracting co-founders and talent to work with you.",,nns,446,1546957977,2019-01-08 14:32:57+00:00,story,18855704,,232.0,, 356,What are the must-read books about economics/finance?,,"Hey HN,
I am pursuing an engineering degree in Statistics, I hope to get into finance so I am interested in knowing what books you consider a must-read for someone who doesn't know almost anything about economics (from a philosophical point of view; positive vs normative economics) and finance in general to help them grow intellectually.
Thanks!",,curiousgal,446,1474545154,2016-09-22 11:52:34+00:00,story,12556160,,269.0,, 357,Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?,,"You know what I'm talking about. Even at their best, the pop-ups for every single website to accept or choose cookies is ridicuous.
Can you imagine how much time in total we all lose to this?
And yet, these "solutions" to the data privacy questions have become widespread.
It's bad enough at normal times, let alone those who double triple quadruple bluff you into choosing the wrong setting.
This is a tech board.
Why have we all accepted this ridiculous situation?
Isn't there a better solution?",,LightG,445,1639312505,2021-12-12 12:35:05+00:00,story,29529062,,338.0,, 358,"I'm interested in so many disciplines, but what can I do with that?",,"A couple of years back I started dabbling in the social sciences and humanities (my background is in ecology / evolutionary biology), and became interested in one discipline after another. From psychology to history of science to anthropology and sociology, to economics and politics, to philosophy and religious studies and cultural studies, etc.
I find it intrinsically motivating to move from ignorance slowly towards understanding. I love reading textbooks to learn basic concepts and looking through academic titles just to swim in their ideas.
While I loved university, I won't be able to handle the demands of formal schooling (especially not while raising a family). I also wouldn't want to do any advanced research degrees as I have no patience in studying a small set of problems (I tried it for science and it was horrendous).
While I have no issue just continuing to explore these subjects privately, I feel like something is missing. I feel like I want to do something more tangible with this breadth of interests, but I'm coming up empty in terms of ideas. I like writing and can imagine having some sort of blog, but that's seems so cliche?
Any suggestions? Perhaps examples of something others have done with their broad interests?
What does one do with an intellectual life other than swimming through intellectual content?",,samh748,444,1649215097,2022-04-06 03:18:17+00:00,story,30928105,,314.0,, 359,"If you were to switch career, what would you do?",,"If you were to quit your developer job today and move away from the tech world for a little while, what job would you do? Or what domain would interest you?",,bsvalley,444,1483685813,2017-01-06 06:56:53+00:00,story,13334480,,833.0,, 360,"How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?",,"The last two threads by the same name got a lot of attention (and a lot of love from patio), but seeing how its been over a year since then it would be interesting to hear from new people (HN userbase is ever growing) and also get updates from some people who posted in the previous threads.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603
Previous to Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487",,marioluigi,444,1379950071,2013-09-23 15:27:51+00:00,story,6431573,,430.0,, 361,What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?,,Invest like the best and For Your Innovation are two great podcasts that I came across last year.,,rajesh-s,444,1578848133,2020-01-12 16:55:33+00:00,story,22027315,,200.0,, 362,"Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?",,"One night in 2013 I had this stupid idea that people would start searching google for "who is retargeting me" just like they do with "what's my ip" — I've created in 30 minutes, bought the domain whoisretargeting.me and put Google Ads. It's made €7000 in 7 years. (1) Do you have projects like this?
(1) https://pasteboard.co/JbPKJRs.png",,whoisret,442,1591449009,2020-06-06 13:10:09+00:00,story,23438930,,461.0,, 363,A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?,,"I was having trouble accessing my account, so I gave a call to customer service. The service rep proceeded to (accurately) describe my own password to me. Should I report this somewhere? I'm not really sure what to do.",,plsdonthack,442,1581991788,2020-02-18 02:09:48+00:00,story,22352840,,318.0,, 364,What interesting problems are you working on?,,"I know there are lots of really interesting problems out there waiting to be solved, but I haven't been exposed to much in the software world besides web technologies.
I'd love to hear about what interesting problems (technically or otherwise) you're working on -- and if you're willing to share more, I'm curious how you ended up working on them.
Thank you :)",,jlevers,442,1580250707,2020-01-28 22:31:47+00:00,story,22174828,,689.0,, 365,Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?,,"I've been working in software engineering for 18 years. I worked mostly as individual contributor (now as a Senior Staff Engineer), also I was an Engineering Manager for couple years. Now I am interviewing after a few years at the company, and I am hit by harsh reality. For the context, I am in Europe, not in the US.
I like technologies and programming, I want to further improve my skills in designing and developing reliable and maintainable distributed system, make better technical decisions. Also, I want to keep learning and playing with new techs. I am now interviewing for the roles like Staff / Principal Engineer, My expectations for the roles like Staff / Principal Engineer are that while staying hands-on, say for 30%, I will primarily use more my skills in architecture, engineering, and communications to focus on large, important pieces of functionality, technical decisions with big impact, etc. I expect that I would report to a Director or VP level manager, so that I could be exposed to a big picture, collaborate with and learn from a professional who operated on strategic level.
In reality, I am now interviewing for Staff / Principal roles and see a few problems that make me rethink my carrier plans. First, the definion for the most of those positions looks Senior Engineers with a few more years of experience: so you are limited to the scope of a single team scope, report to an Engineering manager, just be a worker at a feature conveyor, just be faster, mentor young workers, maybe get some devops skill. I feel limited in impact in such roles, my borders and carrier are defined by Engineer Managers, who are usually less experienced in engineering and leadership topics than I am. The work is also very repetitive, there is not much meaningful progression, next level. I think those titles are created to cover problems caused by diluted Senior titles: an illusional career progression candy for ICs with some salary increase.
I saw a few Staff / Principal roles that put a very high bar on technical expertise, when only 3-4 percent of all the engineers have such levels, and again usually limited to a lot of coding and a single team scope. They usually have long exhaustive interview process.
An important problem with Staff+ IC roles is that there is a low salary limit as well, and you will face much more competition for top roles. Mostly salaries top at the level of a director of engineering. It is typical for a company to have 10 directors, but only 1-2 IC with a similar compensation.
I want to work hard, and see meaningful progression: in salary, in impact, in respect.
I would like to ask for advice. I believe there are qute a lot 35+ engineers here that faced similar problems and made some decisions for their careers. Now I think to plan switching to a EM track or to Technical Product management. Thank you!",,man-next-door,442,1638020928,2021-11-27 13:48:48+00:00,story,29360119,,349.0,, 366,Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s,,"Hi HN — I'm 43, and at a bit of a crossroads. I sold my share in a company last year and have been taking time off to figure out my next move, and while I've mostly done startups my whole career, I am considering going for a job at a big tech company (FAANG/Lyft/Stripe/etc.). Does anyone have any experience doing this? I can still keep up coding, but should I do that, or try for management? What skills should I brush up on particularly? Mostly, I am a bit fed up with the stress and uncertainty of startups and looking for something more stable, at least for a while.",,kemiller,441,1578416914,2020-01-07 17:08:34+00:00,story,21981923,,184.0,, 367, Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?,,"Sometimes when I start reading HN comments I get the overwhelming feeling that I am not even a tiny drop in the giant ocean of talent, knowledge, drive, determination, skill, and genius that collectively contributes to this site. I have my own ideas that I love dearly and work on, the first of which will be released for you all to play around with and break at the end of the week, but I never leave HN without feeling that no matter what I do, it will never be as good as what I've just read about. I have my own skills, I got a BS degree from a decent school in Comp Sci a few years ago, and still I barely work with anything other than LAMP and frontend stuff and frequently find myself having no clue as to what some of the submissions and discussions on this site are about.
It affects me on a more personal level than I'd like to admit, but I'll do anyway as a way to get it out of my system and see what you all think. I'm a lone ""founder"" of several websites that I finished up to 80%, then left to collect dust, and am now tidying up to display on a resume since I'm essentially out of money. Whenever I come here and read the articles and discussions I feel like my ideas, and myself by extension are absolute shit for several reasons.
1) So many talented people here. I don't know the slightest thing about any other language besides Javascript, PHP, Java (from school), and MySQL. I'm 25. I work on a Windows XP box and use an IDE because I like the code completion. I consider myself damn good at the languages I listed, but I get the impression that people here are damn good at way more than this.
2) HN shows me all these people and ideas that are succeeding. It used to be inspirational, but now it's frightening. I've always been told I'm a smart kid, and that I'll be a millionaire some day, and all of that shit. I see these ideas gaining traction, some of which I could never be able to do myself, some of which I could have done overnight, and I see myself staying still. It's overwhelming.
3) There are people that post here that are so smart. There are people here that can express their ideas so clearly. There are people here that know so much about so many things. And there's me... I'm not really able to contribute much. How am I to believe I'm any good at anything? If you all are to be my competitors, I should just give up now.
At any rate, I'm just curious to see if anybody gets the same feelings of being overwhelmed by the amount of awesomeness that's on this site. Thanks.",,photon_off,441,1279777708,2010-07-22 05:48:28+00:00,story,1537461,,202.0,, 368,How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?,,"I'm in my early thirties and I feel I've not really made any significant effort in learning math/physics beyond the usual curriculum at school. I realize I didn't have the need for it and didn't have the right exposure (environment/friends) that would have inculcated in me these things. And perhaps I was lazy as well all these years to go that extra mile.
I have (had) a fairly good grasp of calculus and trigonometry and did a fairly good job working on a number of problems in high school. But over the past 12-13 years, I've really not had any need to flex my math muscles other than a problem here or there at work. Otherwise it's the same old enterprise software development.
I follow a bunch of folks on the internet and idolize them for their multifaceted personalities - be it math, programming/problem solving, physics, music etc. And these people had a natural flair for math/physics which was nurtured by their environment which made them participate in IOI/ACPC etc. in high school and undergrad which unfortunately I didn't get a taste of. I can totally see that these are the folks who have high IQs and they can easily learn a new domain in a few months if they were put in one.
Instead of ruing missed opportunities, I want to take it under my stride in my thirties to learn math/physics so as to become better at it. I might not have made an effort till now, but I hopefully have another 40 years to flex my muscles. I believe I'm a little wiser than how I was a few years back, so I'm turning to the community for help.
How do I get started? I'm looking to (re)learn the following - calculus, linear algebra, constraint solving, optimization problems, graph theory, discrete math and slowly gain knowledge and expertise to appreciate theoretical physics, astrophysics, string theory etc.",,mosconaut,441,1526402409,2018-05-15 16:40:09+00:00,story,17075261,,154.0,, 369,What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?,,"Peter Thiel has written about the "10x rule" for startups, where your innovation has to be 10 times better than the second best option [1].
Have you personally experienced such 10x improvements in your own interactions with software? What were they?
[1] - https://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2015/07/13/the-10x-rule-for-great-startup-ideas/",,pramodbiligiri,441,1615906457,2021-03-16 14:54:17+00:00,story,26477507,,795.0,, 370,How do you create a successful community from zero?,,"Successful online communities like dev.to seem to come up every now and then, in all kind of topics. They reach a stable and high growth, and then they die at some point.
What makes these communities different from the one that did not succeed?",,rorocoeur,441,1576580343,2019-12-17 10:59:03+00:00,story,21812442,,94.0,, 371,Do you still use browser bookmarks?,,How do you still use bookmarks? How do you organize them? Why are they useful to you?,,ethanpil,441,1491605907,2017-04-07 22:58:27+00:00,story,14064096,,445.0,, 372,Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?,,"I'd like a home-based voice recognition without some off-site cloud.
I'd like a kind of echo dot like thing running on a set of raspberry pi devices each with a microphone and speaker. Ideally they'd be all over the house. I'm happy if they talk back via wifi to a server in my office for whatever real processing. The server might have 16 cores and 128Gb ram. Might even have two of these if required.
What options do I have? What limits? I'd really prefer answers from people who have experiences with the various options.
If it helps I'm happy to reduce vocabulary to a dictionary of words as long as I can add more words as necessary. Training is also ok. I've already analysed my voice conversations with an echo dot and the vocabulary isn't that large.
Please remember: home use, no off-site clouds. I'm not interested in options involving even a free voice speech-to-text cloud. This eliminates google voice recognition, amazon etc. They are great but out of scope.
So far I've identified CMU Sphinx as a candidate but I'm sure there are others.
Ideas?",,rs23296008n1,440,1584204042,2020-03-14 16:40:42+00:00,story,22576589,,127.0,, 373,How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?,,"I am currently working for a startup and am one of 3 developers. Most of my work revolves around building the API in Node + Express as well as some small projects with MongoDB. The other developers don't really assist me since they have their own projects to work on, and, honestly, they have less experience and knowledge than I do.
So my question is: What is the best way for me to go about learning best practices in API development, or using MongoDB, or even just being a better software developer in general?",,bradhoffman,440,1552931037,2019-03-18 17:43:57+00:00,story,19423228,,196.0,, 374,Who is hiring? (August 2017),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. If it isn't a household name, please explain what your company does.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,439,1501599622,2017-08-01 15:00:22+00:00,story,14901313,,951.0,, 375,What are some niche communities you enjoy?,,,,lainon,437,1533469668,2018-08-05 11:47:48+00:00,story,17690852,,342.0,, 376,How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?,,"I'm a dev with almost no experience in a 3rd world country. Considering the COVID situation, In the worst case scenario I'll be without a job for a while. I have finances to manage for (probably) a year and a month or two.
I want to ask what are the ways with good probability of making ~ $1-1.5/mo (enough to live and still have considerable remaining in my situation)
I'm asking for ideas because the popular ideas are out of question:
- Domsetic Freelancing/Consulting does not have much scope, SMB don't seem to be doing well so site-dev work for them also isn't viable
- Making software for companies and govt. here isn't much of an option either, there's corruption and they don't particularly care about having a $99/mo solution when there are people willing to work for that rate
- More of a opinion, but overseas freelancing opportunities aren't gonna hire a newbie and fiverr is a race to bottom.
I'd appreciate any advice on how to proceed, any problem you think is a opporutnity to have a solution for or just your experience from another economic depression.
Meta: Started coding 3.5 years ago and probably have enough under my belt to try multiple projects over this duration. Made a new account as I don't want to link this to my real identity. I'm not looking for job offers out of sympathy. This is just considering the worst case scenario, and I want to have something to fall back to if it turns out to be the case.",,noddly,437,1591359986,2020-06-05 12:26:26+00:00,story,23427689,,329.0,, 377,What are some examples of good database schema designs?,,"I've seen many examples of database schemas but don't always recognise a good design over a mediocre or poor design.
This is what I mean by schema (is this a good design?)
https://www.drupal.org/node/1785994
When I read about database schemas with thousands of tables I wonder what kind of problem could possibly require so many tables.
What are good schema examples? And what are some poor examples?",,vanilla-almond,437,1581665628,2020-02-14 07:33:48+00:00,story,22324691,,175.0,, 378,Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?,,"With news like [1][2], and problems I’ve had in the past, I would like a TV with a modern resolution, but just inputs and a tuner, no “smart” features. Does anything like this exist?
[1] https://hackaday.com/2021/11/29/samsung-bricks-smart-tvs/
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-advertising-inscape-data-privacy-q3-2021",,luke2m,436,1638207464,2021-11-29 17:37:44+00:00,story,29382643,,497.0,, 379,Who is hiring? (September 2015),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.",,whoishiring,436,1441120116,2015-09-01 15:08:36+00:00,story,10152809,,868.0,, 380,How to make a career working remotely?,,"I hold a PhD in applied machine learning, and have been working as an engineer at a startup for about 10 months now. A few weeks ago I moved away from where my company is located for a few months for personal reasons and have been working remotely. I really like this setup, as I'm in the comfort of my home throughout the day and have the discipline to carry out my work despite the change of place. And it is something I expect to do often in the future as my wife is in a profession that requires her to be physically present when dealing with her clients, and I realised that there may not always be the most interesting opportunities for me in some places where we live together (for example now).
This got me thinking about what I should pay attention to if I wanted to have a successful career working remotely. What kind of companies are more open to allow this form of work? How about freelancing? Are there any forums or groups online where I can find more information about working remotely? I have little idea about this as I have always been physically present at my place of work during the past 9 years of my professional life.
I thought this would be a very good place to get various points of view. Thanks in advance for any useful information you have that you share!",,thingamarobert,435,1477977348,2016-11-01 05:15:48+00:00,story,12843590,,93.0,, 381,What are you working on and why is it cool?,,,,superbaconman,435,1382798942,2013-10-26 14:49:02+00:00,story,6617551,,761.0,, 382,What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?,,Do you know any websites that have weird UIs ? Something like a ZUI [1] for example.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface,,louismerlin,434,1570083407,2019-10-03 06:16:47+00:00,story,21144228,,351.0,, 383,How do I get freelance developer jobs?,,"Sure there are sites like Upwork or Freelancer, but they limit the amount of jobs that you can bid for. I'm not sure if I could successfully get jobs there, so I don't want to waste any bids. People jump on any good projects like crazy. Aside from that, I've been told to scout out local business, but for the moment lets just say that one's a no. How can I get freelancing jobs as a developer?",,jamesmp98,433,1482090808,2016-12-18 19:53:28+00:00,story,13207268,,108.0,, 384,What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer?,,"There was an article a while back about how cell service providers were selling extremely granular location data, and some of the programmers working on those systems immediately showed up on HN to comment on their moral dilemma. I suspect it's not an isolated case.",,88e282102ae2e5b,432,1533485853,2018-08-05 16:17:33+00:00,story,17692005,,494.0,, 385,How do I learn C properly?,,"I have 15+ years of experience in many languages: javascript, python, go, etc.
I can write C, but I'm not confident I'm doing it the right way. There are now decades of forums and blogs I can search through, but I'd love to have a single, clean, clear source of truth for recommendations on how to write C code.
I've started reading "Modern C" by Jens Gustedt. I'm not sure if this is the closest to a modern source of truth.
Note, I'd like my C code to work on Windows, which possibly restricts the "right way" to features provided by C89. But again, I'm not sure, the internet is super clear on this.
Thanks for the tips!",,buchanae,432,1583694517,2020-03-08 19:08:37+00:00,story,22519876,,199.0,, 386,Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers?,,"With 'networking essentials' I mean software components which constitute the infrastructure which a webapp lives within: e.g reverse proxy, DMZ, firewall, etc.",,giulianopz,430,1624794329,2021-06-27 11:45:29+00:00,story,27650775,,71.0,, 387,Who is hiring? (June 2015),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company, and don't post recruiting firms or job boards.",,whoishiring,429,1433170502,2015-06-01 14:55:02+00:00,story,9639001,,778.0,, 388,What Technologies to Learn in 2020?,,"It is always good to keep yourself up to date with the hottest tech stacks. So what are your suggestions for 2020?
For example: Flutter / React Native ? ML? Tensorflow / Keras ? GraphQL ? Vue JS?
Go or Rust?
+1 if you suggest something cutting edge that very less people know about!",,ghoshbishakh,428,1578231957,2020-01-05 13:45:57+00:00,story,21961214,,433.0,, 389,What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?,,I think I've broken my own record with this one ~2500 lines of incoherent JavaScript/C#. Works though.,,nobody271,428,1542129246,2018-11-13 17:14:06+00:00,story,18442637,,578.0,, 390,Am I just a wantrepreneur?,,"I am a wantrepreneur. For over 7 years, I have wanted to start something. Really hard, wanted. Surely, I have tried to find an audience for a twisted "Come Dine With Me" (but who would host 3 others random unknown people in their own house??), have started some websites (extractemailaddress.com, linux-commands-examples.com) in the hope to get a big enough niche audience... But all I can get is an average of 8€ per month of donations, which barely covers my hosting costs.
I am trying to get new ideas done. But after one day of programming for my job, I am exhausted and I cannot extract any brain-juice any more. And if I try to work during the week-ends, I can't rewind enough for the next week. And my progress are damn slow. It seems I would need a year to achieve what a good programmer could do in a week.
It seems to me impossible I would be one day a Takuya Matsuyama who makes enough for a living with its app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18216783), let alone be a Mark Zuckerberg. Even if I have some theoretical knowledge of starting things, as I have read news, stuff, feedback on HN and other sites for years.
Creating a successful business seems to me like the only viable career path to me. I don't see myself as a good developer (maybe it is due to the First month in a new company imposter syndrome, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257767). So this is not a long-term plan. And I have nerver learned to do anything else. So the only thing left is to create some things, and be successful enough in at least one to make a living out of it.
What should I do?",,ced83fra,428,1540119110,2018-10-21 10:51:50+00:00,story,18267468,,148.0,, 391,Best passive income method for a solo developer?,,"I'd consider myself a pretty experienced developer with diverse skills. I want to create some passive income streams using my abilities.
What are the recommended methods for a solo developer? Which method of the following would you recommend?
ebook in a niche technical topic
SaaS product that solves a niche issue
mobile or web based gameThe last time I had fun like this was in college. I was broke, renting a big flat with a bunch of roommates, but young, healthy, and full of enthusiasm (and booze). Finding friends in my teens and 20s was as easy as going out literally anywhere. When I eventually went to work, I thought my life would only get better. And I made a good career, but in the process, steadily drifted off into isolation.
These days I work either from home, or at best in a mostly empty office. I tried to meet new people at hobbies and dance lessons, but guess what - they're all full of lonely developers and other socially awkward people - short guys looking for girlfriends, unattractive/aging women looking for husbands, etc.
All the "normal" people I knew in the past are now changing diapers and working to pay off their mortgages, which I guess is a kind of consolation. Still, I'm only in my 30s, and it feels like my life is pretty much done. Doing things by myself is boring and depressing, and getting into a group of "normal" friends, of both genders, to hang out and laugh with, seems like an impossible goal.
In case someone has any advice beyond finding a hobby, going to therapy, approaching random strangers, it would be greatly appreciated. I don't have any skills other than coding, so quitting the career would be a major financial hit. On the other hand, I feel that finding a non-coding job would be ultimately the best way to find new social groups, and get out of the apathy",,tenonyx,427,1643504913,2022-01-30 01:08:33+00:00,story,30132560,,496.0,, 393,What does your BI stack look like?,,How does your company visualize and report on what’s happening in the business?,,Dwolb,427,1573562382,2019-11-12 12:39:42+00:00,story,21513566,,173.0,, 394,How do B2B startups sell to corporations?,,"Hi, I am founder of a chatbot startup... it's a b2b.. I am interested to know how to sell to corporate America? how does it work?",,ahmedaly,427,1572135858,2019-10-27 00:24:18+00:00,story,21367151,,110.0,, 395,Who is hiring? (April 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,427,1459522874,2016-04-01 15:01:14+00:00,story,11405239,,715.0,, 396,Who is hiring? (October 2020),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24651637
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24651638",,whoishiring,426,1601564460,2020-10-01 15:01:00+00:00,story,24651639,,812.0,, 397,How to come up with monetizable side project ideas?,,"I love building small tools which solve problems I myself face in my day to day life. Having been worked in different companies over the last 4 years, I feel I've acquired enough knowledge to develop big applications(big enough to make money) on my own.
I was wondering, how one can come up with side project ideas which can generate few hundred dollars per month on the side. Any inputs, resources and wisdom are appreciated!",,sunilkumarc,426,1537644108,2018-09-22 19:21:48+00:00,story,18047553,,121.0,, 398,Who is hiring? (July 2018),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
To search the thread, try kennytilton's WhoIsHiring browser at https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ or kristopolous' console script at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,425,1530543712,2018-07-02 15:01:52+00:00,story,17442187,,853.0,, 399,Strategies to land fully remote $250k+ job,,"From my experience most of the companies scouting for developers are trying to minimize costs and using the “fully remote” positions as a mean.
I almost never faced an HR ready to discuss salaries higher, than my current “above average” full-time salary in my region (~120-180k).
I wonder what should your CV look like and how should you approach the search for companies that can afford expensive developers no matter the geo.
If the goal is not worth the effort in the first place — what alternative scalable ways to increase senior programmer’s income can you recommend?
Scalable means more or less reproducible in finite timeframe without high risks like in “starting your own startup”.",,aristofun,425,1639916936,2021-12-19 12:28:56+00:00,story,29613382,,500.0,, 400,What Lived Up to the Hype?,,"Cyberpunk’s reviews paint it as a tire fire. I think it’s a fun game, but it doesn’t live up to the expectation - it’s not the next Witcher 3.
There are many examples of overhyped releases: Duke Nukem Forever, the Matrix sequels, etc. What got hyped and actually delivered?",,karamazov,424,1608791128,2020-12-24 06:25:28+00:00,story,25525457,,1091.0,, 401,Who wants to collaborate?,,"We have the monthly "Who is hiring?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads. But what about people who don't want to work for money and are not looking for people who want to work for money but still want to work together on cool projects?
For free to make the world better or to start a startup.
If you do, please post your project or your skills!",,TekMol,424,1641050529,2022-01-01 15:22:09+00:00,story,29759115,,506.0,, 402,How to optimize your career for happiness?,,"I'm mid-thirties working in Software/Data Engineering. I've been working at different companies during the last decade, and currently making ~$120k, and hitting no more than 40h/week.
I don't consider myself especially intelligent. Neither I'm dumb. I suffer from imposter syndrome from time to time, especially when I start a new job/challenge. I usually acknowledge these situations and manage to drive them without major problems. I have been in places where I was making way more but the job was boring, in startups where I was learning x10 every single day, I cut my salary to join especially talented teams, I stayed at places that required less than 10h/week while being paid for 40h... Sometimes I have been focused on pursuing a bigger salary, a promotion, or becoming a manager. I successfully accomplish most of these challenges. Every single situation had pros and cons, and none of them made me feel completely full-filled.
I thought I had a pretty good work-life balance but lately, I've been through health issues and every single doctor/therapist is pointing out to stress and sedentarism. Due to that, I've been reading some articles where researchers explain how people in tech started to care more about happiness and less about salary. I thought I was already doing that but looks like I've been doing something wrong with my professional career, and there is a path more equilibrated and focused on happiness I should follow.
Do you do something special?",,__all__,423,1639923324,2021-12-19 14:15:24+00:00,story,29614095,,321.0,, 403,"Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?",,"I want to focus on Machine Learning for this 2020 but I see to many options; Deep Learning, AI, Statistical Theory, Computational Cognitive and more... but to focus just on ML, where should I start? I work mostly as a data analyst on pharma where the focus is batch process.",,jamesxv7,423,1577823004,2019-12-31 20:10:04+00:00,story,21924298,,118.0,, 404,How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity filling the web?,,"Hey HN, I've noticed a huge uptick in the toxicity online in the last 5-7 years. Before, around 2010-2012, people who disagreed would usually leave it at that and walk away respectfully. Now, it seems like everyone treats everything as an argument or debate to be won at all costs. Even niche sites like HN are not immune.
So how do we fix this? I've heard some talk that upvote systems and algorithms might be at fault. Do we ditch them and go back to a literal timeline? Or is this more of a social problem that code can't solve? Let's hear some input on this, because I can't shake the feeling that tech isn't totally innocent in this mayhem.",,dabockster,422,1580282834,2020-01-29 07:27:14+00:00,story,22178292,,804.0,, 405,Who is hiring? (July 2020),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702120
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702121",,whoishiring,422,1593615710,2020-07-01 15:01:50+00:00,story,23702122,,681.0,, 406,Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?,,"For me it's so unresponsive that I'm at a loss for words how google put this into production. I have a modern, new computer and modern, urban internet good enough for streaming 1080p on Twitch without interruption, but I can't delete or archive an email anymore without waiting 4-6 seconds for it to complete the action.
What has your experience been like with it?
edit: Guess I'm not alone. I can only hope someone working at Google sees this post or cares. Maybe too much to hope for.",,aerovistae,422,1541380043,2018-11-05 01:07:23+00:00,story,18379050,,216.0,, 407,Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?,,"Hey HN,
I've been using AWS lambda a bit recently, mostly as a way to glue together various bits and pieces.
Maybe I'm doing this wrong but does anyone else find the experience to be really frustrating?
I can unit test bits of the code just fine, but at some point I always end up stuck in a slow feedback loop where I deploy the code, do some manual invoking, go and dig through the logs in CloudWatch, add another print statement in my lambda... and so on.
What I want is to run the lambdas locally, ideally more than one, and then exercise them with streams of test events (perhaps captured from a real environment). It would be quite cool if I could define BDD style tests around them too.
Anyone have any suggestions or share my frustrations?
I have heard localstack is quite good although I haven't given it a go yet. Would that work for me? I did try SAM but I was a bit underwhelmed and I don't want to use a separate IaC tool for these.
Alternatively, do other FaaS providers solve this problem?
Thanks for any help.",,tdfirth,422,1618770928,2021-04-18 18:35:28+00:00,story,26855037,,278.0,, 408,How to properly manage a product roadmap?,,"Hi. I'm the PM for a small fintech startup and the business team is constantly changing priorities based on new client requests, so the tech team cannot cope with all the new features and these end up suffering continuous delays.
Do you let new customers drive your product roadmap, or just decide your own roadmap and stick with it? Which approach works best in order to gain more product velocity?",,joantorres,421,1586466862,2020-04-09 21:14:22+00:00,story,22827275,,123.0,, 409,Should I publish my research code?,,"I'm looking for advice om whether I should publish my research code? The paper itself is enough to reproduce all the results. However, the implementation can easily take two months of work to get it right.
In my field many scientists tend to not publish the code nor the data. They would mostly write a note that code and data are available upon request.
I can see the pros of publishing the code as it's obviously better for open science and it makes the manuscript more solid and easier for anyone trying to replicate the work.
But on the other hand it's substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing, it will increase the surface for nitpicking and criticism (e.g. coding style, etc). Besides, many scientists look at code as a competitive advantage so in this case publishing the code will be removing the competitive advantage.",,jarenmf,421,1642166978,2022-01-14 13:29:38+00:00,story,29934192,,353.0,, 410,Books you plan to read in 2020?,,"Any great books you cannot wait to read next year? Maybe something you wish to learn? Curious about all kinds of great book suggestions for 2020. Thank you for sharing! (And I wish you all a great, educational new year)",,ellinoora,421,1576497994,2019-12-16 12:06:34+00:00,story,21802452,,320.0,, 411,Who is hiring? (December 2018),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
And don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589704
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589703",,whoishiring,421,1543852814,2018-12-03 16:00:14+00:00,story,18589702,,936.0,, 412,What up with these startup salaries?,,"I would have commented directly on the posts, but the YC startup job postings don't allow comments.
I see job postings for a couple of startups here and they are offering approximately between $60k and $110k and 0.5-1% equity for what appear to be significant positions - mobile or full stack developers, director of marketing, etc.
Is this really the going rate? If so, my mind is boggled. I was under the impression there is competition for great employees in Silicon Valley.
Here in NYC, if I wanted to be very competitive to hire into any vital position with rare skills, I would anticipate a floor on pay of $125k. I don't care if that's a designer or a developer or a marketer or what ... I just mean anyone working full time who has a good head on their shoulders and some rare skills.
And 0.5-1% equity wouldn't move the needle much. I mean, if you have a 5 person company and you bring someone in and give them 1% equity, what is their equity relative to the person sitting next to them? IMHO It's a joke. Their ownership is purely symbolic, in a relative sense, and it's a symbol of how little they own relative to a founder.
Am I completely insane? I would love to understand the logic here, I am not so much criticizing as trying to know more about the dynamic and the industry culture/standards.",,whiddershins,421,1424012007,2015-02-15 14:53:27+00:00,story,9052727,,416.0,, 413,Show me your half baked project,,"Release early, release often. Don't worry, be crappy. Fail fast. Iterate.
Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time projects.
Also, if you need any help with a project, a startup, or an idea, just post it here.",,notoriousarun,420,1610198564,2021-01-09 13:22:44+00:00,story,25700135,,820.0,, 414,"How do you learn complex, dense technical information?",,"When in the past I've picked up a reference manual or something of the sort I'd go slowly, lookup every word I didn't understand and started experimenting as soon as possible.
But that is quite time consuming and intense. I've been considering skimming through the whole things to get kind of a big picture of what the thing is and where I'm going and then going back a second time to catch then the details and experiment.
Any other ideas? How do you tackle learning something new and complicated?
(ps. the complicated thing for me right now is kernel development, including writing proper C)",,_benj,420,1581683154,2020-02-14 12:25:54+00:00,story,22325975,,175.0,, 415,What’s your favorite talk from 2017?,,,,dev_256,418,1514810584,2018-01-01 12:43:04+00:00,story,16045859,,107.0,, 416,What are you thankful for?,,"I think this gets asked most years, and I always enjoy the threads that come out of it. I am thankful for a family that I enjoy spending the holidays with. I am thankful that I had a safe childhood and got a good education throughout my life.
I am also thankful for the HN community. People dump on this site sometimes, but over most of the past decade HN has been an overwhelmingly positive part of my life. Thank you to everyone for what you bring to the community here.",,japhyr,418,1574974506,2019-11-28 20:55:06+00:00,story,21660118,,295.0,, 417,What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?,,"Any kind of channels are ok! I am specifically interested in urban (balcony) gardening, guitar and gaming (Apex Legends).
Would be interested in what other people are watching and what other cool channels are out there.",,sherlock_h,418,1562612450,2019-07-08 19:00:50+00:00,story,20385679,,138.0,, 418,"Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?",,"In light of the pandemic and countries slowly opening up again, I thought I'd ask this question that appeared back in 2015 [0].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439286",,cercatrova,416,1615348423,2021-03-10 03:53:43+00:00,story,26407560,,450.0,, 419,How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?,,"For reasons beyond this ask, I'm needing to use a payment processor that is fine with high-risk transactions (which the porn industry certainly fits in) so started looking around what adult websites are using.
Many are using probiller, vendo and similar, since Stripe and others have rules against porn/adult industry, citing high risk transactions for this.
But then I came across onlyfans.com, which is using Stripe for its payments, although Stripe has a strict "no porn" rule in their terms of service.
How does this work? Onlyfans is by now a huge website, with lots of transactions, so it's surely not flying under the radar. It's the only adult website I could find that is using Stripe.
Is it as simple as they have an agreement with Stripe to bypass the rule? Or am I missing something else obvious here?",,capableweb,416,1598521437,2020-08-27 09:43:57+00:00,story,24291790,,284.0,, 420,Who is hiring? (April 2021),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
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My plan :
- continue learning while on the job
- prepare for interviews so that I can apply to companies that are friendly to side projects (stripe, gitlab, github and a bunch of other such companies. Please mention companies that are ok with remote workers and are side project friendly, even startups paying $30,000 work for me)
- build side projects in my free time that demonstrate my skills
- maybe participate in Pioneer.app tournaments so I can network
- basically work on stuff that won't become a company
- once I get a job at a more side project friendly company, I'll start working on my ideas.
As you can see, it's quite a shitty situation to not be able to pursue my side projects that could become companies, but it is what it is and I want to make the most of the next year or so. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.",,mr_puzzled,413,1558940042,2019-05-27 06:54:02+00:00,story,20019975,,182.0,, 425,Thoughts on new GitHub layout?,,I think it feels like Jira and I'm really sad. Seems more like a MS move than a GH move...
Migrating to gitlab...,,verdverm,413,1592933356,2020-06-23 17:29:16+00:00,story,23617229,,564.0,, 426,Who is hiring? (March 2015),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.",,whoishiring,413,1425222252,2015-03-01 15:04:12+00:00,story,9127232,,679.0,, 427,Have you created programs for only your personal use?,,"Curious to know if anyone has written programs for their own, regular, & personal use. And if so what they are? E.g. A colleague of mine tracks all of his homes energy use through a custom program which disaggregates the energy consumption per device and outputs a report to a tablet.",,smarri,413,1649876758,2022-04-13 19:05:58+00:00,story,31018836,,633.0,, 428,What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?,,"I recently realized that certain kinds of knowledge allow one to be significantly more productive when solving a large class of problems.
For example,
* Regular expressions for simple text processing.
* Parser combinators for parsing.
* Parser generators (esp. packrat variety) for parsing.
* The concept of fuzzing and property testing for testing code.
* Calculus for solving all sorts of problems.
* MCMC for solving a huge class of probability problems.
* Search algorithms for solving a variety of problems (e.g. all NP-hard problems, sudoku, HTNs, scheduling, planning).
* Gradient descent for solving a variety of optimization problems.
* Vector Space embedding as a conceptual tool for a variety of complex AI problems.
* Effect composition (Haskell's IO or Scala's ZIO) as an incredibly powerful paradigm for concurrency and parallelism.
What are some examples of 10x multipliers that come to your mind? Fundamental ideas without which you would be drastically less productive.",,stardustpie,413,1648640441,2022-03-30 11:40:41+00:00,story,30853807,,419.0,, 429,Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?,,"with all the website builders that are available, is there any money in doing web design for small businesses? I had a prospective customer whom I was offering website design and maintenance service. He ended up doing it all by himself using an online website builder. I suddenly felt like I don't have anything to offer that business. I feel so discouraged. I'm a decent programmer but it seems everything small businesses need is already built and is way polished that I could build. What should I do?",,throwjuly2018,411,1547879531,2019-01-19 06:32:11+00:00,story,18945658,,205.0,, 430,Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?,,"A common way of deploying a web application database at scale is to setup a MySQL or Postgres server, create one table for all customers, and have an account_id or owner_if field and let the application code handle security. This makes it easier to run database migrations and upgrade code per customer all at once.
I’m curious if anybody has taken the approach of provisioning one database per account? This means you’d have to run migrations per account and keep track of all the migration versions and statuses somewhere. Additionally, if an application has custom fields or columns, the differences would have to be tracked somehow and name space collisions managed.
Has anybody done this? Particularly with Rails? What kinda of tools or processes did you learn when you did it? Would you do it again? What are some interesting trade offs between the two approaches?",,bradgessler,410,1590441594,2020-05-25 21:19:54+00:00,story,23305111,,258.0,, 431,What are some tech companies that do not use an open floor plan?,,It seems every tech company has fallen for the open floor plan. I'd love to find a company that respects the desk as a workspace that facilitates concentration and deep-thought. It seems the answer to this problem has become headphones.
How is this acceptable?,,cs44,409,1524029855,2018-04-18 05:37:35+00:00,story,16864925,,342.0,, 432,"I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?",,"I recently came into some money and now I have $450K in cash burning a hole in my pocket.
I have about $50K in an index fund, own land worth $150K (paid off) and another $200K in industrial real estate investments.
Given this spread, what should I do with the cash? I'm not comfortable investing the entirety into an index fund, given the current socio-political climate.
I'm located in the Midwest, USA.",,plut0,409,1596293840,2020-08-01 14:57:20+00:00,story,24020899,,481.0,, 433,What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?,,"Specifically in the context of engineering management, how frequently do you have 1-on-1s with your direct reports, how do you structure them, and what have you found to work and not work well?",,ankurvjy,409,1540055654,2018-10-20 17:14:14+00:00,story,18264245,,153.0,, 434,Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself,,I have been using open source software for a while. I feel like sometimes Open Source software is better than the proprietary ones. Since it allows you to customize and it gives you more control.
But the question is how do you sustain yourself while working fulltime on building/maintaining open source software
What are some tips to get into open source and turn it into fulltime career,,mraza007,409,1589782399,2020-05-18 06:13:19+00:00,story,23218943,,309.0,, 435,"Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET",," I have owned a .com for 7+ years, a new company who has only been around for <2 years registered the .net 2 years ago and now threaten for me to handover my .com or they will sue
I have received a cease and desist letter from a law firm via email.
They claim as they client registered a trademark two years ago for the name, I must handover my .com domain to them for free, otherwise they will sue me.
For them not to sue me, because they have now registered trademark (even though I had the .com domain and was using it 7+ years before them)
They state from their solicitor that I must do all the following (long letter they sent me but here is the title/headings):
1. Cessation of Use of the Mark.
2. Abandonment of Rights
3. Future Trademark Applications
4. Transfer of Domain Names
5. Acknowledgement of Ownership and No Challenge
6. Mutual Release
7. Covenant Not to Sue
8. No Outstanding or Known Future Claims/Causes of Action
9. Acknowledgment of Settlement
10. Confidentiality of Agreement
11. Non-Disparagement
12. Agreement is Legally Binding
13. Entire Agreement
14. New or Different Facts: No Effect
15. Interpretation
16. Governing Law and Submission to Jurisdiction
17. Equitable Relief
18. Reliance on Own Counsel
19. Counterparts
20. Authority to Execute Agreement
"[Company Name] further demands that you provide, by no later than the close of business Pacific Standard Time on December 15, 2021, written confirmation that you will comply with these demands. You are specifically advised that any failure or delay in complying with these demands will likely compound the damages for which you may be liable. If [Company Name] does not receive a satisfactory and timely response, [Company Name] is prepared to take all steps necessary to protect [Company Name]'s valuable intellectual property rights, without further notice to you.
The above is not an exhaustive statement of all the relevant facts and law.
[Company Name] expressly reserves all of its legal and equitable rights and remedies, including the right to seek injunctive relief and recover monetary damages."
If anything I would have thought they should be the ones changing their name, as I was using the name 7+ years before them with a similar product",,brogrammer2018,409,1639238013,2021-12-11 15:53:33+00:00,story,29521714,,275.0,, 436,What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?,,"For my travel site side hustle (beatthatflight.com.au/), I find and publish cheap flights for Australians. Sounds simple, but even if say, someone gave me the flights each day, there's posting the, sometimes to deals sites, as well as then editing it and posting it on my site, and out to social media, and then to specific mailing lists on mailchimp, depending on the source city of the deal, or type of post.
A LOT of that becomes tedious. Mailchimp can auto post to FB/twitter/instagram etc, but even converting the blog post into mailchimp emails gets tiring, as you need to choose a feature photo, the specific mailing list etc.
I'm a selenium guy, so have built some scripts to minimise some of it, but the rush each time of finding a deal still pains me when I think of the tedium ahead of publishing it.
Ideally, my goal would be to submit [to][from][when] to a script and the whole process would be automatic. I can see that selenium could do it, but my goodness, it'd be slow and potentially flaky all via the web UI for those sites.
I'd love suggestions, examples of automation you've done, and tools used?",,beatthatflight,408,1581906921,2020-02-17 02:35:21+00:00,story,22345150,,229.0,, 437,My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?,,"I work from home in the EU as a freelancer for a US startup.
A few days ago, an email came out of the blue, demanding that I install an "agent" from a company named "Drata"* on my laptop. The motivation is that my client badly want a SOC 2 certification.
I have worked as a developer for more than 30 years. Tiny shops. Startups. Major league. I have never even heard about someone putting agents on developers laptops.
I'm pretty pissed off. So are the teams I work with.
Is this the new normal now?
Just for the record: I don't have credentials to production systems, and I don't work with production data. I just figure out how to transform dreams into code, I write parts of that code, and then I fix it as needed.
* Drata (https://drata.com/about) is on a "Mission to Help Build Trust Across the Internet". Their business model (in my case) seems to be to take money from companies to spy on their employees/contractors, and then they sell the employees/contractors private information to "targeted advertising". When I confronted them about this, they replied: "Feel free to reach out to your Drata administrator internally with concerns. Do note, that when your company contracted with Drata, any edits or redlines they provided will prevail for all employees of your company." - basically to just bend over and smile.",,illud_tempus,408,1639717787,2021-12-17 05:09:47+00:00,story,29588054,,485.0,, 438,What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?,,,,swyx,408,1510889071,2017-11-17 03:24:31+00:00,story,15718653,,983.0,, 439,Recommended resources to learn the Linux kernel and OS theory?,,"So recently I did a couple of minor patches on the FreeBSD and NetBSD kernels and played with some linux kernel. It was the first time in a a few years, I've been excited about programming.
Unfortunately I'm still completely lost. It seems that there's so much to learn and every kernel update breaks whatever you just finished writing. I see terms in unfamiliar with and often find myself googling basic OS concepts.
Are there any recommendations reading materials to get a better grasp on OS theory and / or the Linux / UNIX kernels and programming for them?",,non-entity,408,1566914643,2019-08-27 14:04:03+00:00,story,20809666,,83.0,, 440,Are you depressed?,http://www.strawpoll.me/22152225,,,pcbro141,408,1605399150,2020-11-15 00:12:30+00:00,story,25096877,,489.0,, 441,How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?,,"My question is pretty straightforward: how do you, hacker news enthusiast, familiarize yourself with a new codebase? Obviously your answer is going to be contingent on the kind of work that you do.
Some background: What's motivating me to ask is that I am flirting with the idea of trying to add a couple of features to SlickGrid (https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid), Michael Leibman's phenomenal javascript grid widget. Unfortunately Leibman got busy and isn't actively supporting it anymore.
The codebase is something like 8k lines of javascript, so it's not ludicrously big, but I'm kind of intimidated thinking about trying to make sense of it. My first strategy is just to open up important-looking javascript files (slick.core.js, slick.grid.js) and read through for comprehension. This seems like a pretty slow way to build a mental model of the code, though. Some features I want to implement are 1. an ajax data source that doesn't require paging, and 2. frozen columns. Someone else has implemented a buggy version of frozen columns (and since abandoned the project), and I might like to use it, but I can't tell if it's buggy because it's a hard problem, or because their implementation strategy was poor (or both!). So at the moment I can't evaluate if I should implement my own, or try to fix the issues with theirs.
Picking up other people's code seems to be one of the harder tasks developers face, as evidenced by how much code gets abandoned, so I wondered if the voices of experience on here could point me in the right direction, either by talking about this problem in particular, or more generally, how you build knowledge about a new codebase.
Thanks!",,roflc0ptic,407,1435324027,2015-06-26 13:07:07+00:00,story,9784008,,238.0,, 442,Who is hiring? (February 2019),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
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This month only: thinking of working at a startup? Join us for the 2019 Work at a Startup Expo on June 29! https://www.workatastartup.com/expo",,whoishiring,407,1559574016,2019-06-03 15:00:16+00:00,story,20083795,,792.0,, 444,"Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?",,"I'm in a weird place. I used to work as a developer but never thought I was that great. Most of my jobs were small features, fixing bugs, etc. Honestly I was quite lazy and coasted somehow. I’m trying to change all of that now.
I feel like I'm behind 'bootcamp grads' because they can actually push deploy real code.
I have a bunch of hobby project ideas, for example one tries to use the Spotify API and the MapBox API, but every time I start I get overwhelmed with what stack I should use, and how to actually get a ‘real’ application out. It’s hard to explain. I have a lot of anxiety and analysis paralysis about this.
I’m hoping for some great resources to actually build something and learn at the same time, so I can get my confidence up and actually get some MVPs going so I can ‘learn by doing’.
I feel like every tutorial I look at either:
1. Starts out great, explaining stuff but then becomes outdated/frustrating by the end (ex: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/03/spotify-app-vue-nuxt-javascript/)
2. Is WAY too basic. I don’t want to learn basic syntax over and over.
3. Keeps making me switch tech stacks. I just want to use Python/Flask or learn JS/Node. I want to use VUE just because it’s new and it’s docs seem good. I don't even know what's out there anymore or what's good about it. I just want some consistency. Everyone says the stack doesn't matter too much anyway. Just want it to be fun...
RealPython and FullStackPython seem like they have good tutorials so far but what I’ve been googling so far (Spotify Vue Tutorial Project Setup) has not come up with stuff that clicks with me.
Sorry for the ramble… I just want to work without feeling bored or overwhelmed. Any suggestions? Thanks ~",,HAL9OOO,407,1577073903,2019-12-23 04:05:03+00:00,story,21861412,,141.0,, 445,Who is hiring? (January 2021),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632979
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632980",,whoishiring,407,1609776034,2021-01-04 16:00:34+00:00,story,25632982,,849.0,, 446,What programming blogs do you follow?,,"Recently I found Julia Evans blog, which is great read for someone wanting the have a broader knowledge of software engineering, operating systems and related themes.
What other similar blogs do you guys follow as well?
Julia Evans blog, for those interested is
https://jvns.ca/",,in9,407,1500927593,2017-07-24 20:19:53+00:00,story,14842276,,77.0,, 447,Are there any openly available software architecture documents?,,"I'm about to leave my job for another and i'm tasked with documenting the existing architecture and flow of the app.
I'd also have to document why certain decisions were taken. I'm looking for any openly available similar documents for guidance mostly around how to structure the document.",,passenger,407,1578671158,2020-01-10 15:45:58+00:00,story,22011743,,49.0,, 448,How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?,,,,warriorkitty,406,1470412644,2016-08-05 15:57:24+00:00,story,12233289,,135.0,, 449,Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?,,"I know the policy doesn't really exist anymore, but I still like the idea a lot in principle (for large and financially secure startups, say 1k developers and up). Just wondering what Xooglers and others think about it.",,swyx,406,1607769472,2020-12-12 10:37:52+00:00,story,25397339,,304.0,, 450,"Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?",,"Recently I joined a relatively small company (50-100 employees) as a medium level software developer. For a while I was very excited about this opportunity.
After few days/weeks of getting to know the whole codebase I finally moved to a specific project I was suppose to work on and I found out the code is a complete mess. Often I find parts of code that unintentionally affects other parts of code. Some parts are just copied and left there doing nothing. Even names of classes/variables are sometimes useless and project structure is unintuitive and seemingly without rules. It's spaghetti and relatively big spaghetti (tens of thousands of LOC).
I started "repairing" the project but there're no tests to check whether my adjustments are correct. I'm so frustrated and depressed by it. The job basically turned into something I hate - I'm just rewriting the code! The person in charge of this project was working on it alone and from the outside it all looks fine and it's working. So this makes the higher people think that it's all just fine. I really don't know what to do. Should I just go and basically say that this person did a bad job? I don't feel very comfortably doing that because (a) I'm a relatively new hire, (b) the person in charge is working there for about two years and (c) I'm much younger than she/he is both professionally and biologically.
I've already made some comments about rewriting it and the response was basically "ok".",,anonR4nd0m,406,1534954491,2018-08-22 16:14:51+00:00,story,17819771,,333.0,, 451,Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?,,"Despite having the 'architect' title for about five years now, I still sit for hours in Visio & Powerpoint to painstakingly drag boxes and lines around to describe systems.
While the system definitions themselves have arguably improved as my skill as an architect has increased, there's been no such improvement in the speed or method I use to describe them. My visuals are perfunctory, powerpoint-fu is lacking, and the end result always has plenty of room for improvement. It then gets saved as PDF and shelved as an artefact that is disconnected from all the other architectures, and the system boundaries are inevitably out of date by the time the next person looks at it.
So much craft has been put into better languages, better compilers, and better IDEs for the software developer, I'm absolutely confused - where is the modern 'IDE' for the Software Architect?",,dvasdekis,406,1542868379,2018-11-22 06:32:59+00:00,story,18508284,,235.0,, 452,"I've been a programmer for 6 years, and I can't solve basic CS problems",,"Hi HN.
My fianceè is currently enrolled on CS50 Introduction to Computer Science online.
I'm a programmer and have been for around 5-6 years, I started with VB.NET since I first started learning, then progressed onto Web Development at a large agency for 4 years (PHP, JS, React) and I'm now back with VB.NET.
I've worked with a few "complicated" (they were to me) projects in the past, but now I'm being tasked with guiding my fianceè with this course.
Some of the problems which she is expected to solve are pretty simple problems, but I just can't seem to get the hang of any of them on my own.
I would have thought that my last 5-6 years of experience would at least help me here. I can point out basic syntax errors and help with debugging, but when it comes to me trying to solve these problems on my own, I don't know where to start.
It makes me question how I was hired in the first place.
Sorry for the rant, but I was just wondering if anyone else felt like this.",,cs0,404,1542148895,2018-11-13 22:41:35+00:00,story,18445609,,296.0,, 453,What source code is worth studying? ,,"This is one my favourite questions, asked by idlewords: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879101 But its been a long time since then, and with a new set of programming languages, I believe there are new code bases that's worth studying about and learning from. So, which code-base should I be reading about to improve myself?",,SatyajitSarangi,403,1397715976,2014-04-17 06:26:16+00:00,story,7602237,,166.0,, 454,Who is hiring? (January 2020),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936438
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936439",,whoishiring,403,1577980833,2020-01-02 16:00:33+00:00,story,21936440,,699.0,, 455,How to organize personal knowledge?,,"In the last few years I have collected a large amount of ebooks, papers, articles, movies, pictures, etc. (all digital).
I am at a point where I would like to organize these items into a cohesive, searchable and maintainable system. I have looked at various methods (e.g. Niklas Luhmanns "Zettelkasten", Zotero, Org-Mode) and I am not satisfied yet. Any tips?",,_1tan,403,1535820991,2018-09-01 16:56:31+00:00,story,17892731,,220.0,, 456,CTO wants me to leave,,"I'm the tech orientated founder (the other is the business guy), not the best coder but I understand my domain and know my abilities.
We brought in a guy as CTO to help us move past problems we were having (feature creep, project management, enterprise level etc.).
The guy has a lot of experience as CTO (I had very little, also little as a coder), and he was instrumental in getting us to the point of launch where we were enterprise grade ready (as opposed to hacker ready).
Now he is advising me to leave, that I'm not a good coder, that he wouldn't hire me if I wasn't already a founder and not what the company needs.
I have improved significantly in the last few months from where I was (generally unstructured development, no tests, poor formatting / naming etc., but functional, generally coding to working with others instead of by myself) but he has said that it's not enough.
We have hired another coder who I get along well with and I have learned from.
My question is, does he have a point? Is this something that is common? Has he overstepped the boundaries?
EDIT: He's not asking me to leave now, since I'm still desperately needed, but in 3-6 months time after we have raised more funding.",,cantlookaway,403,1397353319,2014-04-13 01:41:59+00:00,story,7579845,,274.0,, 457,What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?,,,,fapi1974,402,1481517595,2016-12-12 04:39:55+00:00,story,13155589,,273.0,, 458,Who is hiring? (November 2019),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419534
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21419535",,whoishiring,402,1572620522,2019-11-01 15:02:02+00:00,story,21419536,,743.0,, 459,How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?,,Like a lot of you I have mostly worked in back-end or systems software. My CSS/UI/UX skills are very minimal. I get disheartened by how my project looks or don't start the project because I fear it would look crap or I despise doing the UI/UX work.
How do I solve this?,,break_the_bank,402,1544190103,2018-12-07 13:41:43+00:00,story,18627530,,199.0,, 460,What inspires you to persevere through adversity?,,What are some of the things you 'surround' yourself to keep going even after repeated failures. Failing can be related to any task in life - startup/job/relationships. What are some of things which inspire you and help you pull yourself back to chug along the track again.
edit : + things you say no/avoid while persevering.,,samblr,401,1485083608,2017-01-22 11:13:28+00:00,story,13454699,,231.0,, 461,How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?,,"Just hired a new biz dev person. Over the weekend, he sent some messages that were inappropriate to one of my existing employees.
He asked to take the conversation off Slack (moved to Whatsapp) and asked if they could hang out (she said, "sure as friends in work context"), referred to her as a milf (ugh...), and asked if he could tell her a secret (she refused)
My employee handled it well and didn't let it get out of hand. I've seen the evidence of the texts in question.
The employee came to me in confidence (I'm one of the founders) and told me she really doesn't want to cause problems with the team. I'm really upset by this guy's behaviour and I want to fire him immediately. If I do, she'll know and it will be a violation of the trust she placed in me.
So what do I do HN? Do I fire him? Kick his ass? Get them in a room with a HR rep and talk it out? Hold a "how to recognize sexual harassment seminar"?
The employee in question has made it clear that it's not a big deal and she knows how to deal with it, but fact is she shouldn't have to deal with it and I want to make it clear that these things aren't acceptable in the company we're building.",,milfseriously,401,1462885668,2016-05-10 13:07:48+00:00,story,11666857,,580.0,, 462,What is your go-to example for a good REST API?,,I tend to always look to api.github.com when I need a little inspiration.
Anyone have some good examples of a particularly well laid out API?,,goostavos,401,1466787778,2016-06-24 17:02:58+00:00,story,11971491,,182.0,, 463,Who is hiring? (April 2019),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19543938
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19543939",,whoishiring,400,1554130916,2019-04-01 15:01:56+00:00,story,19543940,,867.0,, 464,Who is hiring? (March 2020),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
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Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465474
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465475",,whoishiring,400,1583164834,2020-03-02 16:00:34+00:00,story,22465476,,778.0,, 465,Who is hiring? (July 2021),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699702
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699703",,whoishiring,399,1625151677,2021-07-01 15:01:17+00:00,story,27699704,,991.0,, 466,Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer,,"I'm the technical co-founder of a pre-revenue startup. We were 51/49% to them and took a small round of pre-seed funding (~$100k) so our cap table is approx 40% for me and co-founder, 10% option pool and 10% investor. We have very standard shareholder agreements for 4yr reverse vesting with 1yr cliff.
My (non-technical) co-founder spent $10k to create the initial website over a year ago with the idea. I joined about 11 months ago and since then the idea has changed a bit, we've built loads of products, grown from 2k users to 60k users and continuing to grow due to dominating SEO for our niche.
Recently my co-founder said they wanted to work on it themselves. I said I didn't want to leave. They suggested I go down to 3% equity and they continue. I said they would need to buy out my equity at a fair price.
My co-founder doesn't have the money, and the business only has around $40k cash in the bank right now. My co-founder also won't entertain the idea of raising external money to buy me out, or monetizing the site right now.
To me this seems ridiculous as I'm literally just giving away my equity after spending 11 months building the tech and growing the business. Right now if we stuck adsense on the site, we'd generate $5k/mo, and we have inbound sales leads looking to spend upwards of $40k with us. Basically, the business is primed to make money.
They will not entertain the idea of me buying them out for cash.
What are my options here? It's basically being presented to me as "Take the 3% otherwise you'll own 40% of nothing". I don't really want any equity in the company at this point if I'm not involved.",,fortydegrees,399,1608647687,2020-12-22 14:34:47+00:00,story,25506593,,413.0,, 467,Who is hiring? (October 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475879",,whoishiring,399,1380633662,2013-10-01 13:21:02+00:00,story,6475879,,564.0,, 468,High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?,,"Hello Hackers,
I am looking for suggestions on online mathematics degree options (something similar to OMSCS from Georgia Tech). I have background in CS but have always wanted a degree in Math. Cannot leave my job and study - have mouths to feed. I can self study but I find myself switching my topics of study too often. Following a strict regimen of syllabus will discipline me to complete what I start.",,sreeramvenkat,398,1546861077,2019-01-07 11:37:57+00:00,story,18844420,,96.0,, 469,Ask HN admins: please stop editing submission titles,,"The widespread practice of admins changing submission titles is incredibly annoying and obnoxious.
I would be more forgiving if the edited titles were actually clearer and more descriptive than the titles the submissions originally had. But much of the time they are worse.
Sometimes the titles will be changed to the title the article originally had. This would be fine if the title was a good one. But often the original article title is not very descriptive, and the submitted title is better. In this case, changing the title to the original article title helps no one. It makes the submission look more vague, obscure, and generic.
If the title changing was actually improving the site, I'd be all for it.
But you guys are incompetent, and are making HN worse. Please stop it!",,gnosis,398,1359595952,2013-01-31 01:32:32+00:00,story,5142851,,73.0,, 470,Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?,,"I seem to recall that Google consistently produced relevant results and strictly respected search operators in 2005 (?), unlike the modern Google. And back then, I think search results were the same for everyone, rather than being customized for each user.",,syedkarim,398,1638457803,2021-12-02 15:10:03+00:00,story,29417061,,478.0,, 471,Who is hiring? (March 2019),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281832
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281833",,whoishiring,398,1551456051,2019-03-01 16:00:51+00:00,story,19281834,,870.0,, 472,What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?,,,,somtum,397,1516096860,2018-01-16 10:01:00+00:00,story,16157002,,249.0,, 473,What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?,,"It seems I am fighting with myself. This has happened multiple times and seriously affects the quality of my life.
I am assigned a feature to implement, usually vague and something that I feel adds unnecessary complexity to the codebase. I try to reason with my managers, but usually their minds are already made up. I then struggle with finishing this feature, logging hours upon hours against it...not because it takes so long to code, but because I can't make myself do it and waste hours motivating myself to do it. Also I waste considerable amount of time trying to do things in the most readable, maintainable and simple way possible. This means weighing merits of different solutions and choosing one. I am a really hesitant decision maker, resulting in more wasted hours.
The haranguing part is that my managers don't fire me. They don't see how many hours I have wasted, how unmotivated I am. Instead they treat me as one of their most valued employees (oh the irony!). (I am not in a position to change jobs at the moment. I am helping my BF's startup by doing this job.)
Have you been in such situations? How do you get in the zone and get it done when your entire being is revolting against the task?",,septerr,395,1400848142,2014-05-23 12:29:02+00:00,story,7789014,,201.0,, 474,What's your favorite online course?,,"Better if technology related, but an open question nevertheless.",,sidcool,395,1448803358,2015-11-29 13:22:38+00:00,story,10644518,,159.0,, 475,What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?,,,,cellml,393,1539654749,2018-10-16 01:52:29+00:00,story,18225760,,1052.0,, 476,Who Is Hiring? (September 2012),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Pardon the technical difficulties this month
Also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463692",,whoishiring,393,1346508281,2012-09-01 14:04:41+00:00,story,4463689,,302.0,, 477,What book changed your life?,,What book (or books) changed your life? I'm looking for inspiration and would love to hear what and how you were impacted.,,tomrod,393,1647704765,2022-03-19 15:46:05+00:00,story,30734709,,522.0,, 478,Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students,,"I am 61, with an academic background in computer science, and many years in industry, mostly startups. I taught many years ago, and have resumed teaching, a database course: data modeling, relational algebra, SQL, application programming and architecture (e.g. 2-tier vs. 3-tier, web & mobile), database internals.
Student evaluations were pretty good for the most part, but quite a few students found the presentation a bit dry: I prepared every lecture as HTML ahead of time, made it available online, and presented it in class. A couple of times, I would do interactive things, e.g. tuning queries using EXPLAIN and playing with indexes. That proved pretty popular, but of course, it's difficult to capture this material, (I recorded a log of the session, but extemperaneous discussion was not captured).
Looking for advice on how to balance prepared material and more spontaneous things. Also, any other advice on how to make material of this sort (theory + practice) easier to absorb.",,geophile,392,1530378018,2018-06-30 17:00:18+00:00,story,17431577,,181.0,, 479,What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?,,"I am rather fond of the concepts described in "Clean Code" by Robert Martin but it seems that in real life, a really high-quality codebase is hard to come by.
While I am asking myself this question, the only one that popups to my mind would be Laravel: https://github.com/laravel/laravel (PHP)
One could think that a codebase as popular as React (https://github.com/facebook/react) would be a perfect example of "clean code" but with a glance, I personally don't find it very expressive.
This may all be very subjective but I would love to see examples of codebases that member of this community have enjoyed working with",,0mbre,392,1564417683,2019-07-29 16:28:03+00:00,story,20556336,,269.0,, 480,The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?,,Do you credit any particular set of books for the advent of your expertise in math and/or computer science? The book that was of the right difficulty at the right time to ignite the intellectual curiousity that has made you go forward since.,,debanjan16,392,1645937731,2022-02-27 04:55:31+00:00,story,30485544,,205.0,, 481,How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?,,"It is often mentioned that Software Engineer salaries in Europe are significantly lower compared to US salaries, even adjusting for lower Cost of Living.
The consensus on why that is seems to be: * Individual contributors in Europe are not as valued as much as managerial professions, due to cultural/historical reasons
* Salaries in the US are skewed due to the presence of FAANG companies and VC money, which inflate salaries through the large amount of capital they inject in the system
* Europe has less freedom of enterprise (debatable), is in general more risk averse, and has a less dynamic job market (more difficult to fire lower performers), which results in lower wages to compensate for these factors.
Reasons aside, how can the European tech job market become more competitive?",,euengthrowaway,392,1610566415,2021-01-13 19:33:35+00:00,story,25766884,,945.0,, 482,Should we own the free stuff we pay for?,,"Last week I received a spam email from ~generic dumb scammer #199209842982~ here it is for your amusement: https://imgur.com/YYqOgYE
I've blurred the sender because it might have been a hijacked account, and it's not like it's hard to get a new gmail account anyways. You can also see that I've blurred all the other people too. Yeah, the scammer cc all his targets.
I was in a good mood, so I replied and made fun of him and warned all the other recipients that, "hey, just in case you're distracted, yes this is a spam email". I didn't use any curse words, or strong language, but I was a bit edgy.
Two days later, my google account was suspended. Apparently, my account was being used to send unwanted e-mails. Ha! I just became a spammer.
And let me tell you, it was very frustrating to be blacklisted like this. A little context for you, I'm a DevOps engineer and I've been using gmail for the past 15 years. I'll skip the classic 'my files, my contacts, my email' because I had backups.
But I lost access to paid services that I had set up with social login, besides all Google's services ( GCP, firebase, youtube premium, google one, subscriptions paid through play store, google ads, etc, etc). And here's the kicker: my gmail used to be the contact I shared with potential clients, current clients, and job applications which, by the way, I was actively job seeking. Not because I don't like my job, but because I had pushback on my raise on a recent promotion, so I was trying to get offers to make a point.
But what if I was out of a job? What if I was expecting a contract to sign? What if I had an SLA with a client? What if my bank or the government, health plan, car insurance, or any of the hundreds of notifications that I've set up throughout the years was triggered and needed my attention?
I know about terms of services, that they're a company and they can do whatever they want. But what if your car maker could take away your car if you turned right without signing first? Or if you went over the speed limit? What if you were a salesman and samsung could take away your phone because you're using it to call people to do your job and they've reported you for unwanted calls? Or AT&T could take away your phone number because you said a curse word on the phone?
You could argue that gmail is not a product that I own, but I paid for it, so technically, don't I own it? Don't I get the right to use it while they figure out if I'm really a spammer or not?
That got me thinking, what is an identity? How can I prove that I am who I am? I thought I could just share my profile, or gmail, or phone number, or identity and prove that I was who I was. But all those things can be taken away because of some rule that can be judged and enforced by someone else.
The google stack is very convenient, and it's 2022, I'm not going to start hosting my email server, but I'm in need of a foolproof and long lasting solution to online identity. And I've started by purchasing a domain name for 10 years and having a 'catch all and forward to gmail' rule setup. So I can just forward it all to somewhere else in case I lose my gmail again. But what if I get reported on my domain name? What if that gets suspended or blacklisted too?
Should we own the free services that we've paid for with money and data? Do we own our identities? Do we own our phone numbers, emails, handles, PO boxes, addresses?
What do you use for identity? And what are your thoughts on this? Am I overreacting?",,magusd,391,1644924826,2022-02-15 11:33:46+00:00,story,30345201,,299.0,, 483,"Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?",,"Puzzles, games etc with the intention of teaching of some concept or topic. In any format (board games, digital games etc).
Any examples?",,justaguyhere,391,1532608784,2018-07-26 12:39:44+00:00,story,17616937,,137.0,, 484,What were your naivetés in your twenties?,,"Oh the wise elders of Hack News,
I'd like to cheat in life and instead of learning my life lessons the hard way, I'd like to skip ahead and read the ending of the current chapter that I'm currently on.
When I was in middle school, my biggest worry was getting the latest Abercrombie & Fitch cargo pants to fit in on the school hallway, whether this girl on my school bus liked me, and if the size of my gentalia was on par with my peers back then.
When I was in high school, my biggest worry was doing well in school so that I could get into an ivy league school; tacking on a bunch of AP courses and extracurricular activities, not necessarily because I enjoyed AP Chemistry or the track team, but I had to, to get into a ivy league school; and trying to look ""cool,"" ""edgy,"" & ""artsy"" while caring to stay within the boundaries of MTV's and my high school's social conventions.
When I was in college, my biggest worry was doing well in school so I could go onto a top graduate/medical school or grab a six-figure salary at an i-bank upon graduation. Befriended certain people, chased certain girls (and botched things up royally after the chasing phase is over), got involved in some unsavory debauchery not necessarily because I wanted to live out the lives that ""burn, burn, burn"" but rather out of my fear of missing out on the ""college experience.""
Of course, it didn't all seem that way when I was in the moment - and certainly I don't regret the things I did in the past (because I can't change the past) and I'll be certain to make lots of mistakes in the future too. And even if an older version of me, traveled back in time to my middle school, told me how stupid of me it was to spend $70 of my parents' money on a pair of Abercrombie & Fitch cargo pants, I know that my middle school self would respond, ""are you crazy, I need to get these pants to impress this chick on my school bus!""
I only beseech your wisdom about what mistakes/naivetes I'll incur in my twenties, oh the elders of the Hacker News, so that when I realize later how right you were after my twenties, I could slap myself silly and say to myself, in the place of your absence, ""see? I told you so!""
Best, noname123",,noname123,391,1277880873,2010-06-30 06:54:33+00:00,story,1474094,,263.0,, 485,Who has been laid off?,,"There is a monthly “Who is hiring” post, but I thought it might be helpful to have a laid off post with unemployment rates rising.
Share your experience and what you’re looking for.",,etxm,391,1585929869,2020-04-03 16:04:29+00:00,story,22770643,,320.0,, 486,"Engineers from non-CS background, how did you pivot into ML/AI?",,"I am a EE, hardware engineer with about a decade of experience in PCB electronics and systems engineering experience which includes a brief stint at a FAANG that also happens to be an E-tailer. I have been "dabbling" in Python for about a year now and just recently started with DL using PyTorch and find it quite interesting. To be clear I don't write code at work, atleast not until now. I intend to utilize any free resources (MOOCs) to teach myself the latest techniques in DL for CV. What I am not clear is the next logical step.A part of me wants to Boostrap a SAAS using Python stack to build something that I can market using the traditional channels(PH,Show HN,Reddit,answer SO questions) and show it to potential employers but am not sure if I will even get to the interview stage with a resume but that doesn't look anything like a programmer with a tradional CS background and work experience to boot. Sorry about the long and winding question, but what should I do to get noticed by recruiters at FAANG and non-FAANG to stand apart from the CS crowd?",,ultrasounder,390,1546249630,2018-12-31 09:47:10+00:00,story,18793849,,132.0,, 487,Who wants to collaborate?,,"This thread is similar to the monthly "Who is hiring?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads.
But this one is for people who don't want to work for money and are not looking for people who want to work for money. But for people who want to work together on cool projects.
For free to make the world better or to start a startup.
If you do, please post your project or your skills!",,TekMol,390,1643725443,2022-02-01 14:24:03+00:00,story,30162767,,491.0,, 488,What is your spiritual practice?,,Your day-to-day one?,,andrei_says_,390,1640591628,2021-12-27 07:53:48+00:00,story,29700445,,913.0,, 489,Single Person startup/company?,,"Pinboard's numbers* were just realeased, and that made me curious. How many of us currently run a single-person company? By company, I mean something that generates (or is intending to generate) revenues. Side projects count.
Three thing I'm most curious about - growth in user base, revenues & profitability over the years.
If you can share numbers, that would be fantastic.
*https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12059965",,dhruvkar,390,1468152461,2016-07-10 12:07:41+00:00,story,12065355,,389.0,, 490,What tasks do you automate?,,,,flaque,389,1500218435,2017-07-16 15:20:35+00:00,story,14782332,,337.0,, 491,Best free compute and other resources for startups?,,"I'm interested in pursuing a few new concepts, and I'm looking for the best free resources for startups that aren't going through an incubator. Specifically looking for free tier or startup credits beyond what AWS / DO / GCP has to offer, or for off-the-beaten-path programs that single-founder startups might be able to take advantage of. I'll be using Stripe for processing any payments.
What do you folks use when you're looking to stand up your MVPs?",,spdustin,389,1560964264,2019-06-19 17:11:04+00:00,story,20225118,,143.0,, 492,Best resources to gain math intuition?,,In high school I did the lowest tier maths and then jumped in the deep end by doing a year of electrical engineering. I’ve now done those harder math classes but I feel like there’s holes here and there. I think when I took physics it really brought out these flaws and lack of intuition.
Would anyone have a good resource for building this up?
Thanks,,fluroblue,389,1566860459,2019-08-26 23:00:59+00:00,story,20804582,,89.0,, 493,How to start afresh in a new domain after years of expertise in another?,,"Hi Guys, I have over 12 years of expertise in a particular domain. Now I recently switched to another company in a new domain (based on some overlapping technical skills and good recommendations from my past colleagues) as the jobs were far to come by in my old area of expertise. But, I'm finding it really hard to adjust in the new one.
The biggest challenges I'm facing are :
1. Looking at my years of experience my colleagues expect an expert level of performance. But being new to the domain, I've not been able to meet their expectations.
2. I've tried looking for non-tech roles PM, TL etc., hoping to leverage my management/leadership skills, but my senior management aren't buying it.
3. I feel isolated in meetings where everyone around me are talking the technology and I just take notes or stay silent mostly.
4. When I see guys half my experience are miles ahead of me in terms of the tech skills in the new area, I wonder if I even have a chance catching up ?
Any suggestions / advice is welcome and highly appreciated. Thanks in advance !",,vcool07,389,1504693355,2017-09-06 10:22:35+00:00,story,15182501,,88.0,, 494,Anyone making money through algorithmic trading?,,"Is there anyone here making money on smaller trading strategies (i.e. in the stock market or cryptocurrencies) that would not be interesting enough for larger algorithmic trading firms?
I'm aware the standard advice is that you will lose your shirt attempting to compete with algorithmic and HFT firms. But are there opportunities out there for smaller strategies to generate alpha? (I'm assuming yes, but would be great to find people who actually do this -- no need to disclose _how_ you actually do it, obviously)",,charlesdm,389,1524670721,2018-04-25 15:38:41+00:00,story,16922538,,245.0,, 495,Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?,,What would you do?,,dvrajan,388,1478574354,2016-11-08 03:05:54+00:00,story,12897284,,548.0,, 496,"Is there a modern “power on to basic” computer, for kids to learn on?",,"I want to give some young kids a small cheap computer that "switches on to basic" or some other programming language?
Like in ye olde computer days when you brought home your Commodore 64 and turned it on you were in basic.
I'm guessing everyone will want to say "Raspberry Pi" of some form, but does that meet my requirement? Plug it into TV, turn it on and you're in basic and can start programming. Ideally with some sort of book or resource for learning how to make the computer do things on the home TV screen.",,andrewstuart,387,1539692535,2018-10-16 12:22:15+00:00,story,18228740,,328.0,, 497,Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?,,"I'll be starting to work on a new project from next month and I've been reading all but good news about Elixir. I have talked to people in real life, most of the devs had positive things to say about it. Does anyone have any arguments against selecting Elixir? Question coming from RoR developer.",,sdiw,387,1621332164,2021-05-18 10:02:44+00:00,story,27192873,,287.0,, 498,What is your ML stack like?,,"How did your team build out AI/ML pipelines and integrated it with your existing codebase? For example, how did your backend team(using Java?) work in sync with data teams (using R or python?) to have minimal rewriting/glue code as possible to deploy models in production. What were your architectural decisions that worked, or didn't?
I'm currently working to make an ML model written in R work on our backend system written in Java. After the dust settles I'll be looking for ways to streamline this process.",,imagiko,387,1573581536,2019-11-12 17:58:56+00:00,story,21516311,,131.0,, 499,Ask HN Mods: Why Do You Completely Change What Users Submit?,,"I recently submitted an item:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8052399
It made it to and remained on the front page for a while. Then, after some hours, ~180 votes and many comments, a HN mod changed the title completely and also modified the URL to a completely different article on a different site.
I understand that the new article might have provided additional detail (which another user had also indicated on the comments thread), but why is HN completely changing what its users are posting, while still attributing it to those users? It's odd to have something attributed to me that I did not submit. And, if the answer is that "the topic was the same", "the first article referenced the second", or similar, then it seems that editorializing to this extent wholly changes what HN is about. That is, why not just have users submit proposed topics for discussion rather than URLs?
And, what of any quotes or references to the initially submitted URL in the comments section?
BTW, on the one hand, it seems fairer to allow the user to keep karma earned for the article (as HN did), but this begs the question that if so many people had already upvoted the article, then might it have already been "sufficient"?",,unclebucknasty,386,1405772026,2014-07-19 12:13:46+00:00,story,8057287,,163.0,, 500,Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?,,"One of my friends was working in call center. Now due to stay at home orders, he's been asked to stay home without any pay.
Please suggest some ways to generate income.",,throwawayt856,386,1590068100,2020-05-21 13:35:00+00:00,story,23258111,,287.0,, 501,Which tools have made you a much better programmer?,,"Getting better at coding is usually a long, slow process of study and practice. However, sometimes I run into something that's easy to understand and, once I'm using it, feels like I've leveled up.
A few personal examples are: * version control - specifically, reading up on git and understanding the more complex commands * debuggers * flame graphs for performance debugging * good code search
What have you added to your workflow that's made you much more productive?",,karamazov,385,1591721012,2020-06-09 16:43:32+00:00,story,23468193,,514.0,, 502,Where is AI/ML actually adding value at your company?,,,,mkrecny,385,1481564080,2016-12-12 17:34:40+00:00,story,13159908,,195.0,, 503,"CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?",,"I am currently in an undergraduate university considered "elite" in US. CS is the most popular major. My friends have switched from finance & medicine to CS majors - for the money and because it's obviously a good idea to do so right now. All the worries my classmates have is how to get an internship at FAANG. Again not that they'll do interesting work (which is rarely the case), but for the resume item...
I've been coding for half my life, out of pure interest for the building things and never got into it for the money. CS career being obviously a good choice and every smart kid I know majoring in it, mostly for the cash, honestly makes me worried about the future of the field in terms of whether it'll still be a good career in the future. I think smart people will do good work, just for the wrong reasons ($) and this might impact the field negatively. In 5 years maybe things will still be okay, but if the trend continues for 10 years? Will CS become unsustainable hours like working in the quantitive funds or unsustainable competition and workload like in medicine, or both?
PG has said something along the lines of "if everyone thinks something is a good idea, it's probably a bad idea" and Peter Thiel's competition theory where profits get competed away if everyone's doing the same thing are two ideas I think most about.
What does HN think?",,martinesko36,384,1576599964,2019-12-17 16:26:04+00:00,story,21815123,,300.0,, 504,40+ Career Advice?,,"So many recruiters are looking for senior developers like me to join their early stage team and to do development and assist junior devs via knowledge sharing.
But I don't want to exhaust myself helping other people. I want to do things for myself and for a client. I would prefer to get a more rewarding position:
* Not in an open office * Possibility to work from home * Android + Spring Boot * Not so many meetings * No incompetent managers who induce stress to people * Colleagues who are calm and quiet but enough sociable to perhaps grab an occasional beer and have a nice chat
Do these kinds of jobs exist? Do you suggest I go solo and take on development jobs myself? I think part of the problem is that many companies around expect the workplace to have open office and so on and many cannot provide me with a work environment I can thrive in.
I'm 40 years old without any children and would like to be able to not be stressed and work overtime and solve hard technical problems and move towards a more rewarding job where it's not so stressful but interesting creatively and my work is valued so that I can balance well with my life.
Do you understand my question? I don't want to take on roles that people want me to do but find jobs (by your insightful ideas) that suit me better. Thank you!",,nextstep40plus,384,1539440718,2018-10-13 14:25:18+00:00,story,18208076,,229.0,, 505,"My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?",,"Dear HN,
I'm working my first job out of college and I really enjoy it. I get to do fun computer vision stuff, write Rust, great pay, great benefits, short commute, etc. And my manager and her boss are both super smart.
However I'm a bit frustrated. I thought I was doing well - I'm working hard on the project I was assigned to, and it's coming along nicely. The deadline was pushed back once (which that seems to be very common at this company), and the new deadline is still in the future.
Two weeks ago, my manager's boss schedules a meeting with me and my manager. My manager is busy putting out a fire so it's just me and the boss, and the boss made a some of criticisms of me. I've been thinking about them and I can't shake the feeling that some of them were kind of unfair. (To be clear, I absolutely did make some mistakes on this project that contributed to it taking longer than it had to.)
First, he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he can't believe it's taken this long etc. I had no idea that he felt this way before the meeting - I've mostly just been working to get it done before the revised deadline my manager gave me.
He looks at the code and criticizes design decisions, some of which were made largely on my manager's explicit suggestions. (When I bring this up, he says I probably just misinterpreted an offhand comment of hers as a hard requirement.)
Part of the reason it had taken so long is because I put a substantial amount of work into a part of the project that's no longer necessary due to changing requirements, which I don't think I could have forseen. I don't think the boss appreciates that and just sees that the amount of usable output is low for the amount of time I'd been working.
He did also make some criticisms that I thought were fair. For instance he said I should have looked at other projects to see how they accomplished what I'm trying to do. That definitely would have been a good idea.
After our meeting, my manager and my boss had a meeting with just the two of them to discuss the status of our project. I have no clue what happened in that meeting and I haven't heard anything about it from either of them since.
As of today the project is pretty much done (save for some procedural details). I'm happy, but I can't stop thinking about that meeting. I really did work hard, so it's demotivating that it feels like the result of me working hard is unappreciated.
I'm not thinking of quitting over this or anything, but it seriously bums me out. I don't know if I have a future at this company if the boss thinks I'm not a good dev, and I really like it here. A month or so ago they added someone else to my project and I trained him on my code, and he's super smart and capable, and I'm thinking that now they probably feel that they could fire me if they wanted and not lose much.
But the saddest part is that I really admire my manager and my boss, and I wanted to make them happy to have hired me, and now I feel like they probably aren't. I guess I can try to learn from my mistakes and get over it, but at the very least it feels like an inauspicious start.
How should I proceed?",,dazeandconfuse,384,1641505866,2022-01-06 21:51:06+00:00,story,29830770,,488.0,, 506,How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?,,"I have no network, no ability to relocate, can't get a full time job right now, and urgently need to make some bucks real quick, even if it's less than I would otherwise qualify for.
But several articles and comments here suggested that upwork.com and similar freelance websites do some really shady things and that it's not good to use them for any kind of work, even temporary.
And having worked remotely for the past 5 years has really limited my ability to build a network. I don't have LinkedIn and even if I did, it's more meant for building a network than for finding a quick gig.
I've got plenty of frontend/backend/mobile/desktop skills, having made several websites and iOS apps, and 5 years experience working remotely, so I'm definitely confident that I'm qualified to do some freelancing and get a good pay, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get a job using these skills but without a network.
Any advice would be deeply appreciated. Thanks HN.",,_ncxu,383,1500930379,2017-07-24 21:06:19+00:00,story,14842684,,125.0,, 507,Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?,,I am looking forward to dabble in SaaS. I want to create something for which market already exists. Should I create a clone of any popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?
Would I be able attract customers? Does this make any sense?,,aminmemon,383,1494072490,2017-05-06 12:08:10+00:00,story,14279870,,220.0,, 508,What mental models do you use everyday?,,"I use this mental model called 'Play to your strengths'. It's more a saying than a model, but a model nonetheless. Anyways it has helped me build great things, since I can only ever build on strength. I fix my weaknesses where I can, but I don't pay my weaknesses too much attention.
There's this whole cult about 'fixing' yourself, and seminars galore by 'successful people' who want you to mimic their behaviors so you can be 'successful' too, so I avoid this groupthink.
What other little sayings do you repeat to yourself or what other mental models do you employ daily?",,DerekBickerton,383,1637513015,2021-11-21 16:43:35+00:00,story,29297594,,276.0,, 509,What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?,,"Looking for some inspriration and ideas!
What has been your most fulfilling job/project and why?
I've been looking to make a change away from typical enterprise development (full stack web developer) as it's not just about the paycheck any more. Recent events have given me a different perspective. Perhaps looking to join a team of great people doing something worthwhile or start my own consultancy helping people solve problems in a sector I can feel good about. Just not sure what that service looks like yet.
The best bit about being a developer I've found is when working directly with the customer who is in some distress and the look on their face when you solve the problem and make their life easier, even if it was easy to solve. I'd love to find something where every day was like that!",,greatatuin,383,1524745011,2018-04-26 12:16:51+00:00,story,16931145,,244.0,, 510,Who is hiring? (November 2021),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067491
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067492",,whoishiring,383,1635778894,2021-11-01 15:01:34+00:00,story,29067493,,1025.0,, 511,Why is building Windows apps so complicated?,,"So I decide to build a windows 11 app. I already know some .NET and C/family from school and look through the source of C# and it doesn't seem too complicated.
However, building Windows apps is very complicated even when you know C++ or C#.
1. I wanted to build Windows 11 apps and I had to choose between Windows Forms, WinUI3, Win32 and WPF I think. I don't really know the difference between the 3 and no one really explains that (unless Win32 which is obvious).
2. Apparently, WUP is no longer recommended. A few years they were pushing it to the max. Bummer.
3. I installed Visual Studio overnight (it comes with all the tools that building apps need). It downloaded 6GB of data and used 20GB of storage. All i want to build is a hello world app.
4. I create a project following a guide from Microsoft.
5. The app is extremely resource heavy and way too over-featured. I build the boilerplate app and Run it and it takes minutes to build (most of the time is downloading dependencies so not such a big deal).
6. I open the newly created app in Sublime Text (my editor) and I can't find a way to build the app anymore.
7. Because Visual Studio is so bloated, I download Visual Studio Code, which is far more simple but I can still not figure out how to build my app even with the various extensions VS code boasts.
8. After hours of googling, I formulate a script that can build the app from the command-line.
9. But I stil don't know how to build the app as the .exe file created does not execute.
10. I'm very disappointed.
The worst of all is that there is not even one good guide on the whole clearnet on how to do develop a Hello World windows app from scratch.",,vixalien,382,1639314139,2021-12-12 13:02:19+00:00,story,29529267,,489.0,, 512,"We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?",,"I'm a technical co-founder and invested a lot of time building our website, app, backend and CMS over two years.
My co-founder recently decided to shut the company down, focusing on what he/she does best rather than being reliant on tech/design loops by making our amazing designer create a Shopify site that he/she can manage him/herself.
Without going into details, it is fair but we will need to have serious talk once everything has settled so I can move forward.
Anyhow, as my payment for these past years, I get to sell whatever we have created, code wise, and get the dough for it.
The problem is that I have no clue how to properly handle a sell like this.
There is a bunch of new startups that has recently popped up, doing what we initially did with a caveat; they lack an app for it, currently hustling to make things work. So there might be a pretty good possibility for us to sell it.
To give you an idea what we are doing; an React Native app that sell and connect a very specific type of workshops with costumers over custom WebRTC Video chat(fork of React Native-based Jitsi Meet). What I can tell, I haven't seen another custom Jitsi-Meet integration yet that gives the ability customize the UI that we have.
We use Firebase as our backend and Stripe as our payment integration. Data entry / workshop scheduling is managed using a custom built CMS. We have custom emails + in-app notifications work through Firebase Cloud Functions.
Should I contact these startups? Anything I should do first, legally wise?
I'm clueless.",,sad_cofounder,382,1575904625,2019-12-09 15:17:05+00:00,story,21743302,,211.0,, 513,What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?,,"This weekend I waded through a couple of old projects and I thought about all the stuff I built over the years. I posted a couple of "Show HN" projects a couple of years ago and it was funny reading those posts again.
Basically all of the projects went on 'auto-pilot' right away, meaning that I didn't touch them since I posted them. However, my latest 'Show-HN' turned into a real business and three years later we are a three people remote team and we are growing quite fast (the project is called mailparser.io).
I was wondering what your 'Show HN' turned into? Any stories you want to share?",,chezmo,382,1467641500,2016-07-04 14:11:40+00:00,story,12030863,,279.0,, 514,When you feel stuck in life,,"Hello,
I'd just like to give my two cents where I know no one gives a shit ever. I'm 29 years old. I finished with my Business Administration degree(major) and now I just feel completely LOST! Has anyone ever felt that way? You have the drive and motivation to get to your destination but once you are there -- you're left wondering -- "what else could I have done? What else is there to life? Because if this is all there is then I'm not happy." And, truth be told, I am not happy. I'd like to be something -- more than just an office person. More than just someone who works that 8-5 shift. I feel like a complete wreck. Has anyone ever felt this way?
I feel like I should go back to school but do I really want to rack up all that loan? I am already struggling right now. I just wish I knew where to start as a push and motivation.
What would you guys do if ya were in my shoes?",,msleona,381,1469192966,2016-07-22 13:09:26+00:00,story,12143266,,339.0,, 515,What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?,,"Hey HN,
What do you think is the most interesting emerging field in Computer Science? I'm interested in PHD areas, industry work, and movements in free software.",,Norther,381,1533548759,2018-08-06 09:45:59+00:00,story,17696271,,177.0,, 516,Who is hiring? (October 2019),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126012
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126013",,whoishiring,380,1569942018,2019-10-01 15:00:18+00:00,story,21126014,,900.0,, 517,What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?,,"Hey HN,
I'm trying to figure out how a better way to stay on track with my long term (1 year) goals.
Currently I have a list of measurable 1 year goals (eg: Explore and work out of at least 3 cities this year)
I also write daily work/life todo lists in a moleskine notebook to keep myself on track during the day.
Does anyone have any recommendations/tools for keeping these daily goals todo list goals in alignment with the big picture?",,mboperator,379,1489385044,2017-03-13 06:04:04+00:00,story,13855577,,212.0,, 518,Books giving practical advice on starting a solo SaaS business?,,"My goal in life (as of right now at least) is to start my own SaaS business so that I can eventually quit my 40 hour work week and have more time for things I enjoy doing. To reach that goal I am first compiling practical advice from people who have already been through that process and are now sharing that advice around ideation and idea validation, marketing, pricing, etc.
I've been looking for book recommendations on this topic both here on HN and also on Indiehackers and while there are many books that are most certainly relevant in some ways and generally just good reads, I would like to start out by asking you if there are any books you've read that specifically give this type of advice. I say books to keep it simple but am of course also open to other types of high-quality resources like blog series or conference talks.
Looking forward to hearing about all the great things you guys have read!",,Dockson,379,1585412727,2020-03-28 16:25:27+00:00,story,22712138,,99.0,, 519,Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?,,"I have µMatrix in my browser, and by default it blocks the AMP CDN. The result of this seems to be horrendous white-screen times for web-pages, beyond what I would expect it to take for a web-server to load these pages, and the delay in loading is very noticeable across all of them.
I have a vague idea of the point of AMP, which is to speed up the delivery of web pages. However:
1) I'm not convinced the web pages were really _that_ slow to start with, so it feels like an unnecessary project (well, excepting the fact that web-page bloat has massively increased as people use more and more javascript libraries &c.).
2) Perhaps I'm being a bit old fashioned, but I don't really understand what was wrong with a browser serving a web page made out of some HTML, CSS, and Javascript. It feels like we're replacing one technology with another (and that latter one comes from Google, which makes me nervous). Do we really want AMP to be the way we serve the web?
3) I haven't properly investigated, bt I'm assuming that this delay is some script which is waiting for the data to load from the AMP CDN, and once that times out it displays the underlying content (I did check and loading this page [1] is almost instantaneous yet the content only displays after three seconds). Any insight into why it's seen as acceptable for this to be so slow when it is unnecessary for displaying the page?
[1]: https://www.ehow.co.uk/how_5840711_test-electrical-outlet-digital-multimeter.html",,gtf21,378,1547333967,2019-01-12 22:59:27+00:00,story,18893808,,182.0,, 520,"Failed interview, feeling unemployable and depressed – what do I do?",,"I work at one of the "Big 4" tech companies and haven't been satisfied for a while. Did an interview with another "Big 4" company and failed hard.
I've been feeling extremely anxious about work. I don't feel well in my current team because everyone is smarter than me and I think no one likes me (people forget to invite me to meetings, I'm not invited to outside events, etc.). Every pull request I submit gets a load of criticism. I don't feel valuable to the team.
The first thing I thought is that my attitude is bad. But this can't be - I've heard from multiple people that I'm the nicest and most patient person they've ever met. In fact, my manager has criticized me more than once for being "too nice" i.e. that I should stand my ground more, or push people for things I depend on from them.
I wanted to jump ship and find an opportunity I might feel more passionate about. Found said opportunity but failed hard in most of the interview puzzles.
I'm feeling lost. I feel that 1) I'll be forever with the current company and 2) if I'm ever laid off, I'll never get a job again because I can't solve the puzzles.
Interview puzzles are so hit-or-miss. No matter how many of them I solve, I always stutter when I'm faced with a new one. If the problem is new, it either "clicks" right away or I bomb the interview. No middle ground.
My thoughts are descending into the darkest reaches. Death doesn't seem so bad anymore. Then I don't have to think about all this.
I don't know where I went wrong. I used to be intelligent. I used to be liked by my teams. I used to be good at puzzles.
Now I'm dumb and worthless.
I don't have the option to stop working for a while. I have the savings for it, but it's unacceptable to my wife.
I don't know what to do.",,deathbysw123,377,1471997132,2016-08-24 00:05:32+00:00,story,12348756,,234.0,, 521,What's your working day like?,,"I'm curious about the details of the usual working day for different professions/positions (not necessary technical).
Examples of professions/positions: UI Designer, CEO, Sales, CTO, Welder, Trader (online/offline), Recruiter, System developer/administrator, Web developer, Civil Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Teacher, Professor, Astronaut... Anything.
I'll start:
Profession/position: Web developer - full time, remote - <50 employees organization.
Workday:
- Wake up & prepare myself.
- Join a 10~15min call with my team (3 Developers, 1 Manager, 1 Designer).
- Start working on assigned issues, usually for 1~4hours.
- Catching up with emails/team conversations.
- Reviewing other developers patches.
- Repeat until calling it a day, usually 7~8 hours with 1 hour break.Like converting your phone into a security cam or a radio controlled device, turning laptop into a streaming device etc.",,thrwaway69,376,1580195432,2020-01-28 07:10:32+00:00,story,22167121,,256.0,, 523,Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?,,"Rules: 1. Only one book. 2. Can't be a technical book e.g. 'Programming C' doesn't count.",,fernandohur,375,1490620027,2017-03-27 13:07:07+00:00,story,13967350,,332.0,, 524,Who is hiring? (October 2021),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28719317
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28719319",,whoishiring,375,1633100460,2021-10-01 15:01:00+00:00,story,28719320,,855.0,, 525,Best books on AI?,,"Which are the best books on AI, for somoone who doesnt have much knowledge on the topic. Mostly practical, and not academic.",,mavmak,375,1489817454,2017-03-18 06:10:54+00:00,story,13900153,,91.0,, 526,What are you working on?,,I thought it would be interesting to see what are other people working on. Those projects of course might not be ready to be shown you can only describe them and the main problem though.
Project: I am building a neural network which should be able to generate few frames of the video given the preceding and following frames. Currently I am feeding the network with simple videos I have created where is only a single moving pixel. Since I do not have much experience with neural networks I thought this could be good start.
Problem: Up until now I have not realised how hard is to find simple video datasets.,,mlejva,374,1491288884,2017-04-04 06:54:44+00:00,story,14030149,,730.0,, 527,Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?,,"For the unaware, uBlacklist [0] is a browser extension that lets you blacklist sites from the google search results page. It lets you blacklist sites right from the results page, by regex, or by linking lists hosted somewhere.
The low quality of results has been a problem from a while now and has become worse lately thanks to all those StackOverflow and Github clones. So I was wondering if we could come together and contribute to a single blacklist hosted somewhere and then import it into each of our browsers. Who knows? We might end up improving the quality of the results we all get.
Lists to get rid of the StackOverflow and Github clones already exist. [1]
I would love to contribute to a project like this, but won't be able to be a maintainer due to time constraints. Would greatly appreciate it if someone could host this. A simple txt file on github would do.
What do you say, HN?
[0]: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist [1]: https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist",,sanketpatrikar,374,1641302354,2022-01-04 13:19:14+00:00,story,29794372,,267.0,, 528,What's the one thing that let you grow the most as a developer?,,"For the last two and a half years I've been developing computer vision algorithms for a proprietary embedded platform in C. Without a proper CS degree (my bachelors and masters were in mechanical engineering), or experience (Stuck writing a very limited subset of C i.e. no malloc(), free(), libraries etc etc), I don't have the confidence to call myself a developer. So I was looking for avenues to maybe improve my skills and knowledge. So in short I'd like to ask, what one thing let you grow/learn the most as a developer?",,main_c,374,1488528552,2017-03-03 08:09:12+00:00,story,13781442,,243.0,, 529,Favorite note-taking software?,,I've been using Evernote but I'm tired of the 2 device limit; suggestions for alternatives? Thanks!,,brownguy,374,1531598860,2018-07-14 20:07:40+00:00,story,17532094,,429.0,, 530,Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?,,"The movements through the world of this individual "don't amount to a hill of beans".
Is he on a plane, isn't he, will Country X extradite him, won't they, does his old girlfriend still pole dance, doesn't she, what is Wikileaks' stance on him, is he allowed to trend on Twitter, etc.
The great majority of these stories seem mainly fodder for news companies to gain revenue while people voraciously seek more information about a quickly diminishing story. The documents were released, the hearings have been held, there are some lawsuits pending.
But we all know essentially how this will end: Prism isn't going away and Edward Snowden's fate is grim. And while we can discuss myriad elements 'til we're blue in the face, fifteen front-page stories a day aren't going to help us understand the issues any better, nor are they coverage of some important event.
Let's stop turning HN into a tabloid news service and get back to the deeply interesting stories.
"Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads.
A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.
What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be.
The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter."",,0xbadcafebee,374,1372079857,2013-06-24 13:17:37+00:00,story,5932645,,155.0,, 531,Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?,,"If we were to design a brand new internet for today's world, can we develop it such a way that:
1- Finding information is trivial
2- You don't need services indexing billions of pages to find any relevant document
In our current internet, we need a big brother like Google or Bing to effectively find any relevant information in exchange for sharing with them our search history, browsing habits etc. Can we design a hypothetical alternate internet where search engines are not required?",,subhrm,374,1561530591,2019-06-26 06:29:51+00:00,story,20282397,,373.0,, 532,I've been promoted to Architect. What do I need to learn/do to excel?,,"My company had some lateral movement which, somewhat surprisingly, resulted in me being promoted to "Lead Architect". It's just a fancy title because we don't have any other designated software architects. There was, in any case, technical responsibility that needed to be redistributed, so that's what happened, and titles shifted accordingly.
In the past, I had used my training budget for software architecture certifications, which was met positively by my team lead and management.
While I _wanted_ to take on that role _eventually_, I was surprised to have it happen so early. What are the things I need to learn ASAP? What things do I need to do? What should I study/read?",,dotdi,373,1589275698,2020-05-12 09:28:18+00:00,story,23152092,,215.0,, 533,What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?,,"HN threads from 2016-2018 complain that JWT gives us too much rope with which to hang ourselves, and some advocate for alternatives like PASETO instead. Today it's not clear however that any alternatives like PASETO have crossed the threshold of adoption to warrant preference over JWT when choosing a stateless auth token solution.
What solution would you choose today for stateless auth tokens?",,gkop,373,1576256741,2019-12-13 17:05:41+00:00,story,21783303,,227.0,, 534,"Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?",,"let's re-open this topic to see how things are going on this front :) It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue",,kashifzaidi1,373,1476011062,2016-10-09 11:04:22+00:00,story,12670731,,245.0,, 535,Do you ever contact people who have had a positive impact on you?,,"In the last year or so I've tried to make an effort to email people who have had some sort of positive impact on me. I specifically choose email because to me it feels more personal than a tweet or some other equivalent.
I've emailed quite a few people and have been very surprised at the 100% reply rate I've received and in some instances, the conversations that have developed from them.
The emails are usually very short, personalised messages along the lines of "Hi X, thank you very much for Y. It had a positive impact on me because of Z. All the best"
Some of the people include small to medium sized musicians, authors, developers, and teachers.
I kind of feel like a bit of a weirdo doing it because I don't really hear of many people who do the same. But sometimes I just genuinely want to thank a person for what they've contributed.",,lethologica,372,1579509584,2020-01-20 08:39:44+00:00,story,22097373,,141.0,, 536,Is HN having problem keeping up today?,,Hacker News (this site) seems to be going down today just like facebook. Is there a massive DDOS attack occurring or just a co-incidence?,,suyash,371,1633372801,2021-10-04 18:40:01+00:00,story,28750538,,152.0,, 537,Have you ever regretted working on a product?,,Sometimes it's hard to see in the moment that a product will be used for evil or will have a negative effect on people. Can you look back on any of your work now and wish you didn't do it?,,mavsman,371,1542768990,2018-11-21 02:56:30+00:00,story,18499843,,472.0,, 538,Who is hiring? (August 2019),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584309
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584310",,whoishiring,370,1564671625,2019-08-01 15:00:25+00:00,story,20584311,,853.0,, 539,How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?,,"Hi HN. Like many of you I am working remotely due to COVID.
I want to continue working remotely, but my job wants me in the office next month.
How would you negotiate this with your employer?
Have any of you already had this conversation? How did it go?",,megasquid,370,1620767346,2021-05-11 21:09:06+00:00,story,27123553,,277.0,, 540,I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?,,"Hey HN,
So I built http://threewords.me - literally an MVP that I posted on Facebook and my friends started using. Fast forward 3 days. The entire Twitter results page for ""threewords.me"" is of tweets that happened less than five minutes ago. The site grew 2x in pageviews over the past hour.
Two problems: 1) what do I do now? 2) how do I afford this?
Advertising? Hosting partner? ...daresay... investment?
Sorry to be brief. If you're curious, the stack is Rails + Ruby Enterprise Edition + Passenger + nginx, which isn't cheap like PHP to host. On the $40 Linode right now but maxing out CPU at 350%.
227K pageviews today. 50K uniques. 71% traffic referred. 8,285 users. 3,100 new users in the past 1 hour.
What happens now?
EDIT: Hello! This thread is not going unnoticed while I take my metaphorical fire extinguisher to the fires that are happening. Will reply soon.
EDIT: cranked the Linode up to 4096. $160 server, woo!
EDIT: David from Duostack (http://duostack.com) is helping with the load on his cloud Ruby platform. Many many thanks to him.",,markbao,370,1293685646,2010-12-30 05:07:26+00:00,story,2051288,,188.0,, 541,Idea Sunday,,"A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.",,rokhayakebe,369,1396804760,2014-04-06 17:19:20+00:00,story,7541601,,567.0,, 542,What's your top growth strategy that helped grow your startup?,,,,jiblyyyy,369,1486044096,2017-02-02 14:01:36+00:00,story,13550492,,158.0,, 543,Who is hiring? (October 2015),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the posts in these threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,368,1443711634,2015-10-01 15:00:34+00:00,story,10311580,,702.0,, 544,"I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason",,"I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason except being told that "our plans changed".
I joined as employee #1 of a YC startup. I spent a week working with them before joining. They liked me, and I liked them. I officially joined as the COO. Deal was to work remotely, till we all figured out the visa.
And then, suddenly I was told over a ‘catch-up call’, that they have to rethink the hiring decision because they really needed someone with a different skill set. The conversation was friendly and polite.
Now finger snap - just like that – I am out! Specifically, I was politely asked to leave. Its the strangest experience of my life. They keep reiterating that its not performance related. I believe it.
The problem is: - I let all job offers go (I had a few good ones) - Told my friends/family about the job, and that I will be moving to America - Reached out to all my contacts (including everyone who was trying to hire me) and attempted to sign them up for this YC service - I reached out to several people (e.g. at Google, FB, Partners at a management consultancy (i.e. my former employers)) asking them for a potential investment into this company ("Use our personal networks" was a key strategy), some of these helped me find a job that I turned down
I like the founders - they are good guys. I may even understand that they need someone else, but personally that has left me with few options and in a bit of a depressed state! For my wife, this was such a huge decision (to join a startup and move to another country), and it was just awkward to convince her first, and give her the news.
I am not being very articulate about why this sucks – but any help/advice would be awesome. I have a masters in CS, a failed startup and 6 yrs of management consulting behind me.
Edit: Thank you. Thank you for the wonderful support and advice. I called my wife and showed her this thread! We are going through every word. We are very touched by the amount of concern and positivity here! Thanks.",,guybrushT,368,1407508632,2014-08-08 14:37:12+00:00,story,8152933,,281.0,, 545,A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?,,"Are there any good alternatives for reCaptcha? It has come to a point that traditional text/sound captcha challenges are trivial to bypass today, and the more distorted we make them, the more challenging they are for humans.
Google went Sparta with their reCaptcha be, and nobody in their right mind should add a script that fingerprints users, specially from an adtech company.
What solutions do you use to thwart bad boots from submitting your forms and automating things where it should not have been?",,Ayesh,368,1559284790,2019-05-31 06:39:50+00:00,story,20058697,,199.0,, 546,Who is hiring? (September 2020),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342496
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342497",,whoishiring,368,1598972474,2020-09-01 15:01:14+00:00,story,24342498,,698.0,, 547,"How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?",,,,withoutfriction,367,1305897273,2011-05-20 13:14:33+00:00,story,2567487,,306.0,, 548,Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?,,"Just wondering. No real reason to ask. (Completely serious question, however)",,kevlar1818,367,1478665398,2016-11-09 04:23:18+00:00,story,12906019,,227.0,, 549,"Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?",,"Hi, all. Long time, first time. Hoping to tap into the collective HN consciousness to help make sense of this question, as I feel it's something I'm seeing/experiencing at present.
It seems like twice a week or more I read there is an industry shortage of devs, but I never hear about any companies, of any size, looking for junior devs -- or generally competent devs that might have a specific knowledge gap -- to hire and give on-the-job training to. Not even a contract-to-hire situation that leaves the company with very little risk if the developer isn't what they needed.
Is on-the-job training just flat-out dead?
I ask this because I'm 4-years-experienced as a front-end UI/interaction dev, nothing but glowing references, looking for another, similar, position (regular, not senior or lead) and have had...way too many interviews and rejections, and can't understand why companies are such sticklers for interested devs to have Every Single Box in their list of requirements checked when it would take days or a couple weeks to learn XYZ framework/library/whatever to the level of competence that is required for the position.
To further stack up the frustration, it's not uncommon to see the same position listed and re-listed on LinkedIn and Indeed for months: certainly somebody could have been hired and trained to the level needed in that time. (Maybe even me!)",,the_antipode,367,1542851309,2018-11-22 01:48:29+00:00,story,18507407,,479.0,, 550,What do you struggle with?,,,,meesterdude,365,1535538223,2018-08-29 10:23:43+00:00,story,17867109,,533.0,, 551,Who is hiring? (June 2021),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355390
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355391",,whoishiring,365,1622559685,2021-06-01 15:01:25+00:00,story,27355392,,1045.0,, 552,Any recommended resources to develop system thinking?,,"I have read Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows, anything else?",,febin,365,1522303441,2018-03-29 06:04:01+00:00,story,16704850,,106.0,, 553,What does mastery look like in software engineering?,,When you think of someone who has mastered the discipline of Software Engineering what comes to your mind?,,abdabab,365,1609841185,2021-01-05 10:06:25+00:00,story,25643940,,276.0,, 554,What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?,,"Many times you just want to plug something in. PostgreSQL, Node.JS Express, Java Spring, numpy, Three.js. There's many examples where the already existing solution fits well.
Sometimes that's not good enough tho. What are some tools, libraries or services you built, are they open-source and why weren't you satisfied using what already existed?",,graderjs,364,1621151271,2021-05-16 07:47:51+00:00,story,27171970,,602.0,, 555,Good books or articles on UI design?,,Coming from a newbie perspective. It's something I'm interested in learning more about on the side,,nahcub,363,1476478833,2016-10-14 21:00:33+00:00,story,12711060,,86.0,, 556,"Companies who adopted React Native over a year ago, do you regret it?",,"I'm interested in the opinion of React Native from companies who chose to build their mobile apps with React Native and have been doing so for at least a year. RN passes the first-week smell test really well. How has it held up for you in production? How has it held up for dev teams of ~10 or more? Pros and cons?
I run a mobile team of ~30 folks. In 2015 we experimented with RN for 3 months before deciding that it was not a good fit for us. I'm interested in stories from the alternate reality where we took the react-native path instead.
I'm NOT particularly interested in stories about single devs making prototypes for a weekend. React Native has a delightful experience for this use-case, but it does not directly transfer to being a good experience for a larger team with serious product goals.
Thanks",,tekstar,363,1505914827,2017-09-20 13:40:27+00:00,story,15293573,,145.0,, 557,What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?,,"I enjoyed reading Gwern and slate star codex's essays. I wonder if you can suggest another one.
https://www.gwern.net/ https://slatestarcodex.com/ https://www.gwern.net/",,notomorrow,363,1577889438,2020-01-01 14:37:18+00:00,story,21928170,,68.0,, 558,Alternatives to Google Photos?,,"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?
[0] https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-changes/
[1] https://www.techradar.com/how-to/best-google-photos-alternat...",,LifeIsBio,362,1622417204,2021-05-30 23:26:44+00:00,story,27338008,,306.0,, 559,What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?,,"You know, the weird stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯",,rxsel,361,1593906309,2020-07-04 23:45:09+00:00,story,23735676,,812.0,, 560,What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal?,,"From what I understand so far, it's just a portal that gives the news. What I don't get is why have a custom monitor, keyboard? I am not sure how is the network connected, is it a VPN. The cost of the product is ridiculous. I do not understand why are people paying for it. Is there a cheaper alternative that does not require specialised hardware? I know Bloomberg is a politician, has he managed to pass some ridiculous law that forces everyone to pay for his product?
P.S.: I do not understand Finance or the wall street world. But I am curious to know about the tech they use and why they are paying a huge amount for it.",,sreenadh,361,1488090932,2017-02-26 06:35:32+00:00,story,13736009,,216.0,, 561,Who is hiring? (March 2021),,"(Update for Feb/March: Manara, a company in YC's current batch, has discovered many talented software engineers in the MENA region, half of whom are women. If this is of interest, see their launch thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849054 and this recent story by one of their participants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251143.)
Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304048
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26304050",,whoishiring,361,1614614514,2021-03-01 16:01:54+00:00,story,26304051,,969.0,, 562,What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?,,"For me it was running. Went from couch potato to regular runner for whom HMs don’t need any planning. Running always makes the day better. Physically I think exercise releases endorphins, mentally it’s my one win for the day.
Wondering what works.",,break_the_bank,360,1616299258,2021-03-21 04:00:58+00:00,story,26528011,,532.0,, 563,"For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?",,"I've been programming for ~3 years now, first just on the side and now full-time. My learning has been in stops and starts. Now I can feel the cumulative learning paying off. I'm also realizing there's SO much more to learn. What advice do you have for programmers just hitting their stride?",,dhruvkar,360,1495102890,2017-05-18 10:21:30+00:00,story,14366070,,513.0,, 564,What book have you given as a gift?,,"What book have you found so amazing that you have given it as a gift? This could be a tech book, biz, self help or other book.",,schappim,360,1470603421,2016-08-07 20:57:01+00:00,story,12243611,,514.0,, 565,How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?,,"I’m a SR. Dev at a big company we all know trying to rid myself of the insecurities that come from an informal education.
This is the resource in question: https://teachyourselfcs.com/",,rxsel,360,1581307285,2020-02-10 04:01:25+00:00,story,22286340,,76.0,, 566,Best books you read in 2012,,"I think this year was poorly in comparison with 2011, in regards of new releases. So, what were the best books you read this year?",,dudurocha,359,1356450677,2012-12-25 15:51:17+00:00,story,4966230,,220.0,, 567,Who wants to be hired? (August 2020),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/audio-programming-book
Edit: My goal is to make a mini-synth which takes input from the computer keyboard.",,Flex247A,358,1621925683,2021-05-25 06:54:43+00:00,story,27273706,,120.0,, 569,What sites do you use to find contract work?,,,,the_wheel,358,1453130860,2016-01-18 15:27:40+00:00,story,10924877,,162.0,, 570,How did you fix your narcissism?,,"I had an epiphany this year that I focus too much on myself and came to the realization that I might be a narcissist: I tend to talk too much about myself, I don't enjoy listening to other people, I tend to judge situations only from my perspective, I have an inflated ego and take things too personal.
These traits have affected my personal and professional life and would really like to fix them.
I did some search on Amazon but it seems that all the books are written for people who were affected by narcissistic people. Couldn't find any book for people who are narcissistic themselves and want to fix that.
Did anyone here had the same issues and can recommend me some tips/books on how to deal with this?",,zuzuleinen,358,1580989080,2020-02-06 11:38:00+00:00,story,22255268,,384.0,, 571,How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?,,"This may seem like a silly question but it's something that's been affecting me for a while now. With the sheer amount of information available in the world today I have simply become overwhelmed. My mind is in a constant racing state. It's calm but not calm if that makes sense. While I could very well be thinking about nothing or something specific like writing this message. My mind seems to have multiple levels. One of which is directed to what I am actively doing and one below it which seems to process information in a never ending manner. I am not actively thinking about these things but it's there. Articles and books to read, shows to watch, things to do in my personal life and at work. Career advancement. All of these things just never stop but I could be calm. I can sleep fine, they don't cause active anxiety. They just linger in the background. Shooting around saying me me.
It's getting exhausting. I like to be informed. I like to know what people are talking about and like to be able to have a point of view. I like to have an opinion and be able to argue it. But I have realized it's just getting to be too much.
Currently my instapaper account has some 800 articles I have yet to read. Kindle has about 10 books I want to read. pinboard account has about 100 unread articles most of which are small books.
Any advice on what I should do? Do I just purge them?",,coned88,357,1417896410,2014-12-06 20:06:50+00:00,story,8710006,,222.0,, 572,What do you want to learn in 2017?,,,,reinhardt1053,357,1482703945,2016-12-25 22:12:25+00:00,story,13255650,,494.0,, 573,How do you review code?,,"I'm hoping to find ways to improve the code review process at the company where I work.
My team has a fairly has a fairly standard github PR-based process. When you have some code you want to merge into the master branch you open a PR, ask another developer or two to review it, address any comments they have, and then wait for one of the reviewers to give it an LGTM (looks good to me).
The problem is that there can be a lot of lag between asking someone to review the PR and them actually doing it, or between addressing comments and them taking another look. Worst of all, you never really know how long things will take, so it's hard to know whether you should switch gears for the rest of the day or not.
Over time we've gotten used to communicating a lot, and being shameless about pestering people who are less communicative. But it's hard for new team members to get used to this, and even the informal solution of just communicating a ton isn't perfect and probably won't scale well.
So, has anyone else run I to similar problems? Do you have a different or better process for doing code reviews? As much as this seems like a culture issue, are there any tools that might be helpful?",,skewart,357,1459702629,2016-04-03 16:57:09+00:00,story,11416746,,140.0,, 574,Who is hiring? (August 2021),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037364
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037365",,whoishiring,357,1627916482,2021-08-02 15:01:22+00:00,story,28037366,,911.0,, 575,"Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?",,"When you're 1 man show (or tiny team) working on some web oriented application beyond POC level and beyond heroku (for whatever reason) — managing your CI, deployments/rollbacks, DBs etc. looks like a nightmare to me.
Just properly setting up and maintaining a small k8s cluster looks almost like a fulltime job.
I wonder how do your CI, deployment workflows look like?
Any particular tools, practices, guidelines, architecture patterns to reduce pain & timewaste?
How do you CI => deploy/rollback stateless instances? How do you manage your DBs and backups? Etc.",,aristofun,356,1634034911,2021-10-12 10:35:11+00:00,story,28838132,,316.0,, 576,Have you built a house?,,"I am toying with the idea of building a house, as autonomously as possible. I am thinking about a massive, concrete house. with basement, ground floor and upper floor.
Has somebody here experience in this area? Any useful pointers?",,gonvaled,356,1535441736,2018-08-28 07:35:36+00:00,story,17857129,,220.0,, 577,Highest paying remote companies?,,I have 10 years of FAANG experience (Senior SWE). I'm looking to move closer to my family and my current team isn't very remote friendly so I'm looking for a change. What should I be looking for?,,smattiso,356,1548748271,2019-01-29 07:51:11+00:00,story,19024575,,96.0,, 578,How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment when interviewing?,,"I am currently working in a position that felt like a great startup to work at during my interview. However, a few months into the job I realized my boss was a complete and utter asshole. Given this is my first job out of college, I've stuck with it and I am looking for a new role. How can I detect during the interview / research phase to avoid such situations?
Some things I've been doing is looking at Glassdoor but the problem with that is the reviews are highly dependent on the role, or the department or some manager who may or may not still be at the company.
I am a pretty average developer which is why I was kind of desperate for that first job out of college but after getting more experience, I know I can do better than this.",,isuckatcoding,356,1460051295,2016-04-07 17:48:15+00:00,story,11449133,,327.0,, 579,Who is hiring? (September 2021),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28380659
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28380660",,whoishiring,355,1630508446,2021-09-01 15:00:46+00:00,story,28380661,,972.0,, 580,If you could work remote where would you live?,,"In the current climate it appears remote working will be more common. So where would you want to move too? Or would you become a nomad? Or is current home, perfect?",,sloaken,355,1590354410,2020-05-24 21:06:50+00:00,story,23294799,,742.0,, 581,Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?,,"I founded an vertical-focused enterprise startup. We signed a few huge customers in the space on a build-and-beta basis, and that led to industry awards and a full pipeline of leads and signed contracts for installation (SaaS pricing with small implementation fee).
We've done it with a ridiculously small team, however. And it's become impossible to handle the dev and deployment, support and training, security reviews, feature requests, etc. So we are looking at options.
We've been approached by a few large companies in the industry regarding acquisition. It looks like we could sell for $12-14M. Kind of exciting, but also well under the value that's possible (which would probably be something north of $400M in our industry alone, with the possibility to move laterally).
The alternative is to raise money. We've put together a solid deck and model (I think), but the local venture capital scene is not great (think $1M+ ARR).
We think this is a product ripe for SV firms, but those critical "warm introductions" are elusive. We just don't have the network. Only 4% of my cold emails have even been opened (yes, we track it).
It's crazy to me that our industry is jumping up and down for our product, we've got offers to buy the company, but we can't raise a seed. I've failed hard here. I'm open for advice.",,thisanonguy,354,1506105840,2017-09-22 18:44:00+00:00,story,15314663,,330.0,, 582,"Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?",,"It seems all the hCaptcha verifications I receive are for buses, boats and trains? They don't seem limited by geography or by recency. I'm curious why these particular artifacts and whether this has always been the case.",,erikig,354,1641562597,2022-01-07 13:36:37+00:00,story,29838908,,254.0,, 583,"Google employees, why is G+ more important than your users?",,I would love to hear how Google pitches G+ and the disaster that is Youtube at this point internally. How do they keep morale up?,,dsl,353,1384665735,2013-11-17 05:22:15+00:00,story,6747713,,274.0,, 584,Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned,,"I guess no body is doing this, everyone talks about making money. So, let's use this post to share our failed projects and the learnings with other founders.",,NithurM,352,1640355108,2021-12-24 14:11:48+00:00,story,29673707,,277.0,, 585,What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?,,"Hey,
Chris Lamb here, Debian Project Leader. As a bit of background, I've been around the "startup" scene on and off, even participating in YCombinator during S12. I have a few side projects here and there and I also do a lot of full-stack web development using Python/Django.
I'm very much interested in soliciting your feedback and feature requests for the Debian 10 ("buster") development cycle which opens up tomorrow after the release of "stretch" today. This is obviously a shameless appropriation of Ubuntu's post a few months ago and some requests would definitely overlap but I feel we could get some interesting replies nonetheless.
Please include in your replies the following bullets:
- HEADLINE: 1-line description of the request
- DESCRIPTION: A lengthier description of the feature. Bonus points for constructive criticism...
- DISTRIBUTION: (Optional) [stable, testing, unstable, or even a Debian deriviative]
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: (Optional, your job role and affiliation)
We would be exteremely interested in your feedback! Everything is fair game -- kernel, security, community, default settings, architectures, init systems (!), desktop, Docker, documentation, default packages, cloud images, etc. etc.. Feel free to comment even if you are using a Debian derivative such as Ubuntu, Mint, etc. too.
Thanks, HN!
—lamby
https://twitter.com/lolamby",,lamby,352,1497762967,2017-06-18 05:16:07+00:00,story,14579080,,317.0,, 586,Have you regretted making something open-source?,,,,haydenlee,352,1501421613,2017-07-30 13:33:33+00:00,story,14885863,,214.0,, 587,Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?,,"Since the recent surge of interest in FreeBSD I've been curious to find out more about it. I did some Googling but couldn't find any quality articles discussing FreeBSD from the common Linux-er's perspective.
I did find this: https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01. It doesn't have a date, but he mentions using GCC 3.2.2, which came out in 2003, so I'd say the info is pretty out of date.
Can we share some links and knowledge?
PS: I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say I'm not remotely interested in arguing over which system is "better" - I just want to know about differences in design and unbiased identification of strengths and weaknesses.",,bjackman,352,1416660321,2014-11-22 12:45:21+00:00,story,8645443,,214.0,, 588,Why is Bluetooth so unreliable?,,,,whitepoplar,351,1499869440,2017-07-12 14:24:00+00:00,story,14752719,,261.0,, 589,Successful one-person online businesses?,,How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?
Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.,,kewball,351,1394333570,2014-03-09 02:52:50+00:00,story,7367243,,286.0,, 590,"Can't concentrate to focus, until it's last minute or later",,"I have been having this issue for some months now, but it has been present for a long time.
Basically, I can't make me to focus on my work until it's really close to the deadline of my task or even later. I keep procrastinating or code other things, but the one task that I know is my highest priority and the one that should be done, always gets ignored until last minute.
The weird thing is that even when I took a break from full-time work for a year or so, I eventually got to the point that even for my own (low or high importance) projects I would do the same and procrastinate instead of working on the project that I know I must work on to accomplish my goals. I think I generally do this not only on code stuff though. Anyone else had this?",,kbody,351,1460895209,2016-04-17 12:13:29+00:00,story,11514266,,191.0,, 591,What's Up with Google?,,"Recently, I notice more and more search results Google are locked behind registration gates, and not only does Google list them at all, they're often the top results (Think Quora, Pinterest). I never had issues accessing the content in the results but recently, it's bad. Does no one at Google care? Are the people in charge investors at Pinterest/Quora?",,emsy,350,1642810331,2022-01-22 00:12:11+00:00,story,30031672,,213.0,, 592,What did you work on in 2017?,,,,freeelncer,350,1514739197,2017-12-31 16:53:17+00:00,story,16041245,,562.0,, 593,Any recommended books on developing mental models?,,,,febin,350,1514302894,2017-12-26 15:41:34+00:00,story,16009028,,61.0,, 594,Who is hiring? (February 2020),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225312
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225313",,whoishiring,349,1580745730,2020-02-03 16:02:10+00:00,story,22225314,,678.0,, 595,Who are your favorite poets?,,,,0xdeadbeefbabe,349,1427736552,2015-03-30 17:29:12+00:00,story,9291040,,344.0,, 596,How happy are you working as a programmer?,,,,kalzium,349,1454304353,2016-02-01 05:25:53+00:00,story,11009956,,535.0,, 597,What do you think about the no-code movement?,,"Hi HN, maybe it's just the bubble I'm in but these days I see a lot of discussion around "no-code" and the "no-code" movement. There's also a bunch of new no-code apps being launched every day - https://www.producthunt.com/topics/no-code#order=trending.
Some seem to supplement developers (eg: retool) and some empower non-engineers to be able to build websites/apps/integrations without necessarily having a developer in the loop (eg: shopify/zapier/airtable).
What do you think about this movement? Clearly these apps/platforms enable non-developers to solve a bunch of problems which would otherwise need a software engineer. Is this a paradigm shift?",,arrayjumper,348,1636642067,2021-11-11 14:47:47+00:00,story,29188355,,395.0,, 598,Who is hiring? (November 2020),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24969522
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24969523",,whoishiring,348,1604332912,2020-11-02 16:01:52+00:00,story,24969524,,810.0,, 599,What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?,,,,spoondocz,347,1538064258,2018-09-27 16:04:18+00:00,story,18085765,,237.0,, 600,Who is hiring? (January 2016),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.
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You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,347,1451660487,2016-01-01 15:01:27+00:00,story,10822019,,470.0,, 601,What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?,,Something that the world hasn't yet noticed but you think will be huge.,,ilmoi,347,1618242930,2021-04-12 15:55:30+00:00,story,26780866,,535.0,, 602,How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles?,,"A little bit of background:
As I've become more skilled with programming and electronics I have felt myself begin to near a wall. My knowledge of and skills in math is relatively poor and all the interesting things that make up the more advanced programming and electronics pursuits seem to be heavily based on math.
When I butt heads with these more advanced topics I find I resort to scouring the internet to cobble together pieces of various tutorials and guides. While it does feel good in a way to hack together limited understandings to make satisfactory solutions I'm beginning to feel less like a hacker and more like a hack. The knowledge I gain is shallow and I don't think my tactics will get me much further.
Instead of working backwards from implementation I would like to start from the beginning and learn math the proper way. Unfortunately most of the resources I find online seem to more focused on teaching me how to solve math problems. I have no interest in solving specific math problems on a test, I'm not going to school and I doubt I will ever take a math test again in my life. I want to work up from first principles and gain the tools to reason about the world mathematically and understand the cool things that are currently out of my reach like antenna design, machine learning, electromagnetism, cryptography etc.
Unfortunately I so know so little I have no idea how where to start. What websites are helpful, what books I should buy, etc. I was hoping someone here could share. Thank you.",,smtucker,345,1417665620,2014-12-04 04:00:20+00:00,story,8697772,,123.0,, 603,What are some examples of beautiful software?,,"So I've been reading Paul Graham's - Hackers and Painters. A bit late, I know. And I find his ideas fascinating. One that struck a chord with me, was the idea of taste, recognising good taste. I'd like to know examples of beautiful software and what makes it beautiful.",,ponderatul,345,1457884190,2016-03-13 15:49:50+00:00,story,11278065,,258.0,, 604,Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?,,"What are the best, most useful aliases or functions etc for bash that you've collected or written? Or bash scripts. Please give explanation/usage if necessary. Ones you actually use often. Thanks!",,yesenadam,345,1547411724,2019-01-13 20:35:24+00:00,story,18898523,,277.0,, 605,Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?,,"I'm constantly aggravated by various quirks of containers, and don't really remember any big problems with non-containerized infra.
A random and non-exhausting list of things that bother me from time to time:
— Must build an image before deploying and it takes time, so deploys are slow (of course we use CI to do it, it's not manual).
— If I need quick hot fix RIGHT NOW, I can't just log in, change couple of lines and restart, must go through full deploy cycle.
— Must remember that launched containers do not close when ssh breaks connection and they can easily linger for a couple of weeks.
I generally find it harder to change how things work together. It's probably possible to spend lots of effort to fix these things, but I don't remember having to do all this cruft with old school infrastructure.
Hence the question - has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure? Are you satisfied? Or I'm misremembering things and horrible things wait for me in the old-school ways?",,murkt,345,1597312564,2020-08-13 09:56:04+00:00,story,24141628,,358.0,, 606,What are the best advanced computer science courses online?,,It's easy to point to good beginner material like CS50 for example. But what about more advanced topics for non-beginners?,,st1x7,345,1606866921,2020-12-01 23:55:21+00:00,story,25271676,,89.0,, 607,What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?,,"I'd like to hear about different approaches others are using to write web sites or apps today. What languages, frameworks, or libraries are you using? If so, why and what do you like about it?",,yawn,345,1617581000,2021-04-05 00:03:20+00:00,story,26693959,,322.0,, 608,"Recruiters want people who do side projects, yet contracts forbid them?",,"I was reading this [Joel on software essay](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-projects/) about employment contracts and side prrojects after it was mentioned in another post here.
It's been frustrating me for a long time that most companies when hiring are looking for people who do lots of side projects and open source work, yet when you are actually employed, you will usually have a contract forbidding you from having side activities, or potentially trying to grab copyright forr what you do on the side.
Most companies also don't let their employees open source their code written at work too.
I get that there is a sort of common understanding between employers and employees that lets people have small side projects, but I've never liked the fact that on paper companies can easily claim ownership of them if they become worth it.
In a lot of jobs, people end up in a situation where they are actively discouraged from doing anything on the side because it's always hard to know if they're even allowed. Learning new skills, having side projects and doing open source is valued in hiring, but strongly discouraged and sometimes impossible when having a job.
Are there any solutions to this problem? Curious what people's thoughts are.",,uVacCXNiiJCTnYB,344,1626344701,2021-07-15 10:25:01+00:00,story,27843198,,223.0,, 609,How do I make the move to consultant?,,"I sort of stumbled onto a consultancy job two years ago in cryptocurrency that's sadly just come to an end... going back into an office full time feels like a step back at this point.
I also don't really want to be anywhere near cryptocurrency for a while... and to make matters worse I live halfway around the world from my home in a country that doesn't speak English - I'm a reliable remote worker but I know that's going to put people off, how to alleviate concerns here?
I'm planning to fly home tomorrow, I rented somewhere for a month and I'm already printing business cards and trying to get myself out there on local subreddits. Perhaps other social media too?
Anything I've missed? How can I advertise myself out there? I absolutely kick ass on cloud migration and architecture (and while I know they're not everything, had the certifications to prove it).
Sysadmin stuff, troubleshooting and cloud work was my thing for a decade but I'm trying to catch up with two years worth of developments as well - I can also code but it's mostly hobby stuff.",,Monotoko,343,1570521083,2019-10-08 07:51:23+00:00,story,21189801,,110.0,, 610,How to increase self-discipline as a self-employed person?,,"TL;DR: Any tips on staying disciplined while being self-employed?
I recently got an offer to work remotely for a friend on couple of his projects that is interesting, pays better and is at least going to keep me busy for another six months. And there is a also good possibility that as I finish these, I will be getting more work and I am likely to build a small business of my own here through this. So last week I quit my job and started working on this full-time. So far, my friend is happy and so am I.
But there is something odd going on here. Unlike my previous job where I had to work 9-6, 5 days a week, I don't really have a pretty good schedule here for myself. Now while working from home, sometime I work for a continuous 16 hours and then sometime I find myself I haven't looked at that project in the last two days as I spent it by browsing random projects on the internet, working on other things, watching multiple seasons of sitcoms or just brainstorming about product ideas that I can build in future!
I know that to make it as a self-employed person, one needs to have a good self-control. But, do any of you guys have been through this? How have you managed yourself? Does this gets better after a while? What should I do to make this better and be efficient?",,desushil,343,1388317055,2013-12-29 11:37:35+00:00,story,6979277,,121.0,, 611,Your Favourite HN Comment?,,"Every once in a while there are some good, __in-depth__ replies to posts on HN, worth bookmarking. What are your favourite HN comments?",,higerordermap,342,1600573016,2020-09-20 03:36:56+00:00,story,24531718,,232.0,, 612,Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?,,"Is this a new experiment or is it a new permanent thing to reduce load, I don't think many people are going to be looking at the lower end of the spectrum (clicking more) which may detract from interesting comments and conversations.
Examples: look on the front page with comment threads >~30",,roxstar,341,1295404497,2011-01-19 02:34:57+00:00,story,2118325,,114.0,, 613,Insider history of the demise of Kodak?,,"Most are familiar with the fact that Kodak developed the first digital camera in the 70s, and then never followed up on it, eventually becoming bankrupt as film became obsolete.
I'm interested in an 'insider' account of what was going on at Kodak during the rise of digital. My naive assumption is a bunch of 60+ executives with a 1950's mindset of "We're Kodak", and some junior execs proposed projects that are either ignored or ridiculed.
But I wonder, what really happened? Is there a source or interviews or the like? What were they saying in the meetings while digital products were hitting the market?",,lawpoop,341,1468786458,2016-07-17 20:14:18+00:00,story,12111597,,229.0,, 614,Recommend one book I need to read this summer?,,"I'm coming up on my summer leave, and have absolutely no plans other than doing various things related to house maintenance or renovation. Evenings are mostly free. If you could recommend one book I should plan on reading this summer, what should it be and why. No limitations on genre, it doesn't have to be related to CS.",,chha,341,1562046325,2019-07-02 05:45:25+00:00,story,20332455,,296.0,, 615,"As a data scientist, what should be in my toolkit in 2018?",,,,mxgr,341,1519113069,2018-02-20 07:51:09+00:00,story,16418546,,169.0,, 616,Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?,,"I did a search on comments on HN for Wolfram Alpha. Most posts are 8 years old, none newer, some older.
What's going on? Did Wolfram Alpha stop being useful, or did people just forget about it?",,zandorg,340,1636218666,2021-11-06 17:11:06+00:00,story,29131931,,264.0,, 617,Who wants to be hired right now?,,"It might be helpful to have one of these threads now, given the situation. The next monthly thread will be in 9 days.
Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
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Now that I'm in the real world it's starting to really gnaw at me. I make $130k as a 21 year old and I probably put in 3 hours of real work a day. I'm a good enough programmer that I can bullshit my way through most stuff and at this point I think people are starting to realize that I'm a bit slower than I could be. I still push out a lot of code, but I secretly spend 7-8 hours a day doing bullshit at work (reading online, games, etc). I know that I've been given a gift and that I'm a fucking idiot for wasting it, but I've just become a chronic procrastinator and it sucks.
I could be changing the world but instead I'm putting in the bare minimum and no matter what trick or method I try I can't seem to beat it. I've never had a strong willpower to begin with and now it seems to be getting worse (looking back I wish I played more sports).
Any advice on how you taught yourself to focus on tasks, build willpower, and get shit done would be helpful. Although, I wonder if I really fucked my brain/habits up so much that I'll never reach my full capacity. I've been like this for the past 6-7 years and it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. My dad is also very similar in that he's smart enough to bullshit through life but he only works at 10-20% of his full capacity and he never completes anything.
Help!?",,procastatron,340,1375416313,2013-08-02 04:05:13+00:00,story,6145261,,292.0,, 620,Who is hiring? (January 2022),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
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Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782096
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782097",,whoishiring,339,1641225734,2022-01-03 16:02:14+00:00,story,29782099,,771.0,, 621,"Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?",,,,travisby,339,1483348504,2017-01-02 09:15:04+00:00,story,13300023,,193.0,, 622,Who is hiring? (December 2020),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
See also: Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266287",,whoishiring,339,1606838431,2020-12-01 16:00:31+00:00,story,25266288,,770.0,, 623,What does your production machine learning pipeline look like?,,"Doing some design for an upcoming project and taking a survey.
I'll go first. Model training happened nightly on a Spark cluster. This output a PMML-based SVM model. The model was instantiated on a cluster of compute servers running Openscoring. A thin Node web service wrapper used the Openscoring cluster to serve realtime client prediction requests. Dataset size in the hundred millions of examples with hundreds of features. Handled thousands of requests per second, no problem.
Separating the training technology from the execution technology was nice but the PMML format is limiting in the kinds of models you can use that both you trainer and executor will support. What are people doing who use same tech for both? For something like Tensorflow, I assume you must have to save the model as binary from the train step and then send it off to the prediction cluster to be instantiated again for execution?",,bayonetz,339,1488989748,2017-03-08 16:15:48+00:00,story,13821217,,103.0,, 624,How do I put together a computer for my blind mom?,,"As the title says, I want to design an interface that my blind mom can use. I tried JAWS, but as an old woman she finds it too complex. I fear the same will happen with a non-custom emacspeak.
I just need to patch together something that reads web pages in Spanish, books, and maybe e-mail. That's it. Has any of you done something similar?",,probably_wrong,339,1431624344,2015-05-14 17:25:44+00:00,story,9546311,,78.0,, 625,What made you change your mind about a programming language/paradigm?,,"Books, courses, practical experiences or just a-ha moments that made you feel differently about a language/design pattern/etc.",,strangecasts,338,1551529828,2019-03-02 12:30:28+00:00,story,19288954,,391.0,, 626,"Solo devs, how do you plan your development?",,"I'm wondering what framework do you use to plan your product development.
Right now I'm using just Trello with a 4 lists, Planned, In-progress, Staging and Production. Works ok but I feel I can do better, like adding a progress % or something to get a better overview of my tasks.
Are you using any agile framework that's simple and good enough for a solo dev (and maybe to support a team of max 3 more devs in the near future)?",,going_to_800,338,1577619998,2019-12-29 11:46:38+00:00,story,21905423,,182.0,, 627,What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't,,"If there were a general-purpose OLTP SQL database that was developed today, what features or design decisions would it pick that PostgreSQL and MySQL cannot adapt for historic reasons?
Or put another way, what are some cutting edge OLTP database techniques/features/architectures that PostgreSQL and MySQL would have a hard time supporting?",,eatonphil,338,1630858302,2021-09-05 16:11:42+00:00,story,28425379,,321.0,, 628,What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?,,"It seems to me that governments can be counted out of taking the leadership needed to solve this within 12 years. If anything they seem to want to act against solving this issue in some cases.
So what can we do so our children don't live in some ghastly hothouse world?
The scientists have told us its our final chance.... not to start within 12 years, but solve it within 12 years.
I feel like the young people need to take charge of the world because the older generations have had their chance and not fixed it.
Maybe corporations are the ones who can be pressured to take the lead.",,andrewstuart,338,1539138312,2018-10-10 02:25:12+00:00,story,18181503,,499.0,, 629,What is the dark side of working at a successful startup?,,,,the_xenu_story,337,1537144107,2018-09-17 00:28:27+00:00,story,18002194,,155.0,, 630,Who is hiring? (April 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2014) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507753",,whoishiring,337,1396357727,2014-04-01 13:08:47+00:00,story,7507765,,530.0,, 631,We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea,,"I have spent the past year looking for good ideas for a startup and have little to show for it.
--------------------
-Things that we have:-
1) A great early team, made up of myself (just a normal bizdev guy) + 1 talented former private equity partner (who made a fortune on Wall Street) + 1 talented CMU CompSci PhD. The three of us have been friends for years and work together really well.
2) Investors that are willing to write blank checks (within reason) because of the trust in the team (mainly former colleagues of the PE guy).
3) Cash in the bank to continue experimenting
4) An interest in SaaS and ML (and some experience in the latter)
-Things that we don't have:-
1) Ideas of what to do
--------------------
We have read EVERYTHING on how to come up with startups ideas (ranging from Paul Graham essays to The Mom Test). We have ran interviews with friends in corporate and startups, asked old colleagues, attented conferences, organised meetups in our city, a ton of time spent networking, etc.
The few product ideas we came up with following the above process we dropped, often because we discovered that that space is ultra crowded or commooditized.
We will not give up but are getting unsure on how to break the stalemate.
Any tips or advice?
Thanks!",,0bsidian,337,1509393451,2017-10-30 19:57:31+00:00,story,15588361,,551.0,, 632,What are you reading to make sense of the economy?,,"With so much happening so suddenly, what are you reading to make sense of the Economy and markets.",,8611m,337,1586821866,2020-04-13 23:51:06+00:00,story,22861452,,303.0,, 633,Who is hiring? (May 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.",,whoishiring,336,1398949361,2014-05-01 13:02:41+00:00,story,7679431,,493.0,, 634,Best book you read in 2011,,"My choice this year is Burton Malkiel's ""A Random Walk Down Wall Street""",,kia,336,1324969650,2011-12-27 07:07:30+00:00,story,3395061,,307.0,, 635,Do we need a Google Customers Union? Could it work?,,"I recently saw that some Google employees are attempting to unionize and someone mentioned that Google's customers wish they could unionize.
That lead me to wonder: Could Google's customers form some sort of union and attempt to hold discussions with Google?
On the one hand I think it would in Google's interests to do everything to prevent having another party to have to negotiate with. On the other hand, if there was a union of customers and they occasionally demanded something everyone thinks is reasonable in the press, that may start something. Especially if Google caves on some of these issues.
What do you think?",,CaptainJustin,336,1610537263,2021-01-13 11:27:43+00:00,story,25760750,,169.0,, 636,Good C++ code bases to read?,,"Hi All, I managed to avoid having to write C++ for all of my career. However, especially with SDR, I find my need to write C++ and my brain is so grooved reading C code that I find it trips me up reading C++ code. Also I find I don't have a good sense of "clean" C++ code. Since I learn best by exploring, I was wondering if there are some good code bases to read where I could get a feel for what "good" C++ code would look like.
Any suggestions? Pointers to repos would be appreciated. Thanks!",,ChuckMcM,336,1603745521,2020-10-26 20:52:01+00:00,story,24901244,,253.0,, 637,How to learn proper systems programming?,,"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:
- "The Linux Programming Interface"
- "Systems Programming with Linux"
- "Adavnaced UNIX Programming"
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.).
Now I wonder how I can get access to this type of information, how to properly learn it?",,systems_learn,336,1624266807,2021-06-21 09:13:27+00:00,story,27577514,,93.0,, 638,Who is hiring? (December 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.",,whoishiring,335,1417443615,2014-12-01 14:20:15+00:00,story,8681040,,567.0,, 639,I'm lost. Please help,http://pastebin.com/1S4cD666,,,worstorbest,334,1368740053,2013-05-16 21:34:13+00:00,story,5721311,,163.0,, 640,Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?,,"Looking at decent e-ink devices to write notes on, I cannot understand why they're so expensive. For the price of a remarkable 2, for instance, you could buy an iPad which supports note-taking, and much more.
I know there are some advantages to e-ink displays, but I don't think that's enough to justify the high price tag on these readers/note-taking devices.
There's also hidden costs involved, such as buying new tips for the e-ink pencils.
Has the e-ink industry reached a dead-end where patents are impeding progress, or are there other reasons involved?",,behnamoh,334,1613401860,2021-02-15 15:11:00+00:00,story,26143407,,259.0,, 641,What is your favorite place to find work?,,Do you have a favorite job board?,,mrburton,334,1510082298,2017-11-07 19:18:18+00:00,story,15646550,,92.0,, 642,Are there any systematic and scientific ways to develop a habit?,,"I want to develop many daily habits, such as running, reading, or exercise every day, but all difficult to stick to, I know someone, such as zurkburg, who can insist on what they want to do, so I wonder is there any systemic way i can develop a habit?",,sammyjiang,334,1480772278,2016-12-03 13:37:58+00:00,story,13095595,,128.0,, 643,What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon?,,,,halayli,333,1430012706,2015-04-26 01:45:06+00:00,story,9440208,,210.0,, 644,Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?,,Are there good alternatives for Google Analytics which you can easily host yourself?,,TekMol,333,1641885900,2022-01-11 07:25:00+00:00,story,29888599,,150.0,, 645,"What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?",,"I listen to the Changelog, programming throwdown podcasts when I'm driving and try to read one cs related research paper a month. Would like to know what blogs/podcasts/websites/magazines do you follow?",,whitenoice,333,1436145129,2015-07-06 01:12:09+00:00,story,9836023,,141.0,, 646,Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive?,,"I've been offline since last Wednesday, driving and camping throughout northern outback australia (escaping the vid!). I have a second rate carrier and tonight I hear my phone ping for the first time since I left. I've had reception before, but usually only while driving, usually passing through a larger town. This time I'm sitting next to the fire, near a town called Nhulunbuy in East Arnhem, aboriginal land, one of the more remote regions on the planet. I'm on a small red cliff overlooking the ocean, I've spotted a largish croc on the sand below only an hour before, and I can see the entire milky way above me (it's a new moon). As i'm writing this I just looked up and saw a satellite. The sky's been pretty similar the last week, but still it's spectacular. Anyway my phone pings and I pick it up and I end up reading the news and checking HN (for the first time in two weeks .. same old stories). What gives?",,somishere,333,1595588578,2020-07-24 11:02:58+00:00,story,23938007,,215.0,, 647,What books had the greatest effect on how you structure your code?,,It'd be interesting to know what books have had the greatest effect on how you structure your code and projects?,,rufugee,332,1500925283,2017-07-24 19:41:23+00:00,story,14841939,,158.0,, 648,Anyone making a living building desktop applications?,,"I did ask the same question in 2016 [1] and got some really interesting answers.
I'm still chasing the dream of having a side-business and earning some side money, but with web apps it means mostly SaaS. Personally I hate rent-seeking behaviors (I'm not alone, it seems - "Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software" [2]), so I'm trying to know what people are doing regarding desktop apps.
Are people still building desktop apps? More specifically, can you make a living (or earn some side money) in 2022 by selling a desktop app? Please share it with us, or are we doomed to build web apps and SaaS for the foreseeable future?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11658873
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30021404",,jventura,332,1642790054,2022-01-21 18:34:14+00:00,story,30027925,,350.0,, 649,Any weird tips for weight loss?,,"I am overweight and just curious. My theory, though untested, is that getting an oxygen tank might speed up passive weight loss substantially. 84% of all weight that is lost is in the form of carbon dioxide, and I wonder if upping the amount of carbon dioxide exhaled would lead to more weight loss. Oxygen only makes up 21% of our air. I am making the assumption that the lungs can handle being 100% saturated.",,fatmoron,332,1646846106,2022-03-09 17:15:06+00:00,story,30617118,,1025.0,, 650,What things do you wish you discovered earlier?,,"Where things = products, services, tools, strategies, books, systems, etc.
For me:
* Internal Family Systems made me more peaceful
* "The Sleep Book" by Meadows made me sleep better
* Apps: Otter for taking notes, Superhuman for email
* Websites: Wirecutter
* Books: How to Get Lucky, Self-Therapy",,arikr,332,1568052227,2019-09-09 18:03:47+00:00,story,20920635,,241.0,, 651,What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?,,"For those who have seen the film on Netflix already; what are your thoughts? I am especially interested in hearing from people involved in any algorithm-driven platforms.
This is the first time I have seen such coherent, powerful and accessible explanation on the mechanics of algorithms and negative consequences of social media, and I wonder if this film can be the push that non-technical people need to take a step back and maybe even delete their accounts.
Anecdotally, it was my non-technical, Instagram-loving partner who saw this film first and recommended it to me. She re-watched it with me and is now asking serious questions about the platform and her continued use of it. She can't be the only one.
What will the cultural impact of this movie be?",,messo,331,1600078328,2020-09-14 10:12:08+00:00,story,24468533,,248.0,, 652,What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?,,It's sad that a lot of things have been orphaned and obsoleted or were web-based and no longer work... What's something that you used to use that isn't around these days?,,mod50ack,331,1463191621,2016-05-14 02:07:01+00:00,story,11694277,,868.0,, 653,Computer Science/History Books?,,"Hi guys, can you recommend interesting books on Computer Science or computer history (similar to Dealers of Lightning) to read on this quarantine times? I really like that subject and am looking for something to keep myself away from TV at night.
Thank you.",,jackofalltrades,331,1585219973,2020-03-26 10:52:53+00:00,story,22692281,,154.0,, 654,Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?,,,,mgos,331,1499488285,2017-07-08 04:31:25+00:00,story,14724092,,153.0,, 655,What is the first thing you implement at a new company?,,"For job-hoppers and contractors. If you arrive at a company, what is the first thing you push for?
For instance, I usually implement a good feature-branch flow with branch pipelines and a strict merge-to-develop etiquette with mandatory merge requests. It makes my work easier and once the team is used to it, they also really like it. No more messy development branches.
I also request a small office stool next to my desk to make code reviews, three amigos and pair programming easier. It is a small thing but I noticed that people are more eager to discuss things if they have a place to sit.",,systemtest,331,1529488070,2018-06-20 09:47:50+00:00,story,17353854,,276.0,, 656,How do you deal with loss of motivation?,,"Lately, I don't feel motivated about anything. Job is okay and I just switched about 8 months back. Work is just not challenging enough. I had to accept job because of good money and my previous job being in danger due to internal org. issues. I exercise 4 days a week but I still don't see any difference in motivation. I also had my testosterone checked. My GP says its normal.
I wanted a leadership position at my company, but I was hired for a position that has no decision making power at all. Everyone here seems dumb and working on a few useless things.
I thought I would be making life changing decisions after taking this job, but so far that does not seem to be the case.
Should I create artificial challenge and try to get into MIT/Stanford for masters?
I need to find something with purpose,big money, and satisfaction.
What shall I do?",,rampipod,331,1488081928,2017-02-26 04:05:28+00:00,story,13735610,,167.0,, 657,Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?,,"HN, being a rather progressive forum, tends to trend in support of including compensation details for job posts, open positions, recruiter reach-outs, etc. This position [1] was just posted today and has been on the front page all day. Does anyone have any insider information or generally good theory as to why YC's own job posts include none of that information?
[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/y-combinator/jobs/1x2B...",,andrew_,331,1640742773,2021-12-29 01:52:53+00:00,story,29720803,,338.0,, 658,Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production?,,,,jxub,330,1521935664,2018-03-24 23:54:24+00:00,story,16669768,,278.0,, 659,How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?,,"I work in an office environment (large Bay Area corporate enterprise software co) where people are constantly cutting each other off in conversations and technical discussions. For people that are a more soft-spoken, it is almost impossible to get a word in - nevermind getting a full thought-process in. This has negative implications on work discussions as the loudest people who are usually dominating the conversations, from my observation, are usually not the brightest.
I am not someone who tolerates getting cut-off easily but it is frustrating and it takes a lot of energy for me to drive the conversation back on track and say what I want to say. This is something that I never had to deal in previous work environments prior to moving to the Bay Area so I'm inclined to think it's something specific to this area. Recently, I have moved to a team in my company where it is almost damn near impossible to have my thoughts heard and in some cases, I just shut myself off from discussions to save my energy. It's starting to affect my work life and my daily mood because in a lot of cases I just don't have the energy to reject and explain why we shouldn't be doing X, Y, or Z.
Is this a common thing in workplaces? I would be interested in hearing if people have been in this situation and how they've dealt with it if so.",,president,329,1563306408,2019-07-16 19:46:48+00:00,story,20453248,,298.0,, 660,What book changed your life in 2014?,,"I debated whether it was too early in December to ask this, but I'm interested in what book(s) changed your life in 2014. I ask because I'm going through something of a personal and professional renaissance and my book of the year was the same as fraqed's when s/he asked the same question in December 2013 [1].
My reading list for 1H15 is a bit vague and wooly right now, so I'm interested in your responses.
For completeness, this could be considered an extension to a previous post of mine [2], but I'm not looking to solve any problem, either perceived or otherwise.
Thank you in advance.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6975638
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673576
(Edited for typo and formatting)",,petecooper,329,1418042289,2014-12-08 12:38:09+00:00,story,8716111,,284.0,, 661,Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful,,"Looks like Google is rolling out the new Gmail UI to users, and removing the option to revert back to Classic UI.
The new UI is painful to look at, to be honest. Anyone from Google here want to mention to the Gmail team that the new UI is going to chase long-term users like myself off the platform?",,lenova,329,1538158014,2018-09-28 18:06:54+00:00,story,18095579,,273.0,, 662,How to price yourself?,,"Philippines Background: I quit college because it was expensive for me. I entered the company with 1 year experience basic programming(C, C#, etc.). They have given me a book ruby "Programming Ruby" and started to work there as a web developer/tech support/call center for 3 years. I was just earning $550/month and as the company and people grow it goes down to $250 due to failed pricing and small clients.
I was still staying there due to clients that used the product. Also the relationship with clients that I have build because we worked on it side by side.
Current Situation: I have exposed my resume online. I wanted to do remote or relocation overseas.
I'd like to ask what is there regular per hour rate of ruby on rails programmer. And how skill is based on the pricing. I was also hoping if $15-$20/ hour.",,gdiocarez,329,1412408590,2014-10-04 07:43:10+00:00,story,8409020,,165.0,, 663,Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?,,"I've been watching the rise and maturing of AWS lambda and similar offerings with excitement. I've also shipped several microservices in both node and Java that are entirely serverless, making use of API gateway, lambda, dynamo db, sqs, kinesis, and others.
For the simple case, I found the experience to be great. Deployment was simple and made use of shell scripts and the excellent AWS CLI.
I've been hesitant to build anything serious with it tho. The primary concern has been visibility into the app. The app's operation can be quite opaque when deployed that way. Further exacerbating the issue, we've a few times lost Cloudwatch logs and other reporting due to both configuration issues and improper error handling, but these are things that would have been much easier to identify and diagnose on a real server.
Have you shipped anything serious with a serverless architecture? Has scaling and cost been favorable? Did you run into any challenges? Would you do it again?",,freedomben,329,1529715097,2018-06-23 00:51:37+00:00,story,17378749,,201.0,, 664,How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fundamentals?,,"I am trying to learn CS on my own. But there are so many resources available online for every course from many of the top universities.
For example:
For intro courses:
* Computer science an interdisciplinary approach (princeton)
* CS61A - UCB
* Introduction to CS and programming (MIT)
* Stanford
* CMU
Data Structures and Algorithms:
* Princeton Algorithms
* CS61B - UCB
* Stanford Algorithms course
* MIT Algorithms
* CMU
Apart from this you have multiple books on each topic - Data Structures/Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, Theory of Computation, Operating systems, Networks, and so on.
Apart from these you also have resources like teachyourselfcs, ossu, functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/.
I am attracted by the resources/online/books posted by courses in UCB/Princeton/MIT/Stanford/CMU. At the same time I get boggled down and overwhelmed that I have soooooooooo many materials to cover. Intro courses aren't that big of a deal since I am able to recognize/solve most questions fairly easily in multiple resources. But my next step of Data structures and algorithms is overwhelming that I am unable to start somewhere.
How do you recommend to choose the right resource (online/book) for each topic/course? Is it worth going through multiple university courses/books for the same topic?",,8589934591,328,1577776074,2019-12-31 07:07:54+00:00,story,21919465,,89.0,, 665,Can the “Who is Hiring?” post include a bit about the interview process?,,"It's almost time for the monthly "Who is Hiring" thread!
Considering how much time we spend discussing tech interviews here, wouldn't it be nice if each hiring post is accompanied by a line about the nature of the interview process?
Examples:
i) Interview process: two phone screens, 3 onsite whiteboard
ii) Interview process: two rounds on HackerRank, 5 onsite whiteboard
iii) Interview process: one take home assignment, 2 on site whiteboard, 1 pair programming session
That will help candidates prioritize which companies they want to contact first. Companies also benefit by the fact that the applicant has self-selected for their interview process.",,curiousgeek,328,1461981697,2016-04-30 02:01:37+00:00,story,11599991,,109.0,, 666,Who is hiring? (May 2021),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27025920
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27025921",,whoishiring,328,1620054079,2021-05-03 15:01:19+00:00,story,27025922,,929.0,, 667,Your favorite YouTube channels?,,"I've been on a YouTube kick lately, and would like some recommendations for your favorite technology/programming/whatever channels. I'm a java developer if that help. Here are some of mine:
https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers
https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTalksArchive
https://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks
https://www.youtube.com/user/MarakanaTechTV
As you can tell, they're almost all Google talks.",,stevenspasbo,328,1397835374,2014-04-18 15:36:14+00:00,story,7609584,,128.0,, 668,Maybe I kind of suck as a programmer – how do I supercharge my work?,,"I'm in my late twenties and I'm having a bit of a tough time dealing with my level of programming skill.
Over the past 3 years, I've released a few apps on iOS: not bad, nothing that would amaze anyone here. The code is generally messy and horrible, rife with race conditions and barely holding together in parts. (Biggest: 30k LOC.) While I'm proud of my work — especially design-wise — I feel most of my time was spent on battling stupid bugs. I haven't gained any specialist knowledge — just bloggable API experience. There's nothing I could write a book about.
Meanwhile, when I compulsively dig through one-man frameworks like YapDatabase, Audiobus, or AudioKit, I am left in awe! They're brimming with specialist knowledge. They're incredibly documented and organized. Major features were added over the course of weeks! People have written books about these frameworks, and they were created by my peers — probably alongside other work. Same with one-man apps like Editorial, Ulysses, or GoodNotes.
I am utterly baffled by how knowledgeable and productive these programmers are. If I'm dealing with a new topic, it can take weeks to get a lay of the land, figure out codebase interactions, consider all the edge cases, etc. etc. But the commits for these frameworks show that the devs basically worked through their problems over mere days — to say nothing of getting the overall architecture right from the start. An object cache layer for SQL? Automatic code gen via YAML? MIDI over Wi-Fi? Audio destuttering? Pff, it took me like a month to add copy/paste to my app!
I'm in need of some recalibration. Am I missing something? Is this quality of work the norm, or are these just exceptional programmers? And even if they are, how can I get closer to where they're standing? I don't want to wallow in my mediocrity, but the mountain looks almost insurmountable from here! No matter the financial cost or effort, I want to make amazing things that sustain me financially; but I can't do that if it takes me ten times as long to make a polished product as another dev. How do I get good enough to consistently do work worth writing books about?",,tastyface,328,1481322073,2016-12-09 22:21:13+00:00,story,13142372,,121.0,, 669,Who regrets choosing Elixir?,,"I’ve seen a few Elixir success stories posted here recently. Virtually all comments are from raving fans that have nothing but the best to say about Elixir.
As someone with primarily a Ruby / Rails background, I’m choosing a language for a new API project and considering Elixir. I’m interested in hearing some counterpoints to Elixir, especially in how a smaller ecosystem Of 3rd party libraries slowed down development.",,seancoleman,328,1590247590,2020-05-23 15:26:30+00:00,story,23283675,,324.0,, 670,A good primer on cryptocurrencies?,,,,uptownfunk,328,1498695688,2017-06-29 00:21:28+00:00,story,14659775,,72.0,, 671,Over 60 = no engineering jobs?,,"I'm curious - what are engineering managers seeing on my resume that makes them apparently routinely reject my resume? My summary: 35 years in Silicon Valley; 3 STEM undergrad degrees, MS in AI from Stanford, PhD in AI from a top-10 program; ICPC champion; always considered to be an elite programmer; very current knowledge; constant employment; wide variety of skills; management experience with small teams; very stable life; no vices; very healthy and energetic; I get along with everyone and like working in teams.
I've been applying for everything from senior engineer to VP of engineering. Ever since I turned 60 last year, I'm getting no hits on my resume. And yes, I still code (the first and most common question I get) and I still love it. If you were hiring, can you tell me why you might not even do a phone interview? I need to know what (mis)perceptions I apparently need to overcome.
Thanks!",,anonOver60,328,1539646599,2018-10-15 23:36:39+00:00,story,18225080,,288.0,, 672,Who is hiring? (March 2022),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30515748
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30515749",,whoishiring,327,1646150516,2022-03-01 16:01:56+00:00,story,30515750,,880.0,, 673,"Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?",,I have enough experience under my belt to feel comfortable approaching fuzzy engineering problems that span relatively unfamiliar domains but I feel it's quite difficult to convey this when applying for positions.
I'm also sure to fail googlable technical questions so I was wondering how others might approach this.,,a_square_peg,327,1603868218,2020-10-28 06:56:58+00:00,story,24916016,,250.0,, 674,"How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?",,"I often have trouble switching off from work during the week as my workspace is my 1BR apartment. I don't have this problem on the weekends, as I don't 'start' a working day.
Given that not starting work during the week isn't an option, any tips on how to switch off after-hours during the work week?",,OnWriting,327,1597739650,2020-08-18 08:34:10+00:00,story,24196433,,308.0,, 675,Who is hiring? (May 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637667",,whoishiring,327,1367414228,2013-05-01 13:17:08+00:00,story,5637663,,441.0,, 676,Your Passive Income Suggestions?,,Please share suggestions of whats worked for you and what hasnt,,nns,327,1454511104,2016-02-03 14:51:44+00:00,story,11026699,,227.0,, 677,"Small product, single founder success stories? ",,"I have read some small product, single founder success stories on HN over the last few years. Can you share some stories/links even though it has been shared before on an unrelated thread?
On HN, patio11, edw519, peldi & jacques have all shared success stories before. I am interested to know more.
EDIT : By success, I mean happiness in life & financial independence to do interesting things in life.",,thunga,327,1316781659,2011-09-23 12:40:59+00:00,story,3029771,,151.0,, 678,"I have ssh, they have ssh, how can we chat?",,"I don't want a dedicated client, I want to go back to the old ways of modem to modem over VT100 links and chatting that way. How can I ssh to another machine, or they to me, and we run a cli app that allows us to chat, something basic like `wall` I think would work, but I have never been able to get that to work.
I am on Mac OS X, and ideally I could do this without installing other software, using something built in.",,biturd,327,1434318902,2015-06-14 21:55:02+00:00,story,9716459,,121.0,, 679,Why is there a chip shortage?,,"I've heard the reason that global automakers cancelled chip orders in the early months of the pandemic and then decided to order them anyway a few months later and that caused a backlog.But I also hear that those are 120nm chips.
So why are graphics cards, gaming consoles etc out of stock? Why is Apple attributing fewer iPhones sold to semiconductor shortage?
Can automakers not use a 7nm fab?
How much of the chip shortage can be attributed to AMD and Apple taking the laptop market away from Intel? And if this is true, does this mean that Intel now has unused capacity?",,mohanmcgeek,326,1641219779,2022-01-03 14:22:59+00:00,story,29781027,,213.0,, 680,I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?,,"I recently joined a startup as their CTO and I'm hating it. They've been around a few years and have product market fit and now need technical leadership to grow the team and product.
It's my first senior management position, having been heavily code focused the last 12 years, with some small management as a senior/lead.
For my entire career I feel as though I've been working towards being the CTO and now I'm here I find it's not at all what I expected. It seems to be mostly about dealing with everyone's crap, trying to fight fires and constantly battling with the other managers and tech team to get things done. I haven't even written a line of code in months.
Over the past few years I've had a few gaps in my career where I have started my own business and been fully in charge of things. Those times were amazing although I never reached any level of sustainability. I thought perhaps being CTO in a startup would give me some of that same ownership, control and enjoyment but it just feels like another job. I actually feel a bit depressed by the whole thing which is a new sensation for me and my personality.
Am I expecting too much? Is it simply another job? What can I do to fix this or should I leave and get back to a coding job?
I'd love to hear from people with similar experiences!
PS. Sorry for the throwaway account but my main account has too much personal info for this topic!",,unhappycto,326,1465821939,2016-06-13 12:45:39+00:00,story,11893237,,219.0,, 681,What feature did you find after years of using macOS?,,"For me, it was finding that I can use "Stacks" in Finder to clear desktop. For years, I was irritated with screenshots lying all over my desktop screen but didn't have the energy to sort them manually. When I found out Stacks, I was like ...",,hooda,326,1596895707,2020-08-08 14:08:27+00:00,story,24091707,,529.0,, 682,Who is Hiring? (June 2011),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (June 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607058",,whoishiring,326,1306933255,2011-06-01 13:00:55+00:00,story,2607052,,329.0,, 683,What do top engineers you know do that others don't?,,Just wanted to get into the top 0.01% axons. :>,,aledalgrande,326,1577179643,2019-12-24 09:27:23+00:00,story,21870889,,152.0,, 684,Who is hiring? (September 2019),,"Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867121
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867122",,whoishiring,326,1567522889,2019-09-03 15:01:29+00:00,story,20867123,,709.0,, 685,What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?,,"For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job
1. Hasura 2. Strapi 3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. Integromat 5. Appgyver
There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves.
What's on your 'to watch' list?
[3]https://www.forestadmin.com/
[5]https://www.integromat.com/en
[6]https://nodered.org/",,alienlid,326,1608946086,2020-12-26 01:28:06+00:00,story,25540583,,248.0,, 686,As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?,,"This is kind of a banal story. I'm the lead developer on a "modernization" project that's taking a lot longer than anticipated (you see where this is going). The team is great, it's just that the work is way outside their comfort zone. The business has been selling the new version pretty hard and we're not going to make the release (about 3 months to go).
Question is; as a lead how would you handle this? I think my direct manager has a healthy dose of skepticism about the timeline, but the product owner doesn't. At what point should I start sounding the alarm? I'd like to give it a couple of weeks and see if the team picks up pace but I'm not confident.",,le-mark,325,1531364209,2018-07-12 02:56:49+00:00,story,17511850,,195.0,, 687,When do you know your startup has failed?,,"I'm currently going through a mini depression. We've gone without salary for the last 4 months, abandoned our business model to do pay for hire work in the hopes of trying to raise money to keep the lights on.
Honestly I feel like I'm going to be evicted from the house. My rent is already up, and as of now I have < $1 :).
My partner is fine actually, he has rich parents and doesn't really depend on the startup for income. Which actually gives my friends and family the illusion that we're both killing it.
We have almost 0 chance of raising more money, it's much harder to get money it seems if you're in a poor country.
So, if you've had a failed startup, how did you know? Did you run out of money and call it quits? If you succeeded, did you have a patch so rough that you were evicted?
I'm 25, I feel like I'm losing at life already. It was okay to be broke earlier, because it's expected. It's not anymore, when almost none of your peers are. Also, I'm not in a developed country, where being broke means living on ~$1k a month. I've been living on ~$200 a month.
Anyway, I just want any input from you guys. Like anything, I just wanted to get this off my chest. Not even sure I've really expressed what I wanted to express (English isn't my first language).",,superpi,325,1429257240,2015-04-17 07:54:00+00:00,story,9392780,,173.0,, 688,"Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?",,"According to the media and from watching my professional circle, it seems that many are indeed changing jobs with significant pay raises--the so-called Great Resignation.
I'd like to hear from HN about job changes and raises. Anecdotes are welcome, but ideally one of us works in HR and has systematic data.
But more importantly, I'd like to think through the reasons driving the Great Resignation. Below are several explanations with my own assessments.
1. People die from Covid, reducing the labor force. -> Irrelevant for tech workers
2. People get large checks from the gov and are not pressured to find job. -> Irrelevant for tech workers
3. People avoided changing jobs during the pandemic. So the high turnover now is simply making up for low turnover in 2020. -> This does explain the high turnover, but not the significant raises. Indeed, the number of workers and jobs remains the same--people are shuffling between places. To be convinced of this theory, I'd like to see that raises are flat.
3. Senior workers are retiring early due to pandemic-related revelation. Mid-level workers are thus getting more promos than usual. -> Seems plausible. To be convinced, I need to see mid-level workers getting raises, and entry-level workers NOT getting raises.
4. [My theory] Remote work allows better matching of people and jobs. Imagine that person A can deliver lots of value to company B, but is hitherto prevented to do so due to location. With remote work, Person A can now work for Company B and get paid higher accordingly. -> To be convinced, I need to see that remote job offers have higher comp vs comparable non-remote job offers. If this theory is true, then the Great Resignation/Remote Work makes the job market more efficient, creates value for society, and should be celebrated by employees and employers alike.
5. [My theory] The pandemic pushes society forward in terms of tech adoption, making tech workers even more valuable than before. -> Seems plausible, since tech has become more valuable as a whole (e.g. stock price), not just salary. If this theory is true, then it is again a good thing for both tech workers and the broader society.",,noobhacker,325,1635037611,2021-10-24 01:06:51+00:00,story,28973942,,259.0,, 689,How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?,,"Hi Hackernews, I am a developer with lots of random creative thoughts, especially when I am in shower or after a few shots of caffeine. I have yet to find a perfect solution to keep track of my random thoughts. Here are a few things that I've tried at least for a few months:
1. Physical notebook: still using, but some times my notebook is in my backpack/left at home/in office 2. Evernote alike: never works for me. I hate the constant changing features/UI and the overhead of simply opening it 3. (My pick) use instant IM to send messages to myself: the IM tool really doesn't matter. It could be mail app, facebook messenger, slack. Laptop and phone syncing is free and always reliable.
I know these are my throw away thoughts. I am wondering whether there are some amazingly good solutions that I didn't know of. Otherwise I am planning to create one for myself.
Thanks!",,jianzong,325,1546764610,2019-01-06 08:50:10+00:00,story,18837345,,278.0,, 690,What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?,,"I was searching for something on HN and I happened upon this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2262527
I thought the top comment by neilk was just beautifully written and really encouraging (with the slight irony that he encourages the OP to stop reading HN!). I have bookmarked it and resolved to re-read it when I'm feeling low.
It got me thinking, there's a lot of introspection and self-criticism here on HN, but there's even more wisdom and kindness. What are the most positive and uplifting comments you've read?
And to neilk and people like you, thanks. You've probably helped more people than you realise.",,J-dawg,325,1429264308,2015-04-17 09:51:48+00:00,story,9393213,,67.0,, 691,How did you build up your personal knowledge base?,,I'm looking for a good solution to build a personal knowledge Base. What are your experiences? Which Tool you are using? How long is it in use?,,smartis2812,324,1571824509,2019-10-23 09:55:09+00:00,story,21332957,,107.0,, 692,What is your favorite HN post?,,"Recent, old, perhaps anything that is interesting to read.",,JunaidBhai,324,1546933089,2019-01-08 07:38:09+00:00,story,18853966,,73.0,, 693,How long has Google been censoring YouTube comments critical of China?,,"I was just alerted to YouTube censoring comments critical of China. I then tested this by commenting on one of my own videos with random hotkeys that I knew would trigger anything of the sort. About 10 seconds later, my test comments were gone.
Edit: I posted the following comment to my video, and this was deleted too. This could not be a spam filtering false positive:
"The world's sanitisation problem could be helped with more recycling of chinese trash, especially in wuhan. The green waste that's turned into compost in tiananmen square is a bonus to sustainability."",,alfiedotwtf,324,1589803417,2020-05-18 12:03:37+00:00,story,23221264,,108.0,, 694,Who is Hiring? (May 2011),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job HN readers may be interested in from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (May 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503209",,whoishiring,324,1304265294,2011-05-01 15:54:54+00:00,story,2503204,,291.0,, 695,Who is hiring? (November 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.",,whoishiring,324,1414847173,2014-11-01 13:06:13+00:00,story,8542892,,423.0,, 696,How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?,,"I don't want them to become victims of phishing, hacking, ... any ideas? Any ideas how I could prevent these?",,nellypat,324,1558888583,2019-05-26 16:36:23+00:00,story,20015775,,207.0,, 697,Do you have a side project you want to sell?,,"A thread similar to this was posted ~1 year ago by illdave. I think it's time for an updated 2014 version.
If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you.",,gillis,323,1398623386,2014-04-27 18:29:46+00:00,story,7656154,,502.0,, 698,"I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?",,How does google know I bought Voltaren?
Is my bank purchase history shared with google somehow?
I guess it could just be coincidence?,,wideareanetwork,323,1618736370,2021-04-18 08:59:30+00:00,story,26850913,,469.0,, 699,Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?,,"Ever tried to help a relative over the holidays to set up their home-banking? Lost in the juggling of your multi-factor device garden? Tried to get useful search results from Google recently to find yourself in advert hell? Longing for the old Amazon experience when today's seems like running the gauntlet of grey-imports and scam-price offerings? Logged out of a site for 6 months and returning to a completely confusing new site where nothing is like it used to be? Today's Internet experience has become user-hostile and it almost calls out for returning to the 90s: walled gardens aka Compuserve experience, dedicated devices for home-banking and standalone cameras.
What has led to this experience? On the top of my head I can see the following reasons:
* Release Often as KPIs for developers
The release often KPI for promotion and bonuses has led to constant changes to 'systems that are working fine' to become ever-changing user experiences. While daily users can gradually phase-in changes, most sites that are casually used will confuse users with completely new error-prone experience.
* Payment Security and Financial Regulations
At least in the EU fraud has led to various tech-related regulation calling as an example for separate apps for IDs and for transaction verification. While it is well-meant, it leads people to check bank statements less often and anecdotally in my family confuses especially elderly users to the point of introducing more opportunity for scams and fraud.
* Patch-work nature of ID & Verification
Captchas, Two-factor SMS, password rules and Authentication Apps have been patched onto the original user/pass system. The experience has become truly annoying with some clear winners: anecdotally more and more people simply use Google/Facebook OAuth as logins to sites. This is fine from a UI perspective, but lacks consumer regulation - what happens if you lose your access and who can you contact if your accounts get compromised/scammed/blocked?
* KPI switch from customer first to business model first
Having gained their audience share, Amazon and Google have switched from a 'customer is king' perspective to one which suits their business model most.
What are other reasons?",,julianpye,323,1641201861,2022-01-03 09:24:21+00:00,story,29778880,,370.0,, 700,How to find work while homeless?,,"I'm at my wits end.
I was made homeless and had my financial support dropped at the beginning of the year, and am currently staying in squats etc in the Netherlands. I have nearly no income - 10 euros a week in donations towards an open-source project I'm working on to build a live video streaming platform for the fediverse, and occasional requests for solidarity funds.
My situation is... not great. Half my time is taken up by anxiety around police violence, illegal evictions, my friends being arrested. Still, in the immediate term, it's better than sleeping rough.
I'm not sure how to find work; I've not had a paying job in the last 8 years. I've worked on software for myself and others in hackerspaces and the like; and helped run a volunteer cafe for a large portion of last year (sinking 20+ hours a week into that fairly consistently), but I can't seem to even turn that into an actual paying cafe job. I go through bursts of sending dozens of applications a week to anything that is vaguely relevant to anything I've done in the past, and receive... mostly nothing in response.
I don't know what's wrong with me. All I want is to make enough money to survive. I'm going to be dead in a few months if I can't work something out.
Does anyone have any advice, at all?",,vertex-four,323,1582894921,2020-02-28 13:02:01+00:00,story,22442454,,171.0,, 701,What ways have worked for you to overcome 'imposter syndrome'?,,"I'm doing the best I can by improving each day, still feel like I have so much to learn every time I see the front page of HN.",,good_vibes,323,1499029129,2017-07-02 20:58:49+00:00,story,14684307,,147.0,, 702,What's the Hacker News for different industries?,,"Curious if there's a high signal source of knowledge for other highly technical industries.
If you don't work in tech, what else do you read daily?",,obblekk,323,1520745607,2018-03-11 05:20:07+00:00,story,16561799,,90.0,, 703,How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?,,"Hello fellow HNers,
How do you organise your life/work/side projects/todo lists/etc in an integrated way?
We have:
* To do lists/Reminders
* Bookmark lists
* Kanban boards
* Wikis
* Financial tools
* Calenders/Reminders
* Files on disk
* General notes
* ...
So far, I've found a wiki to be almost the most flexible in keeping all manner of raw information kind of organised, but lacks useful features like reminders, and minimal tagging support, no easy way to keep track of finances, etc.
I understand 'best tool for the job', but there's just so...many...",,tonteldoos,323,1477462746,2016-10-26 06:19:06+00:00,story,12794292,,261.0,, 704,Best introductory video courses on ML and Deep Learning?,,"Hi there! I'm looking for an easy way to get started with AI/ML/DL.
I don't necessarily need to go super deep into details, I'm more interested in a practical high-level overview.
I know about Andrew Ng course [1], 3blue1brown videos [2], and Berkeley AI course [3]. What else would you recommend?
[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi
[3] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIeooNSdhQE5kRrB71yu5yP9BRCJCSbMt",,rayalez,323,1515820172,2018-01-13 05:09:32+00:00,story,16138353,,40.0,, 705,Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?,,"Today I have found out that hibernation is by default disabled in my Ubuntu 18.04 distribution. After this, I found this 11 month old post https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/re-visiting-hibernate-on-ubun... where I realized that the Linux community does not seem to be able to implement a working implementation of hibernate. Is there any reason why this is a difficult problem? I would like to have an option in my OS like VM's have where everything that is currently running is saved on disk and can be resumed later without issues.",,cyka178,322,1617892516,2021-04-08 14:35:16+00:00,story,26739220,,332.0,, 706,Great Blogs by Programmers,,I'm redoing my RSS feed subscriptions from scratch. I'd appreciate suggestions for great personal blogs by programmers.,,cdevroe,322,1644243934,2022-02-07 14:25:34+00:00,story,30245247,,140.0,, 707,How to Teach Coding?,,"I finally did it and I get my first Trainee.
I already teached coding to internships for a few weeks. But this time I have three years to share my knowledge and grow with him.
I already checked methods and stuff online like pair programming, visualization of data flows ect.
But what I would love to know is, what has worked for you guys on both sides. Sharing knowledge and get trained.
I want to be the best mentor I can be and I want to proof that this is a thing I can do good and continue doing it the next years of my career.
So, what helped you to train others or receiving knowledge?",,moveax,322,1556130671,2019-04-24 18:31:11+00:00,story,19741408,,121.0,, 708,How to move beyond “freelancer”?,,"I've been doing freelance web development for the past 7 years. I have consistent work and "OK" pay. I've experimented with my rates over time, and am at a point where I have trouble finding work if I raise them...but become part of the "commodity freelancer market" if I charge less.
Last year, I had a client (who had their own client...which we'll call the "true client") for a big project. At the beginning of the project, upon receiving my quote, my client told me that it was "way above" what the true client was willing to pay. I asked for more clear budget numbers, and was told very clearly that it was 60% of my original quote. After days of negotiations, I ended up reducing my quote considerably. Keep in mind, this did NOT involve me reducing my rate; I know better.
Part-way through the project, I found out that not only was my original quote under the true client's budget, but my client had also quoted them a price which was 3 times my original quote amount. Not only that...but they had used my quote to create their own, and then proceeded to cut me down farther.
I felt undervalued and belittled by the news. I wasn't upset about another company profiting off of me (of course that's going to happen by default, if I'm working through an intermediary). Rather, I was really bothered by the nickel-and-diming and flat-out lies I was told about the project's constraints and budget.
Since that time, I've paid closer attention to the companies I work with. They're consistently profiting off of me at ridiculous rates; however, if I raise my rates to compensate, I don't get work. I've tried to form my own "digital agency" with another partner...but we had a harder time finding work as a new agency than as freelancers.
TL;DR: I'm tired of being nickel-and-dimed, and want to move beyond the "freelancer" title. How did you become the digital agency that you are today? How did you drop the "freelancer" title and make something more of your daily life?",,ryannevius,322,1427723887,2015-03-30 13:58:07+00:00,story,9289500,,123.0,, 709,Why is Docusign a $50B company?,,"I have been searching for a solution to e-sign some lease agreements. It is something that I need to do maybe once a year and the only thing I need is a legally binding way to put signatures and timestamps on a PDF. I do not need any fancy features.
I was doing research, and it seems like most document signature companies all charge monthly subscription fees! This does not work for me as I am not using the platform on a monthly basis.
Are there free, open source alternatives to Docusign? If so, why do more companies not use them?",,akouri,321,1638049669,2021-11-27 21:47:49+00:00,story,29363897,,332.0,, 710,What are some examples of good code?,,"I keep reading on HN that I'm order to become a better developer I need to write code everyday, and more importantly read other people's code.
What are some examples of good code that you've seen?
Personally I'm interested in Ruby on Rails and I've recently started going through GitLab-CE[1] but what is your favor code?
[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce",,amingilani,321,1489367096,2017-03-13 01:04:56+00:00,story,13854431,,162.0,, 711,What is your system for backing up family photos and video?,,"My extended family has several terabytes of family photos and videos from over the years. We've mostly digitized everything, but some segments are just sitting on external hard drives in closets - waiting to eventually break or become corrupted.
My current methodology for our immediate family is aligned with the common back up advice - one local copy, one off-site copy (at grandma's house,) and one in cloud storage. We're using Google Photos for cloud storage. The easy integration with Nest Hubs makes for nice digital picture frames around the family homes.
What is your system for backing up family photos and videos to stand the test of time? Is it adequate to put everything in cloud storage and forget about it? Do you reassess every couple years and adjust to the new landscape of storage services? Is it unavoidable that we'll be paying $100+/year forever for a [presumably increasing] few terabytes of cloud storage?
Is there a good solution for posterity? For example, once I die, and if my family were to become unable to pay the hosting bill, is there any way to guarantee these heirlooms remain intact and available?",,reisr3,321,1642509223,2022-01-18 12:33:43+00:00,story,29978099,,375.0,, 712,Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?,,"I'm looking to follow a few more people from my GNU Social instance. Who do you follow, and why?",,rocky1138,320,1522718597,2018-04-03 01:23:17+00:00,story,16741116,,128.0,, 713,What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL,,,,sebg,320,1457623962,2016-03-10 15:32:42+00:00,story,11259746,,626.0,, 714,"I've realized I'm a bad software engineer and I'm over 30, what's next?",,"Hi folks, I've been working as a software engineer for about 10 years but always in small companies with few or none programmers or as a freelancer. I've been able to always have work on my desk because I'm always moving and talking with people in the industry but some months ago I decided to go to work on a proper medium software company.
I'd been assigned a medium complexity task and I've failed to accomplish it, the code was all filled with hardcoded values, wrong structure, difficult to debug bugs and similar things.
I've realized I'm not a senior software engineer as I thought and now I don't know what to do next. If you read my resume it'll seem I am a senior but I don't really know where to place me in the "experience" spectrum. I've always managed to solve the problems in front of me but in a "hacky way" and now the issue was totally revealed to me.
I'm thinking about looking for semi senior roles but I'm afraid it'll look weird for the company interviewing me to hire a semi senior with +10 years of experience.
I've also thought about transitioning to a PM role but I'm not sure if I can be a PM if I'm not able to code things the right way myself.
A third option would be to take a break from work and try to learn to write good code but I'm not sure it's possible without working on a company with other people.
As you very probably see, I'm quite lost right now so I'd be very grateful if you can advise me what I could do next with my career.",,mxmpawn,320,1617200674,2021-03-31 14:24:34+00:00,story,26647717,,263.0,, 715,Who is hiring? (April 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472748",,whoishiring,320,1364821342,2013-04-01 13:02:22+00:00,story,5472746,,420.0,, 716,Mailing lists that HN readers ought to know about?,,"I subscribe to a variety of information feeds through email mailing list subscription. There's at least one mailing list that seems to get my attention on a regular basis, namely that produced by KurzweilAI: http://www.kurzweilai.net
The mailing list seems to touch on cutting edge news across AI research and business.
What do you subscribe to that you think others would benefit by if they were to as well?",,Dowwie,320,1491904853,2017-04-11 10:00:53+00:00,story,14086259,,133.0,, 717,Whatever happened to exploring the internet?,,I seem to have collapsed down to checking 5 to 6 sites.
Where would I even go to find other sites that might be of interest?
I can’t even really think of any other sites to visit.
Whatever happened to the idea of “exploring the Internet”?,,mickjagger,320,1635066004,2021-10-24 09:00:04+00:00,story,28976069,,268.0,, 718,I work for AWS. How do I encourage change for Amazon warehouse workers?,,"Ideally without getting fired.
I've voiced some of my concerns to management but that hasn't gone anywhere. I know I'm not alone amongst my coworkers in feeling concerned for Fulfillment Center (FC, Amazon's term for their retail warehouses) employees. How can we in AWS organize and campaign for better working conditions for our FC teammates?
This is of course inspired by Tim Bray's recent departure from Amazon (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23065782). I'm a software engineer (surprise surprise) if it matters.",,awscompassion,320,1588705112,2020-05-05 18:58:32+00:00,story,23083496,,213.0,, 719,What is your favorite method of sending large files?,,"I just opened up a simple HTTP server to send someone a large file. Then I figured, I never gave this question proper thought.
But some of you have, and I figured they make for fun and interesting stories ;-)
So what's your favorite method to send large files, of at least 5GB or bigger? Though, I'm also curious on how you'd send 10TB or more.",,mettamage,319,1599034475,2020-09-02 08:14:35+00:00,story,24351111,,354.0,, 720,Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?,," This question was asked 3 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535) by mdoliwa, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays.
> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?
> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.",,codesternews,319,1609611689,2021-01-02 18:21:29+00:00,story,25614966,,270.0,, 721,Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?,,"It’s pointless to block every single spam number that can call in. If we can’t end spam calls, why don’t phones let you at least block all except numbers in your contact list?",,tones411,319,1548811384,2019-01-30 01:23:04+00:00,story,19031711,,324.0,, 722,What are good reads for designing APIs?,,,,adnanh,319,1470843829,2016-08-10 15:43:49+00:00,story,12262586,,96.0,, 723,What VPN service are you currently using?,,"And would you recommend it? I've decided to get one and so far my only two requirements seem to be:
1. It should work with OpenVPN
2. It should support SOCKS5 (Proxy)
PIA, Nord, Mullvad, ZorroVPN, ProtonVPN look promising. On the other hand, SigaVPN is based on a not-for-profit model so I was not sure about it. What is your personal preference?",,_7bva,318,1551058878,2019-02-25 01:41:18+00:00,story,19242058,,331.0,, 724,My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job,,"Hi everyone,
My father, who is a 56-years old software engineer and introduced me to software development, got unemployed some months ago and is having an extremely tough time getting a job here in Spain.
In his whole life he has worked as a developer, businessmen and executive at various companies such as Xerox. However, he went the developer path these past decades instead of moving on to something more 'senior oriented' such as being a project manager.
He has been always learning new stuff, so right now he has a MongoDB certification and is totally fluent in Django. But most of the companies he applies to just see his age and step back. And I'm also worried because here in Spain large companies are seeing the crisis and the really high youth unemployment as an opportunity to hire youngsters under really poor conditions, and they can actually hire five young developers for the price of one senior dev.
So I'm not really sure how I can help him, I actually know a lot of people in the startup ecosystem but startups usually want people in their 20s and 30s. I have also read a lot of posts regarding 'old developers', and he has read them as well.
He has a fresh mindset, wants to move to another city/country if it's required, and has tons of experience, so it's very hard for me to see him having this tough time... Any tip would be very helpful
Thanks a lot",,luisivan,318,1414104421,2014-10-23 22:47:01+00:00,story,8501149,,216.0,, 725,"I've lost faith in myself as a developer, how do I get it back?",,"I've been a software developer for about 12 years, the last 8 of which I have been the CTO of a company that is growing like crazy. Recently I have been doubting every move that I make and have lost all faith in myself as a developer. When I look at a new feature I just think that I will make it shitty or get called out on not doing things the "right" way. The thing is, I know I'm a decent developer but I find myself doubting every single decision that I make. Is this burn out? How can I get out of this funk and move on?",,cwitty88,318,1639583850,2021-12-15 15:57:30+00:00,story,29567743,,235.0,, 726,What does your ML pipeline look like?,,"Experienced machine learning professionals - How do you create scalable, deployable and reproducible data/ML pipelines at your work?",,mallochio,318,1555860215,2019-04-21 15:23:35+00:00,story,19712465,,49.0,, 727,Agriculture startups doing interesting work?,,"Maybe I'm out of the loop, but agriculture seems to be an overlooked industry in the startup world, even though there is a ton of opportunity there.
What are some startups who are solving tough agricultural problems? Who are some more established players?
I'm curious about any ag startups, especially those attempting to curb climate change through agriculture. For instance, new takes on outdoor farming techniques (like Indigo), indoor farming startups, folks working on agricultural hardware, machine learning, organic farming, folks developing apps to help farmers, distribution/sales/marketing, etc.",,greenie_beans,318,1571759732,2019-10-22 15:55:32+00:00,story,21325138,,202.0,, 728,Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?,,,,superasn,317,1528784757,2018-06-12 06:25:57+00:00,story,17291127,,468.0,, 729,Who has started a business because they couldn't get hired for work?,,"Many people start businesses for more financial independence, or simply want to be their own boss. How many of those started it out of a more dire need, from being unable to get hired anywhere and so needed to make money independently for themselves? Maybe from a pivot away from skills that are no longer in demand, or simply having trouble passing interviews due to a lack of a good network or bad soft skills.
It could be anyone from HN reading this, or just anybody else, who has shared their story somewhere about starting their business under these circumstances.
EDIT: I have years of experience as a software developer, but my inability to survive in the job market in the past three years has inspired me to make this topic. Either due to bad luck/timing, or bad soft skills, I can't get an offer anymore. So I'm considering other avenues to make a living.",,ccajas,316,1529096458,2018-06-15 21:00:58+00:00,story,17323525,,179.0,, 730,Do you find working on large distributed systems exhausting?,,Ive been working on large distributed system for the last 4-5 years with teams owning few services or have different responsibilities to keep the system up and running. We run into very interesting problems due to scale (billions of requests per month for our main public apis) and the large amount of data we deal with.
I think it has progressed my career and expanded my skills but I feel it's pretty damn exhausting to manage all this even when following a lot of the best-practices and working with other highly skilled engineers.
I've been wondering recently if others feel this kind of burnout (for lack of better word). Is the expectation is that your average engineer should now be able to handle all this?,,wreath,316,1645271926,2022-02-19 11:58:46+00:00,story,30396454,,249.0,, 731,What should we fund at YC Research?,,"So far we've supported OpenAI and we will soon start the basic income project. We have a few ideas about what to do next, but we'd love to hear from the community about what we should be considering. Thanks!",,sama,316,1454101431,2016-01-29 21:03:51+00:00,story,10998486,,522.0,, 732,What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?,,"I’m curious as to the tools or techniques people use to keep track of things like bookmarks, snippets of code or text, etc.?
I’ve used a variety of tools (simple browser bookmarks, Pinboard, Evernote, a text file, etc) but have never been very happy with any of the solutions.
Anyone have great tools or methods of storing bits of info for later access?
I’m thinking something that at a minimum has:
- Search
- Tagging
- Support for different content types (links, text, video embeds, photos, etc)
- Also would be nice to have mobile app, browser extension, API, Zappier integration, etc
Any suggestions?",,danaw,315,1586007324,2020-04-04 13:35:24+00:00,story,22778123,,245.0,, 733,How to prepare for an Engineering Manager interview?,,"I have 10 years of experience as a software engineer with various roles as a lead engineer. I have never managed anyone directly - nor hired/fired anyone. I recently applied for a manager role at a great company (not a big-5). To my surprise, they're interested in my profile and would like to start the interview process. My goal is to grow in those areas and gain a new set of skills.
This role does not involve intense coding but requires a good high level understanding of technologies. It is focusing a lot on career growth, decision making, resource allocation and mentoring.
How could I make a good impression despite the lack of management experience? I did mentor engineers, etc. in the past. Happy to hear about things I should be expecting.",,throwmeplease,315,1499533273,2017-07-08 17:01:13+00:00,story,14726130,,73.0,, 734,Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?,,I've started a software company and want to keep it just me and no employees. In this day and age with the popularity of SaaS and uptime needed is it still a realistic goal of starting and keep running a micro ISV?,,jetti,315,1481640869,2016-12-13 14:54:29+00:00,story,13167156,,161.0,, 735,People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?,,I feel like I have seen various waves of hype regarding programming bootcamps but the people who I have talked to about it are always people who are considering going or just graduated. Interested to hear from someone who's been out in the wild for at least a couple years.
What are you doing now? Do you feel that the bootcamp prepared you for the jobs you got? Do you think most of your cohort are still working as developers?,,anm89,314,1496965533,2017-06-08 23:45:33+00:00,story,14518093,,332.0,, 736,Books to read when you transform from SWE into SWE Management?,,"Hello HackerNews!
I started my SWE career in 2016. I'm in a team which develops an enterprise SaaS-Application. Now I got the opportunity to transform into a leader role which focuses on DevOps, Tests, QA, Documentation and related topics.
So far, we set goals and start to introduce the team (around 5 people) into that topic.
My question is - are there any good books, articles, podcasts, ... which can help me in this "challenge"? I already got some basic (practical) knowledge in leading people and managing a product.
Stay safe!",,DDerTyp,314,1646037450,2022-02-28 08:37:30+00:00,story,30497703,,93.0,, 737,What collaborative whiteboard are you using?,,I feel my team was way more productive when we all were whiteboarding together when designing new solutions.
Recently I have been day dreaming about VR whiteboards and tablet assisted whiteboards as I feel the tactile sense of a pen would help.
What are you using today?,,simonmales,314,1590155584,2020-05-22 13:53:04+00:00,story,23272054,,163.0,, 738,Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?,,"Context upfront: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13771203
I'd really like to have a decent (let's say >13") display to hang on a wall in my room and display weather, my todo list, etc. It doesn't necessarily have to be E-ink proper, but I like the idea of having something that doesn't emit its own light. More like an electronic whiteboard.
Alternatives include something like the Vestaboard, which is not cheap, and probably fairly noisy.
Are there products I'm missing here?",,semisight,314,1586471076,2020-04-09 22:24:36+00:00,story,22827833,,166.0,, 739,Who is hiring? (June 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.
============================================================
I built hirerefugees.org to connect refugees with work visas for safe countries and employers who want to help.
Please see:
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829033
- http://hirerefugees.org
============================================================",,whoishiring,314,1401628592,2014-06-01 13:16:32+00:00,story,7829042,,423.0,, 740,What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?,,"All software is a force multiplier, but some tools, like Zapier/IFTTT are in a class of their own.
Likewise concepts like Compound Interest and arguably knowledge of fallacies, such as "sunk cost fallacy".
What are some force multipliers that are available to most people, but which most people don't regularly put into use?",,newsbinator,314,1596973355,2020-08-09 11:42:35+00:00,story,24098954,,474.0,, 741,I'm So Lonely,,"I don't know if this is the right place for this but here are my stats. I'm a 32yo male, divorced with 2 kids whom I have little access to at the moment. My childhood friendships have withered, my divorce left me untrusting of women (at least for now). I work alone and don't have many opportunities to meet new people organically.
The thing is I don't even like hanging out with people most of the time but I get into this space where it feels like a biological necessity.
Does anyone have any tips on how to give myself attention? Or, in other words, how can I learn to be alone without feeling lonely? I feel like I need this lifeskill in order to proceed in my life.
I have a pattern of loneliness pushing me into making very foolish decisions.",,DevToRecruiter,314,1647231888,2022-03-14 04:24:48+00:00,story,30668506,,242.0,, 742,How do you deal with professional envy?,,"I think everyone feels envious of a high-flying peer once in a while. Or at least, I definitely do.
When someone younger than me, in my field, is making more money / getting more acclaim / winning praise from people I respect, it makes me seethe. Sometimes I even waste my time looking for a way to invalidate them, to put an asterisk* on their success, so I can feel better about myself.
Does this happen to anyone else? What do you do about it?",,cneurotic,314,1563111614,2019-07-14 13:40:14+00:00,story,20433301,,281.0,, 743,What is your advice for a technical founder learning sales?,,,,englishmaninnyc,314,1539796326,2018-10-17 17:12:06+00:00,story,18241160,,78.0,, 744,How to become a millionaire in 3 years?,,"As everyone else on the planet I'm sure, I would like to become a millionaire and within a tight time constraint: 3 short years. HN is a constant source of excellent articles, amazing intelligent advice and smart people, so how would you go about it? Saving, Stocks etc etc?
And also, please don't ask as to why I want to have a net worth of $1M and why I wouldn't just want to get 200k and live comfortably etc. I'm just interested in hearing people's thoughts about this idea :)
Thanks",,babyboy808,313,1277077017,2010-06-20 23:36:57+00:00,story,1447428,,134.0,, 745,Did any Show HN posts turn into successful startups?,,,,portobelln,313,1537427516,2018-09-20 07:11:56+00:00,story,18030355,,179.0,, 746,What is the actual purpose of Docker?,,"I'm hearing about Docker every other day, but when I look into it, I don't understand the purpose of it.
I run many websites/applications that need isolation from each other on a single server, but I just use the pretty-standard OpenVZ containers to deal with that (yes I know I could use KVM servers instead, but I haven't ran into any issues with VZ so far).
What's the difference between Docker and normal virtualization technology (OpenVZ/KVM)? Are there any good examples of when and where to use Docker over something like OpenVZ?",,someguy1233,313,1436269561,2015-07-07 11:46:01+00:00,story,9844806,,154.0,, 747,"How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?",,"The last thread by the same name got a lot of attention, but seeing as it's over a year old it would be interesting to hear from new people and also get updates from some people who posted in the previous thread.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487",,xjones,313,1346608005,2012-09-02 17:46:45+00:00,story,4467603,,279.0,, 748,"Companies of one, what is your tech stack?",,"Hello dear HNers.
Each year for the last two years I have asked companies of one, meaning companies that consists of only one person of what tech stacks you use. Feel free to link to your site or project for show case if you want.
Here is the last two threads:
(2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25465582
(2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024041
What is your tech stack?
Why did you choose it?
Do you think your choices had any impact on your success?
Thanks in advance!",,ecmascript,312,1629878075,2021-08-25 07:54:35+00:00,story,28299053,,320.0,, 749,Which companies give programmers offices?,,"Often when I suggest to non-programmers that programmers should get their own offices, I'm met with incredulity: "Where do any programmers get their own offices???" Microsoft and Fog Creek come to mind, but where else?",,jjazwiecki,312,1502373661,2017-08-10 14:01:01+00:00,story,14979718,,241.0,, 750,My Microsoft account has been suspended by Microsoft without details,,"My entire Microsoft account has been suspended, due to the violation of the Terms, by Microsoft, and without any further details. At the time of incident, I was not doing with the account or anything digital, and rather was cooking/eating dinner, when my computer received a notification about a problem with my Microsoft account.
I am not given any other options than to Contact Support about it, which I did yesterday and got an answer today that tells me nothing more than the very few that I know:
> Microsoft disabled access to the account due to a serious violation of the Microsoft Services Agreement https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement. As stated in the Microsoft Services Agreement, you will no longer be able to access any Services that require Microsoft account. For any subscriptions associated with the account, Microsoft will immediately cease charging the credit card on file for recurring charges. [...] Pursuant to our terms, we cannot reactivate your account, nor provide details as to why it was closed. This represents Microsoft’s final communication regarding this account.
I hope that I am not violating any other terms by sharing these messages. I do it out of frustration to know what exactly I might have done to deserve this, something more detailed than "you have violated our Terms as you eat your dinner", because without knowing which action of mine caused this, I either;
a) Will be unable to understand my mistake and not repeat it,
b) Will fear out of doing nearly everything and refrain from them, such as using a VPN on Amazon's AWS at Ohio, which I am sincerely suspicious of.
Microsoft's own way of justice is against the legal systems in all the modern countries, which always makes sure that the accused knows their faults, as one of their rights, and for the benefit of the accused not getting involved in such acts for a second time, for that they this time will know.",,ThoAppelsin,311,1532708508,2018-07-27 16:21:48+00:00,story,17627093,,225.0,, 751,Who is hiring? (March 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7324231",,whoishiring,311,1393683080,2014-03-01 14:11:20+00:00,story,7324236,,432.0,, 752,How to become a remote contractor?,,"I'm a javascript developer working in London and I want to become a remote contractor so I can travel the world while working remotely. Where can I find people or companies that can help me getting into the world of contracting and even be a intermediary? Is anyone in this situation that want to share how they did it and how is going?",,zerego,311,1526050789,2018-05-11 14:59:49+00:00,story,17047736,,160.0,, 753,What code samples should programmers read?,,"What are examples of code that ever programmer should have read and analysed because they show a particularly deep insight into the problem, a creative attempt at a solution or otherwise outstanding proficiency?
Goal is to learn something from excellent pieces of code, much like it is practised in art by studying Old Masters, pieces of literature or musical compositions.
PS: I admit to exaggeration in the headline / first paragraph ("should have") btw ;)",,_Microft,310,1496651821,2017-06-05 08:37:01+00:00,story,14486099,,148.0,, 754,Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?,,,,laksmanv,310,1465865292,2016-06-14 00:48:12+00:00,story,11898992,,197.0,, 755,I Have Cancer. What Should I Do?,,"I just left my engineering job at a medium-large employer to join an 18-person startup. I am set to start the new gig late next week.
I found a marble-sized lump under my armpit a few days ago. I quickly got it checked out, and the preliminary report just came back that it's probably cancerous.
What the hell should I do?
I'm 25, and otherwise healthy, so was not expecting this.
I really care about this new team and was excited to work with them. I feel horrible about joining a young business as an albatross instead of an asset.
I left my old job on good terms but have no idea how they could justify re-hiring an employee who left and may not be productive / able to work.
If I start at my new job I'm afraid I will endanger the business and raise everybody's premiums. I think they have a fairly generic group plan.
If I don't start my new job, how will I support myself?
My fiancé also works at a small startup so if I joined her insurance the same issues would apply.
I think I can still purchase my old insurance through Cobra, but I don't know how long that will last.
Thanks.",,dammit_lump,310,1432954279,2015-05-30 02:51:19+00:00,story,9628682,,153.0,, 756,Looking for side project ideas,,"Hi HN, As I programmer I lack ideas what side project ideas should i try to make skillset strong",,mraza007,310,1590315644,2020-05-24 10:20:44+00:00,story,23290536,,157.0,, 757,Who is Hiring? (November 2011),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" (November 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=3181801",,whoishiring,310,1320153048,2011-11-01 13:10:48+00:00,story,3181796,,294.0,, 758,"Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?",,,,kodeshpa,310,1305263263,2011-05-13 05:07:43+00:00,story,2543601,,172.0,, 759,How do you use Docker in production?,,I know what Docker is and how it works. What are some problems that get solved better when using Docker?,,valevk,309,1413541545,2014-10-17 10:25:45+00:00,story,8470206,,151.0,, 760,Who is hiring? (July 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970190",,whoishiring,309,1372682599,2013-07-01 12:43:19+00:00,story,5970187,,370.0,, 761,Burned Out. What Now?,,"I've been feeling off in several ways for a long time now, months if not more, and finally got around to seeing some healthcare professionals. "Showing symptoms of severe occupational burnout" is what I'm being told, and it rings true.
I know there are probably plenty of people on HN who have gone through the same. Reflecting back on your experiences, what are the sensible things to do next? Aside from continuing to listen to the aforementioned healthcare professionals, that is.
Some questions I'm wondering about, specifically:
- Should I tell my boss and/or team? Should I tell them right away, or wait until I know what other steps I want to take? What should I expect their reactions to be?
- Should I take time off? How much? Or should I try to work reduced hours? I'm hesitant because I don't have many hobbies (if any) and in the middle of the pandemic there isn't much to do anyway. I don't think running out of things to do would be any better for my health than continuing as-is. I've been there before and I don't handle boredom well.
- If I continue working, is there something in my working environment I should try to change? Think of senior engineer in a typical DevOps-y SaaS startup.
- Is there anything specific to working in tech and burning out that I should know about? I feel like this isn't exactly rare.",,burnoutwhatnow,309,1642626144,2022-01-19 21:02:24+00:00,story,30000069,,209.0,, 762,What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?,,"I've been considering creating a personal website where I can post software projects I've done and write blog posts about them. I've found a couple inspirational engineers that produce a lot of interesting projects and content on their personal pages, but I'm sure there's a ton of people who have great blogs that I've never heard of.
Who are some of your favorites?",,buildlove,308,1549633695,2019-02-08 13:48:15+00:00,story,19114037,,114.0,, 763,How much ad revenue you make from your side project?,,Have a side project which is an analytics web application based on 100k+ records. I was initially thinking to get a small payment from each user. But it appears to me that - information provided can be easily scrapped from site (if someone really wants) and it won't make sense.
So I am thinking of revenue model based on ads. At its 'full' potential web application can draw a million visits per month (in 2-3 years may be).
Adrevenue calculators show adrevenue of $2000 dollars for a million visits[0] with 2 pages/visit and $1 RPM.
How realistic are these adrevenue calculators ?
Can anybody share their experience with real numbers and insights.
https://www.omnicalculator.com/business/website-ad-revenue\
edit: reformed sentence,,samblr,308,1497719246,2017-06-17 17:07:26+00:00,story,14576677,,174.0,, 764,Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?,,I have talked to numerous people and there is no set consensus on whether I should be unplugging my laptop charger when it is fully charged.,,zatkin,308,1430762887,2015-05-04 18:08:07+00:00,story,9487903,,237.0,, 765,How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?,,"I'm running a startup and we're storing north of 10PB of data and growing. We're currently on AWS and our contract is up for renewal. I'm exploring other storage solutions.
Min requirements of AWS S3 One Zone IA (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/?nc=sn&loc=3)
How would you store >10PB if you'd be in my shoes? Thought experiment can be with and without data transfer cost our of current S3 buckets. Please mention also what your experience is based on. Ideally you store large amounts of data yourself and speak of first hand experience.
Thank you for your support!! I will post a thread once we got to a decision on what we ended up doing.
Update: Should have mentioned earlier, data needs to be accessible at all time. It’s user generated data that is downloaded in the background to a mobile phone, so super low latency is not important, but less than 1000ms required.
The data is all images and videos, and no queries need to be performed on the data.",,philippb,307,1619165545,2021-04-23 08:12:25+00:00,story,26912321,,366.0,, 766,What is your passive income 2019?,,"Time to ask again :)
Any side projects, Games, OSS.",,throwaway_yc,307,1572370246,2019-10-29 17:30:46+00:00,story,21389776,,294.0,, 767,How Belarus can keep connected despite internet blackout?,,"Hello hackers. What would be your advice for Belarus protesters to keep connected to each other and the rest of the world.There are some solutions for short-range communication (e.g. https://briarproject.org/), but what are the solutions for the mid-range (e.g. city) and long-range (hundreds of kilometers) communication? I suppose the HAM radio could be used for that or AMPRNet. Any ideas how to provide low-cost, decentralized, communication infrastructure for the time when internet is cut off?",,izik,307,1597212949,2020-08-12 06:15:49+00:00,story,24129059,,144.0,, 768,"Non-technical readers of HN, why are you here?",,"HN's primary audience is "hackers", which generally extends to the engineering types. I however have gleaned a lot of insight from comments written by non-coders, particularly those without an engineering background.
If you're one of those, I'd love to hear how you found out about HN and what keeps you coming back.",,romanhn,307,1487345683,2017-02-17 15:34:43+00:00,story,13668870,,185.0,, 769,Where can I live off 1k USD per month?,,"I'm planing on taking some serious time off to work on my side projects.
I'm open to any country in the world, I want to just work on my games. So with that in mind I'll need good internet access. From what I can see, this is very doable in Eastern Europe.
Eventually, I do plan on returning to the US, but I want to spend at least 6 months overseas.",,41209,306,1629941702,2021-08-26 01:35:02+00:00,story,28309520,,533.0,, 770,Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?,,,,nicostouch,306,1484656703,2017-01-17 12:38:23+00:00,story,13416935,,324.0,, 771,What are the best practises for using SSH keys?,,"Following the recent post about upgrading SSH keys to ED25519, I am wondering what the best practises (regarding security) for using SSH keys are.
For example:
- Is it better to use a different passphrase on each key, or does using the same one not matter much?
- How much less secure is it to not use a passphrase on a key?
- Should you use a different key per user account, per server, or per use-case (i.e. personal or work)?
- Does increasing the amount of bits in a key really have an effect on the security of the key, or does it not make much difference in a real-world use?
- How/Where should private keys be stored on a device using them?
- What are some of the pros and cons from a security standpoint, and how may doing different things affect the usability of a key?",,TheCustardKing,306,1474794255,2016-09-25 09:04:15+00:00,story,12574510,,110.0,, 772,What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?,,"A friend of mine has just taught herself the basics of JavaScript then done a code boot camp. She's pretty comfortable writing code now, but hasn't had a chance to get to grips with stuff like complexity analysis yet.
It seems to me like she's a member of a large and growing target audience for a book that gets you started with all the stuff you would learn in a computer science degree, with the assumption that you already know how to express an algorithm as code.
Can anyone recommend such a book?",,bjackman,306,1566121624,2019-08-18 09:47:04+00:00,story,20729252,,82.0,, 773,How to get web development career on track from being homeless?,,"I am a current homeless web dev living in Portland, OR
I saw another post by a homeless dev in CO after doing some searches to see if there were others out there like me.
I got here due to medical issues that have finally come to being managed after 3 years.
I currently have zero cash, I am fairly new to Portland so I do not have friends and I have no family to lean on for support. I have 10 years of web dev experience, the last 3 years being very spotty; only a few contract jobs in and out.
I have a bed in a shelter for now.
I have tapped into the public health insurance so I can continue my medical visits.
I have food stamps.
I have a good laptop
I am often on a university campus using the library for charging and net.
My main problem is getting a job. This is where you come in HN community, please let me know what you all think or if you can relate.
My main languages are PHP and Python. I have extensive front end experience with Javascript as well.
No one is really looking for a PHP developer right now. And all the front end jobs want React/Redux experience or Angular. I have looked up and down on gigs and postings on Craigslist every single day.
Question: What do I do? All the recruiters think I am fit for a senior level position, but with 3 years of on and off programming I am a bit rusty and I am afraid if I apply and fail skills tests at too many places word will get around.
I really just want a relaxed junior level position, but those are hard to find. Everyone wants senior level guys in React and other frameworks I do not have. (Though I am currently teaching myself React and do know a good bit now.)
I just want to get my career back on track and get out of this shelter
Any advice for work, besides getting a min wage job. What do I do to get my web dev career back on track?
Thanks for any and all comments and my email is in my profile",,pdxHomelessDev,305,1533339587,2018-08-03 23:39:47+00:00,story,17684451,,196.0,, 774,Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?,,"I went back to diveintohtml5.org to find something today, and it's gone. Then I checked diveintomark.org, diveintopython3.org, twitter.com/diveintomark...
Is Mark Pilgrim pulling a disappearing act?",,rileywatkins,305,1317779812,2011-10-05 01:56:52+00:00,story,3073798,,84.0,, 775,Idea Sunday,,"A HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.
If you think this thread should be started only every other Sunday or monthly, please state it in your comment.",,rokhayakebe,305,1397411195,2014-04-13 17:46:35+00:00,story,7582077,,441.0,, 776,What are the best resources for learning security and pen testing?,,,,relaunched,305,1531972778,2018-07-19 03:59:38+00:00,story,17563857,,51.0,, 777,I think I’ve burnt out. What should I do?,,"Hi, HN. I’ve been here for a long time and I really respect the maturity and experience of this community, and so I’m asking for your advice.
I’m a 30-year-old iOS developer of about ten years, and last year suffered an incredible amount of trauma, including a breakup from a four-year relationship, two separate cases of sexual assault, and the passing of my mother.
While on an insured mental health break for months, I struggled through holding myself together, until finally returning to work in December.
I had been doing well for a while, but recently have been feeling significant mental instability - just disorganized and incoherent thoughts, and unfortunate bouts of overwhelming PTSD symptoms.
My coping method to that has been to try to hold my work together more and more, to a point late last week where I wasn’t even sleeping properly giving myself anxiety about work the next day.
I’ve fallen heavily behind on a lot of the personal responsibilities I’ve needed to ensure my continued healing but I’ve been terrified to step down from my job.
I live in Toronto, I’ve been with the company for more than a year, so I believe Employment Insurance would be possible for me...I’m honestly very confused as to what to do, and I’m sure others here have been in similar situations. I do have a medical professional who I deal with for this who I’ve scheduled to see tomorrow.
Thanks for reading, HN. This site has been a blessing in my life.
EDIT: Wow, thanks for all the support and responses, extremely grateful.",,lostgame,305,1580152040,2020-01-27 19:07:20+00:00,story,22162647,,164.0,, 778,What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?,,,,spython,305,1527419297,2018-05-27 11:08:17+00:00,story,17166420,,226.0,, 779,What things has tech made worse in your life?,,"Growing up I always enjoyed tech and was excited for all the problems tech can solve and all the improvements it can make and has made in my life. However, recently I had to check-in into a doctors office using a 3rd party software and the process is incredibly worse for the patient. Normally, I walk in, tell them my name and sit down. Now on my phone, I have to enter my DOB, answer a few questions, "Accept" some consent forms every time. They will not see me if I don't use the system. Then, at the end I am greeted with an advertisement for a medication.
Another one, recently had to call comcast as they were charging my parents $70 for what they are offering for $20, I play the call of "i want to cancel it is too expensive, AT&T cheaper". They recently "improved" their phone bot and added some "amazing" features. I am saying I want to cancel service/speak to customer service, and this thing goes and tells me it is restarting my modem.......then for the next 15 minutes I cannot reach anyone at comcast because my modem is restarting, every time I call I was getting, "We are restarting your modem call us back later GOODBYE!"......I swear things like this just make me want to go live off-grid somewhere.",,avgDev,305,1639153684,2021-12-10 16:28:04+00:00,story,29511761,,480.0,, 780,"Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, Instant Checkmate, etc?",,"Please excuse the frustrated tone; the "secrecy" all over the internet about the whole issue has been driving me insane.
The usual useless BS is "oh, these companies get it from governmental public records". Yeah, right. I'm pretty darn sure that some of the personal information I can find online on MyLife, Intelius, InstantCheckmate, Spokeo, etc. is not in some government agency's public record, and regardless, surely there's no way that hundreds of companies are repeating each others' work over and over again when they could just buy the information from someone.
Someone (or a few) hidden underneath has to be doing the heavy-lifting of scraping people's data from sketchy sources and selling them to third-party companies while staying hidden. My question is, who are these, and (where it is possible to know) whom are they selling to? How can I find out? Surely someone knows, and I'm tired of playing this goose chase where those who don't know just make random guesses as to how the information must be coming from some some public records, and those who do know say hardly anything beyond "you have to know where to look".
I'm not looking for just 1 pointer, though I would appreciate it. I'm tired of pointer chasing. I'm just looking for as comprehensive a list as possible. It has to exist somewhere... after all, when a court needs to order that someone's information be purged (for whatever reason, e.g. for safety), it's got to have a list of these data aggregators somewhere, so I'm sure some people must know. So how do I find out? I'm hoping to also learn to fish in addition to being given the fish.
Thank you!",,dataflow,304,1488800643,2017-03-06 11:44:03+00:00,story,13802068,,247.0,, 781,What are you thankful for?,,"Thanks dang and team for taking care of the HN community!
Many years ago, I stumbled upon HN. I just lurked. Then one day I posted a comment.
I am thankful for HN because many years ago it provided a community for someone who was desperately seeking social interaction during my very boring corporate job workday. It was my water cooler. It still is even though as it has grown in popularity, it is almost like a meme for some people to say 'Don't read HN' because they maybe read one divisive thread once or only read divisive threads and thus see it as a monoculture...",,wallflower,304,1542891528,2018-11-22 12:58:48+00:00,story,18509717,,157.0,, 782,Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?,,"This is approximately my cost of living (I'm from a cheap country). I need to pay for food and rent. I can program well and relatively quickly. I'm not looking to build a monster business, I'm looking to cover my costs of living as efficiently as possible.
Suggestions?",,needmoney,304,1267883072,2010-03-06 13:44:32+00:00,story,1171520,,127.0,, 783,When did tech stop being cool?,,"I grew up a millennial tech geek, spending my days lurking on Tom's Hardware, playing and modding video games, tinkering with code and watching Star Trek. Wherever I looked at the world's problems, more technology seemed to be the answer.
Nowadays I'm a software dev and tech entrepreneur. At best, technology bores me. At worst, it terrifies me. Today's startups are solving the most boring problems imaginable. Gadgets are a snoozfest. Programming languages and frameworks seem to be running in circles.
We seem to be experiencing diminishing returns on tech for the past few years. More tech is no longer necessarily better. Is this just a phase before the next big industrial revolution?
When did this start, and when is the drought going to be over?",,dvh1990,304,1649763096,2022-04-12 11:31:36+00:00,story,31001155,,358.0,, 784,Who is hiring? (July 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.",,whoishiring,304,1404220247,2014-07-01 13:10:47+00:00,story,7970366,,494.0,, 785,What are your favourite self-hosted tools?,,,,zweicoder,304,1503757876,2017-08-26 14:31:16+00:00,story,15105601,,143.0,, 786,Who wants to help promote RSS?,,"I would like to create a group that promotes RSS.
Regularly on HN we see threads about the apparent demise of the feed file as a technology and how sad it is. Despite the answers to those threads showing that RSS/Atom is not dead at all, what is clear is that it is not in a great spot. Less sites support it, percent-wise a smaller amount of internet users knows what it is and how it might be of use, browsers dropped their integrations.
I have a plan on how to counteract this. It includes getting people together who feel that this technology is elemental for the open web and should be preserved. It then vaguely continues like this (not necessarily sorted by feasibility):
1. Open PRs for browsers with provided-by-us code to integrate RSS again, with UI elements that make existing feeds visible and supports subscribing via a feed reader
2. Run a site that can be used for this, that takes a "I want to subscribe to a feed"-request and presents RSS readers to do so.
3. Implement default feeds for CMS that are missing them.
4. Implement easy to use libraries for programming languages that might miss them.
5. Create a website that explains why this is important, that hosts or links to the specifications and that contains additional documentation.
It's nothing I can do on my own, but I really think that if some people come together, that we could have a real influence on this development. Even if the browser integration step fails (which might be likely) there are alternative ways forward. And I'm sure there will be many more ideas on what could be done.
If this is of interest to you, consider joining https://gitter.im/FosterRSS/community.",,onli,304,1641487328,2022-01-06 16:42:08+00:00,story,29825844,,167.0,, 787,Who is hiring? (September 2013),,"........................................
Let's help programmers in or displaced from Syria get jobs somewhere safe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310317
........................................
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310240",,whoishiring,304,1378041680,2013-09-01 13:21:20+00:00,story,6310234,,376.0,, 788,Who is hiring? (December 2021),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405054
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405055",,whoishiring,304,1638374458,2021-12-01 16:00:58+00:00,story,29405056,,838.0,, 789,How are you holding up?,,It's been the most toughest times that've ever faced.,,BruceOxenford,303,1592915243,2020-06-23 12:27:23+00:00,story,23612950,,374.0,, 790,What huge mistake did you make early in your career?,,"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?
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.
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.",,jamestimmins,303,1624001909,2021-06-18 07:38:29+00:00,story,27548204,,476.0,, 791,What are your favourite developer blogs?,,I'm looking for best developer blogs for inspiration,,mubaris,302,1504340033,2017-09-02 08:13:53+00:00,story,15154903,,66.0,, 792,Recommended books and papers on distributed systems?,,"The most recent and complete book on Distributed Systems that I'm aware of is Design Data Intensive Application (2017). I'm currently reading it. I also want to learn about other problems and ideas:
- Ideas that stood the test of times
- Ideas that were not feasible but now possible thanks to hardware improvement.
So, what's your recommendations for books and papers on these topics?",,letientai299,302,1612178191,2021-02-01 11:16:31+00:00,story,25987664,,63.0,, 793,Startup failed after years of work – Can I even get a job now?,,"I quit college to work on my startup. After 7 years of work, it's almost game over (will be shutting down in a few weeks).
I haven't worked for anyone in years and I don't have a degree, but I've been coding for a long time, shipping real products to real customers... How do you think I should prepare for the job market? I'm 31 if it matters at all.",,perfect_loop,302,1552541932,2019-03-14 05:38:52+00:00,story,19386758,,187.0,, 794,Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?,,I've noticed that now some timestamps have a full stop at the end. Like some of the submitted articles on the front page now say "2 hours ago.". What does that mean?,,eznzt,301,1606216545,2020-11-24 11:15:45+00:00,story,25197418,,111.0,, 795,Is freelance web development still a viable path in 2019?,,"With the advent of wix, squarespace, and other code free forms of website developement, it seems as if the demand for custom built sites are at an all time low.
The little demand left is shared among a seemingly never ending hord of aspiring freelance developers, many of whom are willing to work at prices far below that of what their skills had once demanded.
With a market such as this what place, if any, is there for new developers who wish to break into freelancing? Is there any hope at all for these developers? Or have the days of freelancing been put to an end by abstraction and oversaturation?",,MathCodeLove,301,1557822469,2019-05-14 08:27:49+00:00,story,19907732,,138.0,, 796,How do you keep improving?,,"I am currently in my ~8 year as a developer, doing my Masters degree while working as a part time developer. That said i find it quite hard to keep improving, i know a lot of people that are better than me but i seem to be unable to really learn from them. What i found out is that i rarely take the time to lern something in depth because i mostly learn stuff to use it and tutorials seem to move at a way to slow pace, so i mostly skip them.
As an axample, i started out with C/C++ development but am unable to keep up with the new standards. I see people write really nice code but whenever i sit down i just keep reusing what i know. The same goes for architecture, i have been building stuff for a long time but other people (with not that much experience) tend to be way better at abstracting stuff or architectual design than i am.
How do you guys keep lerning new stuff? Any techniques or tips?",,Superleroy,301,1493377416,2017-04-28 11:03:36+00:00,story,14218408,,90.0,, 797,Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?,,"Every time there is a post here related to Firefox, I see a lot of people complaining about the state of browsers and the utterly dominance of Chrome and Chromium based browsers.
I’m wondering if that are technical reasons why the newish browsers (such as Brave or Edge) are choosing Chromium instead of Firefox as their starting point.
If so, shouldn’t this be a priority for Mozilla to change that?",,josemando,301,1641946894,2022-01-12 00:21:34+00:00,story,29900496,,183.0,, 798,Top three questions for a startup before accepting a job offer?,,"I'm curious, what questions do you think are the most important before you accept a job offer from a startup? I'm curious, how do you know when to join or not to join a startup?",,wrestlerman,301,1548964181,2019-01-31 19:49:41+00:00,story,19048108,,118.0,, 799,Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?,,,,glenscott1,301,1532002394,2018-07-19 12:13:14+00:00,story,17565508,,175.0,, 800,What does one look for in a laptop these days?,,"I'd like to understand if I'm missing on any new developments since 2015 or so. Here's what I'd like to have:
*. Goes: preference and alternative, deal-breakers:
1. SIM preferable, WiFi acceptible, but Bluetooth has to be good
2. Spill and dust resistant keyboard that doesn't feel like typing on nothing
3. Trackpoint or trackpad, that works
4. Stylus or touch-screen that doesn't glare
5. Good power management, lasts through the day, done charging in 2.5 hours
6. Runs the hacky-mac or Slax, has a head-set jack
7. Good GPU, fast storage, two fast external storage ports
From my understanding I fit a kind of profile, and am very much not alone. But I'd like to know what the HN crowd take on this is.",,godDLL,300,1634202032,2021-10-14 09:00:32+00:00,story,28861949,,719.0,, 801,What are some of the best job boards you have seen (any industry)?,,"What job boards or apps/services, from any industry, does the community think are great examples of the job application process done well and what is it they do better than the others?
Lastly, when a job application does use LinkedIn's auto-fill feature what are your experiences with it?",,seanpackham,300,1499070218,2017-07-03 08:23:38+00:00,story,14686745,,113.0,, 802,What are the things keep in mind while giving/preparing for a tech talk?,,,,scarecrowx,299,1531979705,2018-07-19 05:55:05+00:00,story,17564185,,166.0,, 803,What are some great posts or articles about history of computing?,,"I found this post about ARPA Net a few months ago and finally had time to read it. Anyone have other great reads or know of books on computing technology?
I think knowing the history of how we got to where we are helps to understand ot more.
Link: https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/arpanet-par...",,luzer7,299,1587212445,2020-04-18 12:20:45+00:00,story,22907211,,110.0,, 804,Who is hiring? (February 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014) http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=7162201",,whoishiring,299,1391274717,2014-02-01 17:11:57+00:00,story,7162197,,382.0,, 805,Resources for introverted devs to learn workplace politics?,,"Hello HN,
I'm a junior dev and have been employed at my current work place for over a year. I love technology and code, less so humans. A lot less. If I had to guess I would say that I probably have some form of social anxiety/autism that makes it really painful/difficult/demanding for me to interact with other people, so I usually try to keep these "interactions" to a very strict minimum required to achieve the tasks I am attributed.
Now, recently, I've come to realize more and more, how much trouble this actually causes in the end for me, as I am perceived as that "odd" guy, that never says a thing, never hangs out at work place events, that you simply give tasks to, and ultimately the job gets done.
As I was searching to limit human-human interactions as much as I could, I ended up being treated like a machine, go figure... I get attributed tasks almost exclusively by sales/marketing people with absolutely no understanding of anything appart from the end result they want. Sometimes that ends up being a 2 word "spec", an unachievable task, some month long back and forths where they realize every other step of the way that what I implemented, which was what they asked, was not what they wanted, etc. So I am starting to get a little fed up by all of this and am at quite a loss when it comes to actually addressing these issues. I try, but I figure that I might as well document myself on the process instead of the usual trial and error one could go through.
Anyhow, as stated in the title of this Ask HN, does anybody have any ressources to recommend to someone that just started his carrier and has a demonstrated history of complete lack of such skills ? Anything is welcome really, books, documentaries, blog post, whatever you might have come across.
Thanks!",,_nkoa,299,1542731444,2018-11-20 16:30:44+00:00,story,18495093,,174.0,, 806,Suggestions for books about API design?,,"In my case I'm specifically building a REST API with Lambda, but I'd be interested in any API design books you found valuable.",,mcrittenden,298,1599310560,2020-09-05 12:56:00+00:00,story,24383180,,90.0,, 807,What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?,,Technical or non-technical.,,marceee0901,298,1581234426,2020-02-09 07:47:06+00:00,story,22280939,,91.0,, 808,How will you manage your digital assets when you die?,,As I get older I have needed to perform digital forensics on friends and family members online accounts and assets. This has me thinking how can I automate this for my own things?
For example I've built a password protected web-site that I try to keep updated with important information for family and a paper in my desk that reads "In the event of my passing visit this URL ...". This is a place to give survivors the keys to my password vaults and allow them to memorialize my social media profiles.
However no amount of documentation will cover cases of GitHub repositories and NPM modules. Are there ways of transferring repo ownership to others or bots to auto-reply to pull requests long after the authors passing? How do others plan to handle the case were their code and digital assets will live on past their own life?,,sirsuki,298,1520365812,2018-03-06 19:50:12+00:00,story,16531492,,171.0,, 809,How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe (Germany),,"Guys, I am in Syria(specifically in Damascus). Seems war is rolling out. Most of the people are moving to border regions but I cant and I am a programmer worked as a remote dev for an Australian startup. But I am not sure how long I will be able to work living in Syria. I want move to Europe specially in Germany as the startup scene is booming in Berlin. So can you guys give me suggestion of legal way to move in Germany as an asylum and will I be able to work if I can move. I went through google but couldn't find much information. And I will be happy to have contact with startups that are hiring dev. I have couple of years backend development experience with Python(Django),LAMP,Node.js and some unix skill. Thanks in advance.",,aforarnold,298,1377856438,2013-08-30 09:53:58+00:00,story,6300923,,210.0,, 810,Successful one-person online businesses?,,"> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?
> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
Also, for the curious ones, I asked the same question exactly a year ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072",,gajus,298,1607629696,2020-12-10 19:48:16+00:00,story,25377696,,104.0,, 811,How Can I Get into NLP (Natural Language Processing)?,,"I've recently become quite intrigued by the concept, and want to learn more about it.
If you have any resources, I'd love to see them. They can be videos, articles, tutorials, courses, etc.
If there is any prerequisite knowledge required, which I assume there will be, I would also love a starting point. As for my background, I have experience in full stack web development, game development, and about a year's worth of academic computer science study.",,aarohmankad,297,1478738264,2016-11-10 00:37:44+00:00,story,12916498,,43.0,, 812,Google won't remove my site URL from random business using it on Maps,,"Hello HN, I have a personal CS blog named X. When you search for X on google, on the right side, it will show a business located somewhere, with that very same name X. This business is for helping people for computer problems. They're even showing my website url.
If you search for the X business name on official channels, it doesn't exists obviously. I've tried to have at least my website removed from the listing, but fun fact my removal request is handled by the listing owner itself. I've contacted Google directly, the answer was along the lines of the following:
> We don't care if the business is using your website name and your url, we are just showing information. If you want to get the website removed please contact the owner of that listing.
What makes me angry is that I legally hold the mark name in europe. It's possible to check my name on the whois of that website. And there is no way for me to get that sh*t removed. What's also incredible, is that people will need to do all the verification crap for singing on adsense, but everyone can put every website in the listing with no verification and no one can't do anything about that.
What is even worst is that business will be associated with myself, and my users might call that business thinking to be speaking with me. And a business showing false information doesn't seems a business to trust. I've also explicitly talked about this, but Google didn't care.
Please HN. Tell me what to do.",,federicoponzi,297,1592641367,2020-06-20 08:22:47+00:00,story,23582602,,135.0,, 813,How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?,,See title,,Spellman,297,1582740796,2020-02-26 18:13:16+00:00,story,22425593,,539.0,, 814,Recommend a maths book for a teenager?,,"I'm looking for recommendations for a maths book for a bright, self-motivated child in their late teens who is into maths (mainly analysis) at upper high-school / early undergrad level.
It would be a birthday gift, so ideally something that is more than a plain textbook, but which also has depth, and maybe broadens their view of maths beyond analysis. I'm thinking something along the lines of The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Spivak's Calculus, or Moor & Mertens The Nature of Computation.
What would you have appreciated having been given at that age?",,andyjohnson0,297,1593687839,2020-07-02 11:03:59+00:00,story,23711942,,187.0,, 815,What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?,,"I just became a technical lead (spiced with a little product manager) for a team who is working with machine-learning/deep-learning technologies (I have ~6 years of background in this field). I feel like I am performing well, but there is a lot of room for improvement on: how to plan for the future, how to communicate success, how to assign engineers and researchers to tasks, how to define tasks, etc.
Do you have any recommendation on what should I do, read to become better and better every day? I want my team to be successful, and to show the improvements we make to the company.",,latentdeepspace,297,1594131642,2020-07-07 14:20:42+00:00,story,23759547,,114.0,, 816,How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?,,"Additionally, the project is on a new tech stack (for me). I would like to be productive as soon as possible and help the team move faster while adding quality and better engineering practices.
Any tips, help, books? Thanks.",,sidcool,296,1495515015,2017-05-23 04:50:15+00:00,story,14398868,,177.0,, 817,Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying?,,"Not just good code described in books like Code Complete, But aslo has a great architecture as a whole, and should be open source business applications, as there are many great library/framework/generic applications like Yii Redis Lua Linux, but open source business applications with great architecture not easy to find.",,ghosthamlet,296,1500872935,2017-07-24 05:08:55+00:00,story,14836013,,88.0,, 818,Who wants to be hired? (April 2020),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: Try https://findwork.dev/?source=hn, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21683552
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21683553",,whoishiring,295,1575302451,2019-12-02 16:00:51+00:00,story,21683554,,676.0,, 820,Profitable SaaS? How did you grow your business?,,"Hey HN guys,
Saw this thread from a couple of days ago about profitable one-person SaaS apps. I'm wondering: how did you grow your business to become profitable? What were your main user acquisition channels?
Thanks!",,hackathonguy,295,1466418306,2016-06-20 10:25:06+00:00,story,11937132,,109.0,, 821,Please share your experience teaching your kids to program,,"Hi HN!
My son recently turned 7yo and I have successfully got him interested in programming. We started about half a year ago playing Minecraft and building more and more complicated automated machines. Recently I have added some robots that can be programmed in Scratch and now we have also started writing some simple games in Scratch.
I am not just trying to teach him programming but also show that with a bit of organization and working little bit each day you can achieve pretty huge results. So we created a very simple version of a game. I have then created a document where we are maintaining a listing of functionality we want to add. We then take them one by one, discuss how it can be added to the game and then tick off once it is done.
For Christmas he asked for some programming books ("how to make complicated Minecraft machines, how to write complicated commands and how to make mods").
We plan to do some more complicated robots and also make our own fun mods for Minecraft (as soon as I figure out how to hook up Scratch to recent version of it).
I am trying to not spend too much time on any given day (about 1,5h every day currently) so that ends up still wanting to do more.
I am also doing large part of coding myself and we switch who sits by the editor when he says he knows how to do something. I am trying to keep him enthusiastic by showing constant progress which I think is more important than that he actually does everything by himself.
I have 20 years of development experience so generally programming is not an issue for me.
Please, share your experiences, things that you have tested with your kids that did or did not work. Any tips you have personally tested.",,lmilcin,295,1609876742,2021-01-05 19:59:02+00:00,story,25650224,,234.0,, 822,What are the best books on modern computer graphics?,,"Googling around, I can find many examples of this question, but they are all dated before the move to Vulkan/DX12, which I've heard has represented a big paradigm shift.
Are the old recommendations still relevant? Or are there newer books which are more relevant to someone looking to get into the field today?",,BigJono,294,1498644912,2017-06-28 10:15:12+00:00,story,14652936,,76.0,, 823,Senior Positions Interview Prep Resources?,,"Hello,
Context: - Dev with 10+ years of experience - Last 2 years in an architect role with technical leadership responsibilities - Planning to apply for senior roles at FAANMG
Question: I am fairly good at solving system design and scenario based questions, but I am confused about what resources to use to prepare for whiteboard/programming questions (not 100% sure if these are relevant at senior level?). Below is the list of resources I was suggested:
1. Cracking the Coding Interview 2. Elements of Programming Interviews 3. Online Judge - LeetCode, HackerRank etc.
I have used cracking the coding interview for my interviews right out of school, but I was told that it is not relevant anymore and I should focus on Elements of Programing Interviews.
Same with Online Judge, I was told to use an online judge (LeetCode, HackerRank) over books.",,scalar-moose,294,1570143727,2019-10-03 23:02:07+00:00,story,21153175,,111.0,, 824,"Got a CS degree, but I’m unable to be programmer. What can I do?",,"I recently graduated and have been grinding for interview prep (leetcode and CTCI mostly), but I’m getting no where. Easy problems take me 2-5 hours. I experience PTSD like symptoms from the constant barrage of negative thoughts the difficulty and stress of doing these problems are causing me. I don’t have time to do anything else and no objectively measurable progress is being made. Even if I get a problem right, I gain little to no satisfaction at this point. I completely hate what I’ve gotten myself into. I put all my eggs in the “being a programmer” basket and it’s clearly not for me. I do have a computer science undergraduate degree which I’m hoping I can use for something. Are there any career paths I can pivot to that are less cognitively demanding than software engineering where this degree would be an asset?",,Tmp1234,294,1532302673,2018-07-22 23:37:53+00:00,story,17589482,,315.0,, 825,Should we agree that this account will submit all Who is Hiring posts?,,"I will use this account to submit
Who is Hiring (Month YYYY)?
Who is Hiring Remote Workers (Month YYYY)?
Who is Hiring Interns (Month YYYY)?
This could put an end to our peers competing to put forward Who Is Hiring threads by submitting them increasingly prematurely.
edit1: This idea seem to be well received, so expect the posts tomorrow morning around 9 AM Eastern time.
edit2: I will write a script to automate these posts and run it on my server for the foreseeable future.
edit3: I will send the script as well as the password for the 'whoishiring' account to several prominent HN users (tptacek, patio11, edw519 and pg/nickb) for safekeeping.",,whoishiring,294,1301583414,2011-03-31 14:56:54+00:00,story,2391828,,46.0,, 826,What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?,,,,llambda,294,1355677328,2012-12-16 17:02:08+00:00,story,4928762,,80.0,, 827,How to Take Good Notes?,,"I want to improve my note-taking skill. I've started writing a text file with notes from class, however, I don't have a systematic way of writing. This means at this point I just wrote down, arbitrarily, things the professor said, things the professor wrote, how I understood the information, and everything else, mostly all over the place.
I'm wondering if anyone developed a system like this I could adapt to myself, and how did they do it.",,romes,294,1583230175,2020-03-03 10:09:35+00:00,story,22473209,,134.0,, 828,Who Is Hiring? (June 2012),," Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053078",,whoishiring,294,1338554820,2012-06-01 12:47:00+00:00,story,4053076,,255.0,, 829,I'm lonely. Are there any video chat support groups for solo founders?,,,,danschumann,293,1511061941,2017-11-19 03:25:41+00:00,story,15732087,,180.0,, 830,What is the difference between Burnout/Depression/Laziness/Wrong job?,,"Burnout gets a fair bit of discussion here on HN, but I'm wondering what the community thinks are the differences between a few subtly different challenges:
1) Burnout
2) Depression
3) Laziness
4) Being in the wrong job
Given that they all have very similar symptoms, how would you determine which one an individual is dealing with?",,throwaway130119,293,1547370944,2019-01-13 09:15:44+00:00,story,18895876,,86.0,, 831,What company environment has enabled your best work?,,"Interested in specifics around team dynamics, communication, learning, decision making, physical layout, etc.",,g10r,293,1549677284,2019-02-09 01:54:44+00:00,story,19120208,,195.0,, 832,How much recurring income do you generate and from what?,,"The same thread was started 2 years ago with a follow up last year. I think it's time for a refresh and updates from those who answered before. Previous threads: Last Year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603 Year Before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487",,djshah,293,1416404646,2014-11-19 13:44:06+00:00,story,8629919,,335.0,, 833,Should I testify?,,"I've been contacted by a major law firm to testify against a former employer about how they've broken California and federal law. I have proof and witnessed it from a bunch of people inside so I'm not worried about that part.
But what will this do to my career? Now when people google me, they find good stuff like projects and presentations and blogs posts. They won't let me be anonymous and the employer is prominent and popular here so people will find out. What happens if they find this instead? Would it be a deal killer if I applied at your company?
I'm looking for career advice here, not legal advice. I have enough of that.",,goingtogetsued,292,1428775979,2015-04-11 18:12:59+00:00,story,9360093,,238.0,, 834,Is web development still a viable career choice?,,"Hello HNers,
I am an aspiring web developer. I have been self learning for around six months and still have not found a solid path to follow. Six months sounds like a lot but realistically it has been a few solid weeks of learning since it is a side hobby that I hope will turn into my career.
Is the Web Dev job market in a good enough state that I should risk more time and money?
Thanks for any advice…",,jessmc,292,1546847301,2019-01-07 07:48:21+00:00,story,18843518,,240.0,, 835,How do you promote your web apps?,,What kind of promotion methods do you use to promote your newly released web apps?,,samrat,292,1315480767,2011-09-08 11:19:27+00:00,story,2973404,,77.0,, 836,Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?,,"With reference to the other post here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875106), I’m once again fascinated by Emacs and the following it has. I know vi (learned it quite sometime ago) and though I’m not a power user, I can do a lot of things in vi without putting in much effort or searching online for solutions.
So I’m here to ask for resources — text based tutorials, video tutorials and what not — that would help someone grok Emacs (from a novice level) and get into the Emacs way of doing things (including elisp?).
I would also like recommendations on what (package/source) you consider as the best to install on macOS and on Linux.",,AnonC,292,1586977978,2020-04-15 19:12:58+00:00,story,22881808,,176.0,, 837,Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell,,"It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.",,folli,292,1504277699,2017-09-01 14:54:59+00:00,story,15148804,,239.0,, 838,Advice about aging parents,,"Hey HN,
I know some of you have been down this road already. My dad is 86, my mum is 79 and my dad refuses to leave his house until he dies. It's our family home from when I was growing up, 2 stories and my dad currently crawls his way up the stairs each day to use his computer. He won't even consider moving down to the first floor (stubborn).
I have my own young family and my partner and I have jobs, so I'm basically looking for how you juggled your way through this part of life and if you have any pointers. I'm 41 btw.",,tren,291,1638536874,2021-12-03 13:07:54+00:00,story,29429558,,230.0,, 839,How to actually “talk to your customers”?,,"I find this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146850 very insightful and stressing some important common points in comments.
The most precious advice as I see is to “talk to your customers”.
How do I practically turn this advice into action?
Say, I have:
- an office with a computer and internet
- a map of the town and its suburbs I located in
- search engine to my service
- some details about the domain I’d like to work for
- zero contacts
Now, how do I actually talk to my potential customers? I can knock at doors of every office I find online and with a broad smile say a pitch then attack them with my questions? I don’t think it will work as I would like it to. More likely they will think I am trying to sell some bs and thus be quite skeptical and cold to me.
Should I try to approach bosses or common workers of companies?
Should I phone them, ask for an appointment, explain my goals and if they let me in, do the talk?
What is the right approach to talk to my potential customers?
Can you please share your experience and maybe books about how to do it properly?
Thanks!",,cosmorocket,291,1492684048,2017-04-20 10:27:28+00:00,story,14155460,,110.0,, 840,"My Google account was hacked, Google says they can't help",,"My Google account was hacked, I was messaged by someone on Facebook and they demanded I give them money or they would post my private photos. They started posting my pictures and even sent them to my family and friends, dad included! They then changed all my passwords, restore email, phone number ect to their own email and number, so I can't do anything. They wiped my phone and my son's tablet completely, all my banking is gone, everything is gone. I'm now stuck in a foreign country away from my baby with no way to get money or access my email for my travel documents. I'm really scared and don't know what to do. Google says they can't do anything to help me! They can't kick him off or disable my account, I just have to be harassed and blackmailed, and goodness knows what else. I'm a single mum and I'm in a different country to my baby, please can someone help me? I just want to get back.
Does anyone know how I can recover and secure my Google account? I've tried everything that I can find/Google have told me to do.",,lululouise,291,1647288156,2022-03-14 20:02:36+00:00,story,30677471,,155.0,, 841,Who is Hiring? (December 2011),,"(The script that auto-posts ""Who's Hiring"" every month seems to be broken, so this is a manually created post.)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" (December 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3300378",,lpolovets,290,1322757488,2011-12-01 16:38:08+00:00,story,3300290,,251.0,, 842,What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?,,"For example, "On The Shortness of Life" by Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65)",,marceee0901,290,1567986777,2019-09-08 23:52:57+00:00,story,20914127,,237.0,, 843,What did you do after quitting the IT industry and how have things been?,,"There's currently a thread going on where people are discussing what they would do if they quit their IT career. I have been in software industry for more than a decade now and since some years now have been thinking of what I would like to do when I quit the industry and how soon I can quit. I no longer have the immense passion I used to have some years back when it comes to software problem solving.
It's been a while since I have been thinking about it but haven't yet been brave enough to quit the industry (mostly financial reasons).
My question to others here is, have anyone of you quit the IT industry to do something that interested you (not necessary a job) and how have things been for you after quitting the industry?",,winteriscoming,289,1483718525,2017-01-06 16:02:05+00:00,story,13337305,,210.0,, 844,How do you decide when you've done enough work for the day?,,"I'm a relatively junior software engineer, a little over a year out from university, with a cushy remote job working for big-co. And I never know how much work to do on a given day.
Right now, my daily rule of thumb is to try to have my butt in the seat for ~8 hours. I clock out at 6 and stay disciplined so I don't end up overworking as many remoters do. The main disadvantage of this strategy is that it just doesn't align with the reality of the job. Some days I work on something complex and want to work more hours, while others I'll knock out a few small things and want to call it early.
Strategies I'd like to use but can't:
- Show up and leave with my coworkers. We're a remote team, and have a few serious workaholics on the team (not to mention the issue of timezones).
- Leave when I've done my tasks. This might work if we had actual sprints. Our reality is an endless stream bugs and features for us to work on before we launch our product, and we just grab tickets as they come. Hopefully this improves after launch.
What do you do? I want to do enough work to feel good about myself, without burning out. I have very little supervision from management, my coworkers seem to respect and like me, and I am generally productive. Help me, HN.",,zzaip,288,1538264385,2018-09-29 23:39:45+00:00,story,18103640,,120.0,, 845,DevOps learning resources,,"Hey guys,
I've been a developer for some time now, but I've never had to do anything with deployment, servers, and all these good things.
I'd really like to have the basics so would you guys have some nice resources to gain some general knowledge about it. Thanks!",,durian89,288,1498645837,2017-06-28 10:30:37+00:00,story,14652993,,64.0,, 846,How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?,,"I am a Ruby on Rails developer from Bangalore, India. Currently working for a startup in Bangalore as a full time employee.
Few months ago there were lots of posts on HN related to passive income. This gave me thought about having passive income which will give enough freedom to work on my own ideas/project fulltime.
In India one can easily live on $500/month, so keeping that in mind I have setup a timeline of 12-18 months(which I think should be enough) to generate that much amount.
Right now I don't have any savings which I can invest to earn and I've free time available around weekends.I am working on few ideas of my own, but those will not necessarily generate income.
So what would you do suggest me to do?",,rtcoms,288,1409401416,2014-08-30 12:23:36+00:00,story,8246255,,193.0,, 847,Tools you have made for yourself?,,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.
Thank you.,,themantri,288,1623482944,2021-06-12 07:29:04+00:00,story,27482397,,454.0,, 848,Considerations when asked to write a book?,,"I've been approached by 2 different publishers to author a programming book, based on the strength of a few technical articles I've written. They are both established publishers - think O'Reilly, Packt, Manning, Wrox, etc - and it's darn flattering to be asked. I think it'd be a fun experience, and a feather in my cap. Though I'm under no misconception about the monstrous amount of work it entails.
To those who have been down this road: Before I get into bed with a publisher, what else should I be thinking about? What questions should I be asking? What is a fair, market-rate deal for a first-time technical author writing about a popular subject? What are the areas to negotiate? Thanks HN!",,new999999937,288,1468883895,2016-07-18 23:18:15+00:00,story,12118554,,139.0,, 849,Why are there no open source 2d printers?,,"In the 3D printing world, there are plenty of open source choices, allowing manufacturers to drive down costs. On the other hand, it seems 2d printing is stuck with legacy companies with completely closed drivers and hardware (you have to buy cartridges from the original manufacturer).
Apart from the nozzle why is it hard to manufacture and/or design?",,pangoraw,288,1602755234,2020-10-15 09:47:14+00:00,story,24786721,,240.0,, 850,Any scientifically proven techniques to boost concentration?,,"I feel like I have to be in a very specific head space to write code. It’s like climbing a big hill but in my head. Sometimes it’s effortless and sometimes it’s a slog.
Are there any proven exercises or techniques I can adopt that are proven to boost my ability to focus and get in that clear headspace to write code?
Edit: adding some tips as I try to figure this out. Note: not scientifically proven (to my knowledge)
1. Music. which type depends on the individual.
2. Timing. Dead of night or early in the morning when the world is quiet. Not this isn’t a muscle you can flex at any time, you have to just capitalize on the right time.
3. Long shower
4. Caffeine
5. Get out of the office/house go somewhere else (like a cafe)
6. Take a walk
7. Have a beer
8. Write thoughts down in a notebook without any phones/laptop in sight and then jump to the laptop to implement
9. Meditate
10. Lift weights / exercise to work the demons out and quiet the mind",,amznbyebyebye,288,1645829245,2022-02-25 22:47:25+00:00,story,30473322,,186.0,, 851,What agenda do you have for 1:1 meetings with your supervisor?,,"I recently changed managers and I haven't been doing 1:1 meetings with the previous one. Since the new manager seems to prefer a more systematic approach, I figured I could ask you guys - do you have a plan before going into these kinds of meetings? What kind of talking points do you often have?",,DictumMortuum,288,1581062663,2020-02-07 08:04:23+00:00,story,22264043,,112.0,, 852,Anybody Started a Research Institute?,,"Hello community, I am looking to connect with HNers who have successfully started a research institute / campus or were among the first joiners. I am seeking to offer housing and a stipend to researchers, as I am currently acquiring some real estate that I want to put to good use in Germany. I will myself take time off from regular work and focus on research in a vein similar to Steve Grand's investigations into artificial life (not expecting to reach his level, but one needs a quest with lofty goals).
Not seeking a particular piece of advice, more looking for somebody to have a conversation with regarding experiences, what worked really well, how to get the ball rolling, essential infrastructure required...
End goal as of now: assemble a few great minds, give them the space to work rent-free in a region with good academic infrastructure, ideally let them collaborate, watch the beauty of it.
If relevant, an LLC-like structure is available for making this happen, but not 100% sold on how to approach this from a legal perspective.",,akhann,287,1622103930,2021-05-27 08:25:30+00:00,story,27300594,,163.0,, 853,Where can one learn about the history of the internet and the protocols?,,"I would like to read about the initial proposals, email exchanges, discussions, about why any specific technology or protocol was built, who all were involved - designer, funders, contributors, etc. History, timeline, discussions, proposals - accepted & rejected, ideas - accepted & rejected, philosophy, restrictions. In general I would like to read about all the technologies, but want to start with the internet and the TCP stack (protocols).",,joddystreet,287,1532496901,2018-07-25 05:35:01+00:00,story,17607095,,71.0,, 854,How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?,,,,iworkforthem,287,1322829836,2011-12-02 12:43:56+00:00,story,3303776,,188.0,, 855,How to stop anxiety from too many choices?,,"The obvious answer here is to reduce choices. However the past few months I am struggling hugely with anxiety which is rendering me incapable on some days to make any real progress on my goals; startup, learning & side projects.
When the pandemic began, and we lost our clients I have found myself in a constant state of ideation and future thinking, but once I start one of these (semi-pivots) I get worried that there is a better idea and go back to the drawing board.
How does one stop this process?",,dennisy,287,1589111865,2020-05-10 11:57:45+00:00,story,23131966,,104.0,, 856,How to find a mental health professional?,,"We've been having a lot of great discussions here on HN lately about mental health, and the suggestion to seek professional help rings true.
But, depressed and burnt out and feeling isolated, the project of even finding a therapist in the first place can be overwhelming.
I live in a large city, where there are literally thousands of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, licensed social workers, life coaches, you name it. About half of them even accept my insurance.
How does one even begin to narrow the options down? After asking my GP and getting no suggestions, I'm at a complete loss.",,throwaway-18613,287,1528905136,2018-06-13 15:52:16+00:00,story,17304227,,164.0,, 857,What hyper-focused industry newsletters do you enjoy?,,"In my experience, HN users tend to have incredibly specialized interests. I'm curious about what newsletters are out there that deliver a depth of specialized knowledge?
For me, it doesn't get better than 'The Prepared' and the 'Future of Trucks' newsletters. Both provide a window into technicalities that I wouldn't otherwise think about in fields that I'm broadly interested in.
https://theprepared.org/ https://www.trucks.vc/newsletter",,vwcx,287,1649640238,2022-04-11 01:23:58+00:00,story,30983517,,142.0,, 858,Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?,,"I'm in the camp of "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything". Not in a literal sense, obviously, but I definitely have more ideas than time for executing them. Most of them are fun little thing or tools that would be helpful but not enough to actually do them.
I would like to submit them somewhere and maybe someone likes it and wants to create it. Or maybe I could get input why it's a stupid idea or how to improve them.
It would be also nice to see others' fun ideas. Maybe find a collaborator to work on them together.
Are you aware of such a platform? If there is none, what do you think about the concept?",,balzss,287,1578490586,2020-01-08 13:36:26+00:00,story,21991260,,165.0,, 859,Who is hiring? (March 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304173",,whoishiring,286,1362145876,2013-03-01 13:51:16+00:00,story,5304169,,362.0,, 860,Who is hiring? (December 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827545",,whoishiring,286,1385911311,2013-12-01 15:21:51+00:00,story,6827554,,322.0,, 861,How can I get better at bash?,,I am interested mainly in bash helping me with the workflow of apps I run on the command line.,,cocolos,286,1498464795,2017-06-26 08:13:15+00:00,story,14634964,,185.0,, 862,Move to product management at 35?,,"Hi all,
I need some advice from all the wonderful people on Hacker News. I am a Backend engineer looking to move into a product management role. I have no experience in product management. In addition, I am 35. Does age matter? Are certifications such as the one from Product School worth it and help in the transition process? How do engineers typically transition to the role? I’d appreciate any advice from anyone. Thank you.",,neofrommatrix,286,1520184068,2018-03-04 17:21:08+00:00,story,16515470,,127.0,, 863,How were video games from the 90s so efficient?,,"Title says it all. I am interested in discovering how games like roller coaster tycoon, sim city 2000, warcraft II, and descent (blown away by this one) managed to be created and function on computers that had 500 MB HDD, 300 MHz CPU, and 4 MB RAM.
I'd even broaden the question and ask how did windows 95 stay so small?
Is it possible to recreate this level of efficiency on modern systems? Im curious because I'm interested in creating simulation video games. Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld eventually both suffer from the same problem: CPU death.
If I create a window with C++ and SFML, 60 MB of RAM is used (not impressive at all). If I put 3,000,000 tiles on the screen (using Vertex Arrays), 1 GB of RAM is used (admittedly, that is impressive) and I can pan all the tiles around smoothly.
What other tricks are available?",,eezurr,286,1636167208,2021-11-06 02:53:28+00:00,story,29127098,,232.0,, 864,Who is Hiring? (April 2011),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
Feel free to post any job HN readers may be interested in from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Take a look at the freelancer matchmaking thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2396088",,whoishiring,285,1301663486,2011-04-01 13:11:26+00:00,story,2396027,,295.0,, 865,Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?,,"After reading quite a few books and blog posts on event-driven architectures and comparing the suggested patterns with what I've seen myself in action, I keep wondering:
Is there any company out there that has fully embraced this type of architecture when it comes to microservice communication, handling breaking schema changes or failures in an elegant way, and keeping engineers and other data consumers happy enough?
Every event-driven architectural pattern I've read about can quite easily fall apart and I have yet to find satisfying answers on what to do when things go south. As a trivial example, everybody talks about dead-letter queues but nobody really explains how to handle messages that end up in one.
Is there any non-sales community of professionals discussing this topic?
Any help would be much appreciated.",,sideway,284,1627899795,2021-08-02 10:23:15+00:00,story,28034882,,168.0,, 866,"Amazon software engineers, how is the work culture now?",,Was there any change from the time New York Times article was published? And does the pay + stock compensate for the bad work culture (if there is?),,tinderliker,284,1526273310,2018-05-14 04:48:30+00:00,story,17062782,,255.0,, 867,How to be productive with big existing code base,,I have just started working with one of the client who have existing nodeJS code which they build in last 3 years.
Is there any guiding principle which is beneficial while working with existing code base?,,maheshs,284,1551187275,2019-02-26 13:21:15+00:00,story,19254008,,180.0,, 868,What software/service helps you be an effective remote developer?,,,,pearphp,284,1512880499,2017-12-10 04:34:59+00:00,story,15889939,,150.0,, 869,Where are all the old Show HNs?,,"Searching for "Show HN" posts (using hn.algolia.com) reveals a sad story: Many of them are gone. I wonder what happens to Shown HNs, esp. the ones that are featured on HN, but then end up not existing anymore. Is it the server costs? Do they sell to other companies? Did the developer pass away and so did the link?",,behnamoh,284,1632833687,2021-09-28 12:54:47+00:00,story,28682173,,159.0,, 870,Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?,,"Khan Academy continually gets held up as a great resource for online courses across the age spectrum for math related subjects. With the continuing pandemic continuing to grow in the US and schools not really sure how to handle things, the GF and I are looking into other options.
Is there a recommended resource that gives unbiased (as possible) reviews for middle school (7-8th grade) curriculum? Searching these days really doesn't bring up quality, just options one has to comb through.",,jmspring,283,1594398636,2020-07-10 16:30:36+00:00,story,23793216,,104.0,, 871,Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch?,,"Apologies if this is off-topic but the learning French thread got me wondering if anyone here is an artist in the downtime and has recommendations for learning materials when it comes to learning how to draw? I've tried Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and it doesn't do it for me. I've tried nma.art and that's like the closest I've come to what I'm after but currently suffer from paralysis analysis with too many or too few courses to choose from. Any suggestions? I'm hoping to be able to eventually draw people and landscapes, willing to pay hundreds of dollars potentially for the right course or instruction per month not really looking for like a udemy type thing.",,autotune,283,1645806758,2022-02-25 16:32:38+00:00,story,30469036,,130.0,, 872,Who is Hiring? (August 2011),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (August 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831651",,whoishiring,282,1312199527,2011-08-01 11:52:07+00:00,story,2831646,,307.0,, 873,"Those making over $300k/year, how did you achieve it?",,"Recently there was a thread about someone making ~$500k/year at a FAANG company and seeing that there's people who hang out here and make ~$300k/year I always have questions for high income earners. Since I don't know any personally (or at least I think I don't) I'm hoping some are lurking and willing to answer some questions. I've set it to $300k because I think at this range the salary is exceptional even in LA/SF/NYC.
These are my questions and I'm adding my own answers though my income is not really in this range; some are slightly fudged to prevent de-anonymizing.
* What do you do?
* What is your job title?
* What is your total comp?
* Who do you work for?
* Where do you live (assuming you don't work from home)?
* How long did it take you to get here?
* How did you get here (networking/raw technical skill/job board/dumb luck, etc.)?
* What do you do?
- I do frontend development for financial applications; think trader dashboards, openfin, etc. I have done backend work previously and actually prefer it to frontend work
* What is your job title?
- Associate; a generic corporate title in banking
* What is your total comp?
- Last year I made $118k including my yearly bonus and 401k matching
* Who do you work for?
- JPMorgan
* Where do you live (assuming you don't work from home)?
- A large Texas city; one of Dallas/Houston/San Antonio
* How long did it take you to get here?
- 5 years from my first job as a developer
* How did you get here (networking/raw technical skill/job board/dumb luck, etc.)?
- It's been a gradual climb; whenever I feel there's no more to learn at my current job I look for another, each move included a pay bump. This job I managed through an acquaintance who offered to put my resume in although I was not looking for a job at the time",,thrwunderpaid,282,1523457308,2018-04-11 14:35:08+00:00,story,16811454,,283.0,, 874,I am busy with too many things at once,,"Hi NH.
A couple of years ago I realised I was a mediocre programmer. After 5 years of work experience with unfinished degree I knew only one language (php of all...) and some good practices on a surface level. I set that for change. For 2 years I studied in my spare time, learned a bit of Java, go, clojure, learned some fundamentals and good practices classics (gang of four, DRY) started reading blogs and following the industry.
Except, it's too much. I realised I am into too many things. I know a bit of everything, but not too many things well. I want to study data science, maths, devops and find that my desire is driven by fear of becoming outdated and irrelevant. I would appreciate a piece of advise on managing the learning process, get the joy of tinkering back and conquering the anxiety of ever changing rules to the game. Thank you.",,mannimow,282,1435907129,2015-07-03 07:05:29+00:00,story,9823985,,118.0,, 875,Does anyone else value the comments more than the link?,,"I always open the comment page of a HN post first, then read a couple of comments. When not many comments are there, I click on the link on top and read the article. Many times, I never read the actual linked article. After reading the comments of people here in HN, I can understand the gist, or more, of the article linked, and also know the thoughts of many people. I enjoy reading the agreeing, disagreeing, proving, disproving, controversial comments much more. Am I the only one?",,pvinis,282,1427126541,2015-03-23 16:02:21+00:00,story,9251577,,96.0,, 876,I just wrote an O(N) diffing algorithm – what am I missing?,,"Hey folks,
I've been building a rendering engine for a code editor the past couple of days. Rendering huge chunks of highlighted syntax can get laggy. It's not worth switching to React at this stage, so I wanted to just write a quick diff algorithm that would selectively update only changed lines.
I found this article: https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/02/12/the-myers-diff-algorithm-part-1/
With a link to this paper, the initial Git diff implementation: http://www.xmailserver.org/diff2.pdf
I couldn't find the PDF to start with, but read "edit graph" and immediately thought — why don't I just use a hashtable to store lines from LEFT_TEXT and references to where they are, then iterate over RIGHT_TEXT and return matches one by one, also making sure that I keep track of the last match to prevent jumbling?
The algorithm I produced is only a few lines and seems accurate. It's O(N) time complexity, whereas the paper above gives a best case of O(ND) where D is minimum edit distance.
function lineDiff (left, right) {
left = left.split('\n');
right = right.split('\n');
let lookup = {};
// Store line numbers from LEFT in a lookup table
left.forEach(function (line, i) {
lookup[line] = lookup[line] || [];
lookup[line].push(i);
});
// Last line we matched
var minLine = -1;
return right.map(function (line) {
lookup[line] = lookup[line] || [];
var lineNumber = -1;
if (lookup[line].length) {
lineNumber = lookup[line].shift();
// Make sure we're looking ahead
if (lineNumber > minLine) {
minLine = lineNumber;
} else {
lineNumber = -1
}
}
return {
value: line,
from: lineNumber
};
});
}
What am I missing? I can't find other references to doing diffing like this. Everything just links back to that one paper.",,keithwhor,281,1572303825,2019-10-28 23:03:45+00:00,story,21382709,,57.0,, 877,How did your startup change after an exit?,,"Hi HN
I'm an engineering VP in a (maybe) unicorn looking seriously at an exit and the vibe has ... already changed.
Looking at the current climate, I am probably going to be able to pay off my mortgage and send my partner to grad school, but financial independence or FYM isn't on the cards. I like it here, and am not planning to move on yet.
I've been wondering where the stories about what happens (what goes wrong/right) after an exit, like an IPO.
What should I be looking out for after the exit? Any experiences from senior engineering staff? Or even good blog posts or books?
Thanks",,after_the_exit,281,1570910222,2019-10-12 19:57:02+00:00,story,21235776,,153.0,, 878,What are some great engineering blogs?,,Looking mostly for smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products,,ingvar77,281,1637041483,2021-11-16 05:44:43+00:00,story,29237308,,56.0,, 879,Why dont my upvotes work?,,"I've read about dead users on HN that but I thought being dead also meant you cant post comments at all. It seems like I can post comments, its just my upvotes dont count. Did I do something wrong or do I just not understand the system?",True,ressaid1,281,1381835634,2013-10-15 11:13:54+00:00,story,6552574,,,, 880,Why do we want to learn something new when we don't have time?,,"While you are in busy, you want to learn or create something new. But, not when you have free time. It's always happened to me. And I ask some of my few friends and they said the same thing as well.
Can HN explain me why and how to overcome that?",,uvu,280,1542478516,2018-11-17 18:15:16+00:00,story,18476626,,66.0,, 881,What are some good resources to learn business administration/finance?,,"As a software engineer, I want to learn more about business administration and finance. I want to able to level with CEOs, CFos or other managerial positions.",,dattl,280,1595668751,2020-07-25 09:19:11+00:00,story,23947818,,77.0,, 882,How do you get people to use your product when you suck at networking?,,"TL;DR: Built a simple web app product, can't get it off the ground. Help!
To give context to this question, allow me to explain my situation.
I have been working as a freelance developer for a few years now and at times the work load gets a little difficult to handle. That's when I hop on to websites like freelancer.com and upwork to find a few other freelancers to help me out. The results have been really bad, bad quality developers at extreme rates cause they have have paid accounts.
Somehow, on multiple occasions I've managed to find skilled and in-budget developers on craigslist. I presume this is because of craigslist's dead simple methodology and lack of rating systems or paid accounts.
Taking this into consideration, I built a little web app called FreelanceList.in (http://freelancelist.in/ still in beta.. or alpha-ish) thats follows the craigslist philosophy but focuses on freelancers.
Now the current situation is that I'm not able to get freelancelist.in off the ground! I'm good at building products with a team but have no experience with branding or promotions.
The projects I work on as a freelancer usually have an active audience or a good brand value hence, I have no idea about launching this off the ground.
What do you think should be the next step ? While you're at it, please leave a feedback too :) Thank you!",,ziggystardust,280,1475414178,2016-10-02 13:16:18+00:00,story,12622173,,100.0,, 883,"HNers who got their “Show HNs” on homepage, how is your site doing now?",,,,superasn,279,1500911445,2017-07-24 15:50:45+00:00,story,14839459,,194.0,, 884,How do you manage your bookmarks?,,"Every time I saw something cool on the internet, I add it to my bookmarks. Result: I have more than 5000 bookmarks on firefox. I tried to add keywords and descriptions, but it takes me too much time to do that every time.
I also tried to use notion.so (an amazing tool !) to manage my bookmarks, but the plugin "Notion Web Clipper" does not allow to add tags when you save a link.
And you, how do you deal with your bookmarks? Any good tips to keep interesting resources close to you?",,kayf,279,1579600404,2020-01-21 09:53:24+00:00,story,22105561,,268.0,, 885,Who is hiring? (August 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139937",,whoishiring,279,1375362155,2013-08-01 13:02:35+00:00,story,6139927,,387.0,, 886,What are your favorite terminal programs?,,The title and why?
Recently discovered CMus and am a big fan of Pandoc and youtube-dl.
This has me wondering what else I'm missing out on.,,orcs,279,1525682639,2018-05-07 08:43:59+00:00,story,17011227,,199.0,, 887,What are some examples of beautiful x86 assembly code?,,"I've been bumping into a lot of x86 assembly lately and, unrelated, recently read about the stellar reputation of SQLite's code base.
This got me thinking: what are some examples of high-quality and/or beautiful x86 assembly? In fact, what about for other processor families as well?",,xelxebar,278,1524812573,2018-04-27 07:02:53+00:00,story,16938934,,87.0,, 888,Burning Out,,"Burning out as an early stage start-up employee. I’ve been employed there a few years, worked miracles, but getting recently getting some poor feedback. Confusing situation. Wondering if I should just quit? Is career salvageable? I solved the business’ biggest issue. Start-up was founded to do X, founders couldn’t figure out how to do X, I was asked to do X. Under enormous pressure I single handily figured out how to do X, conducted all the R&D, built the prototype, supervised the engineer and release. Its still a prototype, but solves one of the industries biggest problem. Non-founder team lead is unhappy some minor issues have slipping in the chaotic process of getting this to market. I’m doing several different jobs and do everything. My solution is going to change the market, the idea is worth millions of dollars, likely more.
Founders are very please, but getting poor feedback from team lead. Team lead has hindered more than helped, gives conflicting advice, blows hot and cold, has created a toxic environment etc. Admittedly some minor things have slipped through the cracks, but much of this comes from my team lead playing politics, creating silos and conflicts etc.
My team lead is grinding me down with their constant nitpicking and I really just want to go and do something else, anything else, work in a bar or something. Considered going to the founders with the issue, but I can’t see how this can be resolved beyond creating a new role or transferring out of my area of expertise. I did a sanity check and have reached out to others. Lots of others have take issue with my team lead as well, so its not just me.
I’m pretty burnout, and definitely in need to some time out before moving on. I don’t think I’d come across very well (or as sharp as I usually) in interviews at the moment without a break.
Anyone been through anything similar? Anyone have any advice?",,burning_out_101,278,1574987018,2019-11-29 00:23:38+00:00,story,21661054,,152.0,, 889,Best place to look for remote jobs?,,,,mrgrowth,278,1482927456,2016-12-28 12:17:36+00:00,story,13270027,,90.0,, 890,Which great products didn't succeed?,,"I've often heard the claim that the startup graveyard is full of great products that didn't succeed (e.g. because the startup wasn't good enough on marketing, or because they didn't solve a big enough problem).
What are some examples of this?
If there are examples of truly great products that eventually died, I'd like to study them more in-depth.",,mrborgen,278,1554580942,2019-04-06 20:02:22+00:00,story,19592697,,636.0,, 891,Good Python codebases to read?,,"Hi all, I am currently going through Learn Python the Hard Way, and am on the review section where I have to read through source code.
Can anyone recommend some good open source Python software I can look at? I am specifically looking to see ones that employ idiomatic Python, and maybe see how they approach testing (I am not completely new to programming, just rusty after being out of the field for a long time)
Extra bonus points if the software is something you use regularly.
Cheers!",,nekopa,278,1437043009,2015-07-16 10:36:49+00:00,story,9896369,,151.0,, 892,How did you start your business?,,"Did you leave your job and then start a business, or was it a side project that evolved into a full-time gig?",,juliansamarjiev,278,1521457567,2018-03-19 11:06:07+00:00,story,16617509,,141.0,, 893,How can I do something meaningful?,,"A few months ago I saw a thread on Hacker News that really lit a fire inside of me. Someone posted a Ask HN thread asking something along the lines of ""Does your startup help change the world?""
I couldn't believe some of the responses. There were tons of people saying that their iPhone apps were because they made it easier to find restaurants.. or that their B2B social media marketing startup was because it was improving productivity for marketers. I'm paraphrasing but that was the gist of many of the responses. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing but respect for people who have successful typical startups. But that said, I think people sometimes are extremely sheltered if they think that those sorts of problems are really impacting lives.
Families who never thought it would happen to them across the United States are finding themselves homeless. My wife is from a small town that just 15 years ago had very high employment. Today the town is rapidly turning into a miniature Detroit after the main employer of the town closed down and moved overseas. Countless numbers of children are going hungry this summer since their primary and often times only nutritious and filling daily meal is their school lunch. My city recently had a free health treatment clinic for one day only. Hundreds of people stood in line for hours and hours, only to be sent home since not all were able to be seen.
And yet, that's just in the United States. Elsewhere in the world, one BILLION people don't have access to clean drinking water. Hundreds of millions of people work 12 hour days seven days a week for in exchange for pennies. People are killed or imprisoned every day just for speaking out against their governments.
I'm not delusional or hopelessly optimistic. I'm aware that these are all major global problems, and they're far more complicated than any one person could ever hope to solve. But what I am interested in is finding out a way that I could be doing something as a career to be a part of this. I don't necessarily think that you have to be a nonprofit or charity to still contribute to these sort of things. SwipeGood and Sparked are two examples of this.
But my question is - has anyone actually built or is working on something related to these sorts of issues? I'm fascinated by stories such as the one behind Charity Water (http://www.charitywater.org/about/scotts_story.php) and reading about organizations like FreeGeek. I'd love to start a nonprofit of my own, but I have no clue where to begin. If anyone has any advice, thoughts, or would like to connect I'd love to hear from you.",,DotOrg,278,1313280706,2011-08-14 00:11:46+00:00,story,2882356,,152.0,, 894,What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?,,"I currently use uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger, but I've become frustrated with having to disable one or both of the above for too many sites--they just break functionality for a good chunk of the web. What's the best setup these days for ad-blocking + privacy/tracker-blocking that doesn't break the web? Thanks!",,whitepoplar,277,1566599327,2019-08-23 22:28:47+00:00,story,20783339,,158.0,, 895,Has anyone sold their employee stock on the secondary market?,,"Wanted to hear about experiences from employees who have RSUs/options in a private company and whether they were able to sell their shares on the secondary market?
Were you able to sell? What platform did you use? Were you able to sell w/o board approval? If so, were you able to use private forward contracts to complete a deal?
Anything you can tell me about the experience would be much appreciated!",,secondarymarket,277,1644086410,2022-02-05 18:40:10+00:00,story,30224241,,51.0,, 896,What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?,,"Once upon a time Jack said that Twitter initially was very open in its early stages but eventually became much more centralized, and the scale of supporting such a centralized network in the future could be unsustainable. “Blockchain points to a series of decentralized solutions for open and durable hosting, governance, and even monetization,” he added. “Much work to be done, but the fundamentals are there.” Are there any truly decentralized social communication tools/protocols to look at?",,InInteraction,277,1610159885,2021-01-09 02:38:05+00:00,story,25695682,,226.0,, 897,Has attracting a blog audience become harder?,,"I used to blog for several years, several years ago, and was able to build up a "large" following, for a small-timer at least (over 10K visitors/mo). In recent years, I've made two slightly niche-subject blogs but find it nearly impossible to get a following, even though I'm dealing in the same general subject matter, quality of posts, research, and media integration.
As of a few years ago it seems like to have a successful blog one must be cross-posting to 6-7 social networks at the same time (ie, for sharing to be frictionless). When I post my newer blog posts in relevant places online, people actually say they like the content, yet visitor numbers don't reflect such sentiment in a sustained manner. I have hundreds of posts, but retention is very low (1 visitor = 1 view, then they leave).
Is the only option these days to be cross-posting? It seems share buttons on each blog post aren't frictionless enough. Either I'm a bit delusional about the quality/interest level or blogging has become a lot harder in terms of audience capture.",,personlurking,276,1490606772,2017-03-27 09:26:12+00:00,story,13966190,,177.0,, 898,Who Is Hiring? (August 2012),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Pardon the technical difficulties this month
Also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323612",,whoishiring,276,1343836582,2012-08-01 15:56:22+00:00,story,4323597,,292.0,, 899,Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?,,"I'm looking for peer to peer framework recommendations to build a distributed app. In particular, a framework that supports seeds and peer discovery, message passing, maybe firewall / UPNP support, etc.
I'm not particular about language (Java, Go, Javascript, etc), since it's for a new project. I found this thread from 2016 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11145691), it had some interesting recommendations, but quite a few were out of date, and with the big push to distributed apps nowadays, I thought it might be a good time to readdress the topic.
Some of the solutions form the other thread or that I've found:
- Smokesignal (Javascript / Node, not updated in >10 months) https://github.com/marcelklehr/smokesignal
- ZeroTier: https://www.zerotier.com/product-netcon.shtml
- Maki: https://maki.io
- Telehash: http://telehash.org/
- A whole host of blockchain projects, Bitcoin, Ethereum, HyperLedger, Scorex (Scala blockchain)
Bitcoin is an interesting option, it certainly has a large user base and is well tested and secure code, but forking it has it's own set of issues.",,zilchers,276,1523191794,2018-04-08 12:49:54+00:00,story,16785878,,75.0,, 900,"Developers aged 50, how have you gotten around age discrimination?",,What is your specialty/tech stack? How have you gotten around age discrimination? How do you suss out whether a company is right for you?
(I'm in my late twenties but I'm very curious to hear all your experiences.),,kevintb,276,1549488227,2019-02-06 21:23:47+00:00,story,19100129,,243.0,, 901,Who is hiring? (October 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.",,whoishiring,275,1412172184,2014-10-01 14:03:04+00:00,story,8394339,,427.0,, 902,Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?,,"I think that in today’s world financial literacy is more important than ever to financial success in life and yet it seems like many kids graduating high school are financially illiterate. In my opinion everyone should a fundamental understanding of how a savings account, CD account, IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k) and MSA account work. Likewise, everyone should have a fundamental understanding of the equity markets, derivatives markets, futures markets, bond and treasury markets along with an understanding of how interest rates work and their effects on financial instruments like mortgages. Kids should be taught about the various forms of business structures available to them from starting a simple DBA to the numerous flavors of corporations out there. All this can be taught without giving financial advice, which may be more in the domain of parents, but by focusing on the theoretical and historical aspects of financial instruments so that kids have a better understanding of how they work and are better prepared for life in general.",,JacKTrocinskI,275,1603521547,2020-10-24 06:39:07+00:00,story,24877408,,252.0,, 903,How do you find freelance/contract gigs?,,"I am a full-time software developer looking for extra income. I spend a lot of time "cold-emailing" local businesses and messaging other companies who are actually looking for applicants. The result is always the same: "we are not looking for freelancers/contractors right now".
I have also used freelance sites before (unsuccessfully) like ODesk and Elance, and I have really hated how they work. It seems like all freelancing on those sites is a price war. I am confident about my skill-set and I'm not worried about not being able to deliver, but the way bidding is organized on these sites feels really demeaning.
So ultimately, my question for HN is how do YOU find or establish new freelance/sub-contracting/contracting gigs? Should I just deal with my annoyance at ODesk/Elance or are there methods I'm missing? Thanks!",,eatonphil,275,1421605588,2015-01-18 18:26:28+00:00,story,8908279,,107.0,, 904,How do you tackle your own negativity?,,"I've noticed that the majority of my own comments here on HN have a negative spin on them and a lot of my blog posts unfortunately are very ranty. I guess to others this can make me look obnoxious. At the same time, I struggle to suppress my own negativity and feel like I need to get it out.
Does anybody else feel this way? How do (or don't) you tackle it?",,c7DJTLrn,275,1635717132,2021-10-31 21:52:12+00:00,story,29060798,,202.0,, 905,How do you organise your hard drive?,,"By project, by tool? What do you do with pdfs and reference stuff, surely not Dewey Decimal?",,cogs,275,1546746890,2019-01-06 03:54:50+00:00,story,18836472,,244.0,, 906,How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?,,"This really kind, eccentric guy in my neighbourhood is stockpiling books and has been doing so for years. He has an enourmous barn that he is obsessively filling with whatever reasonable quality books he can get his hands on but he is completely overwhelmed in terms of cataloging/indexing them so customers have to go through his barn sifting through cartons full of books. He charges $1 or $2 for whatever book you dig out.
He buys bulk lots from deceased estates and bookstores that are closing down. Entire shipping containers are being gifted to him and showing up at his barn. The barn is full and he is now storing in shipping containers outside.
There is great quality books among this quagmire but it takes hours of searching to find them. I figured HN might be able to point me to a solution where I could quickly photograph the front cover and have a script/google images compare the image to online info to index the title and author and then perhaps list them online...
I dunno, it just seems like such a treasure trove of books that he will sell for practically nothing because he loves books and hopes that they will find their way to people who want them - the barrier is allowing customers to find what they are looking for.
Thoughts?",,cconcepts,275,1556880991,2019-05-03 10:56:31+00:00,story,19817219,,135.0,, 907,What Neural Networks/Deep Learning Books Should I Read?,,"There are lots of deep learning books on the market. The vast majority of them are presenting practical examples using some Python (or whatever) deep learning framework. Such books don't interest me at all. If I wanted to learn some particular framework, I would just look up the documentation for that framework.
I'm looking for two types of books:
1. A technical, math-heavy introduction to neural networks and deep learning, with little or no actual code (except possibly some pseudocode). The often recommended book by Goodfellow et al resembles what I'm looking for, but unfortunately, it completely lacks exercises.
2. An entertaining pop science like book which takes a more philosophical and cross disciplinary look at neural networks as well as their inspirations and applications. I haven't been able to find a single book like this, but surely it has to exist?
Recommendations, anyone?",,Oreb,275,1565612831,2019-08-12 12:27:11+00:00,story,20674745,,48.0,, 908,Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?,,"I casually visit jobs/freelancing sites once in a while. I don't see as much demand for Lucene/Solr/ES skills for website / text / document search or other kinds of information retrieval, as I used to about 4-5 years ago.
ES seems to be the most popular but only in its ELK avatar for devops dashboards.
What technologies are you people using for text or document or website search nowadays?",,lovelearning,275,1563538629,2019-07-19 12:17:09+00:00,story,20477949,,219.0,, 909,What's the best corporate password manager?,,My company of ~25 people needs to manage access to probably ~100 services our employees use everyday and I assume some kind of password manager which I can centrally manage is the way to go.
I often hear things on here about products that claim to be secure but aren't -- what password manager is considered reliable and secure? Which do you use?
Thank you!,,flippyhead,274,1583839729,2020-03-10 11:28:49+00:00,story,22534520,,247.0,, 910,How Do You Learn?,,"Do you use techniques like spaced repetition? Do you prefer to learn from books, articles or videos?
What's your process?",,ggktk,274,1631286936,2021-09-10 15:15:36+00:00,story,28482726,,171.0,, 911,How best to learn software design principles?,,"Recently I had several rounds of interviews with one of the big tech companies, and while they said my problem solving and coding skills were good, they said they eventually decided to reject me due to my inadequate solutions to design problems, particularly software design.
In the long term, I'm sure the usual advice of reading through great open source code is the way to go. In the short term, where can I find write-ups of software design, going from 'How would you build a spreadsheet program?' to actual UML designs, discussion of design patterns, etc.",,chaimkut,274,1404761311,2014-07-07 19:28:31+00:00,story,8000811,,98.0,, 912,Starting Your Own LLC?,,"I want to start my firm in the USA to channelize my creative endeavors. What are the nuts and bolts of starting your own firm? I can register an LLC online, but what else should I know? e.g Filing taxes, choosing between different corporations etc. What did you wish you knew , when you started yours? What are some good resources ?",,pullo,274,1558797908,2019-05-25 15:25:08+00:00,story,20009534,,111.0,, 913,My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?,,"I'm sure some of your heard about what's happening in my country, Tunisia. (tldr: the president made some 'unconstitutional' moves to thwart rampant corruption. Five days later, everything seems fine ... for now).
Even though it seems the president is keeping his promise on freedom of speech, I don't think it would be extravagant to get prepared for the worse.
So, what should I do to keep myself safe online?
Edit: I'm not worried about my physical safety, I'm just asking about protecting my privacy online if the government decides to go full on Big Brother.
P.S.: I tried to submit this question with a throwaway account, for obvious reasons, was told to "please slow down".",,ahmedfromtunis,274,1627656530,2021-07-30 14:48:50+00:00,story,28008571,,176.0,, 914,I’ve been applying to a million jobs,,"Hello HN,
I am simply writing this post because I can't take this situation anymore and this is a cry from the heart.
I've been applying to a million jobs, I always seem to get the same old automated denial and I am just so sick of it. I am incredibly hardworking, disciplined, passionate about what I do and good at it, I've been doing web dev & design since highschool, I learn fast, I sweat the details, I am willing to learn anything it takes to solve my problems, I've launched a startup, single-handedly sketched, designed, and developed two mobile apps from scratch, (both live on iOS and Android at the time, and one of which went on to get over 8000 users the first month, be top 10 of its category, get featured in top women's publications online) , created APIs, have experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL), marketing, writing copy, web scraping, product design, interface design, I am Franco-american, bilingual in French and English, speak Node.js, Python, Django, Meteor.js, Hapi.js, and whatever I learn next.
I've been "selling" myself as a Product Designer but I truly can't fit in such a narrow box; I love the entire process, I love coding: for me HTML/CSS and code have never been anything more than tools to get whatever was on my mind into the real world. I love clicking a button and seeing it do something. That to me is magic.
But I am so frustrated right now, I don't understand why everything takes so long, this process is unbearable. It's already an inhumane effort for me to apply for a regular job, but I am willing to do anything (in tech) as long as it's paid at this point. I just want to come back to New York (I moved there when I was 20, knowing no-one) and work. I really feel like I can be incredibly useful to whoever hires me and it kills me that no one is even giving me a chance.
This is my website: http://o23.io
Help.",,oliv__,274,1487245863,2017-02-16 11:51:03+00:00,story,13659160,,248.0,, 915,What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?,,,,thinkpozzitive,274,1414938225,2014-11-02 14:23:45+00:00,story,8546617,,163.0,, 916,Website go-live checklist app,,Hi HN! I was wondering if there's some sort of service that would check our client websites (we're a web agency) automatically before go live. We currently have our own doc to run through but it would be nice if there was something that would automatically do that for us.
Examples for checks are:
- HTTPS and related (HSTS -> cookies etc) enabled/correctly configured
- robots.txt configured
- Correct API keys configured (e.g. Stripe live key instead of test key)
- No dead links
and so forth..,,DubDubThrow,274,1502204128,2017-08-08 14:55:28+00:00,story,14958394,,48.0,, 917,Why are credit card chip readers so slow?,,"I am interested in the technical specifics - what happens end-to-end, and where does the slowness/latency come from?",,dv35z,273,1498448820,2017-06-26 03:47:00+00:00,story,14633918,,323.0,, 918,"As an employee of a company, how do you assess its health?",,"What indicators do you look at to determine whether the company is in good or bad health or trending in a direction?
Do you have anecdotes (or even more significant data!) about signs or events or shifts in culture that ended up foretelling a change to the company?
[Update(s)]
I mainly meant "startup" (i.e. not Fortune 500) when I said company. But I don't want to prevent discussions about larger entities, so perhaps we can preface comments with which type of company you're talking about if necessary. :)",,dpflan,273,1498653904,2017-06-28 12:45:04+00:00,story,14653564,,192.0,, 919,What's the best algorithms and data structures online course?,,,,zabana,273,1519207438,2018-02-21 10:03:58+00:00,story,16428309,,36.0,, 920,Best “I brought down production” story?,,What is your best "and then I brought down production" story?,,Ozzie_osman,273,1624731460,2021-06-26 18:17:40+00:00,story,27644387,,293.0,, 921,Show HN: Meta book recommendations from Ask HN threads,https://mapfilterfold.com/,,,odie88,273,1585231446,2020-03-26 14:04:06+00:00,story,22693634,,42.0,, 922,Where do you find potential customers to validate your idea / MVP?,,"Where do you find people to validate your idea / MVP and get feedback from? I've been building something over the past year that primarily scratches my own itch and I'm getting ready to use it myself but I was wondering how I could see if other people are interested in this as well.
I've read about landing pages and MVPs so that's kinda what I did: I've made something small, usable, that solves a single problem with myself as my user persona (i.e. scratching my own itch).
The problem I'm running into now is that I can't seem to gather any useful feedback and I don't know where to get that feedback, or how to get it. There are a few people registered on my site but none actually active enough for me to try and reach out to them.
How do you get feedback on your project / MVP without spamming HN or reddit in the hopes that one or two people leave a comment?
P.S. A fiverr clone for product owners or analysts might be what I'm looking for here.",,showsover,273,1617177763,2021-03-31 08:02:43+00:00,story,26644616,,109.0,, 923,Have you ever switched cloud?,,"Has anyone ever switched clouds from one service provider to another (e.g. AWS to Azure or vice versa), partially or entirely?
If so why? They all offer almost identical services. Do small (but maybe significant?) differences or unique products (e.g. Spanner) make such a big difference that it has swayed someone to switch their cloud infrastructure?
I wonder how much these little things matter and how such a transition (in partial or as a whole) went along and how key stakeholders (who were possibly heavily invested in one cloud or felt they were responsible for the initial choice) were convinced to make the switch?
I'd love to hear some stories from real world experiences and crucially what it was that pushed the last domino to make the move.",,dustinmoris,273,1649326866,2022-04-07 10:21:06+00:00,story,30942698,,259.0,, 924,"Did you get ""never have to work again rich"" through software?",,How did you do it?
What did it feel like when you first realised it was going to be true that you would never have to work again if you didn't want to?
How old were you?
What was it specifically that made the cash that ended up in your pocket?
Do you feel happy in your life?,,hoodoof,272,1404311669,2014-07-02 14:34:29+00:00,story,7977188,,177.0,, 925,What books do you keep on your desk?,,"What books do you find yourself referring to frequently? Any field, not just software engineering.",,blueintegral,272,1522859070,2018-04-04 16:24:30+00:00,story,16756243,,212.0,, 926,Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?,,"This post is inspired by[0]. During the "great resignation" trend there were a lot of posts about people quitting due to burn out or otherwise. I wonder what they did end up doing.
I am not sure what I'd do if I'd quit. Maybe travel for a bit doing nothing and then start my own thing.
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407560",,break_the_bank,272,1637583101,2021-11-22 12:11:41+00:00,story,29305516,,305.0,, 927,Are my expectations on code quality and professionalism too high?,,"I have lost perspective on what is reasonable to expect, and need a reality check from HN.
Some time ago, I left a large-ish company with what I perceived as overall quite good engineering to join a smaller company. When I say "quite good", I don't mean perfect, but what I consider the basics were there
- Code review, where we would consider architectural concerns, failure cases, etc. ensuring maintainability. Shortcuts were taken intentionally with a plan to address them
- Test coverage was good enough that you could generally rely on the CI to release to production
- Normal development workflow would be to have tests running while developing, adding tests as you introduce functionality. For some projects that didn't have adequate test coverage, developing might involve running the service locally and connecting to staging instances of dependencies
- Deployments were automated and infrastructure was managed in code
Those are what I consider the basics. Other things I don't expect from every company and am fine setting up myself as needed.
In $current_company, I was surprised that none of the basics were there. All agree to do these things, but with the slightest bit of pressure those principles are gone and people go back to pushing directly to prod, connecting to prod DBs during development, breaking tests, writing spaghetti code with no review, leaving us worse off than we were before. This is frustrating since I see how slow dev is, and I know how fast it is to develop when people write good code with discipline. Most devs in the company don't have experience with other kind of environments (even "senior" ones), I think they just can't imagine another way. My disappointment isn't with the current state, but that people of all levels are making it worse instead of better.
These setbacks are demoralizing, but I'm wondering if my standards are unreasonable. That this is what mid-sized companies are and I just have to endure and keep pushing",,veggiepulse,271,1591349243,2020-06-05 09:27:23+00:00,story,23426574,,291.0,, 928,What are good resources for life advice?,,"What are other good resources to read from? Any source that are as good as PG essays on how to think in life?
Sources can be videos, audios, recordings, essays, blogs, etc. Anything.",,sumitsrivastava,271,1555112723,2019-04-12 23:45:23+00:00,story,19650044,,163.0,, 929,Offer of Employment retracted,,"I was offered a Senior RoR dev position at a 50-ppl funded and revenue-generating bay area company last week. I accepted, signed, and was excited to join this company. Subsequently I gave my two-week notice at my current job (not in the bay area). They have started my exit process here.
This afternoon I got a call from the HR that they are retracting my offer as ""circumstances have changed and they are eliminating the position"". I am literally shocked as I have a perfectly good, well-paying job at a Fortune 500 company where I've worked for 5+ yrs that I resigned from to join this small company.
What is my recourse in this situation? I was told by the Engineering Manager in this company that I got two thumbs up from all the interviewers and they were looking forward to me joining. He even sent me tech documents to go over a couple days ago.
I don't know what to do. Not only does this affect my employment situation but also my immigration situation. Not having a job impacts my ability to stay in the US.
I can't go back to my current team now as it will not only look ridiculous but my commitment will be questioned as well.
Please advise. I'm just really distressed and upset right now.",,joboffer,271,1285193583,2010-09-22 22:13:03+00:00,story,1717733,,158.0,, 930,Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?,,"Yesterday I ran `brew install virtualenv` and homebrew decided to upgrade postgres, ruby, youtube-dl, vim, rust, wget and 50 other unrelated packages. The single command took 45min and broke all of my local postgres databases (and who knows what else).
At this point I should know better than to install postgres via homebrew, but unwanted/unasked-for upgrades is not a feature I'm looking for in a package manager.
What's your experience with other package managers for macOS? Currently looking into macports & nix and not sure which one to choose...",,pchm,271,1635847419,2021-11-02 10:03:39+00:00,story,29079096,,298.0,, 931,What good open source projects written in React that I can learn from?,,,,GutenYe,270,1477530044,2016-10-27 01:00:44+00:00,story,12802121,,71.0,, 932,Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?,,"So with Google starting to charge previously-free users, I've decided that I'd rather give my money to someone else. I'd like a provider who is likely to be around in a decade or two. Tips on moving many years of Google email to a new provider are appreciated as well!",,CharlesW,270,1644082930,2022-02-05 17:42:10+00:00,story,30223538,,260.0,, 933,Is abuse from supervisors as common in industry as in academia?,,"Hi, HN. I'm a PhD student in computational biology in Canada. Through my MSc & PhD, I've seen a number of abuses of power from supervisors, both my own and others. Some of these are deliberate (e.g., making remarks to other profs intended to embarrass or discredit the student), while many are evidently unintentional but still egregious (e.g., being grossly neglectful of the student's professional development, so that the supervisor is blocking a student's degree completion and career development by essentially ignoring her). As someone who will be finishing soon and getting the hell out of academia, I want to understand how common these abuses are in industry. Some of these problems may arise from aspects particular to academia:
* Maybe students have conditioned themselves to get paid little and be treated with a lack of respect?
* Maybe the sunk cost of a partially completed graduate degree compels students to remain to completion, even when the work environment is toxic?
* Maybe the "flat" management structure of most labs (3 to 30 grad students report directly to their supervisor) allows more abuse?
* Maybe tenure insulates supervisors from consequences for treating their students poorly?
Among my late-stage PhD friends, it feels like 80% are unhappy, either because of deliberate abuse from their supervisors, or because of the supervisor's neglect of what the student needs to finish her degree and progress to her next career stage. Is this abuse as prevalent in industry as in academia?",,phdonewiththis,270,1615036229,2021-03-06 13:10:29+00:00,story,26367099,,214.0,, 934,Best practices for ethical web scraping?,,"Hello HN!
As part of my learning in data science, I need/want to gather data. One relatively easy way to do that is web scraping.
However I'd like to do that in a respectful way. Here are three things I can think of:
1. Identify my bot with a user agent/info URL, and provide a way to contact me 2. Don't DoS websites with tons of request. 3. Respect the robots.txt
What else would be considered good practice when it comes to web scraping?",,aspyct,270,1586006841,2020-04-04 13:27:21+00:00,story,22778089,,107.0,, 935,How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?,http://cabada.mx/mylife.html,,,mrcabada,270,1475522471,2016-10-03 19:21:11+00:00,story,12630473,,182.0,, 936,How and where can I publish my research on AI as a college dropout?,,,,james1234,270,1507567493,2017-10-09 16:44:53+00:00,story,15435371,,82.0,, 937,Who is Hiring? (February 2012),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" (February 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537882",,whoishiring,270,1328104232,2012-02-01 13:50:32+00:00,story,3537881,,230.0,, 938,Who is hiring? (February 2022),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164269
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164270",,whoishiring,269,1643731315,2022-02-01 16:01:55+00:00,story,30164271,,895.0,, 939,How does your development team handle database migrations?,,What's your team workflow for delivering features that require database migrations. How do you keep migrations from slowing down development as your team grows.,,abetlen,269,1557510518,2019-05-10 17:48:38+00:00,story,19880334,,146.0,, 940,Update to What to do if I’m about to lose my job to mental health issues,https://pastebin.com/raw/RdLGZpSC,,,throwawaydev00,269,1538923328,2018-10-07 14:42:08+00:00,story,18160774,,88.0,, 941,How do you brand yourself as a freelancer?,,"I'll quit my CTO position in a few months to become a Freelancer. I know personal branding is an important part of the job to get customers.
In short: what do you do for that?
* Where do you ensure to be visible? LinkedIn, personal website, etc?
* Do you create and post content (blog, LinkedIn groups, etc.)?
* What content about you do you emphasize to find leads?
* Do you use your own name, or a company name?
* Did you chose to brand yourself a generalist Freelancer ("I'm a developper working with X and Y languages") or a specialist one ("I can be a CTO as a service building your MVP for your startup and help recruiting and train your team")
Thanks for sharing your tips and experience.",,bluewalt,269,1590235933,2020-05-23 12:12:13+00:00,story,23282278,,101.0,, 942,Who is Hiring? (March 2012),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" (March 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3652044",,whoishiring,269,1330610208,2012-03-01 13:56:48+00:00,story,3652041,,297.0,, 943,Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?,,"I just logged into my AWS account and I noticed every charge has doubled for my September usage, literally overnight!
I called AWS and they said this has been reported by multiple people and they still don't know how many accounts are affected, did this happen to you too?",,ent101,268,1569098476,2019-09-21 20:41:16+00:00,story,21037811,,68.0,, 944,How do you handle logging?,,"Hi!
I work as the backend developer at a mobile app startup, and we don't currently have any centralized logging.
So... how do you do it? Is there any way to have something similar to AWS X-Ray, to trace a single chain of events across platforms? Unless it's a bad idea? I really don't know ^^'",,ElFitz,268,1566983421,2019-08-28 09:10:21+00:00,story,20818106,,120.0,, 945,How to not bring emotion from work back home?,,"Even after working so many years. I still get moment that I want to snap. Any way to not bring emotion from work back home?
Workout usually will just make me more angry.
Meditation/music can only help when you are not at the edge point.
Talk to people helps. But one person can only bear with you for so much. Even though it is a good friend/love you very much.
Even tried chatbot. Again, not working when at the edge point.",,steve371,268,1496858183,2017-06-07 17:56:23+00:00,story,14508465,,226.0,, 946,What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?,,"What was the Internet like in its purest form? Was it mainly information sharing, and if so, how reliable was the information?",,varrock,268,1547394839,2019-01-13 15:53:59+00:00,story,18897109,,246.0,, 947,What are some 'must watch' talks?,,,,CSMastermind,267,1486332104,2017-02-05 22:01:44+00:00,story,13574916,,77.0,, 948,What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?,,"What are some of your favorite websites you've ever come across on the internet? And why?
List for whatever reason.. the most obscure, interesting design, the worst design, etc.
I'm waiting to see some exciting findings.",,kandruszkow,267,1645617341,2022-02-23 11:55:41+00:00,story,30440123,,263.0,, 949,Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?,,"I'm looking to get back into an IT career but I have lots of serious impediments. I'd like to ask HN readers for their views on my hopeless(?) situation.
Am an ex-solicitor. I got out of UK jail a couple of years ago, I did some whitecollar stuff and I have a permanently un-unspent conviction for money-laundering. I'm over 60 with law & a science degree plus several post-grad qualifications. I'm currently doing a masters in data science for interest. I used to be a programmer back in the 80s and keep up with the topic (Erlang, OCaml, F#, Python Golang etc).
I'll never pass jobs with DBS checks due to convictions. plus I guess I'll never get a job coding due to ageism (I'd wondered about COBOL but banks and government wouldn't take me), and I dont fancy doing all the BS prep needed for interviews anyway. But I like stats ML and data so I'd love to try for that. But the age and convictions are a serious problems.
I don't imagine anyone on HN has anyone with my collection of problems but does anyone have any suggestions that might help?",,throwaway301010,267,1641984163,2022-01-12 10:42:43+00:00,story,29904654,,176.0,, 950,What are unintended consequences of new tech you've noticed?,,"3 times in SF this week, a Cruise AV has driven past my car and triggered my automatic windshield wipers, even though it was totally dry out. (probably the LIDAR interacting with wipers' infrared sensors).
Got me thinking about what unintended consequences can spring up because of new technologies. Anyone have other examples, current or historic?",,coloneltcb,267,1572028648,2019-10-25 18:37:28+00:00,story,21357921,,361.0,, 951,"Where do I get started on ASICs, FPGA, RTL, Verilog et. al?",,"I actually want to understand the chip manufacturing process - design, prototyping (using FPGAs, etc), baking process in foundries. And also at least a basic understanding of how IP is managed in chip industry - like "IP core" is a term that I frequently hear but due to the myriad interpretations available online, I don't really understand what an "IP core" really means. Hoping to get useful advice from veterans in the chip industry.",,bharatkhatri14,267,1506886952,2017-10-01 19:42:32+00:00,story,15379418,,109.0,, 952,How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?,,"I am pretty extroverted and derive a lot of meaning and enjoyment from working with people IRL, not just across a Slack connection. My previous job went from tolerable to intolerable as a result of the pandemic caused 100% WFH. These days it's hard to find an in office job, and even when you do, it feels like that would be s red flag anyway, since WFH is seen as a perk by most, or realistically I worry I'm going to go in to the office and be the only one there.
I just like being able to grab lunch with coworkers and shoot the shit. I find i care more about my work when I feel more connected to the other people who are affected by it.
(BTW I don't mind partial WFH, thats just obviously beneficial for everyone.)
Are those days just over? Am I doing / thinking about this wrong in some way? Is it not as bad as I think? Are there places out there for weirdos like me?",,throwawayfrmt,266,1640679632,2021-12-28 08:20:32+00:00,story,29711622,,261.0,, 953,Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?,,"I recently was playing around with Maxmind's free GeoIP database but was disappointed at how inaccurate the free version was.
I started hacking away yesterday at making an alternative database that seems to be more accurate, but it's still in the works. Who here would be interested in a free alternative, including and excluding cities, updated on a daily basis, and if so, which format's would you like to see?",,dutchbrit,266,1439135469,2015-08-09 15:51:09+00:00,story,10030516,,122.0,, 954,How to prosper under negative interest rates?,,"The US Fed is at 0% interest rates and there is increasing speculation they might go to negative interest rates. There are already other central banks around the world in negative interest rate territory.
How do you prosper under a situation like that? What would you do or plan to do?
For example, should I stop saving? Should I put my savings elsewhere? Should I take out loans to buy up assets? Should I build businesses and raise venture capital for them?
I was brought up to work diligently, not take on debt, and save - a simple approach to building wealth - but I'm concerned that will put me at a disadvantage under an economic system with negative rates.",,gatleon,266,1585662070,2020-03-31 13:41:10+00:00,story,22737423,,249.0,, 955,Why do my online accounts keep getting banned?,,"Hi HN. I am at my wit's end so I'm asking here. In the last few years, nearly half of all my online accounts for a variety of different services have been either restricted or banned for no reason. I have no idea what I could possibly be doing "wrong" here so I'm asking HN for help.
* Lyft. Got a generic error when requesting a ride, which told me to contact support. I contacted support and they said my account was suspended due to violation of ToS with fradulent activity. I asked exactly what they think I did to violate ToS and they would not tell me. I've taken hundreds of 5-star rides, never comitted any fraud, I don't drive for Lyft or even know anyone who does. To this day I still don't know what I did "wrong."
* Instagram. Signed up for an account a couple years ago. Followed some celebrities and friends. A week later when I try to login, it errors saying my account has been suspended with no reason and recourse for recovery. I made another account. Banned again after a couple of days. Now, whenever I try to make a new account, the SMS verification never passes. It is like they have blacklisted my IP address.
* Letgo. It's like Craiglist. I moved within San Francisco a few years ago and signed up for an account to get rid of some furniture that I would not be taking with me. Within a few days I couldn't login and support told me my account was banned due to fradulent activity. All I did was create a listing for a couch with some pictures! I hadn't even gotten responses to the post.
* Google. I tried logging in to an old account associated with some domains in Webmaster Tools. That's all I use this account for and I haven't logged in in years. I enter in the right password and am greeted with "You’re trying to sign in on a device Google doesn’t recognize, and we don’t have enough information to verify that it’s you. For your protection, you can’t sign in here right now. Try again from a device or location where you’ve signed in before.". What am I supposed to do here? Last I used this account has at an old address (different IP) and on a computer that has since been retired (motherboard swapped out, OS reinstalled).
* Twitter. I created an account several years ago. After a week when I logged in it said my account was restricted and asked me to enter a phone number for SMS verification. I complied, and even after entering the correct code, it errored saying it cannot verify my identity. Haven't used Twitter since.
* Fidelity. This morning I tried to log in to my investment account and it says my account has been blocked "for security reasons" with no other information or explanation. It says I have to call Fidelity. Over the phone they asked me to supply a ton of documents over fax for identity verification and a record of all the devices I've ever used to sign into Fidelity. They won't even tell me why my account was blocked in the first place.
This is endlessly frustrating. There must be something unique about either me or my devices. I have a regular residental ISP in San Francisco, I'm not using Tor or VPNs, I use a vanilla Mac with Firefox. I use an adblocker (uBlock) but so does everyone else. I have a bog-standard Samsung phone running bog-standard unmodified Android.
Does HN know why my accounts keep getting banned? Especially for those who work on identity/trust and safety teams in Silicon Valley who have inside knowledge of how this works.",,lopkeny12ko,265,1646324383,2022-03-03 16:19:43+00:00,story,30542953,,209.0,, 956,How do you take care of yourself?,,"How do you take care of yourself mentally and physically? How do you avoid burnout and what do you do when you have burnt out? What are your top few points of advice for these aspects of self-care or anything else that may be relevant?
For context:
I am finishing my bachelors in CS this year, but I really enjoy my major and classes and I look forward to landing a job in industry. I find side projects to be fun, but motivation to continue working on them dies off within a week or two. As a result, I don't have as many things built and to a level that I would like because I feel like I should be putting my time on something else and then end up making no progress on anything (leetcode, projects, self-learning, hobbies). So I feel like I always need to be doing something and then when I do something I feel like I should be doing something else that is "better", which leads to constant (but sometimes low) feelings of burnout, laziness, or overwhelmingness (hope that's a word). I would also consider myself a perfectionist, so that makes me feel like everything I am doing has to be perfect (even when I don't know how to execute whatever I'm doing properly). I like to take well thought out steps in anything I do (picking next quarter's classes and professors, projects, programming, friendships, etc), but sometimes I feel like that holds me back from actually doing the thing I am thinking about and lead to no progress again.
I apologize for the rant, but I'd like some advice, thoughts, and reflections from the community.",,Gary_TheSnail_,265,1640998088,2022-01-01 00:48:08+00:00,story,29754211,,134.0,, 957,Writing cover letters for tech jobs,,"I really hate writing cover letters as I never know what to write or if anyone is even going to read them. I see a lot of sites offering advice on how to write generic cover letters, but most all of them don’t seem appropriate (at least to me) for tech jobs - more for formal sales, business jobs. I'm interested to know what HN’ers with experience on either or both sides have to say by way of advice - What do you usually write/expect, is it even really a requirement?. Do you attach a separate document or just write an informal email. What tone do you take - formal, familiar. Do you summarize your skills experience or just include a link to Github etc.",,scabarott,265,1513364390,2017-12-15 18:59:50+00:00,story,15934135,,123.0,, 958,How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?,,"I'm just curious how we trust companies such as Signal, Telegram, Mozilla, that claim they don't store and sell our data?
Thank you",,smoqadam,264,1610555061,2021-01-13 16:24:21+00:00,story,25764142,,236.0,, 959,How to Seriously Start with Machine Learning and AI,,"Hey,
Since years I've been seeing tones of news "how machine learing did smth... " and today that's enough with just reading how other people change the world with AI. I want to join into this area and scientificly understand how it everything works - make my own projects...
-I'm a third-year Computer Science student who just has passed most of the needed courses like obj programming,python course, databases, math statistics, algebra etc... I really enjoy playing with data like projecting databases, programming backed etc...
Everything I know until today - I have learned on my own(swift, python, backend). Mostly by practice and solving problems. Now I really want to start serious journey with Machine Learning and AI.
But by making some small research which made me realised that I don't want just to implement already done frameworks for e.q face recognition (maybe I should?) I would like to understand the topic really seriously and be able to explore this area... ---but here's a problem because I don't know how to start it. I've got enthusiasm, some ideas for a projects, but still don't know almost anything about how exactly everything works.
When I was starting with programming, I read some books, watched online lecture and bang. I started doing my own projects. How to start in this more scientifically sophisticated area?
Are there any courses, books, online lectures which you can recommend me for a start to understand how it all works? Unfortunately, my university doesn't lead any more interesting courses in this area... People here are just fascinated with it but nothing more complex...
I'm still young so why not to lose time on something that seems to be really fascinating ;)",,meddy,264,1516195164,2018-01-17 13:19:24+00:00,story,16167620,,71.0,, 960,Teaching kids how to think?,,There is a lot of material out there for teens and older kids.
I am curious what material or activities you use for kids ages 6-8 for helping them to learn to think on their own.,,tmaly,264,1601474348,2020-09-30 13:59:08+00:00,story,24638756,,139.0,, 961,Who is hiring? (April 2022),,"Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
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.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnhired.com/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878759
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878760",,whoishiring,264,1648825325,2022-04-01 15:02:05+00:00,story,30878761,,808.0,, 962,How to improve my abstract thinking?,,"A few days ago I got into Mathematical Logic[0] and learned how to reason about problems through using various branches of mathematical ideas like proof theory, model theory e.t.c.
I found this abstract way of thinking about problems clear, & organised. "Mathematical Logic" is diffrent from the kind of Math I was taught, which was a top down approach to solving problems.
"Mathematical Logic" seems to be able to derive solutions to problems in a ground up fashion where a solution can somtimes elegantly present its self as long as you apply correct mathematical properties.
What other techniques do you hackers use to improve your abstract thinking?
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_logic",,max_,264,1593416304,2020-06-29 07:38:24+00:00,story,23675370,,104.0,, 963,Is Hackernews still using the file system as database?,,I'd love to learn a bit about what the current hosting/tech stack setup looks like. IIRC the posts were stored in files on the file system and scaled quite well vertically. Is that still the case?,,tosh,264,1495142363,2017-05-18 21:19:23+00:00,story,14371189,,78.0,, 964,How do you get out of a rut?,,Hi HN. I'm a student and for the past few months I've found myself sitting at my desk each evening with no motivation to do anything. I want to change this. How have you all gotten out of long tracts of lethargy? What are some strategies or approaches you've found to be effective in dealing with this?
Thank you for your advice!,,abecedarian,264,1643176009,2022-01-26 05:46:49+00:00,story,30082234,,168.0,, 965,Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?,,"I was wonder why aren't devs making desktop apps any more, especially since everyone is buying laptops and desktops again? With all the tooling out there for cross platform, a native experience, and better privacy/security than a webapp.
For example, Here are just two frameworks/tool kits that are easy to use and to build desktop apps with.
React Native for Windows and MacOS: https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/
Avalonia UI: http://avaloniaui.net/
Also, If they do use frameworks like the ones mentioned above they will still only release the app for mobile and then rebuild the code for a webapp which is slower and does not have the functionality.
John",,sirjaz,264,1648134574,2022-03-24 15:09:34+00:00,story,30790964,,330.0,, 966,Who is Hiring? (April 2012),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" (April 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783658",,whoishiring,264,1333288038,2012-04-01 13:47:18+00:00,story,3783657,,223.0,, 967,Open source OCR library?,,Does anyone have a recommendation for a good character recognition library? I'm trying to pull text out of images. I tried ocrad.js but haven't had much success with it.,,whbv,264,1435202751,2015-06-25 03:25:51+00:00,story,9775753,,98.0,, 968,My company wants my side project. What can I do?,,"Hello everyone,
I created product on the side as a side project in my own time and it has become a huge hit in the community to a point where my employers wants me to transfer the code-base over. The company does OSS and my side-project is also Open-Source.
I've developed it on my own time but the product directly relates to what my employer does so I've sort of cornered myself in a bad place. In hindsight, I also made some mistakes in how I went about evangelizing it.
Ideally, I want to keep the ownership with myself but I doubt that is going to work out.
I think what I want is: - to be compensated in some form for all the time I've put in over the last two years - to have control over the product roadmap (this I'm fairly confident won't happen in the way I want in the long run)
What are my options here? What should I ask for here? I don't have much clue as to what can I ask for here so any suggestions would be helpful. People at my company generally wants to work things out to keep everyone happy to some degree.",,yolo42,264,1576275377,2019-12-13 22:16:17+00:00,story,21786111,,312.0,, 969,How to cope with the death of a dear person?,,"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.
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.
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.
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.
Missing that, any suggestion on how you coped with death?
It is not my first time; but it is the first time in the last decade or so. I know, I'm lucky.
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.",,simonebrunozzi,263,1622269411,2021-05-29 06:23:31+00:00,story,27323430,,94.0,, 970,Help a Hacker Out,,"As the result of a series of unfortunate misfires and suboptimal decisions I've found myself in the unenviable position of being unemployed and living back home with my mom in Des Moines, Iowa. While it may sound like a setup for a romantic comedy, the fact that a plucky and attractive female has yet to make an apparence has made it painfully clear that it's not going to be that kind of a movie. So, before the cement dries on what was intended to be a very short-term situation and I find myself greeting shoppers at Walmart, I've decided to buy a one-way ticket to SF where there seems to be plenty of opportunity for the likes of me. The only problem is that I don't have a job, an interview, or even any connections I can leverage.
But if you need help solving hard problems, I'm your guy. I have an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a masters in Mathematics from Iowa State. I know C++ and Python ok and I've worked as a derivatives quant, a high-frequency trader and even tried my hand at poker for a while. I'm open to short or long-term consulting projects as well as full-time employment. I'm particularly interested in working on challenging problems dealing with algorithms and big data, but I'm up for jumping back into HFT if there's a decent opportunity. Hell, I'll even tutor linear algebra or basket weaving if that's where this adventure needs to begin.
In short, I'm a smart guy coming to SF and I need an opportunity. Please help a hacker out.",,lesterfremn,263,1330461656,2012-02-28 20:40:56+00:00,story,3644870,,93.0,, 971,What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?,,Please don't list things that just need more bodies - specifically looking for intellectual blockers that can be answered in this thread.,,zachrip,263,1630223102,2021-08-29 07:45:02+00:00,story,28344952,,472.0,, 972,Do you create music? let's hear it,,I wonder how many HNers create beats/raps/songs or whatever.. share with us !,,saadalem,263,1615236253,2021-03-08 20:44:13+00:00,story,26391254,,378.0,, 973,My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?,,"Hello HN!
Let me give you some background info:
- I'm 29 years old, computer science graduate. - I founded two startups. First one failed after 4 years. The second one was acquired 3 months ago but do not take it as a success. We had to sold it to one of our competitors at a price of one tenth of the our series A valuation. Basically, things go bad so fast, it was our best option. I've left the company as a part of the deal. - In both of the companies I've founded, I had to wear too many hats. As a result, I have not excelled in any particular skill, rather I've gained medium level of experience in variety of skills from development to product design to finance. - As a result of the recent acquisition I've some money in my bank account which can cover my expenses for a year from now. - I was mentally exhausted, so I decided to keep things slow for a while and that's why I've not been doing anything for the last three months. - Doing nothing made things worse, since I'm constantly thinking about my future and I can not find anything that I want to do. - I've decided to apply for some jobs but I'm not sure which position I may fit in. - I'm feeling like a huge failure.
What should I do with my life now? Has someone in here ever experienced something like this before? I'm open to any suggestions.
Thanks!
ps: posting this from a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I hope you don't mind.",,throwaway487,263,1497472764,2017-06-14 20:39:24+00:00,story,14555935,,189.0,, 974,Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?,,"Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?
I'm interested in groups who are thinking about the next thirty years, rather than the next five years.
Some projects I find interesting:
* Subtext by Jonathan Edwards: https://vimeo.com/106073134
* Apparatus by Toby Schachman: http://aprt.us
* Bret Victor's explorable explanation and introspectable programming demos: http://worrydream.com
* Eve by Kodowa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8
* Scratch by the MIT Media Lab: https://scratch.mit.edu
* Mathmatica by Wolfram Research: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica
Why am I interested? I'm working on Code Lauren, a game programming environment for beginners: http://codelauren.com I want to learn as much as possible about work done by others in the same area.",,maryrosecook,263,1453142756,2016-01-18 18:45:56+00:00,story,10926038,,121.0,, 975,Why can't I make as much as I make?,,"In ""How to Make Wealth"" PG puts forward the following argument:
1. Assume a hacker can make a good wage working for someone else.
2. Assume a hacker can in turn be significantly more productive working for themselves.
3. All things being equal, a hacker should be able to make significantly more money by working for themselves (albeit at the cost of increased risk and stress).
The relevant quote: ""If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 a year at a big company, then a smart hacker working very hard ... should be able to do work worth about $3 million a year.""
My question to HN is as follows:
Excluding outliers such as Gates/Zuckerberg, is the inference that a good hacker can make more from the market directly actually valid?
If so, why does it seem most hackers struggle to capture even half their regular wage from the market directly?
All advice/experiences appreciated.",,nopassrecover,262,1302534150,2011-04-11 15:02:30+00:00,story,2432778,,114.0,, 976,Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?,,"I notice that when browsing Reddit day-to-day I am constantly getting either "Sorry, we couldn't load posts for this page" on a subreddit page or "Cannot load comments" on a thread page. This isn't just happening occasionally, it's been happening daily over the course of weeks.
There's been a lot of hate for the "new" Reddit design but outside of the actual usability of the site, there seems to be some huge problems from a technical perspective.
I've tried multiple browsers, internet connections,VPN enabled/disabled and it's always the same. I now just use https://old.reddit.com, but I'd be interested to hear if other people have the same experience?
It boggles my mind that a redesign could be implemented so poorly on such a popular site.",,aosaigh,262,1563100789,2019-07-14 10:39:49+00:00,story,20432746,,184.0,, 977,How to be my own genetic disease researcher for my partner?,,"My partner was diagnosed with a rare condition/disease with unclear cause/pathology.
I feel like it would be impossible for a doctor to stay abreast of all of the possible links/data unless they focused very narrowly on a patient.
I'd like to try and fill that gap - look at the data and relay any potential links/causes to the providers.
We have the full genome in CRAM, CRAI, FASTQ, VCF, and TBI data - is there a way that me, a medical layman but well informed person could leverage this data to mine for possible matching genetic variants?
e.g. I have started finding genes associated with my partner's condition in the NCBI website and the ClinVar Miner (https://clinvarminer.genetics.utah.edu/variants-by-condition)
Is it sufficient to identify variants by searching for the SNP string (e.g. "rsXXXXXX") in the VCF file?
Are there "hacker's guide to genomic analysis" resources out there?",,thetwentyone,262,1638847985,2021-12-07 03:33:05+00:00,story,29468831,,83.0,, 978,"Solo app devs, how do you do user testing?",,"Enlisting the help of friends and family can only get you so far, so how do you gather quality feedback pre/post-launch, without shelling out for a professional agency to do the testing?",,rhardih,262,1529316375,2018-06-18 10:06:15+00:00,story,17336984,,81.0,, 979,Predictions for 2021?,,"What are your predictions for 2021? It's clear that 2020 was somewhat of a false start into this decade and has arguably completely changed everyone's lives for the long term. (If not permanently).
This time, it seems that my crystal ball is lacking inspiration for 2021 due to the uncertainty caused by this year.",,rvz,262,1609431979,2020-12-31 16:26:19+00:00,story,25594068,,430.0,, 980,Who is Hiring? (January 2012),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" (January 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3412901",,whoishiring,262,1325419784,2012-01-01 12:09:44+00:00,story,3412900,,224.0,, 981,Who here has built a profitable startup while keeping their day job?,,,,jobsandjobs,261,1537980244,2018-09-26 16:44:04+00:00,story,18077766,,181.0,, 982,Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?,,"This Thursday I'm invited to a privacy roundtable with Facebook Legal and Privacy Policy teams in Amsterdam. The round table will be with other entrepreneurs and experts in the privacy field. I'm invited because I'm the founder of Simple Analytics - a privacy friendly analytics SaaS business [1] - and critical about Facebook on Twitter [2].
Some people advised me not to go there because it would only do harm to my name and brand, but I think I should. The Facebook teams are going to give a presentation with some new plans where they want feedback on. For internal push back they need critical people from outside Facebook, which I'm happy to contribute for.
To make it more interesting for the outside world I'm going to ask a few questions for Facebook in general (privacy wise). And that's where I need some help. What questions do you want answers for from Facebook?
Facebook agreed I could use the answers outside of the meeting (with the exception of sharing from non-Facebook attendances).
[1] https://simpleanalytics.com
[2] https://twitter.com/adriaanvrossum",,AdriaanvRossum,261,1562665760,2019-07-09 09:49:20+00:00,story,20390247,,170.0,, 983,What cool development languages/tools changed your career?,,"I've been a web developer for the past 10 years and I've mostly used PHP in my projects. I've also had a chance to code in JavaScript, C#, Delphi. I've had the chance to build large website (>500k users/day) and desktop apps used by millions of users per month, but I always used the technologies that felt comfortable to me. I knew Zend Framework very well, so I used that one to build the services.
My "oh wow" moment was when I discovered Phalcon PHP framework (https://phalconphp.com/en/) about a year ago. I've switched all our projects on this framework and saved thousands of $$ because of the performance impact.
The other thing that made my day was when I discovered Django (https://www.djangoproject.com/). I never knew Python, but I decided to give it a try. The performance is amazing (I always thought that it was slower than PHP - I was wrong) and it seems I can build the projects faster that I ever could using PHP (with any framework).
What were your "wow" moments in your career? What was your best decision to improve your work?",,mirceasoaica,261,1477378102,2016-10-25 06:48:22+00:00,story,12785814,,305.0,, 984,How do you manage your personal documents?,,"As I get older, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to manage the seemingly constant influx of 'important' documents.
Fortunately, most documents are sent to me digitally, where I can easily file them on my computer and back them up.
For non-digital documents like auto lease paperwork, home-related legal documents, major bills that I want to keep around, etc, my filing system is incredibly poor. By 'poor', I mean: it takes far too long to find the document I'm looking for, it's difficult to decide where to file something, and it's too difficult to find things.
Every few years, we take a stab at reorganizing our files, but the lack of searchability and the other affordances of digital documents leaves me wanting more.
How do you organize your personal documents? Do you digitze them somehow? Do you have a great filing system? I want to know.",,ftio,261,1636462652,2021-11-09 12:57:32+00:00,story,29161110,,179.0,, 985,What should an ideal developer interview process look like?,,"We have always complained about the developer interview process being broken. According to you, what does an ideal process look like?",,rvivek,261,1543799664,2018-12-03 01:14:24+00:00,story,18585677,,278.0,, 986,Cookies vs. JWT vs. OAuth,,"I’m using passport.js with a local strategy for authentication, and I’m using sessions/cookies for keeping state and keeping the user logged in.
I’m not very knowledgeable in security (that’s why I’m asking here), but will using JWT (with the token stored in the cookie) to keep the user logged in instead of sessions/cookies make my application more secure when the passport middleware executes req.isAuthenticated? I thiiink somewhere in that call it checks cookies or jwt, depending on implementation.
Also, I do not plan on opening the API to other sites, so OAuth is unnecessary. Is my understanding correct?",,amend,260,1520205407,2018-03-04 23:16:47+00:00,story,16517412,,93.0,, 987,Books with a high signal to noise ratio?,,"I like reading non fiction but a lot of it is like pop psychology with not a lot of informational content.
I've picked up two books recently and I've learnt a lot :
The Selfish Gene By Richard Dawkins
The 10 Day MBA By Steven Silbiger
There's very little fluff in these books and you learn something useful on almost every other page. I'd like to read more such books , especially on technical subjects.",,thewarrior,260,1439038388,2015-08-08 12:53:08+00:00,story,10027102,,200.0,, 988,How do you handle the business structure and taxes of side projects?,,"For those of you with income generating side projects, have you incorporated? Do you pay quarterly taxes? Do you list it as other, unreported income on your returns?",,misthop,260,1479134135,2016-11-14 14:35:35+00:00,story,12949995,,139.0,, 989,How is DDoS protection implemented?,,"The big services (Google, Cloudflare, etc.) provide DDoS attack mitigation (and seem to succeed), but details on their tactics are rare (at least I did not find in-depth information on that).
I guess to make this work well you have to do classification (regular request vs. malicious) on several protocol layers and then reroute or drop packets accordingly. But how does that prevent severe service degradation - you still have to do some kind of work (in computation and energy) on the listening side or can fat edge-servers just eat that up?",,elephant0xffff,260,1526249128,2018-05-13 22:05:28+00:00,story,17061281,,54.0,, 990,Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?,,"Mine was the audio essay on this episode of The Portal:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/39-admission-to-sugar-...",,hawktheslayer,260,1609099416,2020-12-27 20:03:36+00:00,story,25553818,,119.0,, 991,Curious to know if people still use IRC?,,What channel do you hang out? What do you use it for?,,pyeu,260,1575376830,2019-12-03 12:40:30+00:00,story,21691802,,248.0,, 992,What was the biggest leadership challenge of your career?,,Engineering is a team sport and leadership is a major dynamic necessary for groups to get stuff done together.
What was your biggest leadership challenge of your entire career? How did you overcome it? What happened then?,,mparkola,260,1618696849,2021-04-17 22:00:49+00:00,story,26847816,,227.0,, 993,How to raise funds for rare disease research?,,"If that’s okay I would like to ask the HN community for their advice on a personal matter.
My beautiful daughter Nil (3yo), has a rare genetic disorder called Kleefstra Syndrome (KS). She cannot walk or talk at this point. Doctors believe she will walk eventually, but speech they are not so sure about. KS involves partial chromosome deletion (or sometimes mutation) of a particular gene, EHMT1, which in turn causes a protein called GLP not to be produced. Moderate to severe Intellectual disability, limited/absent speech are some of the symptoms.
KS was first “discovered” in 2010. Thanks to “whole genome sequencing”, it is now possible to diagnose KS with a single draw of blood. Maybe that’s why we are hearing about KS kids more often in our community.
We have a non-profit foundation based in the US ( https://www.idefine.org ) to improve awareness and lead/fund potential research for KS. Also, there are already two active pieces of research that provide potential improvement for these kids. One explores drug repurposing ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12947-3 ), the other is about supplementing the missing proteins ( https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210921100245.h... ). Both have very promising results but are not close to clinical trials yet.
Still, several potential treatment modalities need to be explored in depth. Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapy (ASO), gene therapy (CRISPR), drug repurposing are a few modalities to name.
Known KS individuals sum up to only a few hundred patients so far. When the patient count is so low, pharmaceutical companies are not interested in pursuing research for that disease, so patient organizations are forced to fund their research themselves. This has been done by several rare disease patient organizations before. Batten Disease (Beyond Batten Disease Foundation funded $35M research), Angelman Syndrome (Fast Foundation funded $26M research), SMA (Cure SMA funded $35M research), all funded successful research and managed to reach clinical trial level.
Sorry about the extra-long intro, but I wanted to provide context for this relatively “new” genetic disease which is hardly known. Since HN has members with extensive digital marketing experience, I’m hoping you would share your ideas with us. Long story short, if we can manage to raise several million to kickstart multiple types of research in parallel, then we can offer these kids a chance.
My first idea is about co-hosting a series of Instagram live streams with celebrities to ask for donations for research. I’m not sure if this is already a solid fundraising technique? Also, I don’t know the first thing about finding celebrities as well.
A second idea is, recording a youtube video and promoting it using google ads grants.
At this point, we want to leave no stone unturned about fundraising.
So here we are. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.",,halukakin,260,1644265409,2022-02-07 20:23:29+00:00,story,30250496,,205.0,, 994,How to learn how to sell?,,"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.
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.
Any tips would appreciated.",,giansegato,260,1624814643,2021-06-27 17:24:03+00:00,story,27653357,,126.0,, 995,"What's your speciality, and what's your ""FizzBuzz"" equivalent?",,"I was recently chatting with friends and the question came up: When hiring a programmer, FizzBuzz is sometimes (and controversially) used as an initial filter. What's an equivalent filter for mathematicians?
I know that HN is filled with people who have specializations outside of programming, so I ask:
What is your specialization, and
what is your "FizzBuzz" equivalent?
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.
Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
You can also use kristopolous' nifty console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.",,whoishiring,260,1448982021,2015-12-01 15:00:21+00:00,story,10655740,,429.0,, 997,Can Firefox be revived?,,"Since 2018 and management changes Firefox lost a lot of users. [1] Firefox has now 3.67% market share.[2]
Mozilla is mismanaged, to quote another commenter from HN:
>Mitchell Baker (Mozilla CEO) makes $3 million a year, and Mozilla asks you to donate "to help a nonprofit organization". >"On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."
>"By 2020 her salary had risen to over $3 million, while in the same year the Mozilla Corporation had to lay off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic."
>This lady then goes on and on talking about "social justice".
>Also Google deal produces 90% of Mozilla's revenue. I would say Mozilla is really controlled opposition.[3]
Mozilla derives over 90% from it's income from Google deal.[4]
If we take all these points in considerations, it seems Firefox is in peril. It can either disappear, become totally irrelevant or do what its biggest customer dictates it to do.
If web becomes a monoculture and only one company will be able to dictate its features, than the future isn't exactly rosy for users and developers alike. We need Firefox and other rendering engines and browser to have a healthy competition.
Is it possible that some company with deep pockets forks Firefox and hires what it's left from its development team to further develop Firefox and improve its market share?
Can it be in some big company's interest to push for web competition?
Since many big corps derive their incomes from the web, it should be. If they let someone control the web, it can be detrimental to their businesses.
[1] https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-decline/ [2] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28926582&p=2 [4] https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-go...",,DeathArrow,259,1634886015,2021-10-22 07:00:15+00:00,story,28954390,,307.0,, 998,What's the best way to learn about the blockchain?,,"Every book I've come across is rated poorly for being superficial.
The one I've tried to read most recently (Mougayar's The Business Blockchain) also felt kind of superficial.
I'm interested in both technical foundation and practical/business applications.
Any books, videos, courses, or other resources you recommend?",,moksha256,259,1474730944,2016-09-24 15:29:04+00:00,story,12571287,,74.0,, 999,What are good software architecture interview questions?,,,,SoulMan,259,1485272982,2017-01-24 15:49:42+00:00,story,13472279,,136.0,, 1000,What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?,,"For me it was this very old book, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.",,cozy101,259,1536862635,2018-09-13 18:17:15+00:00,story,17980964,,218.0,, 1001,What are your best learning methods/hacks/tips?,,"Say you're learning something that is totally new to you and totally out of your comfort zone (Something like learning Chinese when the only language you can speak is English and you're a westerner, learning archery when you have been a couch potato for years etc).
What would be your learning methods? Do you have any tips/hacks etc that works for you? Lets assume you are learning on your own, from books/videos etc, and not learning from a teacher",,justaguyhere,259,1553863734,2019-03-29 12:48:54+00:00,story,19521129,,97.0,, 1002,Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?,,"I'm currently working with a legacy system. One element of it has a loaded config in memory, but the physical config was accidentally overwritten and there are no backups. In addition the source code for this compiled binary has also been lost in the mists of time.
The service has current up time of 55 Months. The general consensus therefore is that as long as it is never restarted it will continue to perform its function until a replacement can be put in place. Which seems a little fatalistic to me...
Has anyone experience of doing something sensible in a similar situation?",,scandox,258,1579091240,2020-01-15 12:27:20+00:00,story,22053605,,188.0,, 1003,Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why,,"My choice: Delivering Happiness because Ton Shieh outlines a phase he went through after selling his first company. It really made you think about startups, goals and life.",,sscheper,258,1291600854,2010-12-06 02:00:54+00:00,story,1973516,,202.0,, 1004,"Looking to branch out into remote work, how to start",,"As the title suggest, I’m trying to learn more about remote work to find better opportunities than what is available to me locally. Where should I start? Any tips about where to look for work, how to make my resume attractive, what to look out for, etc. I’m not in a hurry to change, I want to learn what I can before and make an informed decision. I’m interested in a full-time job preferably as an employee.
I don’t know if it helps, but I’m a full-stack developer with 8 years of experience, located in Canada. Up-to-date with the latest web frameworks (React/Angular/Node.js/TypeScript) and have mostly worked with C# before that on enterprise software, with a bit of React Native on personal projects. Have worked in both back-end and web front-end projects depending on the need of my employer. My GitHub profile is pretty bleak, but I have personal projects that are public.
Also, will I need a work visa if I’m to be employed by a US company, even if I work from Canada? Do US companies typically hire you as a contractor or can you be employed as an employee? I’m asking because contractors usually have no benefits here, including holidays/vacation/sick days, insurance, company-paid parental leave and all other perks so it has a huge impact on effective salary.",,hamstercat,258,1526474550,2018-05-16 12:42:30+00:00,story,17081900,,71.0,, 1005,Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?,,"I switched careers and got into coding about five years ago and I have always wondered about this and am a little embarrassed about it.
Sometimes after finishing a big implementation, I just go back and read my own code ... and I like it! I feel proud that I translated some kind of abstract problem solving into a concrete solution, and somehow it works!
I feel like I created something that flows according to my ideas and it’s a joy to look at. Are there analogous feelings in other creative pursuits you practice?
Of course not everything is like this, only novel problems I encountered have potential to give this feeling, CRUD back-end endpoints are routine by now. Also I don't feel like an exceptional programmer, feel more like an impostor, so please don't read this as bragging.",,grimwall,257,1588852907,2020-05-07 12:01:47+00:00,story,23102024,,259.0,, 1006,Learning about philosophy,,Are there any books that are considered a must for someone new to the field of philosophy?
I understand it is a vague question but it is a topic I have recently become interested in because of digging deeper into mental models. Mental models address a lot of 'practical' situations but I am realizing that they fall short when it comes to bigger questions of life.
What path did you follow to develop a personal philosophy?,,rupi,257,1607154293,2020-12-05 07:44:53+00:00,story,25312681,,284.0,, 1007,Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?,,"What is your team using at work? What should be used at scale (FAANG, or similar)? What are you planning to switch to?",,uaas,257,1584191330,2020-03-14 13:08:50+00:00,story,22575007,,211.0,, 1008,How to best teach a group of children how to code?,,"Hi HN!
I run an education focussed r&d shop (www.jibly.com) and regularly work on mobile app projects for large firms.
This year, I wanted to start teaching a group of underprivileged children (orphans, refugees, etc) anywhere in the world, how to code for every commercial app project I do for companies.
So for every app project I get, a group of kids gets the tools and resources to learn how to code.
I'm thinking of donating laptops with pre-installed child friendly coding environments. Including books, manuals., etc..
What are some great ways to teach groups of children how to code, without being present every day?",,jiblyyyy,257,1485523758,2017-01-27 13:29:18+00:00,story,13499626,,114.0,, 1009,How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom?,,"Does anybody remember the Second Life boom when companies were trying to snap up linden-land and set up shop online? That failed, and I can't help but feel like the 'metaverse' concept being marketed to us is that, but with VR helmets and advertising strapped on.",,0des,257,1636258062,2021-11-07 04:07:42+00:00,story,29136478,,363.0,, 1010,Mobile phone addiction help?,,"Hey HN
I’m looking for advice and/or suggestions on how to “lockdown/brick” my mobile (iPhone 8) phone to only be able to do a select number of things.
I currently suffer with OCD and anxiety, and my addictions to my phone is making me lethargic and causing regular migraines and eye strain issues.
I do have a second “dumb phone” (Nokia flip 2720) but due to having a “mobile only” bank account I have to have access to my iPhone.
I only really want to be able to text (not WhatsApp) call, and have access to 3 banking apps. I have tried everything, but when I’m feeling “good” or sometimes when I’m feeling rubbish - I will always end up downloading “scroller” apps - Twitter, Instagram, Shopping apps etc - and I quickly waste days and days hooked to it, before prying myself away from it again.
Any advice would be hugely beneficial.
Thank you",,swen-rekcah,257,1619981435,2021-05-02 18:50:35+00:00,story,27017776,,253.0,, 1011,Who Is Hiring? (October 2012) ,,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596379",,whoishiring,256,1349091909,2012-10-01 11:45:09+00:00,story,4596375,,295.0,, 1012,Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?,,"I'm currently working 40h/week as a backend php developer and I think I can put an extra 20 hours every week to increase my earnings. However, I struggle finding remote work or above the average freelancing projects. Basically I don't want to waste my time on sites like freelancer.com where I have to compete against many low-quality programmers who place low bids just to win projects and then they mess them up.
Where could I find jobs like these?",,s1k3s,255,1568472293,2019-09-14 14:44:53+00:00,story,20971098,,100.0,, 1013,"50 job applications, 15 interviews, 7 onsites, and no offer – what next?",,"<Using a throwaway account for privacy>
I have been looking to change jobs over the last 8 months. I am in a product management leadership position at my current job, and looking to shift to a similar role in either a slightly smaller company or in a different industry. However, I have found it extremely hard to accomplish this. I have no idea why I am failing in final rounds, but in most instances the feedback has been "You are a great candidate, and we would like you to interview with this other role. But this particular role is not a good fit"
What am I doing wrong ? Few facts about me" - I have over 12 years of work experience across 4 companies (well known brands) - I am in my mid 30s - I am Indian, and FOB, with an accent (not a heavy accent though)
I have run completely out of ideas now. I have probably spoken with 100 people during the course of 15 interviews and I haven't gotten any feedback on what I am doing wrong. I absolutely HATE my current job. I get depressed thinking about working in my current job for the foreseeable future. But looks like I don't have any recourse. I am almost thinking of halting my job search and finding some kind of hobby to keep me occupied and keep my mind off work. Any advice would be appreciated.",,throw-away1979,255,1488557379,2017-03-03 16:09:39+00:00,story,13783786,,238.0,, 1014,What were the things you did that made the biggest impact at your work?,,"It could be a tool that you have created, a process that you have started or anything else which created a big and lasting impact on your workplace.
For me, it was probably starting holding regular tech book review sessions.
Over time the discussion around both architecture and implementation details got way more structured, quicker and more satisfying to all parties. Seems obvious, but building up mental model of software development through a structured approach is better than just letting it happen naturally during work hours.",,itsArtur,255,1580563251,2020-02-01 13:20:51+00:00,story,22210361,,211.0,, 1015,Competitor is successful with black hat SEO,,"Hey guys - for some time our startup did organic link building and technical seo. We ranked for a year approximately as our closest competitor. Since the end of 2016 he is increasing the number of incoming links massively by adding bridge sites. These have keyword heavy domains and keyword heavy content with all links pointing to their site.
Contrary to seo consultants opinions we've ask ("don't worry") this (for all I know) works for them. They have now left us quite behind in rankings. As we are still not a known b2b marketplace brand and depend on seo this is hurting.
Ahrefs/Semrush does not report other large changes in their technical seo or link structure beside this massive buildup of bridge sites.
What would you do? We don't want to engage in the same tactics, should we?",,throwmesomeseo,255,1490009565,2017-03-20 11:32:45+00:00,story,13913228,,102.0,, 1016,Good Remote Work Literature?,,"I've been working remotely for the last 4 years of my life. In my latest company, I just realized how little literature has been written on the topic of remote working. I've been seeing some forms of reports on the status of remote working [0], but I couldn't find any in-depth materials (whether blogs, essays, papers or even books) with some qualitative thinking on remote work and the future of work. We have been flooded with solutions and tools without a deep understand of our working flow and caveats.
Ie: why are things happening in a certain way? What are the school of thoughts? What are the best practices (synchronous vs. asynchronous, remote vs distributed)? What is the Keynes vs. Hayek of the subject? What are the implications of remote working on organizational structures (eg. functional vs. divisional)? What can and cannot work? What's the tool stack one should adapt depending on the org configuration?(Slack + Zoom for sync, etc) How does this should adapt as the org changes over time?
Do you have specific resources you could recommend me to read on the topic?
This write-up I just published on the blog is the closest example to what I'm looking for: https://sametab.com/blog/future-remote-working/
[0] https://buffer.com/state-of-remote-work-2019",,anacleto,255,1567673093,2019-09-05 08:44:53+00:00,story,20884974,,50.0,, 1017,"Overwhelmed with learning front-end, how do I proceed?",,"Hey, I am currently learning front-end (knew jQuery but after many recommendations and doing backend for a long time decided to "modernize") with Vue.js components, etc... but feeling very overwhelmed with the big change, and after trying tutorials I don't know how to begin coding a real app, even after learning the concepts. Everything I try feels messy and strange, leading me to a lot of frustration. It seems very over-engineered.
I also wanted to start trying react but the sheer amount of boilerplate templates to start a project is insane and come with so many things I probably won't use. The file trees seem massive in comparison to simpler projects made in jQuery, which don't help the stress much...
Overall, I am very overwhelmed with what I am seeing in the front-end world, how do I proceed? I don't know how to continue this. Any tips? Experiences?",,PythonicPro,255,1478393522,2016-11-06 00:52:02+00:00,story,12882816,,132.0,, 1018,Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?,,"I'm working in a Cryptocurrency startup, and all my colleagues are investing heavily into the domain, both mentally and monetarily. I cannot shake off the feeling that this is all a scam. It's so shady, from the way there are new coins and tokens every week, and how investors are throwing money into this program. I don't think my company's product deserves the sort of money it's been getting, and it feels like a bubble that will burst, sooner if not later. Some part of the tech is interesting, the essence of the blockchain, for example, but the main application seems to be just suspicious. What do others in the domain think? I'm not leaving yet because I'm not in a place to change jobs yet again, but I will, eventually, but I feel like this domain is very fishy.",,two_poles_here,254,1644380775,2022-02-09 04:26:15+00:00,story,30268807,,191.0,, 1019,Passive income ideas for solo developers?,,"I'm a web developer who is looking for passive income ideas. I'm actively looking for income sources that fit well to my skills.
Do you have any recommendations, ideas, stories?
Thanks.",,thakobyan,254,1497824598,2017-06-18 22:23:18+00:00,story,14583312,,123.0,, 1020,What are good life skills for people to learn?,,"My initial thoughts; learn to drive, first aid, a sport, play an instrument, a language, how to manage finances, to speak in front of people.",,smarri,254,1601205530,2020-09-27 11:18:50+00:00,story,24605807,,271.0,, 1021,How is your PPP loan application coming along?,,"My wife and I run a small winery with about $400,000 in annual sales and a monthly payroll of about $4,000. The COVID-19 situation dealt a blow to our sales and cash flow so we submitted an application for a PPP loan with Mechanics Bank, where we keep our business checking account. So far, the process has looked like this:
On April 6 we submitted an application to the bank's portal, which included the standard federal form with information like average payroll and headcount.
On April 8 we received an email saying that we needed to submit some additional information, which just turned out to be repetition of payroll information we had already listed on the federal form.
On April 13 we received another email asking us to submit ownership details for any equity holders in our LLC.
It's now April 17 and we have not heard anything back. If I call the bank's number, I get a recording which says they'll process our application as soon as possible and they're unable to provide status updates over the phone.
Now I'm reading reports that the program is already out of money. If this is what's supposed to help small- and medium-sized businesses weather the pandemic, it is not inspiring much confidence. Have others had a similar experience?",,AndrewBissell,254,1587145793,2020-04-17 17:49:53+00:00,story,22901237,,207.0,, 1022,How to move away from Google,,"A big chunk of my personal software suite comes from Google, mostly Gmail, Gdrive and Android.
I want to eventually move away, especially gmail and drive.
What are the alternatives that can be used with expectation that they will remain active for at least a decade ?",,rocode2,254,1648668083,2022-03-30 19:21:23+00:00,story,30859680,,211.0,, 1023,Low self confidence and self esteem. How to improve?,,"I am good at coding but while talking or doing some thing new I lack confidence.
So many times when I had to meet someone or talk to someone, I feel worthless and underconfident. I could not able to talk to them properly and hesitate.
For eg: I lack confidence while meeting other person like my director and even friends. I somehow feel them superior to me. I have very low self-esteem and confidence.
For every new oppurtunity or thing I want to try, I lack confidence and feel I am not good enough. I see my faults in everything.
Please give some advice.",,codesternews,253,1558339558,2019-05-20 08:05:58+00:00,story,19958340,,163.0,, 1024,What’s the most important modern simple invention?,,"Not levers and wheels and gears, but Velcro and paper clips. I’d put “modern” as after 1700, and “simple” as “you can pretty much build it yourself”, but you can argue theses (as I’m sure you will! :-)",,abrax3141,253,1581351208,2020-02-10 16:13:28+00:00,story,22290362,,560.0,, 1025,What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer?,,"I'm trying to cultivate my ability to identify worthwhile topics to invest time in learning since I have only recently graduated from university, so for the most part have been sticking to the yellow brick road laid out for me thus far.
What would some of you guys think about learning if you were just starting out in the industry? Or even better, what does your process for orienting yourself and making these kind of decisions look like?
Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.",,jmeiha,253,1537123979,2018-09-16 18:52:59+00:00,story,18000410,,141.0,, 1026,"Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?",,"I'm in the process of choosing new device(s) for a small wireless network in multi-story building and prefer having devices supporting some open source router software/firmware (OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato). The amount of models available is enormous, but as the last Ask HN[0] (from 3 years ago) on this topic was a good starting point I think some good up-to-date advice can come up now. malandrew the original poster told it well so:
> If one were to decide to buy a brand new model router to install open source router software on, where would you go to find out the best current models and be able to compare their features? > While it would be nice to know the best models as of today, I think it's more interesting to be taught how to fish instead of being given a fish. This also makes it easier for me (and anyone else) to pass this advice onto the next person.
[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828699",,zhan_eg,253,1481022898,2016-12-06 11:14:58+00:00,story,13113766,,120.0,, 1027,Is Apple down?,,"https://developer.apple.com doesn't work App Store doesn't work iMessage doesn't work. Not just me - coworkers also struggling.
Any idea what's going on?",,crgt,253,1647882185,2022-03-21 17:03:05+00:00,story,30756636,,106.0,, 1028,How do you create productive habits?,,"One of the things I do to deal with procrastination, and that I've had the most success with, is to develop what I consider to be productive habits. Basically, it just means me using a daily todo with tasks that I consider to be productive. I've tried out apps such as Streaks (http://streaksapp.com/) and I'm currently using Daisy (http://daisyapp.xyz/) to aid me with this.
Although I am successful with this, I'm always on the lookout for more efficient (and perhaps more fun) ways of doing this. So I'm curious to hear what you people do to create productive habits? Any apps or other methods you suggest for habit creation?",,lilcarlyung,253,1468173436,2016-07-10 17:57:16+00:00,story,12066445,,99.0,, 1029,I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals of CS,,"I'm at the beginning of my software dev career, and as I didn't go to school for anything related (B.Sc. Chemistry), I feel like I really would like to have the fundamentals of CS down. Doubly so as I would like to go into the field of VR, and right now I'm working on my own toy rendering engine, which I feel is really exposing my lack of knowledge...
Anyways, any suggestions welcome. Ideally it'd be more digestible than just a plain textbook but I'm open to anything. I imagine either way it'll be a tough but great read to work through :)",,Karsteski,253,1639062866,2021-12-09 15:14:26+00:00,story,29498220,,188.0,, 1030,Best books on managing software complexity?,,"What are the best books you've read on how to manage software complexity, both from an architectural as well as organizational perspective?",,zenkat,253,1644110207,2022-02-06 01:16:47+00:00,story,30228261,,124.0,, 1031,"After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced discussions?",,"Hi Hacker News,
We see a lot of nuance in Hacker News discussions, thanks to how the community has shaped up and to the tireless efforts of our moderators. And I want that level of discussion elsewhere, too. (Hacker News isn't the right place for every discussion, given its focus on tech.)
In particular, the recent takedown of Slate Star Codex has me thinking about nuance and truth, and how little space there is for it in online discussions today.
Without getting into any specific politics here, which platforms do you go to for nuanced, rational discussions? And, more broadly, how can we (as technologists) foster that sort of collegiate culture online, given the global scope of the Internet, the permanence of anything we post, and the inherent anonymity of the Internet stack.
I have a strong desire right now to 1) be a part of and reinforce existing communities with this ethos and 2) advocate for technology and culture that could make this the norm.",,iamdamian,253,1593733612,2020-07-02 23:46:52+00:00,story,23719376,,311.0,, 1032,What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?,,"So HN, what are some cool, shiny new technologies that you worked with this past year? Care to tell us what those technologies are and why they are so cool?",,Athtar,253,1293753030,2010-12-30 23:50:30+00:00,story,2053956,,149.0,, 1033,"I'm 15, won a grant to develop a suicide prevention app, what next?",,"Some background: I'm 15 years old, attend high school, do well in terms of grades and extracurriculars (business clubs/competitions), and also am a pretty good front-end developer experienced with HTML/Jade,CSS/LESS, JS/jQuery/AngularJS, and Phonegap/Cordova. I've worked on several web projects in the past, such as http://teen2geek.com, and my portfolio is at http://krrishd.github.io, just to get an idea of what I can do in web development (not so good at the backend though).
I recently took part in a social entrepreneurship competition to prevent suicide, and I envisioned a specific app, and the idea won a grant. This app is somewhat similar to some social networks you've seen, and is a bit complex to develop for a front-end guy like me. The grant is a "micro-grant", so it isn't anything substantial, and I'm not sure if outsourcing can retain the quality necessary for such an app.
What do you think I should do?",,krrishd,252,1384791032,2013-11-18 16:10:32+00:00,story,6754953,,157.0,, 1034,How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a project?,,"I've been working on a small issue tracker for a few months, and it's been ready to release for a while, but I have one more hurdle that I just can't convince myself to overcome: billing. I hate working with the payment provider I've chosen (but they really do seem to be the easiest thing, others I've looked at are no better). I end up with horribly messy code from their terrible Go SDK, everyone says their documentation is great, but as far as I can tell there's a lot of it that all leaves out important information at every step, so I have to tease out how to deal with their million edge cases, etc. I've been putting off a billing rewrite for weeks now and not working towards an actual release; it's to the point where I'm questioning if I even want to be in this industry (although to be fair, I've been questioning that since before I got into software).
What do you do to keep yourself motivated? Especially when you hit something you hate to work on but is necessary.",,SamWhited,252,1547481346,2019-01-14 15:55:46+00:00,story,18903886,,171.0,, 1035,Machine learning resources for audio processing,,"What are some good learning resources on audio processing, detection and anomaly detection using machine learning or deep learning? I am interested in machine predictive maintenance using audio anomaly detection",,samrohn,252,1555503013,2019-04-17 12:10:13+00:00,story,19681804,,26.0,, 1036,Ever been hired through a “who's hiring” post?,,"How many people here have ACTUALLY gotten a job through the monthly post?
Provide what information you can (company, job title, post (if it's still alive)).",,bhollan,252,1478093597,2016-11-02 13:33:17+00:00,story,12854463,,282.0,, 1037,Why the obsession with note taking?,,"If there's one thing absolutely guaranteed to get a gazillion comments on HN, it's a post about either 1) note taking software, 2) note taking methodology 3) a combination of the two.
I'm kinda fascinated by this, in large part because I'm sucked in by it too. I can't count the number of apps I've tried, or the dopamine rush when installing a new one.
What's this about? Do we all secretly believe we can be truly better people if we can just get this right? Or are we just endlessly curious about what everyone else does? Tell me, I need to understand myself better!",,dmje,252,1643275818,2022-01-27 09:30:18+00:00,story,30098219,,210.0,, 1038,How can I make a “kid's computer” today as good as an Apple II?,,"When I was a kid, I had an Apple II with a BASIC interpreter, Print Shop Pro to make really cool cards and banners, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego to learn about geography, Pinball Construction Set, Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, and LOGO for programming the turtle.
Today I can't see a way of giving my kids a computer like that, where there are a lot of open-ended ways to create. The iPad games are too directly educational, or mindless, and great creative experiences don't seem available on desktop or iPad suitable for early elementary schoolers.
Any suggestions here? I will be happy to pay $.",,qq66,252,1643845805,2022-02-02 23:50:05+00:00,story,30186091,,235.0,, 1039,How do I keep child porn out of my site?,,"(Pardon this disturbing subject interfering with your Friday night rest and my (very necessary) throw away account.)
A year or two ago I started an image sharing site that's been modestly successful in terms of traffic (a blessing). No money or fame, but it's nice to see movement.
I try to filter user uploads to at least classify the sexual stuff (80% of it) as nsfw and feature good stuff on the homepage. This is excruciatingly time consuming with 6000 galleries posted per day, but I suffer through it as I can.
Sadly, I've noticed a huge amount of extremely taboo photos on the site. From rape and bdsm, which I can kind of tolerate, all the way to extreme child porn. The latter is extremely disturbing.
Amazingly, these people post this openly.
I never see the press talking about the nsfw side of Youtube, Tumblr, Reddit, Imgur, and others. How do those sites deal with this problem? What kind of content filtering systems do they use to keep the visible parts of the site clean? How many interns are flagging photos all day long? Is it wise to allow these pages to be indexed? What's my legal burden under Safe Harbor?
And.. more importantly.. how does the organic traffic in the nsfw sections play into the strategy of these huge user-generated content sites.
NB. I've attempted to build user profiles and a kind of self-moderation system, akin to how Reddit flagging works, but my users seem to be mostly interested in "one thing," and no community-focused members have emerged so far. I still have hope, but need a solution that I can use now.",,VexedSiteOwner,252,1436584287,2015-07-11 03:11:27+00:00,story,9868352,,186.0,, 1040,What are you working on?,,What do you spend most of your time on these days? Do you have a side-project you'd like to talk about? What is the community working on?,,jessehorne,252,1562269090,2019-07-04 19:38:10+00:00,story,20357137,,545.0,, 1041,The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture,," I am an american CS student that goes to (a lot) of hackathons. The purpose of this post is to get feedback/opinions from people that are outside the "Hackathon Hackers" bubble to determine whether or not my rant is founded and if the issues I am highlighting are characteristic of the tech industry.
It bothers me to see how obsessed with success this generation of "hackers" seems to be. I have met people who were justifying censorship, population control and unfair business practices because they could benefit from them someday. I was expecting a little more regard to civil liberties and ethics from students and so called "hackers".
People win by making "cool" apps (Uber for X) whereas technical hacks are totally ignored.
I am glad that people are motivated to succeed but this lead to some of them taking themselves very seriously. Often to the expense of ethics.
"There is such ignorance in this world about who we are. We are not criminals. We are innovators. We create things. We change the world.[...]"
And this is one example among many other from a guy who has never engineered anything. Weeks are spent planning for their new "great project" with at the end little to no execution.
Students who believe to be 1000x SE because they can stick two APIs together and use bootstrap end-up to be very condescending older engineers.
This "bro"/"my framework is the best"/"Make money fast" culture that stinks a little bit IMO.
Hackathons are great to try out new technologies, meet new people and outreach to demographics that are traditionally under-represented in CS but I don't like where this is headed.
Like HS there is "cool kids" who are "Student Entrepreneur" or "Innovator, UX Artist blah blah", "RoR Genius" etc... and the rest of the world.
My apologies if this post is a little bit ranty, I hope to get other perspectives on this.",,haskellvilain,251,1426388524,2015-03-15 03:02:04+00:00,story,9205177,,153.0,, 1042,Struggling to pay rent this month. Can I help you with a gig?,,"Hi HN, long-time contributor with ~1500 karma; throwaway for obvious reasons.
When I used to see these posts, I always was thankful for the position I was in. I never hesitated to send a personal message with my regards and best wishes, and most of the time I'd include a small bit of help. I'm hoping this all comes full-circle, because I desperately need it.
Let's not make this about financial planning (it's otherwise pretty good) but a client has just told me (after telling me they were waiting on a third-party...) they're unable to pay their invoice this month and it's put a strain on me.
About 2 years ago I had an excess of $100k in my bank account. As someone in their early-mid 20s, I was doing very good. I don't live lavishly or have super nice things; I'm pretty frugal and basic. But after some hospital expenses and some very bad luck, I'm down to less than $1k in my accounts, and my assets are non-existent as, well, they never really existed in the first place.
My stack is Ruby/Rails, HTML/CSS/jQuery (yeah, I know), and Sidekiq for background jobs. I can integrate any API or build them quickly. I've scraped more websites than I haven't, and I'm pretty good at it. A JS framework (likely Vue or React) is in my New Years Resolution. Point being, I can get things done and get them done right. I can also consult on SEO, copywriting, marketing, and a couple laughs if need be.
I'd prefer to stay publicly anonymous; I can send over some samples of work via email and we can jump on a call/Skype/hangout/whatever.
I know this won't be met with some of the kindest thoughts; remember, everyone has a story. Some of them are prettier than others. At the end of the day, we're all human.
Again, to reiterate, I'm not asking for hand-me-outs; I can't morally accept them. I'm not asking for a loan. I'm asking if I can start hacking away on that project you've been putting off.
Email: q3qjbo9iku2aipq@jetable.org (forwards to my personal)",,_whynow,251,1451503222,2015-12-30 19:20:22+00:00,story,10813746,,37.0,, 1043,What companies are using probabilistic programming?,,"Probabilistic programming systems (PPS) define languages that discretize modeling and inference such that any generative model can be easily composed and run with a common inference engine. The main advantage over traditional ML systems in deterministic code (i.e. Python) being concise, modular modeling where the developer doesn't have to write custom inference algorithms for each model/problem. For more info see, for example, [1] and [2].
I'm curious though, what applications of PPS are realized in practice? Notably Uber [3] and Google [4] are developing/supporting their own (deep learning focused) PPS, but is it known if/how they're used within these companies? Are the frameworks (Pyro [5] and Edward [6], respectively) used by other companies?
[1] Frank Wood (Microsoft) tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te7A5JEm5UI
[2] MIT ProbComp lab's page of resources: http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/resources/
[3] https://eng.uber.com/pyro/
[4] https://medium.com/tensorflow/introducing-tensorflow-probability-dca4c304e245
[5] http://pyro.ai/
[6] http://edwardlib.org/",,boltzmannbrain,251,1528049860,2018-06-03 18:17:40+00:00,story,17220861,,33.0,, 1044,What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other platforms to showcase,,,,bangda,251,1489051779,2017-03-09 09:29:39+00:00,story,13828180,,51.0,, 1045,How to get back in employment market after working on side projects?,,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?,,logicallee,251,1623669560,2021-06-14 11:19:20+00:00,story,27501316,,180.0,, 1046,How would you convince your friends and family to switch from WhatsApp?,,"As everyone must have seen today, facebook updated WhatsApps privacy policy to start sharing data collected from WhatsApp with other F*ckbook products.
I'd love to switch but by doing so I would be isolating myself from friends and family that use WhatsApps exclusively.
How would you go about convincing them to switch to something like Telegram?",,millibar,250,1610038216,2021-01-07 16:50:16+00:00,story,25673441,,198.0,, 1047,Best way to publish papers as a non-scholar?,,Is there a way someone who is not a PhD can publish papers without being marginalized by the community?
Do you have any advice on how to write better quality articles?,,MartianSquirrel,250,1534174476,2018-08-13 15:34:36+00:00,story,17750861,,88.0,, 1048,How do you manage logs for your backend services?,,"I have been working on a few side projects that usually have Go backend services. Right now, they log straight to a file and it works just fine since I only have a couple of instances running.
If I were to scale this to more instances/servers, I would need a centralized logging service. I've considered ELK but it's fairly expensive to both self-host or buy a managed subscription.
Any advice?",,tusharsoni,250,1578083466,2020-01-03 20:31:06+00:00,story,21949997,,139.0,, 1049,Idea Sunday,,"Continuing the series! Go...
A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.",,_hoa8,249,1398005193,2014-04-20 14:46:33+00:00,story,7616910,,507.0,, 1050,Who is hiring? (June 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803767",,whoishiring,249,1370091538,2013-06-01 12:58:58+00:00,story,5803764,,364.0,, 1051,What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?,,I've had uBlock Origin and NoScript installed faithfully for the past few years at least...
Kind of annoying having to whitelist every website I visit on NoScript these days but worth it imho.
Just curious if there are any others out there I should check out.,,johnnyApplePRNG,249,1637641229,2021-11-23 04:20:29+00:00,story,29314560,,311.0,, 1052,What tools do you use to automate your business?,,"I imagine the HN readership loves to automate things.
I'm curious to know what tools you use to automate your business operations (if any).
For example, https://zapier.com is one such automation tool.
If you don't use any tools, do you use any frameworks or systems you've made yourself?
If you don't automate any parts of your business, why not? (I'm interested in the reasons why, not disputing the choice)",,yaseer,249,1524139410,2018-04-19 12:03:30+00:00,story,16875106,,113.0,, 1053,Who is Hiring? (September 2011),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
No recruiters or job boards, thanks
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (September 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949790",,whoishiring,249,1314881749,2011-09-01 12:55:49+00:00,story,2949787,,232.0,, 1054,How to improve as a struggling junior software engineer?,,"Hello all,
I got my first swe job this past August and it honestly has not gone well. I've enjoyed it, but it is clear that I am not seen as reliable and definitely not known for completing things fast.
I know this sounds like a normal junior dev, but I mean more than a normal beginner. Example: I have now been on this team for 8 months, and I made 2 costly mistake back-to-back that is pushing back the release of a production feature by a while month at this point.
Long story short, screwed up a step I had done before in the fall without realizing. Then when it was fixed I submitted a ticket for a prod systems account rather than a QA one not realizing there would be a difference. (Just so many mistakes all in a row).
The struggles came way before this though. When I first joined I struggled to even know how to start things. I was sometimes assigned stories no one else on the team had done anything like before, so at times I couldn't even ask the senior devs for help.
This gets down to the issue. I don't think my team is necessarily the most ideal to learn on (my manager has been gone since December). The senior engineers also seem to assume I know more than I do (like the credentials above, it seems obvious there would be an account for QA and one for Prod, but I didn't know to assume that). But, the thing is though, this team isn't a bad one. I can make excuses all I want, but an experienced engineer joined the same time I did and is doing great.
I have identified some issues. I certainly didn't ask enough questions when I started and I definitely will wait around for people to get back to me sometimes rather then be proactive. I also tend to spend too long tackling an issue or trying to fix something I think I messed up rather than raise it to the team that I am having an issue. The problem is at this point I have been on the team too long to ask any basic questions, one of the senior engineers even pointed out they shouldn't be helping me with certain processes at this point.
Honestly, I am a little deflated. I know imposter syndrome is a thing, but that doesn't count when I am actively slowing the team down or causing problems. I take a really long time when finishing stories unless one of the seniors is giving input. It just sucks because I did well in my CS classes and worked hard, and I feel kinda like a disappointment. Its hard to imagine anyone who is good at engineering delaying a teams release and causing problems. I don't know anything about performance (again cause manager is gone) but if I get put on PIP because of this, I feel like I can't help but see it as a statement on my potential and ability.
I know I should just focus on improvement, but I am not sure how. Should I be writing reminders to myself to always double check everything? Should I write down the steps to every process? Its hard for me to know whats a junior engineer error and whats an error I shouldn't be making at all.",,3a2d29,249,1649565972,2022-04-10 04:46:12+00:00,story,30974544,,170.0,, 1055,I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?,,"I used to work as a programmer. In 2017, I had to stop working because of health issues. I remember Rust was a cool project, JS had plenty of frameworks fighting between themselves, SPA was a thing albeit I was skeptical of it, and I was in love with Go. Big words like Data Science and Machine Learning were thrown everywhere. Whas has changed in this scenario? Are there new stuff I should know about? Thanks.",,lohengramm,249,1582465895,2020-02-23 13:51:35+00:00,story,22396814,,233.0,, 1056,Do you write tests before the implementation?,,I mean how many of you stick with this test driven development practice consistently? Can you describe the practical benefit? Do you happen to rewrite the tests completely while doing the implementation? When does this approach work for you and when did it fail you?,,MichaelMoser123,248,1573714635,2019-11-14 06:57:15+00:00,story,21533376,,317.0,, 1057,Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?,,"My hometown, which I left on the 14th, so far has been safe.
But it's about to change. Today I stumbled upon information about supposed marks for the airstrikes on Google Maps.
I tried cheking information myself and found it very believable. Replicate as follows:
1. Search for Dnipro on Google Maps
2. Enter фермерське господарство (means farm on Ukrainian, but there are no farms there) in search
3. Do not press enter and look for auto-complete: Those are supposed targets.
Those marks are unusual: you can’t even report them. I never seen anything like this.
Video demonstration here:
https://youtu.be/OHGsFCfuB_k
This may save lives, including people I know. That’s why I need your help.
Important Edit: I have to clarify that in my opinion these are more probably marks for saboteurs to make real-world marks on the specified locations.
Examples here: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/russia-invades-ukraine-secret-symbols-seen-in-ukraine-point-to-escalation-of-violence/ZRZPD5W7WRAWD3U32C4PHB273I/",,wzyoi,248,1646205059,2022-03-02 07:10:59+00:00,story,30524637,,147.0,, 1058,How can we stop the plan to end net neutrality?,,"In the following week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to roll out their plan to end net neutrality.
It appears that the public at large and even some internet stalwarts have become apathetic to the coming changes, which threaten to alter the internet as we know it going forward.
If this happens without massive public outrage it may indicate to other democratic nations that treating all traffic equally is no longer the norm, and they are free to enact their own "play-to-play" schemes in addition to those imposed by the U.S.
What can be done to reverse this course of action?",,Dangeranger,248,1511230927,2017-11-21 02:22:07+00:00,story,15745057,,194.0,, 1059,Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?,,"I'm a UX designer, and my wife is a health coach. We recently decided to dip our toes in the digital nomad lifestyle, and took off in our small motor home a few weeks ago. We are loving it so far.
The one huge thorn in my side is data caps.
Turns out, we're both on zoom calls, a lot. Back home, we've got a fiber connection and it's no big deal. But remote, I burned through my 'unlimited' 15gb hotspot plan with verizon on Tuesday of my first week and got cut to 600mbps (really more like 400) which is pretty rough.
I also have a Skyroam Solis, which just might be the most disappointing thing I've purchased in recent memory. The device itself is meh, their app and website are full of typos and other issues, and the actual service has, so far, been slower than my throttled verizon plan - and that's in an area with a ton of cell coverage. And, of course, their 'unlimited' plan is 10gb, which at actual broadband speeds, is damn easy to blow through in a day or two of zoom meetings.
Luckily, we have a wifi connection where we are now that pretty consistently pulls down 4-10mbps, so we're ok for now.
So - what's your experience been? What equipment are you using? How are you managing your data consumption? If my work consists of video calls and connected tools like G Suite and Figma, is this possible without wifi?",,jrwoodruff,248,1616597663,2021-03-24 14:54:23+00:00,story,26567980,,202.0,, 1060,What's the actual fallout been from the Cloudflare bug?,,"So I understand what happened with the Cloudflare bug, that https POST request content was leaked into HTML documents on the same or other servers and some of it was cached by search engines or malicious foreign powers. Whenever something like this happens the HN community whips up into a frenzy with people coming out of the woodwork that appear to be experts saying that "this is the end" and "this is so bad, we're f*cked".
Meanwhile - none of my friends in the "real world" (outside the HN bubble) seem to be affected by this at all. I have a client that's a Cloudflare customer and they got an email saying they just weren't affected. And I haven't seen any huge leaks or items in the press about some terrible hack or theft that has brought someone or a corporate "down".
Should we always take news like this with a grain of salt? When can we tell when an attack like this is a fundamental undermining of the entire internet infrastructure, an attack that will cripple a few major companies, or just an issue that revealed some data but was mostly just overblown? Would love to hear some opinions!",,anon456,248,1488736362,2017-03-05 17:52:42+00:00,story,13797256,,75.0,, 1061,What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?,,,,benevol,248,1491472010,2017-04-06 09:46:50+00:00,story,14049174,,238.0,, 1062,Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?,,"Does anyone have any advice for managing people's career progression (pathways, performance reviews, targets etc.) when they have no interest in progressing?
I need / am supposed to offer regular career planning with my team, but many of them are quite happy and settled doing what they're doing - and I'm totally cool with that because they do it well and are enjoying their work. They have families, they have lives outside of work, and they want to just get on with the work rather than constantly climbing the ladder or doing performance review documents.
I myself am more interested in the work I am doing right now (i.e. building features that deliver more value to the business than the effort/time/money it takes to build them) rather than constantly planning semi-arbitrary "targets" every 6 months for a promotion I may not even want.
So - how do you manage people's career planning (including yourself) when they have no interest in progressing? Is it OK to just say, "I'm happy doing what I'm doing"?",,trhoad,248,1629806278,2021-08-24 11:57:58+00:00,story,28287617,,242.0,, 1063,What did you do when you suddenly got rich?,,My company just went through a transaction that increased my net worth by >$5M.
When this happened to you - what did you do? How did you handle it? What did you buy and what kind of financial planning/investments did you make?,,ThrowHitJackpot,248,1564019038,2019-07-25 01:43:58+00:00,story,20521902,,183.0,, 1064,"Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?",,"I seem to read so many comments on discussion threads in which individuals encourage others to "Quit your job! Travel the world!", which often comes across as shallow and even flippant to me, given that the advice is so easy to extend but the action itself can quite be difficult for one to do, whether due to concrete reasons or any personal reservations.
So, my question: those who have traveled for an extended period of time, either instead of working or by finding a new way to work, what was the experience like? What were you able to do? How did you choose to budget? What moved you to this decision, and how was the process of finding work again after your travels, if applicable? If you were to do it all again, what would you do differently?",,temp_-_,247,1429989253,2015-04-25 19:14:13+00:00,story,9439286,,168.0,, 1065,Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?,,"Any suggestions/ frameworks on how to learn specific skill, retain the knowledge and be able to share it(in for ex. written form)
I usually jump in straight away and start learning "on the job" but I realised that I forget too much and i do not have any notes to refer to later on.
Examples of specific skill: - How to write a good cold email - how to learn some snowboarding trick - how to store your bitcoin safely etc.",,hypnotist,247,1627732324,2021-07-31 11:52:04+00:00,story,28017289,,114.0,, 1066,I’d like to hire a personal/executive assistant – any tips or advice?,,"I’m a CEO with very limited free time/capacity. I would love to recruit someone to help out with “everything else” — that means personal tasks first and foremost, but involvement with the administrative/day-to-day tasks in my business too.
Whilst I’ve recruited and managed plenty of “traditional” roles in the office, this area is new to me.
Has anyone hired a PA/EA before, who can share any tips or advice?
Thanks!",,jw1224,247,1637795001,2021-11-24 23:03:21+00:00,story,29336234,,230.0,, 1067,Examples of reliable software you enjoy using,,There is so much broken software out there that sometimes it can feel a bit overwhelming and depressing if you have been 'yak shaving' for hours/days/months on end.
It's not rare to forget what you were doing after layers are layers of workarounds and fixes you have to do before actually doing the thing you wanted in the first place.
I'm wondering if people would have examples of good software they enjoy using and trust them to work properly so others can have some hope or feel better about it overall.
A similar question was asked 8 years ago ("What software makes you happy?" -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128714) but I would like to focus on the reliability aspect of software.,,gtirloni,247,1467135883,2016-06-28 17:44:43+00:00,story,11995816,,650.0,, 1068,What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people?,,"Older people can remember what it was like to be young. Younger people, on the other hand, cannot know first hand what it is to be or grow old. They can only see others around them and get some sense of the struggles, imagining themselves to be immune to those.
In your experience, what is it like to be or grow old (whatever your definition of old is) from the physical health aspect and the general frailty of the aging human body?
What are the health related struggles that have come into your life or have gotten worse because of increased age and how have you dealt with them?
With your experience and knowledge, what would you advise younger people (or even your own younger self of decades past, if you could)?",,AnonHP,247,1600528766,2020-09-19 15:19:26+00:00,story,24527978,,301.0,, 1069,"Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?",,"Hi HN -
I'm looking to get more involved with open source projects. From your experience, are there any projects that you have been involved with where you are impressed by how kind, supportive, talented, and effective the group of people are that work on the project?
Thanks, Mike",,mikemajzoub,247,1448745813,2015-11-28 21:23:33+00:00,story,10642500,,281.0,, 1070,How to get started developing with FPGA?,,"I've been doing a lot of GPU programming these last few years. Now, FPGAs are being used to accelerate tasks (algo trading, etc, etc).
Recommendations on how to get started with FPGA development? What cards are good? Do they make external cards to plug into a laptop like eGPUs? Popular SDKs?",,jason_slack,247,1540761249,2018-10-28 21:14:09+00:00,story,18323236,,84.0,, 1071,"My brain refuses to think, what should I do?",,"I have a problem I've been experiencing for some time now. I hope someone experienced something similar and has some good advice.
I've come to a point where it's really hard to do even the easiest work. Each time I sit to code and I face the slightest ""problem"", I start looking for a distraction as soon as possible. I realized it today when I had to write one line of code to calculate the scale of an image.
It was really a trivial problem, I just need to figure out a couple of measures to put into a division, but since it requires 30 seconds of thinking, my brain guides my hand to the nearest distraction (i.e. the facebook/email/HN). I really have to struggle to do some work (as a side note this goes away a little when I manage to begin working, but the danger always lurks waiting for some more difficult task to distract me from).
It's not a lack of motivation. This is a project I want to work on and when I'm not at my computer I think about how to code it and I just wait to have some time to work on it. I feel motivated thinking how cool it will be and really want to do it. But as soon as I have time, like in weekends, I start wasting it in useless activities. When I force myself to sit and code, my mind surrenders at the smallest obstacle.
It looks like my brain is not used to think anymore. I can spend time reading a lot of things, but as soon as I try to actively do something, my mind refuses to do it. I think I have some sort of addiction/disorder and I can look for psychotherapy, but I wan to know if there are easier and cheaper remedies. Any advice?",,DeusExMachina,247,1280074997,2010-07-25 16:23:17+00:00,story,1545774,,147.0,, 1072,Have any side projects from Show HN gone big?,,"Any side projects from Show HN went big in terms of users, revenue or open source etc...",,farm_code,247,1480927881,2016-12-05 08:51:21+00:00,story,13104183,,166.0,, 1073,What are good resources to learn system design?,,"What I mean by system design is to understand seemingly endless options when it comes to data handling on backend side.
For example...
- Kafka
- Rabbitmq
- Kinesis
- Spark
- Elastic search
- Map reduce
- Bigquery
- InfluxDB
- Hadoop
- Teradata
- Snowflake
- Databricks
...
I understand Postgres the best, and would love to know why these and others exist, where do they fit in, why are they better over PSQL and what for, and if they are cloud only what's their alternatives....It seems all of them just store data, which PSQL does too, so what's the difference?",,techsin101,246,1602569298,2020-10-13 06:08:18+00:00,story,24762734,,65.0,, 1074,What Have You Learned at Google as a Software Engineer?,,"Hello Googlers (former and current ones),
What have you learned at Google, as a Software Engineer, that you think was interesting and helped you up your game as an engineer? Anything you can share with people outside of Google that can help them improve as engineers?",,aalhour,246,1567958739,2019-09-08 16:05:39+00:00,story,20911340,,151.0,, 1075,Do we no longer support our members?,,"I saw a link marked [dead] earlier today and decided to click through and check it out. The submitter had a simple post describing where the idea originated and then broke down the development into a nice timeline of events. He threw this little project together in a few hours with his buddy, working through the night. That sounds like it would be something HN members would support.
At this point, I wasn't sure why it was marked dead, so I visited the site and found some pretty disgusting submissions from what I can only assume are HN members. Comments along the lines of ""keep this crappy site off HN"" and one submission even telling him to die. These submissions have since been removed.
In any case, the response from HN made me angry and I've been thinking about it all afternoon. Who cares if it's not the prettiest site, or if it's not something you'll ever use. This guy built his project and shared his experience with us. The least we could do is give him some constructive feedback so he can improve it and maybe learn a thing or two.
Here's the link to his original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800925",,covercash,246,1287357846,2010-10-17 23:24:06+00:00,story,1801727,,117.0,, 1076,Life Changing Books?,,"Hey fellow HN people, What are some life changing books have you encountered? You can state the why as well and how it mattered.
For e.g. Almanack of Naval Ramakant is a good starting point.
Thanks.",,rookie123,246,1639842986,2021-12-18 15:56:26+00:00,story,29605394,,223.0,, 1077,What was your best passive income in 2018?,,"Any side projects, Game, OSS, Hacks.",,schappim,246,1542534566,2018-11-18 09:49:26+00:00,story,18479588,,163.0,, 1078,"I built it, nobody came, now what?",,"Hi HN,
I have built an application to scratch my own itch. It’s a tool that I had a need for in my day job for years. The problem it’s solving is a problem that I felt many people had too. But when I talked to people about it, most times it didn’t really click. So I thought “crap, they don’t get it, cause they don’t see it. Once I build it, they’ll get it”.
I didn’t spend an awful lot of time on it. And I think the app is ok-ish for an MVP.
Now I posted it here and there and sent it to a few people I know, but it doesnt seem good enough.
I realize now the importance of having a broad reach. If I was someone like Mike Bostock, with a bunch of followers, I’d just post it to Twitter and voila. Someone said earlier on HN: building an MVP should include a distribution strategy. And I can feel that pain. Now distribution is something I have zero skills at.
What should I do? There are a few things I could be doing, like:
- get better at marketing, make a video for my target customers
- try and build an audience through blogging and things of that nature
- go and sell it to customers in real life.
- try and find a co founder who would have the time and skills to do these things.
- add more features to the MVP that people tell me are missing
- create more documentation for the MVP, so that onboarding is smoother.
What would have most impact in getting the app in front of people?",,d--b,246,1617846054,2021-04-08 01:40:54+00:00,story,26734079,,264.0,, 1079,Where can we find the unsexy jobs?,,"Everything is double-digit YOY growth with impending exit, and kubernetes all-the-things, and DevSecOps, and SRE, and web-scale etc etc.
Where are the places running their setup out of a rack in a rando datacenter grandfathered into an affordable Edgecast plan running a LAMP stack on Debian using borg for backups?
This may read like satire, but I promise I'm seriously asking.
Or am I just way too old?
Related: https://boringtechnology.club/",,throw1138,246,1649765764,2022-04-12 12:16:04+00:00,story,31001537,,219.0,, 1080,What's your advice for someone who's raising capital for the first time?,,"I'm a noob founder raising Angel/VC for my startup, what are the common pitfalls and other things that I need to be aware of?",,certainstartup,246,1539751617,2018-10-17 04:46:57+00:00,story,18236188,,76.0,, 1081,How do you stay motivated to work on side projects?,,It seems like its really easy to lose steam. How do you keep yourself pushing code when life gets busy or you just get bored?,,sciguy77,246,1419634051,2014-12-26 22:47:31+00:00,story,8800788,,139.0,, 1082,"90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?",,"Specifically, what did you think was plausible and what did you think was around the corner (even if either really never came to fruition)?",,Dracophoenix,246,1624318461,2021-06-21 23:34:21+00:00,story,27585956,,458.0,, 1083,Who is hiring? (January 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see:
""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992618",,whoishiring,245,1357050536,2013-01-01 14:28:56+00:00,story,4992617,,255.0,, 1084,What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?,,"I am learning Python and Web Development. I want to set up an online store for my friend who does stitching work. She needs a site where she can display her designs and take orders for stitching.
As I am learning Python, I am planning to use framework : Sale or - http://getsaleor.com/ or Oscar http://oscarcommerce.com/.
For payment, I may use PayPal or Stripe.
Budget for building online store is very low. I want to full control over it and independent?
What services and technologies do you use when you'd like to quickly build a small online store?",,pyeu,245,1528205893,2018-06-05 13:38:13+00:00,story,17237442,,151.0,, 1085,How do I write a resume after five years of a startup?,,"I'm asking this for several founders on our team who are getting deeper into our thirties and starting to think about moving to a larger more stable company. We have been working together for 4 years under the same company name during which time we have done 4 major projects that we were hoping would take off. We've been profitable the entire time and we all make decent salaries, and 3 of the projects still generate modest revenues.
The problem we are facing is that our resumes and Linkedins do not look impressive (to our eyes) because you don't see a progression through multiple companies with inflating job titles (example good profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/saadkhan02).
So, how does one communicate that they are hirable after running a semi-successful startup for years? Or, perhaps, is this undesirable?",,boxcardavin,245,1470254621,2016-08-03 20:03:41+00:00,story,12221051,,127.0,, 1086,How do you process payments?,,"This is how YOU have chosen to do it. Let us know if it is physical or virtual.
I found an old post from 2009 about this, wondering what the answers will be a decade later : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=526517",,c0restraint,245,1580256832,2020-01-29 00:13:52+00:00,story,22175695,,158.0,, 1087,Tools to visualize data in SQL databases?,,"I’d like to hear what tools you use to easily visualize the data in a sql table?
Preferably I’d just like to click on a MariaDB table and receive some plots and statistics on the columns.
Whats your experience on this?
Edit: to clarify, I don’t want to visualize the database itself (Schema’s, keys etc). Just the data within it.",,dyml,244,1644771152,2022-02-13 16:52:32+00:00,story,30323131,,134.0,, 1088,Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?,,"Things like drones, e-bikes, vapes and 3d printing have already received varying amounts of regulatory attention - I'm curious if anyone can think of very early trends that aren't regulated now but may be in the future.
I'm asking partially out of curiosity, but also to get ideas for interesting project areas to brainstorm.",,newman8r,244,1570306760,2019-10-05 20:19:20+00:00,story,21167689,,202.0,, 1089,What do you automate in your life and work?,,Just curious about scripts and things you guys have automated,,gcj,244,1572232239,2019-10-28 03:10:39+00:00,story,21373931,,192.0,, 1090,Am I being instructed to do something illegal? (DEI hiring practices),,"I work in an engineering department at a tech company in the USA. I've worked on many hiring projects over the years but the latest project is different to the others.
In the spreadsheet that lists all the open positions, there's a new column next to open positions with DEI comments. It has a line like this:
Senior Software Engineer (must be female)
If I follow this spreadsheet and exclude male applicants, then would I break any laws? Or if not laws, then would I violate other regulations or ethical standards in the industry?
I ask because my understanding of anti-discrimination law is that there are certain classes of people that cannot be excluded from job openings. Things like sex and race.
If this is illegal then what's the right way to handle this? Are there other ways I should think about this besides legal/illegal or ethical/unethical? Does region or state within the USA matter?
A little more context:
As a SSE I would do interviews or screen candidates but now in a Sr Manager role I'm more involved in the early planning and management of the process. In the first meeting where I saw the comments I said nothing. I followed up a few days later with an email to VP eng to say I opposed. 2 days after that I had a call with VP eng where I raised the issue again and they insisted that the requirement remain. I've taken no more action after that.",,anon926310,244,1642957304,2022-01-23 17:01:44+00:00,story,30047796,,206.0,, 1091,What are the Madrid and Barcelona tech scenes like?,,"Hola HN!
I'm a software developer considering moving to Spain for non-career-related reasons. That said, the job opportunities there are a huge factor in whether I'll actually go.
I've narrowed down to Madrid and Barcelona as the two best options, at least regarding jobs. So I'm asking for the opinions and advice of HNers who have lived & worked in both those cities:
What shape is the tech sector in? What types of work are available? What do salaries look like, vs London/Berlin/Paris levels? How limiting is it to not be fluent enough in Spanish for use at work, beyond chit-chat? Is contracting/freelancing possible, without Spanish fluency? Is there is an obvious leader between the two cities, tech-scene wise? Are there any unintuitive factors to consider?
---
A bit of personal context, if it helps the advice to be a bit more concrete:
* I'd be going for senior developer roles. Most likely at small-mid size companies. Larger ones possibly, for the right job.
* My past jobs have been in the capital cities of Europe's strongest economies. I'm aware that moving to Madrid or Barcelona will likely involve a pay cut in absolute terms. But this is a trade off I'm more than happy to make.
* I'm currently functional in Spanish but I have a long way to go until fluency. That's one of my goals in moving to Spain. So I'm not put off by the language barrier for day to day life. It would be more of a near term concern if non fluency is severely career limiting, for example if it becomes a problem once you are anywhere above entry level positions, as is the case in some countries.",,throwaway0110,244,1495362373,2017-05-21 10:26:13+00:00,story,14386607,,155.0,, 1092,How do I understand the results of my job search?,,"I'm in the middle of a job search. Here are some stats:
- 50 applications submitted
- 21 no response
- 3 no longer hiring
- 11 rejected without interview
- 15 first round interviews
- 9 technical interviews
- 2 rejected after technical interview
- 2 onsite
I feel like the numbers for this job search are not good but I can't figure out what the problem is. A large majority of the companies rejected me without an interview, either sending a form letter or not response at all. There hasn't been any feedback about why they're not interested in me. This has been especially true of larger, more well-known companies. I'm completely qualified on paper but there's no interest.
I've also started to lose confidence for technical interviews. They feel so arbitrary. Some times I do really well. Sometimes not. But in both cases, I don't feel like my skills have been tested or demonstrated. When I do well, the stars lined up and when I don't, they didn't. The whole thing makes me feel increasingly insecure about my ability to build a career, even though I've demonstrated that I can do the work once hired.
Is this the average experience or is there something going on here?",,definitegrunt,243,1574478018,2019-11-23 03:00:18+00:00,story,21612151,,220.0,, 1093,Will getting a PhD lead to a more interesting life?,,"Hi there,
I'm at the end of my MSc. studies in CS. At the moment, I can choose to graduate in a month or two, or stay-on for another 9 months doing research in interactive theorem proving that will potentially lead to a PhD opportunity.
I'm doing my MSc in a foreign country and I'm very unhappy here. Another ~9 months seems like a huge hurdle to me. The current situation is if I choose to graduate soon, I will likely surrender my chance for a PhD.
I don't particularly love studying. I think interactive theorem proving is quite cool, but the actual practice of studying/research hasn't been that enjoyable to me, but I enjoy having the knowledge once I've acquired it. In many ways it seems like "the future" to me, and it'd be really neat to be one of the first passengers on that train, so to say.
I have no desire to become a professor/researcher. After I acquire my PhD, I surmise that I would go to industry.
The issue here is one of bad information: I don't have industry experience and I don't really know how any of this stuff plays out. I'm worried that if I chose to forego the PhD, I'll really regret it in a number of years. I'm afraid I won't be able to find interesting work with just a MSc, and I'm really afraid of getting a boring software engineering gig.
I'm concerned that without the expertise/knowledge/academic maturity that I would gain from a PhD, I'll be stuck doing things that bore me after a number of years, with no room to grow to more interesting things. Equally concerning to me is that I think I'd likely be miserable during the PhD process. It seems very lonely, and I don't find much enjoyment from, say, sitting in my office reading papers all day. I much prefer creating things. I also think I'm just not that bright and that a PhD would be a huge intellectual challenge for me. I'm also absolutely sick of living like a student with little financial freedom.
Does anyone have any guiding advice?",,foopdoopfoop,243,1569839430,2019-09-30 10:30:30+00:00,story,21113500,,250.0,, 1094,Who Is Hiring? (May 2012),," Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" (May 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3914001",,whoishiring,243,1335875870,2012-05-01 12:37:50+00:00,story,3913997,,270.0,, 1095,How to avoid over-engineering software design for future use cases?,,I have worked at Microsoft and Google in multiple different teams.
One thing I realized that sometimes engineers go extreme in designing things/code for future cases which are not yet known. Many times these features don't even see any future use case and just keep making the system complex.
At what point we should stop designing for future use cases ? How far should we go in making things generic ? Are there good resources for this ?,,h43k3r,243,1592910765,2020-06-23 11:12:45+00:00,story,23612415,,250.0,, 1096,What happened when Amazon moved into your business?,,Without going too much into my own product. I have recently found out after watching the AWS conference that I am now directly competing against an Amazon product... I am looking for stories of how your company reacted and maybe the successes or failures...,,boldslogan,243,1519764715,2018-02-27 20:51:55+00:00,story,16477752,,81.0,, 1097,"Have you successfully done a career do-over, and how did you do it?",,"I'm not talking about switching professions at some point in your life. More specifically, doing your career over again in the same profession, in order to redeem your past failing career.
Either you got "too comfy" in your job, didn't learn much, then found a very tough time being a good fit for other jobs. Or you simply have stopped being a good hire for other reasons. What did you do to redeem yourself in the eyes of your respective industry?",,ccdev,243,1518554922,2018-02-13 20:48:42+00:00,story,16370611,,167.0,, 1098,I'm changing my job after a 15-year tenure. How should I proceed?,,"Hello HN, I've been at my current company for the past 15 years. I've taken on different roles where I started as a software engineer, before being promoted to lead, and then to staff engineer. I know my current company by heart. I know how to get things done. I know who to talk to and how to talk to the right people. I know the processes of my company in and out.
I decided to get out of my comfort zone. Try something new, I told myself on and on for the past 3 years. And I finally did it. I'm changing jobs.
I'm going to a new company, where I'll be doing something slightly similar to my previous role, but in a totally new field. I don't know anyone there. The people seem extremely friendly and fun to work with. This is what I felt in the hiring process.
It feels like I forgot how I got good at this. Technically, I have no doubts to get things done. However, on the people level, I have no clue how to get started. How do I make "new friends" at work?
What do you usually do when you switch to a new company? How do you go from the "new clueless person at work" to "oh hey Mike, I'll need your help this afternoon"?",,lma21,242,1647600676,2022-03-18 10:51:16+00:00,story,30720565,,138.0,, 1099,Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?,,I recently read American Kingping by Nick Bilton and I thought it was really good. It’s about the founder of the Silk Road and how the FBI tracked him down.
Can you recommend any similiar novels?,,init-as,242,1534159170,2018-08-13 11:19:30+00:00,story,17749283,,155.0,, 1100,How do you manage your manager?,,"One of the things that is not taught in university or talked about enough in our industry is managing your manager. I am asking this because I was recently asked by my manager not to give talks in really difficult to get in industry events, despite of getting an acceptance. While I like the company I work for, it seems the un-preached way of managing the manager is to have a thick skin. How true is this? I'm also curious to know how you manage your manager?",,singluere,242,1529023117,2018-06-15 00:38:37+00:00,story,17316578,,146.0,, 1101,Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess?,,"Hi, after a long job hunting period I joined a small remote first company 5 months ago.
Problems showed up immediately in the form of chaos and dysfunctions in the microservices cloud project I was hired in. Let's put it this way: say you get the seminal book on microservices and the seminal book on CICD. Now imagine reading along and doing almost everything from code up to project management the wrong way (essentially keeping on-prem 2000's philosophy and revamp it as microservices). On top of that add vendeta-developers in Asia (I'm in a small offshoot team in Europe) handing down half-baked frameworks (not-invented-here and reinventing the wheel are strong) with minimal documentation and a culture based on meetings instead of documenting things. Developer sandboxes that just don't work and unrealistic deadlines. In short a huge draining mess where I felt burnt out just a few months after I joined and where I honestly don't want to spent another minute.
Almost every attempt of mine to change anything was met with either "yeah we know but we have to live with it for now" or a straight denial to hear me out - brushed aside as a newcomer (I'm senior and was hired as such).
So, the question is, is it unprofessional to abandon ship just 6 months in or given the circumstances is exactly what I should do in order to protect my well being and my career prospects (the project is a slow motion train wreck IMO).",,itistricky,242,1635760257,2021-11-01 09:50:57+00:00,story,29064692,,281.0,, 1102,"Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?",,Please be as specific as possible. Also please mention your company and/or industry.
This should help folks trying to get into your company/industry on what they need to know and conversely help you in finding a better pool of candidates.,,changeseeker,242,1481588086,2016-12-13 00:14:46+00:00,story,13163367,,232.0,, 1103,What are your app monetisation strategies?,,"Hey guys - I've been an Android developer myself for over 4 year now. One of the biggest pain points has always been the monetisation part - which I've always felt is out of my control.
I've been focused mostly on free apps with ads - mostly Admob - but the little control over what ads are displayed, their format, etc always seemed to bother me. That's why I've started working on an ad network for mobile apps - where the advertisers buys directly from the app publisher the ad spot - and the publisher has full control over which ad is displayed and when.
I wanted to ask you what monetisation strategies to you have for your apps and if you've ever felt the same way when you added ads in your app.",,alc90,242,1489937088,2017-03-19 15:24:48+00:00,story,13907624,,106.0,, 1104,Best questions for an engineer to ask a CEO during a job interview?,,"I’m interviewing right now at a lot of startups and am looking for better ways to ask “so, where is this thing headed?”
What do you always make sure to ask?",,northisup,241,1553697990,2019-03-27 14:46:30+00:00,story,19501289,,129.0,, 1105,What problem in your industry is a potential startup?,,"This has been done two other times before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139638 (2016), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007 (2015)
Both threads generated a lot of really interesting discussion, and I was curious what the discussion would sound like if this were asked again in 2018.",,choogi,241,1525447451,2018-05-04 15:24:11+00:00,story,16995260,,245.0,, 1106,How do news networks get election data?,,Seems like they have a live data feed...,,source99,241,1478668657,2016-11-09 05:17:37+00:00,story,12906284,,56.0,, 1107,What diagrams do you use in software development?,,"There's currently an article on the front page about the death of UML[2]. While UML's inheritance diagrams have been dead to me for a long time, I still like the sequence diagrams.
Besides that I sometimes still draw ERDs and I love JJG's Visual Vocabulary[1] for drawing "interaction diagrams".
What types of diagrams do you use with your team?
[1]: http://jjg.net/ia/visvocab [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26934577",,cies,241,1619427143,2021-04-26 08:52:23+00:00,story,26940593,,155.0,, 1108,Who is hiring? (January 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6995014",,whoishiring,241,1388585899,2014-01-01 14:18:19+00:00,story,6995020,,287.0,, 1109,Any good FOSS alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA?,,"Google's reCAPTCHA is everywhere, they seem to have the monopoly of checking if the user's not a robot.
CAPTCHA systems are essentials to the web, and it seems important to me to have a (good) FOSS alternative, but I can't find any.
Are all CAPTCHA closed-source to make it harder for attackers? Am I missing something?",,paulintrognon,241,1588762548,2020-05-06 10:55:48+00:00,story,23089599,,133.0,, 1110,What did you learn the hard way?,,,,donkoz_ab,241,1538588931,2018-10-03 17:48:51+00:00,story,18132736,,312.0,, 1111,"Tools of the trade, 2010 edition",,"When I first started delicious, we had to host most of the services ourselves. CVS, mail, mailing lists, etc etc etc.
These days, lots of that stuff is available as SaaS. What are the tools and services people use instead of hosting their own?
(I'm not talking about actual production services like EC2 and Heroku and whatnot. We can go over this in another thread.)",,joshu,240,1286493523,2010-10-07 23:18:43+00:00,story,1769910,,92.0,, 1112,What are your news sources other than HN?,,I am a regular Hacker News reader. But I like to explore similar options news for Sci-tech and Geo Politics.
What other news sources you use ?,,aswathrao,240,1577789488,2019-12-31 10:51:28+00:00,story,21920173,,263.0,, 1113,Who is hiring? (January 2015),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.",,whoishiring,240,1420117319,2015-01-01 13:01:59+00:00,story,8822808,,333.0,, 1114,Is Python dying?,,"Go for systems and backend, JS for frontend, Julia for data science.
It seems python is assaulted on all fronts..would now be a bad time to invest in a python stack, or will efforts to future-proof python (numba, blaze, nuitka, pyjion, Django channels, pyparallel) bare fruit?",,tanlermin,240,1455488261,2016-02-14 22:17:41+00:00,story,11100251,,348.0,, 1115,Who is hiring? (November 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653426",,whoishiring,240,1383311902,2013-11-01 13:18:22+00:00,story,6653437,,389.0,, 1116,How do you organize/track your personal goals?,,"- Monthly, quarterly, yearly? - notes, kanban, outlines? - how do you visualize your progress?",,mezod,239,1532261962,2018-07-22 12:19:22+00:00,story,17586375,,119.0,, 1117,Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?,,"Programs like General Assembly and Flatiron School are touted as effective ways to mint new developers very quickly, and a bunch of them boast hiring rates over 90% and average starting salaries of 100k or more.
And yet, looking around, there don't seem to be many jobs for entry-level Rails or iOS developers. If you look around on job boards, there simply is not much competition for entry-level talent. Most of the job growth appears to be in academic stuff like AI and data science which requires at the very least a BS and probably an MS. The run-of-the-mill web and mobile developer positions all demand at least some level of experience (generally 2-6 years). It just doesn't seem like there is enough demand for inexperienced talent to make this kind of program effective.
But if the stats that these bootcamps throw out are true, there are companies hiring people at $100k who, twelve weeks ago, had never opened a text editor in their lives.
If you've hired from one of these programs, what made you turn to them? Was it a success? And if it's really possible to build a rails developer from scratch in 10 weeks, why not just just do it in-house through an internship program and avoid paying commission to these schools? And why do most companies still ask for "at least a Bachelors in CS" for web and mobile development positions?",,ruswick,239,1420559120,2015-01-06 15:45:20+00:00,story,8844848,,252.0,, 1118,Favorite podcasts?,,Especially curious to hear about any programming or design related podcasts,,adilmajid,239,1426442640,2015-03-15 18:04:00+00:00,story,9207360,,134.0,, 1119,Must Read from ACM Library?,,"Given ACM's Digital Library is currently free to access thru June 30, 2020 what are must read/watch resources you recommend and why? https://dl.acm.org/",,weej,239,1586190007,2020-04-06 16:20:07+00:00,story,22794984,,46.0,, 1120,Good Python projects to read for modern Python?,,"Django 4.0 projects would also be appreciated, or simply high quality Django projects.",,turndown,239,1640569782,2021-12-27 01:49:42+00:00,story,29698198,,66.0,, 1121,What Are the Best Current Methods to Delete Yourself from the Internet?,,"For those of us interested in dropping off the grid, what are the best current methods of removal of information from search engines and servers that host information about you, whether known by you or not? How could these methods be improved upon to increase the coverage of erasure? And what do you think the future of personal identify cleanup will look like, or will it even be possible after a certain point?",,christianbryant,239,1482587802,2016-12-24 13:56:42+00:00,story,13249761,,158.0,, 1122,How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?,,"As in B2B sales, where nearly all potential clients are only open Monday - Friday.",,bradtx,239,1501693785,2017-08-02 17:09:45+00:00,story,14912468,,95.0,, 1123,Resources for building a programming language?,,"Looking for tips, ideas, and actual detailed instructions for creating a programming language. No specific target or runtime. Just want to try my hand at it and leverage my API design experience.",,kevinSuttle,239,1504564204,2017-09-04 22:30:04+00:00,story,15171238,,83.0,, 1124,What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?,,"I never visited Reddit much, but occasionally web searches take me there for tech support questions. Every time I visit in the past year or so I'm shocked at how slow the interface is, and don't even understand how its possible to make web sites so unresponsive to user input. It's as bad as visiting a local news site that is laden with ads and several auto-playing videos, but it doesn't seem to be running that much ad content.
How does one make such a bad web app, and what technology choices should I avoid to make sure I don't end up with a mess like this?",,epistasis,238,1575841512,2019-12-08 21:45:12+00:00,story,21738571,,158.0,, 1125,How can I learn how to paint?,," Hiya, Just wondering if anyone has any advice/anecdotes about learning how to paint?
I saw a thread a while ago about working with stained glass that got a lot of interest, and thought maybe the folk here might know a thing or two about this as well.
I have really gotten into looking at the works of impressionists ( https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m03xj1 ) like Monet and Edward Hopper's early work, and would love to try my hand at it. If anything it would be to get more of an appreciation for the art, and as an emotional outlet after writing code every day.
I am pretty independent and would like to do as much as I can myself before going to a course and wasting someones time trying to understand things I could learn on my own, and have a better foundation for learning.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.",,scanny,238,1552449821,2019-03-13 04:03:41+00:00,story,19375624,,159.0,, 1126,Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?,,,,digianarchist,238,1545596938,2018-12-23 20:28:58+00:00,story,18748135,,397.0,, 1127,Best solutions for keeping a personal log?,,"Lately I've been working toward keeping a logbook of what I've been up to throughout the day. I've been using things.app to record things as completed tasks, which has the advantage of being available on both computer and phone and seamlessly sync'ed up.
But I'm interested in being able to pull in more automation--for example, download a csv of transactions from my bank and integrate purchases into the log, maybe add in entries for emails sent, phone calls made. The goal is to capture information passively enough that I can add context and commentary when I want to without spending more time on it than it's worth. I have an idea that it would be helpful for me to be able to look back and get a long term sense of things that I'm doing and interested about.
Do you know of any tools that might make that easier to accomplish? I struggled to find a general purpose app for the iPhone to write new records to a database, and I thought about using a google form but I don't want to have to manually record the time. I thought about sending emails to a specific address, but I couldn't come up with a simple way to do the kind of purchase integration that I'd like to do, and I have a hunch that the whole thing is really only going to be useable if it ends up in a database or spreadsheet form.
With all the personal data collection going on right now I think it would be interesting to start trying to use similar tactics to bring more of my attention to the decisions I'm making about how to spend my time and focus.",,bnj,238,1577636518,2019-12-29 16:21:58+00:00,story,21906650,,135.0,, 1128,Coping with cancer in the family,,"I am a software developer just like many users of the wonderful HN community and an ardent HN user myself for around 7 years . It has inspired me to pursue software Dev/Tech as a career as well as a passion beyond the office. However , today I come to HN to seek your thoughts on a non-tech related topic. My mother was diagnosed with cancer a month and half back and after two surgeries has started with the first round of chemotherapy. It has been quite a tough last few days ever since the chemo started with the common side effects of the treatment as is known. It has been really challenging going through the daily tasks at work, and am honestly finding it quite difficult to cope, seeing my mother go through this. If anyone here has ever or is going through a similar situation , I am just looking to seek some answers, on how you cope(d) and manage(d) your work and day to day schedule , and how / what you did to care for your parents. I really wish no family would've to ever go through this. But its life I suppose and we have to accept it and learn to deal with it. I am just learning to , and am looking for some direction here, so I can do my best to balance a job and take care of my family through this time.",,parvatzar,238,1636125144,2021-11-05 15:12:24+00:00,story,29120388,,136.0,, 1129,A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?,,"Is there a website out there that's more technical than HN, has less negativity, and leaves out the ""social"" aspects of technology?
What I'm looking for is a site where I can discuss things like:
-Programming language design (functional languages, different type systems, point-free style, etc...)
-Interesting mathematics (deeper understanding of statistics, implications of Godel's incompleteness theorem)
-Interesting science (advances in quantum mechanics, optical gyroscopes, etc.)
-Other technical oddities (Turing complete systems, global illumination on GPUs, supercomputing)
-News on start-ups that solve technical rather than social problems (DE Shaw instead of Socialcam)
I'd like to avoid:
-Tech products
-Heated arguments that make me feel bad after reading the comments instead of enlightened",,Xcelerate,238,1354959028,2012-12-08 09:30:28+00:00,story,4891238,,171.0,, 1130,Who is Hiring? (October 2011),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
No recruiters or job boards, thanks
Please also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers?"" (October 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=3060222",,whoishiring,238,1317483952,2011-10-01 15:45:52+00:00,story,3060221,,274.0,, 1131,Older textbooks/papers you consider classics still worth studying today?,,,,webmaven,237,1542385101,2018-11-16 16:18:21+00:00,story,18469649,,85.0,, 1132,What do you regret you didn't know when programming for iOS or Android?,,What do you regret you didn't know when started programming for iOS or Android?,,toron123,237,1580051758,2020-01-26 15:15:58+00:00,story,22152408,,159.0,, 1133,What are some good tech magazines?,,"I spend so much of my work and leisure time on devices and have been trying to reduce this. For example, I've recently switched to an iPod Classic for a lot of my music listening which has been quite nice.
I also spend a lot of time browsing and reading interesting articles, particularly on HN and want to replace some of that with 'offline' alternatives. When it comes to other hobbies (sports, music) I have found some great magazines still in circulation that can work as alternatives to browsing online.
I'd love to hear your suggestions for tech related magazines, ideally things I can subscribe to and get monthly/quarterly. These should be varied enough to cover the kind of topics we see here on HN daily as opposed to super general tech news type magazines.",,basisword,237,1643978330,2022-02-04 12:38:50+00:00,story,30206027,,148.0,, 1134,Best way to test accessibility of a website?,,"Is there a bot/crawler akin to Google's Webmaster Tools that will test, score, and identify accessibility issues on a website?
If not, what are some best practices people use to maintain accessibility? Does anyone write tests for this functionality? Would love to learn more, top resources, checklists people use, etc.",,pcmaffey,237,1553393864,2019-03-24 02:17:44+00:00,story,19473737,,113.0,, 1135,Your best passive income sources?,,,,robbiet480,237,1349927123,2012-10-11 03:45:23+00:00,story,4639271,,221.0,, 1136,Best place to start learning about Markov Chains?,,A progressive reading list or process to follow would be awesome,,chrisherd,237,1554982536,2019-04-11 11:35:36+00:00,story,19633212,,68.0,, 1137,Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it?,,"I don't own a Macbook, but when people ask me what they should get it's hard to recommend a good alternative.
For every other manufacturer - do the model names and numbers have to be so opaque? They could all cut it down to 5 or 6 well designed, sensibly named models and still sell more units.
Whenever a friend is looking for a machine they try and wade through the HP, Dell and Sony websites. Eventually they give up trying to decipher the model names, and whether they should be looking iin ""Everyday"", ""Performance"", ""Thin & Light"" or ""Business"" categories and end up ordering a Macbook.
The HP G62-105SA? The Dell Latitude E5410? HP you also sell the Compaq Presario CQ61-406SA? What are these machines? What the hell is wrong with you?
I've owned the 13 inch Dell XPS machines. They were pretty good, but are apparently discontinued.",,SandB0x,236,1276175482,2010-06-10 13:11:22+00:00,story,1419896,,223.0,, 1138,How should I teach code to kids?,,"My little cousins are 7 and 9 years old. I have been thinking a lot how can I get them started with building and designing for the web.
I just finish my first attempt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiwWT2CERA8
I wanted to ask the HN, what other ideas or what type curriculum I can do to make it more fun and interesting for them. All ideas are welcomed.",,holaboyperu,236,1487434829,2017-02-18 16:20:29+00:00,story,13675268,,133.0,, 1139,How many hours per day do you work?,,"I'm trying to log my time via timer app (manually switching it on when I code). Plus I use an app which checks what apps I use every minute.
It turns out that:
- I barely can code for more than 4 hours per day
- I have max. 60% of "productive" time, which means that 60% of time apps like IDE are open. The rest goes to random stuff, like messaging/youtube etc.
So I'm curious. I know that there are tons of articles saying that you can't be productive all the day.
But what's in real life?
Are there any persons who can work, say, 8+ hours? I mean, really work, not be at office.",,Akcium,236,1607952403,2020-12-14 13:26:43+00:00,story,25417210,,176.0,, 1140,What change in your programming technique has been most transformative?,,"As an example, the team I work on has been adding more precondition checking to all of our applications. The simple act of stepping back from the perceived data-flow and explicitly declaring what we believe should hold true has uncovered several bugs in our understanding of our applications.
We've likened it to having someone review a paper you've written: you often read what you think you wrote, not what's actually written.
This got me to questioning what others have found to be transformative in their development practices.",,dmux,236,1579801489,2020-01-23 17:44:49+00:00,story,22129757,,208.0,, 1141,How do I protect my parents from the internet?,,I recently came home to find the home PC has been bricked - the boot layer has somehow been corrupted.
This is pretty remarkable given that my dad only uses it watch golf videos and edit some photos in lightroom. He may occasionally indulge in some porn cough.
I figured he'd be relatively safe as I installed an Adblocker and had Norton installed on the device but I did not realise how vulnerable he was until I found out he can't tell the difference between a pop up and a genuine desktop notification. He has even clicked through on a "You have been chosen to win an iPhone 7" link recently - he saw no harm in at least seeing what might happen.
He also likes to download videos from youtube so I taught him how to use youtube-dl but ended up downloading some malware-infected ripper because it had a more convenient UI.
How do I educate someone from such a base level?
What can I put on the PC to protect them? I avoided using scriptblockers as I don't think they are tech savvy enough to work out why a page might not be working.,,throwawaywxc,236,1478615744,2016-11-08 14:35:44+00:00,story,12900515,,210.0,, 1142,Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020?,,"There are what I would call "good oldie" MOOCs that people frequently recommend, like algorithms on coursera. Most of them are from 2012-2013.
Now will be some rant and justification for the question, the question itself is in the last paragraph.
At the time (2012-2013) I was very hyped and enthusiastic, imagining new courses of the same quality and kind will be appearing at the same rate in future. By kind I mean university level subjects, fundamental topics that have high return of investment.
But it seems to me it went quite differently. I don't really see any new courses being published and recommended on the lists among good oldies. My own experience with stuff that came later also wasn't as pleasant, I started dropping courses much more often.
The platforms themselves changed significantly: 1. Switch from fundamental to hands-on subjects like technologies and frameworks. 2. Switching to paid model (not that I have anything against it, although being poor in a poor country I avoid paying as much as I can and haven't paid for a single certificate). This leads to less people checking out the course and giving it a "media coverage". 3. Switching from strict start-end date to "take anytime you want". Because of that the social element for me has been essentially lost, the forums are half-dead. 4. Increased amount of courses. Together with (1) this makes it hard to find something by random exploration. When I open edx computer science section I have to go through pages and pages of microsoft courses about their technologies.
This made me gradually lose interest in MOOCs and switch to books and self-learning. I occasionally go back to MOOC platforms or MOOC aggregators, thinking maybe I just missed something or something interesting came out recently.
Did you take any good (valuable, mind-expanding, long-term rewarding, intellectually stimulating) courses that aren't famous and have a high chance of being overlooked?",,frankie_t,235,1593770727,2020-07-03 10:05:27+00:00,story,23722680,,85.0,, 1143,What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile?,,"I've submitted a fair amount of job applications that often request for a GitHub profile. I'm however convinced most don't look at it or only take a cursory glance at it.
What do recruiters look out for?",,passenger,235,1552819660,2019-03-17 10:47:40+00:00,story,19413348,,218.0,, 1144,Full-text browser history search forever?,,"My biggest force-multiplier is my fish shell history, going on 7 years of command line history.
I want to do the same thing for my web browser. At first I looked at Memex but they disabled browser history search. You have to save or annotate an article first before it becomes searchable. My brain, naturally, does not know ahead of time what could be useful in the future.
Is there any product out there that creates a fully searchable full-text history forever with little fuss?
I'm using Firefox on Linux but could switch to another browser (but not OS) if needed.",,emptysongglass,235,1647418431,2022-03-16 08:13:51+00:00,story,30696451,,83.0,, 1145,How does one overcome the need for instant gratification?,,"...in the context of programming and problem solving. For me, it becomes intensely boring and border line ADHD while pondering over a complex problem that requires some dedicated attention without worrying about the end result. Instead, I end up taking the easiest solution that may solve the problem only partially, just for the instant gratification it gives. Needless to say, this is harmful for important decisions.
I believe this has come from years of INSTANT dopamine rushes from social media and Hacker News.
How do you avoid it?",,sidcool,235,1499856174,2017-07-12 10:42:54+00:00,story,14751439,,126.0,, 1146,What is your content discovery daily routine?,,"I'm quite curious about how people on Hacker News find interesting content along the day. What are the topics you are interesting in? What are the websites you go to? (HN is probably in there) Do you have some mailing list you are counting on to deliver you good content? Are there some tools you like to use to store and read later?
On my side, I like to read HN and getting a lot of information on subreddits that are related to my favorite topics : MachineLearning, LanguageTechnology, Node, GoLang, Cooking, Baking, CheeseMaking, Beer. In my perception, the more niche the topic, the more you can find quality stuff on.
When I find a link of interest I bookmark it on Chrome where I have Google's Bookmark Manager plugin to make it more sexy. Personally I'm not a fan of Pocket but I know a lot of people like it.
So, what about you?",,smorac,235,1501760211,2017-08-03 11:36:51+00:00,story,14918647,,155.0,, 1147,"Can we ban Twitter links, please?",,"Every day there are posts here with some Twitter thread as the source.
This used to be just annoying in the past (because of the overall low quality of such sources), but now it's gone too far. Twitter won't let you see the content without logging in anymore. At least this is what I see when I open a Twitter link and scroll down: https://i.imgur.com/E0h2CtQ.png
There are many free blog posting platforms out there that don't annoy users like that and — needless to say — are in a much more readable format. All it takes is a couple of minutes to sign up...
I think such a HN rule could help in promoting common decency on the web.
EDIT: A couple of posters made valid points against an outright ban. Someone suggested flagging paywalls/credential-walls. How about lowering the score for Twitter-link submissions (something like: 1 vote counts 0.5 votes)?",,whyoh,235,1645518981,2022-02-22 08:36:21+00:00,story,30425409,,127.0,, 1148,"Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?",,,,aerovistae,235,1415489304,2014-11-08 23:28:24+00:00,story,8578514,,172.0,, 1149,Favorite HN threads of all time,,"Have any Hacker News threads ever truly changed your perspective on life, or technology? Post them please.",,cellis,235,1337452920,2012-05-19 18:42:00+00:00,story,3996652,,51.0,, 1150,"Codebases with great, easy to read code?",,A colleague told me the best way to level up coding skills is to read excellent code.
Do you have favorite repos that highlight this?
I have an irrational fear of unknown codebases since it feels most of the code is either boilerplate or tied to some framework.
Do you have tips and tricks you use to read codebases?,,impjohn,234,1647860271,2022-03-21 10:57:51+00:00,story,30752540,,141.0,, 1151,What is your learning strategy?,,"Hi all,
I am a software developer and I have been a part of the software industry for almost 5 years. I have trouble developing a learning strategy.
In the beginning, it was easy. I needed to learn the basics of things. How to write object-oriented code in Java, how to build a docker image, how https works, basic Unix commands, etc.
However, now, I feel that I need to know a lot of things. When I check my current skills, future goals, and job descriptions, the list of stuff I must learn is extremely long. AWS, advanced stuff in Go, distributed system theory, databases, queue systems, Istio, other fancy CNCF tools, networking in Linux, k8s controller patterns, oncall stuff, gRPC, authentication/authorization mechanisms, managing a REST API, scaling something with zero downtime, observability etc. I am already using some of these tools/techniques in my full-time job but it is impossible to experience all of them in a position. On the other hand, as far as I see, I am supposed to know many of them.
I am aware that my choices are going to deeply affect my path/opportunities in the future. For example, k8s controllers are a very niche field whereas being a skillful Go developer comes with more and more opportunities. To learn the theory of fundamentals is a relatively long-term investment.
Additionally, my time is limited. I am already spending some part of my weekends and nights to learn something new but it is very exhausting. I literally love developing software but it doesn't seem sustainable to me in the long run if I cannot develop an efficient/focused learning strategy. I'm afraid to fall behind the industry.
So, what is your learning strategy? How do you plan your time to learn something new? How do you pick a subject or tool to learn?
p.s. I am aware that having a full-time job that teaches you a lot is the most critical part of this strategy.",,erkanerol,234,1589713948,2020-05-17 11:12:28+00:00,story,23211184,,99.0,, 1152,What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?,,I’d be really interested in reading about multiplayer servers for big title FPS games with matchmaking and lots of players,,qyirius,234,1567908872,2019-09-08 02:14:32+00:00,story,20908168,,75.0,, 1153,Oldest code you have written that is still in use?,,Software quickly gets outdated and re-written all the time. Sometimes the whole product is shutdown. I was just curious about products/modules that you had coded that has stood the test of time!,,_mc,233,1463524843,2016-05-17 22:40:43+00:00,story,11718197,,352.0,, 1154,How do you stop regretting?,,"Early 30's and experience debilitating regret on a daily basis, over not receiving the best education, not having excelled in any one field, not having any piqued interests as a child, missed opportunities, paths taken that cannot be reversed, and so much more. Many of those things were due to external factors, yet my mistakes still played a big part. Friends are in better places who I never saw as more hardworking or intelligent than I, but perhaps I've been deluded. Efforts taken at this point to turn things around would be futile, whether that means going back to school or picking up a new skill; I would be in competition with others who've been practicing their trade for many years. It feels as if it's too late. I am objectively in a place I am not happy with, but am convinced things cannot get any better. You may say that I'm not speaking rationally, but reality can validate every one of my worries and regrets. I don't think I am exaggerating or fabricating anything, rather I am reflecting on what has happened and observing patterns, or so I think I am.
Do any of you have any experience with this?",,regretting,233,1359173287,2013-01-26 04:08:07+00:00,story,5119213,,127.0,, 1155,Why are relational DBs are the standard instead of graph-based DBs?,,"Hi,
I've been recently exposed to some informational systems where all the domain data was modeled as one graph instead of a set of inter-related tables.
I worked with RDBs (primarily Postgres) for 5+ years and I cannot say that it ever felt wrong, but the more I think about modeling data as graphs, the more it makes me confused why it's not the default way.
Graphs seemed to be: (1) Easier to scale (both storage-wise and complexity-wise). (2) Closer to how we model the world in our minds, hence easier to reason about. (3) Easier to query (felt more like GraphQL than SQL if it makes any sense).
The way I see it, there are two major ways to connect singular entities in a data model: 1. Lists (aka tables) that allow you to sort, filter, and aggregate within a set of entities of the same kind. 2. Relations (aka graph edges or foreign keys) to connect singular entities of different kinds.
... And I can imagine relational DBs being List-first Relation-second, and graph DBs being the opposite. But maybe that's too much of a simplification.
Anyway, looking back at different domains I worked with, it felt like I had spent much more time working with relations than with lists.
Another signal: I have an intern developer, and it took him 1 minute to understand the basics of how graphs work, but then I spent two hours explaining why we needed extra tables for many-to-many relations and how they worked.
Any thoughts? What am I missing? Are RDBs the default way mostly due to historical reasons?
Discussion on this topic that I could find: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27541453",,kirillrogovoy,233,1633261334,2021-10-03 11:42:14+00:00,story,28736405,,175.0,, 1156,Have you ever chosen Postgres over Mongo and regretted it?,,"The past 2 years seem to have been the death knell for Mongo and the "NoSQL" hype, with Mongo moving toward SQL parity and SQL databases supporting JSON storage, like Postgres with JSONB.
At this point it seems that there are very few workloads for which Mongo is the best option compared to Postgres+JSONB. I'm wondering...
1) Have you ever chosen Postgres over Mongo, and regretted it? Why? Did you end up switching to Mongo? Was it better?
2) Can anyone name a use case where Mongo is clearly a better choice than Postgres+JSONB?",,chatmasta,233,1531222654,2018-07-10 11:37:34+00:00,story,17497164,,149.0,, 1157,What is your preferred Python stack for high traffic webservices?,,"There's a large project on our roadmap to rework a big ole chunk of legacy code into something that is actually an asset for the company instead of an anchor.
I'm considering giving it a run with a base of gunicorn/gevent/nginix/pyramid. Seems that gunicorn/gevent give us the ability to use threads where best, but without having to make everything callbacks. And Pyramid gives us a flexible framework to run our web service through (currently the main focus). Kicked around the idea of using M2/0MQ as a way to implement a SOA of sorts, but it feels like a bit to much.
So, if you were starting from scratch and wanted to build a robust high traffic web service (site, app, api, etc), what would you use?",,bigethan,233,1313978123,2011-08-22 01:55:23+00:00,story,2910953,,67.0,, 1158,Who is Hiring? (July 2011),,"Since the whoishiring bot seems to have not run...
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (July 2011) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2719083",,Aloisius,233,1309538497,2011-07-01 16:41:37+00:00,story,2719028,,283.0,, 1159,"Simple, beginner friendly ETL / Data Engineering project ideas?",,"Hi HN,
I'm a seasoned Python software developer. Recently I have found a new obsession with data processing, management, engineering etc ... I'd like to (eventually) branch off into that field but I find the lack of beginner friendly resources is slowing me down. All I can find is spark, hadoop related articles (I know these are prominent in the field, but I want to learn to walk before I run). So If any of you have pointers, websites, project ideas I can start to get a good grasp of all the fundamental concepts, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks a lot in advance",,zabana,233,1534502719,2018-08-17 10:45:19+00:00,story,17781762,,72.0,, 1160,Which YouTube channels do you watch regularly?,,3blue1brown is a popular one I see referenced on here. Any others? Clips from popular TV shows are probably popular as well.,,uptownfunk,233,1527827909,2018-06-01 04:38:29+00:00,story,17202615,,122.0,, 1161,What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?,,"What cheap yet very useful things have made a substantial change and improvement to your life?
For me it has always been USB flash drives. I'm scared of getting ransomware'd one day, but I am safe in the knowledge that I'd have to have every thumbdrive I own plugged into my PC for some real damage to happen. They are a lifesaver, and they get cheaper every year too!",,legrande,233,1628528827,2021-08-09 17:07:07+00:00,story,28119393,,419.0,, 1162,"Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?",,I have a laptop with an i5 processor and 8G of RAM. Hard drive is an SSD. It sometimes takes me a full minute and a half to get Teams open and ready to join a meeting. It is driving me crazy.,,mmsimanga,233,1645130121,2022-02-17 20:35:21+00:00,story,30378306,,253.0,, 1163,Online banks where I can open account worldwide?,,"I travel to exotic countries to live and work remotely. If suddenly my credit card is blocked or stolen, are there any online banks where I can open an account and order a card by post to anywhere in the world, confirming my identity online?
For example, there are several banks which allows me to open a bank account without German registration and no non-residence, being in Germany. Unfortunately, they send cards only to a limited number of European countries. Even if they are ok with my passport I have to ask somebody to receive my card and send it directly to me.",,theodor_shi,233,1543136916,2018-11-25 09:08:36+00:00,story,18526090,,114.0,, 1164,My wife needs something to do from home to make money...,,"My wife is a stay at home Mom and is bored - unfortunately she doesn't have the best formal education credentials but she is far from stupid. However this does heavily impact her ability to get a job that pays much more than minimum wage, usually labor intensive. She has a herniated bulging disc in her lower back, so I'd prefer her not do a lot of manual labor all day. I wanted to hear from you guys what sort of entrepreneurial endeavors she might embark on with my programming/web expertise and a little bit of cash backing her. The catch is, she needs to be able to do it from home. She doesn't need to get rich - even earning ~$1000/mo would be acceptable as long as the man(woman) hours to money earned ratio is reasonable. Ideas?",,mkelley,233,1336336181,2012-05-06 20:29:41+00:00,story,3936225,,175.0,, 1165,How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?,,"I have no money. I do have rich friends who are getting richer and richer every year.
I try to be gracious and happy for their good fortune.
However it makes me depressed and angry and envious.
One friend told me a few days ago his house went up in value $1,000,000 in one year, at which point he sold it.
I visited my cousin who is a fabulous person and has a gorgeous house freshly renovated and extended and a new pool put it.
All around me my peers are becoming very wealthy.
And I’m at the bottom with nothing.
I try to be happy for them and gracious and to listen and enthuse whilst they tell me of their good fortune or show me around their stunning houses. And afterwards I feel smashed with depression as I go back to my shit rental house that I’m ashamed of.
Good people, great friends, and seeing them brings me down.
Rich people aren’t aware that their tales of success make people like me feel bad. They shouldn’t have to be aware of that or hold themselves back. As a good friend I should feel happy for them, and I pretend to, but inside it makes me feel terrible.
If you’re commenting on this thread and offering advice, I encourage you add the context of whether you are one of those who have money or not.",,gfykvfyxgc,232,1641331365,2022-01-04 21:22:45+00:00,story,29800730,,394.0,, 1166,Do you ever truly use your revision history?,,"Source control gives you a full history of every change that's ever been made to your codebase since its beginning. At my current company they place a huge value on that history, so much so that they haven't transitioned from SVN to git solely because of the logistical challenge of migrating 30 years of commits.
Obviously the write-only paradigm is useful when reconciling changes with others and when reverting recent, broken changes or recovering accidentally-deleted work. But to me, it seems like there's diminishing value the further back you go. I can't imagine getting much value from trawling through two-year-old commits, much less twenty-year-old commits.
So I ask: at your company and in your experience, do you get value from source-control-arachaeology? And if so, what does that look like in your case?",,_bxg1,232,1583643274,2020-03-08 04:54:34+00:00,story,22516414,,282.0,, 1167,Does anyone still use IRC?,,Curious to know if people still use IRC? Why or why not? What do you use it for? I frankly miss IRC from heavily using it in the 90s.,,ryeguy_24,231,1559853869,2019-06-06 20:44:29+00:00,story,20118963,,324.0,, 1168,What problem in your industry is a potential startup?,,"Instead of always looking for ideas, lets try and ask this: What problem in your industry would be a successful startup if someone decided to solve it?",,ThomPete,231,1435594518,2015-06-29 16:15:18+00:00,story,9799007,,245.0,, 1169,How to keep yourself accountable?,,"Hi HN,
lately I realized I'm struggeling to keep myself accountable, mainly for work I am the main stakeholder in.
When working "after spec" or together with someone else on the same code, I can to stick to it and deliver quality I'm satisfied with. But as soon as I work for myself my standards, quality and even goals start going down hill. Short term I'm okay with less and sloppy work, and after a while I regrett no doing a better job.
Do you guys have ideas, techniques etc. to deal with this behaviour?",,lamchob,231,1568973337,2019-09-20 09:55:37+00:00,story,21024941,,99.0,, 1170,"Startup stole our software, and raised $2MM with it. What should we do?",,"About 2 years ago, my firm developed software under contract. About 4 months later, after falling behind on payments, the customer "charged back" all his previous payments (via PayPal), and kept the software (it was not yet finished, but functional enough to charge customers).
We recouped about half the money through PayPal's dispute process. We let the rest go, deciding it wasn't worth trying to squeeze blood from a turnip.
Fast forward to today, the very same company is on the front page of HackerNews:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8225738
The business' name is Pigeon.ly / fotopigeon.com (when we worked on it it was called pichurz.com / picturgram.com). The owners names are Fredrick Hutson and Alfonzo Brooks.
So, HN, what should we do? We have a signed contract with them which states that the software becomes our property in the event of non-payment. Should we assert ownership of the software? Of their business? Should we sue them? Should we reach out to their investors (Kapor Capital and Base Ventures)? Should we include Kapor Capital and Base Ventures in the suit?
I would really appreciate any advice HN can offer. We will of course rely on our attorney's advice primarily, but I am optimistic that someone here has dealt with a similar situation before.
Thank you for your time!",,qeorge,231,1409063390,2014-08-26 14:29:50+00:00,story,8227225,,67.0,, 1171,How to shadow a CEO?,,"I have the opportunity to shadow a CEO/Founder of a $25 million dollar company. The company is in the fresh produce sector - not an industry that I ever really considered, but the founder has been able to build it up from nothing to one of Inc’s fastest growing companies in just 6 years. I have free reign to attend meetings/calls in all departments, and I have committed to 4 hours, 3 days a week. The CEO is a friend so there’s an established relationship. My longterm goal is to own my company and I want to learn how a successful business is run and the leadership skills required.
I’ve never done this before, so my questions are how do I get the most out of this great opportunity? How can I add value to him? How long should I continue this internship? Any other best practices/recommendations?
Thank you so much in advance!",,realrali,231,1545403276,2018-12-21 14:41:16+00:00,story,18733535,,85.0,, 1172,"Laid-off readers over 50, have you left the tech workforce?",,,,mud_dauber,231,1524766420,2018-04-26 18:13:40+00:00,story,16934187,,187.0,, 1173,Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?,,"Some relatively new or popular languages are not object-oriented, although they may have object-like features. Examples include: Rust, Go, Julia, Nim.
I have always struggled with OOP and have never found it a natural way of programming. But many other programmers will disagree of course.
I find it fascinating that some new languages have chosen to eschew the OOP model. Why do you think that is? And what do think of this trend (if it is indeed a trend)?",,vanilla-almond,231,1561931329,2019-06-30 21:48:49+00:00,story,20320752,,227.0,, 1174,What lessons did you learn from your best or worst colleagues?,,"I have a theory that you learn lessons from all your colleagues--best, worst, and everything in between. Interested to hear what lessons you feel are worth sharing.",,typeofnandev,231,1621047385,2021-05-15 02:56:25+00:00,story,27161901,,258.0,, 1175,How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?,,"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?
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.
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?",,codpiece,231,1623758312,2021-06-15 11:58:32+00:00,story,27514005,,384.0,, 1176,How did you move on from past experiences?,,"I recently put an end to a drawn-out and stressful chapter of my life. It lasted many years and I'd like to get a sense of closure. Yet I can't seem to fully rekindle the same energy of my younger self. I've bought a couple of books to celebrate, but I haven't opened them yet because I don't want to taint them with past memories, if it makes sense.
How did you close the previous chapters of your life? It may sound strange but I almost feel I have to ask for permission to move on. Like it's not real unless I share it with someone else.",,Red_Tarsius,230,1640959405,2021-12-31 14:03:25+00:00,story,29748113,,157.0,, 1177,Why are SIM cards still a thing?,,"Using SIM cards in mobile phones seems antiquated. Should there not be a software solution that lets you select which network/s the phone should connect to?
Feels like this is probably the result of telco networks wanting as much friction as possible to change providers, but is there something more to it?",,glennos,230,1477820416,2016-10-30 09:40:16+00:00,story,12828887,,187.0,, 1178,How did you decide where to live?,,"For the remote workers out there (and anyone with a mobile career, really), where do you live? And how did you decide to live there?",,keiferski,229,1544887075,2018-12-15 15:17:55+00:00,story,18688647,,258.0,, 1179,"I'd like to learn vocals, any suggestion on how I can do this?",,"I'm thinking of paying a tutor online, but I'm curious about other ways to go about it",,kevindeasis,229,1590821554,2020-05-30 06:52:34+00:00,story,23359096,,86.0,, 1180,Examples of great ‘productized consulting’ landing pages?,,"I found Jane Portman’s “Productized Consulting Guide” intriguing, and am curious to see more examples of how people in different fields put this idea into practice.
Here’s an example I encountered today: https://punchlinecopy.com/work-with-punchline/
Do you have a similar page on your site? Have you come across others which impressed you?",,rahimnathwani,229,1590431791,2020-05-25 18:36:31+00:00,story,23303562,,45.0,, 1181,Side Projects Gone Big,,"I've heard many of you love to create side projects for fun, but I also heard that few of them actually took off and grow into a profitable business. So feel free to list if you have any. Statistics will be welcomed as well!",,SomeoneAtHN,229,1286555915,2010-10-08 16:38:35+00:00,story,1772224,,155.0,, 1182,Have you found something you love to do? If yes how?,,"I have worked in many different fields(web dev, analytics, product management) but can't seem to stick to one. Is it about the field or something about myself that I need to change? How do I go about solving this??",,aj_nikhil,229,1640453420,2021-12-25 17:30:20+00:00,story,29685021,,191.0,, 1183,"Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?",,"For a few years now, there's been a rising tide of activism and talk of capitalism 2.0 -- is anyone actually riding this wave, or is it mostly talk?
If anyone is actively working on (or with) a social enterprise, or if you know of any, I'd really appreciate it if you can loop me in!
Thank you in advance!",,peridotoak,229,1597500028,2020-08-15 14:00:28+00:00,story,24168902,,255.0,, 1184,"Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?",,"I’m interested to know how fellow software developers (freelancers, small businesses) estimate projects for clients.
Do you use any tools to come up with a quote? Do you send a proposal document to clients? If so, do you use a tool to generate one, or do you just use a template in a word processor? What are your main pain points when quoting for work?
Cheers!",,PawelDecowski,228,1542039627,2018-11-12 16:20:27+00:00,story,18433475,,102.0,, 1185,"Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now?",,"There is no back story here, but just curious of you who actually started off as an engineer and decided to switch early, mid or late career. What are you up to now? Why did you switch? How are you liking it?",,kirso,228,1647784368,2022-03-20 13:52:48+00:00,story,30742589,,333.0,, 1186,What is the best Modern C++ MOOC?,,,,senatorobama,228,1523404409,2018-04-10 23:53:29+00:00,story,16806821,,50.0,, 1187,What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?,,"One where you don't care if it makes money or gets a lot of attention, but you are working on it regardless. I don't think I mean private hobbies, exactly, but projects that could or will be shared with others - you just don't care about the outcome.",,as89,228,1612208718,2021-02-01 19:45:18+00:00,story,25992782,,484.0,, 1188,How to Become a Consultant?,,"I've been working as a programmer for almost 20 years now. I have experience with the JVM and the Node.js platforms and what's necessary to keep them operational: containerization, cloud computing, databases, etc.
I think I've reached an upper bound as a grunt programmer. I tried management as a new direction but it didn't work out, I just can't do it, it makes my life miserable. I noticed however, that I have a unique ability: I really like talking to people (including business folks), wrapping my head around their problems and figuring out robust solutions for them including all the models, documentation and preliminary implementations (POC/MVP). I'm also good at sharing the knowledge (right now I'm working as a tech trainer).
I did this a few times as part of some contract work and everybody was very happy with it but I don't know how to scale this into a consulting business. What I want to keep doing is getting projects from 0 to POC/MVP state. I can help putting together teams, figuring out the architecture, and concrete solutions / algorithms, but if I keep doing the grunt work instead, it won't pay that well. So to sum it all up I can apply my skills in an area that has higher returns, but I don't really know how to get there.
What should I do to achieve this? What makes this harder is that I'm not living in the USA (I live in Hungary, Europe).
Edit: I quit my day job half a year ago. I was thinking about a sabbatical, but people from my network started to appear and now I'm swamped with work. What my goal is to streamline all this and turn regular grunt programming into a specialized format where the ROI is much better.
I also have a business partner who has similar ideas but a different skill set, and I'm trying to shape this into something that's more effective.
I already have a blog, a GitHub portfolio, and I'm regularly talking on meetups, but you are right, I need to focus on this much more, thanks for this tip!",,edem,227,1602946482,2020-10-17 14:54:42+00:00,story,24810399,,62.0,, 1189,Who is hiring? (December 2012) ,,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see:
""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857717
""Ask HN: Who is meeting up?"" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857727",,whoishiring,227,1354372625,2012-12-01 14:37:05+00:00,story,4857714,,286.0,, 1190,Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell,,"It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.",,folli,227,1534622190,2018-08-18 19:56:30+00:00,story,17790306,,151.0,, 1191,Does SEO still work in 2018?,,"If it works, which method are you using now?",,jadeydi,226,1523971795,2018-04-17 13:29:55+00:00,story,16858053,,120.0,, 1192,What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?,,,,swyx,226,1507180995,2017-10-05 05:23:15+00:00,story,15406826,,103.0,, 1193,Does anyone here have an art degree?,,"As Graphic Art's student, I'm curious if there are any developers with art history here - what's your stories, and how do you apply your artistic knowledge and skills to IT work?",,iansowinski,226,1483790574,2017-01-07 12:02:54+00:00,story,13343697,,170.0,, 1194,Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?,,Open Source is changing the tech industry. But there are still a lot of space where the closed source proprietary software is the only player.
Can you comment some of the space? So a person who is thinking about creating a new open source project can get the idea and start making a alternative?,,safwan,226,1577377385,2019-12-26 16:23:05+00:00,story,21884828,,277.0,, 1195,"Remote workers in a non-tech city, what's your experience?",,"I'm a graduating as a software engineer in a city with a limited number of tech jobs. Due to divorce + kids living in this city, I won't likely be able to move to a major tech center. But, I've a job offer with one of the larger local companies with an option to work remote. I've thought about taking the remote option and staying with remote companies to get access to a bigger job market than I can locally.
Anyone here who's done something similar, what's your experience been? Pro's, Con's, unexpected good things, unexpected hurdles, that kind of stuff.",,holsOndI,226,1611952800,2021-01-29 20:40:00+00:00,story,25962178,,181.0,, 1196,How Did You Escape 9 to 5?,,Title says it all.
How did you escape your 9 to 5 job to start your own business?
I am curious about how you effectively spent your time while having a full time job and a side business and at what time did you decide to take the full plunge.,,vi1rus,226,1472651740,2016-08-31 13:55:40+00:00,story,12398290,,172.0,, 1197,Looking for contributors?,,"There have been times in my life when I've wished that I had a fun side-project to work on, especially in a team, and especially something open-source. There have also been times when I've managed to create for myself a few side-projects which I have loads of plans for but struggle to find time to do all of.
I know there are folks out there who are in one of either of these camps right now, so with that in mind I invite you to 'advertise' your open-source projects in need of a bit of attention from some fellow interested hackers who might want to get involved. Personally, I have two at the moment that I'd like to get more done on.
Ideally, post projects with some open issues on GitHub/BitBucket/Whatever and a few details about the project (language, context, applications of the code). I'll put mine in the comments if it looks like this is useful to anybody.",,basicallydan,225,1394203800,2014-03-07 14:50:00+00:00,story,7360491,,133.0,, 1198,What are the books you wish your colleagues had read?,,,,xstartup,225,1518326225,2018-02-11 05:17:05+00:00,story,16351310,,124.0,, 1199,Thoughts on Rich Hickey's advice on becoming a better developer?,,"Hi HN,
Very recently I stumbled onto a comment by Rich Hickey which I've reformatted in a gist[0] (unfortunately, the source is no longer available). Honestly, Rich Hickey is one of my programming heros and I'm a big fan of his ideas about programming. However, reading the response below, I couldn't help but feel disheartened.
Rich Hickey says - You don't level up by switching games all the time, but by sticking with one long enough to gain advanced skills. And, you need to be careful to recognize the actual game involved. Programming mastery has little to do with languages, paradigms, platforms, building blocks, open source, conferences etc.
Quite seriously, this is more or less opposite of what I've lived by in my career till now. As a backend engineer I can't help not getting excited by React or not spending a month learning OCaml or building side-projects tangential to my 9-5 line of work. The worst part is, that till now I always felt that it is a sure fire way to level up as a developer.
The confusing part is that Peter Norvig, another great programmer has quite the opposite to say[1] (although one can argue that overall they mean the same) - Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one language that emphasizes class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that emphasizes functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML or Haskell), one that supports declarative specifications (like Prolog or C++ templates), and one that emphasizes parallelism (like Clojure or Go).
At this point, I'm really confused and I spent better part of the day mulling over whether I should go through the lectures of a recent Coursera course that I'm doing or should I dive deeper in my current stack e.g. Python / Django.
What are your thoughts? Is there one school of thought that you agree to?
[0] - https://gist.github.com/prakhar1989/1b0a2c9849b2e1e912fb [1] - http://norvig.com/21-days.html",,krat0sprakhar,225,1424112431,2015-02-16 18:47:11+00:00,story,9058437,,104.0,, 1200,Will there ever be a resurgence of interest in symbolic AI?,,"Symbolic AI fell by the wayside at the beginning of the AI winter. More recently, with powerful GPUs making ML and other statistical AI approaches feasible, symbolic AI has not seen anywhere near as much investment.
There are still companies I know of that do symbolic AI (such as https://www.cyc.com), but I very rarely hear of new research in the field.",,snazz,225,1555872620,2019-04-21 18:50:20+00:00,story,19713791,,95.0,, 1201,Who wants to be hired? (August 2014),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Resume:
Email:We've had Amazon Alexa for five years, since the gen 1 device, and now find it to be an increasing invasion to the sanctity of the home.
We find it particularly annoying that nowadays, when you ask Alexa to do something, several times per week it will suggest some annoying upsell crap you don't care about. It used to suggest things once per quarter tops, that was fine.
HN, what private alternatives to Alexa may exist?
For example, does anyone make a system that's relatively polished and operates entirely in the home, with no audio sent to the cloud? I'd be happy to run a hub/box for the system.",,spir,224,1639536428,2021-12-15 02:47:08+00:00,story,29561452,,156.0,, 1203,What are the good old ideas that still make money on the web?,,"HN, i'm wondering, are there still any ideas from the ages of web 1.0 that are still working? For example, software license key stores etc. I feel like there are many of ones i couldn't think of as being still profitable. HN, i want some heavy TIL experience, please help me! :)",,spIrr,224,1329055106,2012-02-12 13:58:26+00:00,story,3581791,,167.0,, 1204,"My company plans an ICO despite my opposition as CTO, any advice?",,"I'm really sorry for creating a new account to stay anonymous. Feel free to ban this one if it is considered misbehavior.
Having that said, you can read the full story on my first comment below.",,anononpurpose,224,1515687980,2018-01-11 16:26:20+00:00,story,16125139,,135.0,, 1205,What are your recommended reads that are available for free?,,"I recently stumbled across a link in another thread to "Economics in One Lesson" and thought it was incredibly interesting. https://mises.org/sites/default/files/Economics%20in%20One%20Lesson_2.pdf
What are some other interesting reads—whether PDF, website, doc, etc—that are freely available?
One of my favorites that I find thought-provoking is the "Procedural Content Generation in Games" book (http://pcgbook.com/).",,Esox,224,1432734011,2015-05-27 13:40:11+00:00,story,9611219,,129.0,, 1206,Who's looking for a co-founder?,,"I just stumbled upon an old Ask HN with the same topic from 2010 and I thought this could be useful to resurrect.
You should probably mention what you are working on, where you are located, what stage you are in, who you are looking for, what you can bring to the table and a way to contact you.",,notoriousarun,224,1609849565,2021-01-05 12:26:05+00:00,story,25644817,,275.0,, 1207,We have the expertise but no clients. How to reach them?,,"We started a consultancy company 4 months back with two medium sized projects that we got as individual freelancers. We have the expertise and experience in healthcare technology ( FHIR, interoperability ), which is a niche. But now we have zero leads from last month. We cannot figure out how to reach the potential interested clients who need this technology.
https://alstonia.io",,ghoshbishakh,224,1599468837,2020-09-07 08:53:57+00:00,story,24397821,,129.0,, 1208,Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher,,"One of my competitors has been scrapping my site and providing service to their users without paying anything. And now they surpassed me on google ranking.
I've created a website which gets around 5K unique hits every day. It's a free service for users but I've to pay a monthly fee to a third party service provider.
Because my site is free for users and doesn't require users to register it's been very hard to keep up with this guy. If I change certain things, they counter it immediately and make it work. And they use several proxies to send the request, it's virtually impossible to block based on IP.
Please suggest, if there is anything I'm missing that can be done.",,rakjosh,224,1534808794,2018-08-20 23:46:34+00:00,story,17805256,,123.0,, 1209,Anyone here built successful SaaS/startup just for money?,,"Is something wrong with me that recently I stopped being excited about tech, products, disruptive ideas, making world better etc.
And just want to make money, as much as possible, don’t care how (as long as it’s legal).
Is it a good start for starting new project in tech world?
Because creating software products is the only thing i can do very well.
But except few small exceptions all my life I’ve been working for companies, exchanging my time for money, building software.
Anyone created profitable and lasting IT business being motivated only by money?",,aristofun,224,1626414487,2021-07-16 05:48:07+00:00,story,27853352,,146.0,, 1210,Who is hiring? (September 2014),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.",,whoishiring,224,1409578374,2014-09-01 13:32:54+00:00,story,8252715,,325.0,, 1211,What's the fastest tool for basic CRUD?,,I like to throw together small tools to automate things. Most involve Crud screens. Simple Crud screens are all very similar but seem to take a lot of time to throw together. Are there good tools that allow you to throw these up quickly?,,xupybd,224,1579436419,2020-01-19 12:20:19+00:00,story,22091012,,112.0,, 1212,What entry-level telescope should I choose?,,"I've always been wanting to get into space observation, what telescopes and books would you suggest for an absolute beginner?",,tolarianwiz,223,1614032180,2021-02-22 22:16:20+00:00,story,26231418,,159.0,, 1213,What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?,,,,rer,223,1472387630,2016-08-28 12:33:50+00:00,story,12376242,,221.0,, 1214,YC please talk about Immigration Order,,"YC (Sam Altman) you did a great post recently on Affordable Care and the direct impact on YC company employees. Thank you for that, truly. Can you do the same for YC employees from: Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya
some background: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-28/google-recalls-some-staff-to-u-s-after-trump-immigration-order",,baccredited,223,1485613613,2017-01-28 14:26:53+00:00,story,13506412,,172.0,, 1215,How to stop feeling depressed about whether you will be successful?,,,,apexkid,223,1520189555,2018-03-04 18:52:35+00:00,story,16515923,,116.0,, 1216,How do you handle DDoS attacks?,,"For owners of small websites running on DigitalOcean, GCP or AWS, how do you handle DDoS and DoS attacks?
For context, while exploring the load testing tool Siege running on a VPS, I was able to bring down multiple sites running on shared hosting, and some running on small VPS by setting a high enough concurrent number of users. This is not a DDoS, but it goes to show how easy it is to cause damage. Note: I only brought down sites that I own, or those of friends with their permission.
What tools are useful in fighting DDoS attacks and script kiddies? Mention free and paid options.
What are the options to limit damage in case of an attack? How do you limit bandwidth usage charges?
There was a previous discussion on this topic 6 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1986728",,dineshp2,223,1472393787,2016-08-28 14:16:27+00:00,story,12376596,,106.0,, 1217,Who is hiring? (February 2013),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see:",,whoishiring,223,1359729134,2013-02-01 14:32:14+00:00,story,5150834,,258.0,, 1218,Words of encouragement for someone lost in life?,,"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.",,LoserInLife,223,1624665993,2021-06-26 00:06:33+00:00,story,27637759,,246.0,, 1219,Examples of profitable little free web tools?,,"We all know examples of paid online services that became profitable. For example Balsamiq, Tarsnap and Bingo Card Creator.
I love to build small tools that do something useful. But they do not offer enough value to charge for them. Imagine tools like "When will the sun rise today in city X" or "How much taxes are in $X" etc. Some of them are used by tens of thousands of people a month. And I get a lot of "thank you, that's cool and useful" emails.
So far I'm not making any money from them. When I slap adsense on them, I only make a few bucks. Like $0.5 per 1000 visitors. Even if I optimized that to $2 per 1000 visitors, it still would be just around $150/month for all my websites.
But since I love doing these little, interesting projects, I will probably make more of them anyhow. Most of the projects I have in mind are little tools that cater my own curiosity. Nothing people would pay for. Like "find all xkcd comics related to a topic" and stuff like that.
Do you guys think there is a way to make a living like this? Are there any examples of profitable websites, created by one guy that have some informative value but not so much that people would pay for it?",,xyby,223,1417698529,2014-12-04 13:08:49+00:00,story,8699040,,122.0,, 1220,How do I learn JavaScript?,,"I feel like I would like to learn modern JavaScript (as supported by the most recent version of V8) from the very basic to the perfect and complete level (which makes the whole point of the question, ways to mediocre proficiency are countless and obvious).
I believe this is possible (and maybe not even hard) as I only mean the language itself - no browser APIs, no frameworks/libraries/tooling, no patterns and practices beyond those necessary to understand the features and the quirks of the language itself, what they can be used for and how to deal with them correctly.
Where do I go and how hard is this actually going to be?",,qwerty456127,223,1582105499,2020-02-19 09:44:59+00:00,story,22364212,,123.0,, 1221,What medical datasets do you need?,,"We recently announced YC AI (https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-ai/). This is only the first step. Our long term goal is to democratize AI development. We want to make it easier for startups to compete with the big companies.
One thing large companies have is data. We're experimenting with ways to allow startups to get similar assets, and we're starting with medical data.
If you're working on AI and need medical data, please help us by filling out this form: https://goo.gl/Dr9FzB.",,danicgross,223,1491343785,2017-04-04 22:09:45+00:00,story,14037705,,133.0,, 1222,A modern-looking UML diagram tool?,,"Hi HN,
I've been going back to UML to try to tame some of my design/notes for my projects. Is there something that generates some more modern looking UML diagrams out there?",,faizshah,223,1574090818,2019-11-18 15:26:58+00:00,story,21564990,,89.0,, 1223,How do you start giving tech talks?,,,,litzer,222,1501242284,2017-07-28 11:44:44+00:00,story,14873503,,89.0,, 1224,Where did you learn modular electronics?,,"I like to build simple IoT devices and code around them. While I am comfortable with the dev part, I have problems to understand the electronics.
This is why I started with modules (arduino, nodemcu, sensors, audio amplificators) but there are issues the weird resistor, capacitor and whatnot which is plugged beyween, say, the arduino and the sensor.
Is there a place I could learn this "modular" electronics, where I could find "cookbook" advices on these elements needed for the modules to work correctly?
Since this is the way I lend to develop (take a problem, look at the solution and understand the details on the go) I would love to get into electronics via this path, if possible.",,BrandoElFollito,222,1524655343,2018-04-25 11:22:23+00:00,story,16920476,,67.0,, 1225,Who Is Hiring? (November 2012),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727254",,whoishiring,222,1351775091,2012-11-01 13:04:51+00:00,story,4727241,,263.0,, 1226,I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?,,There are multiple versions of Lisp. Multiple compilers. What is a good one for someone new to pick?
I use VS Code and Vim. Are they suitable for learning Lisp?,,priyanshuraj,222,1608120822,2020-12-16 12:13:42+00:00,story,25441664,,204.0,, 1227,How to explain job gaps on the resume?,,"I'm interviewing with several companies for SDE roles and have a gap of > 12 months since my last job. Is this a career killer and a huge red flag for any hiring manager?
The real reason for a break was medical but then got out of hand given i had enough savings to support myself and sort of slacked for a while (like 3-4 months).
Now i feel completely healthy, refreshed, passionate and ready to rock again. What is the best way to mitigate this issue when applying / interviewing?
Do you have any advices learned from previous experience or caveats i should be prepared for?
PS. My total work experience is 5+ yrs.",,jobgaps,222,1580745956,2020-02-03 16:05:56+00:00,story,22225372,,238.0,, 1228,What are hardware development learning web tutorials?,,,,yadavrg,222,1511097061,2017-11-19 13:11:01+00:00,story,15733760,,40.0,, 1229,What's your process for learning?,,"I'm interested in seeing if anyone has a process they use to help with learning.
- Do you focus on one topic/book/course/project/article at a time, or split your time between multiple things?
- Do you use any tools to track your resources, todos, notes, or goals?
- Are there any pain points you have while learning, or are there any tools you wish existed?",,mysterpaul,222,1498493483,2017-06-26 16:11:23+00:00,story,14637859,,96.0,, 1230,Getting started in biology with a software background,,"In the past few years the news around biology has been getting more exciting and frequent, between CRISPR and biotech firms working on niche drugs. I'm really interested in learning more about the skills needed to start a biotech company, but I'm lacking the masters degree in biology. What skills are actually needed to get into the field and does anyone know any good resources to learn them?",,nscalf,222,1572528258,2019-10-31 13:24:18+00:00,story,21408415,,145.0,, 1231,How to pursue acquisition?,,"I run a one-person company in the cloud / ops space and over the past year have gone from $0 to $200k in annual recurring revenue. I have not taken any funding. The major cloud providers (aws, google, azure) are starting to expand to my product space, however, and I'm increasing concerned with my long-term prospects.
I think it might make sense to pursue acquisition/aqui-hire, while my product and expertise can still add value to these cloud providers. I would really appreciate advice from the HN community on how to achieve the best possible outcome, including how to proactively pursue acquisition/aqui-hire at a large company. Thanks!",,throwaway334455,222,1532891696,2018-07-29 19:14:56+00:00,story,17639768,,71.0,, 1232,Describing skills and competencies in a resume?,,"Dear HN,
I'm starting to look around for a new job, and need to update my resume. In my current resume I have a section called "Skills & Competencies" which includes a mixture of languages (C#, python, Go, JS etc.), products (various DB systems, BPM suites, etc.), areas (front-end, back-end, "cloud"/aws, db) but also practices/skills (project mgmt, TDD, agile development methods, CI, etc)
To me this feels like a mishmash of things and it does not give a clear picture. I'm not sure how to "design" this piece of my resume.
I guess the main point I want to bring across is that I'm an all-round developer who cares about getting things done and uses whatever means are best for the job. I'm able to learn/understand tech quickly but this is just a means to an end. I like to focus on the team and there interaction / openness.
How would you solve this? As interviewers, what would be helpful to bring this point across? What would trigger you to invite me for either a cup of coffee or a job interview?
Thanks a lot!",,melle,222,1469010072,2016-07-20 10:21:12+00:00,story,12127946,,104.0,, 1233, Please don't submit April Fools stories. Please don't vote them up.,,"Submitting April Fools stories is just not the Hacker News Way. They're not funny, and they're a waste of everybody's time.
Thanks in advance.",True,bhousel,222,1270129158,2010-04-01 13:39:18+00:00,story,1234524,,46.0,, 1234,What Are You Learning?,,"Hey Hacker News, what are you learning?
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.
Now, handing you the mic. Is there a new stack or language on your mind?",,sergiomattei,222,1624598335,2021-06-25 05:18:55+00:00,story,27627381,,350.0,, 1235,How to learn new things better?,,"So in the spirit of new year's resolutions I'm planning to learn some new things this year; specifically, I want to to draw, and I want to at least get started learning Japanese. I'd also like to keep improving my skill at mahjong, which I picked up last year, and keep on learning tech-related things.
However, I find it pretty difficult to pick up new things. Learning to draw especially is pretty overwhelming for me; I have no idea how to start, as someone with no skill or experience in drawing whatsoever. Learning a language is also pretty intimidating, and it doesn't help that I find the usual way of learning languages (grinding flash cards) to be distinctly awful (not to mention I'm terrible at it).
As HN seems like a community where people love to learn new things, how do you guys go about things like these?",,kahrkunne,222,1483303662,2017-01-01 20:47:42+00:00,story,13297250,,90.0,, 1236,Production Lisp in 2020?,,"I have gone through initial chapters of "Practical Common Lisp"[1] and "Loving Common Lisp" [2], and have a bit of intuition on lisp, and the power of macros. Haven't done any projects yet, but was also researching on real issues faced by adopting lisp, and ran into articles about abandoning lisp [3], adopting lisp [4],[5]. Could not find anything more recent; but what they mention in these articles - even the ones that are adopting lisp talk about issues like:
* poor ecosystem of libraries - few gems, most other half-baked
* poor community coordination
* Dependency management limitations with quicklisp
And some specific red flags like:
* poor support for json[6] * poor support for async
* have to restart the server every 20 days because of some memory leak [3]
* hack to tune GC [5]
If you are using lisp in production for non-trivial cases, do these issues still exist? is there a way you can quantify effort is resolving them, and if yes, what is it? and, finally, if you had to re-do your project, would you chose lisp or something else?
[1]: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
[2]: https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp/read#quicklisp
[3]: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/why-turtl-switched-from-...
[4]: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/why-deftask-chose-common...
[5]: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/engineering/running-lisp-in-p...
[6]: https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/#s4...",,dhab,222,1589868035,2020-05-19 06:00:35+00:00,story,23231701,,216.0,, 1237,How did you move from IT/software to something unrelated?,,"I'm a frontend developer in the greater Vancouver, BC area. After becoming burnt out at my last position over a year ago, I've had no success in finding further work and don't have all that much motivation to continue the endless cycle of humouring recruiters and sending resumes out. Not because I don't like software development, more so because of the cost of continued attempts and lack of potentially inspiring outcomes (technical, very time intensive interviews with very few compelling companies worth the effort) that I am qualified for.
Anyhow, I'd like to apply at companies that, for lack of a better description, essentially pay minimum wage and require building basic skill that I may not have developed in software. Like Starbucks, McDonalds, retail. However, computers and software are pretty much all I know and all I have on my resume. I'm reasonably outgoing, well spoken, and have some confidence that I can work with others, but making the backwards transition from my career to a more basic jobby job (no intention of being derogatory here) is surprisingly unclear.
Edit: Part of the intention as well, is to build versatile skills that might allow more job flexibility in the future. For example if I were to travel and work without requiring a skilled worker visa.",,brailsafe,222,1495417935,2017-05-22 01:52:15+00:00,story,14390426,,176.0,, 1238,"Losing all interest in programming, what now?",,"I lost interest in my career several years ago, but now I think I’m just losing interest in programming in general. I sat down the other night to get started in a grand project I’ve been getting so excited about and I just couldn’t and this seems to be pretty common lately. The projects I dream up are super cool feats of hacker ability, but then much of what’s involved in doing it just feels tedious and I know I’m going to be stuck screwing around with the most trivial boilerplate crap. Most of the time these days, my projects always get delayed for one reason or another. Normally it gets expensive or it requires me to be good at something I’m just not, or I just get stuck on something where I have no idea where to look for answer because it’s so indescribably niche. Of course, as in the example I stated earlier, I look at the boilerplate involved look at the code required to do what I want I my brain just shuts off and my eyes glaze over. I’ve never been particularly good at anything, but at least I was somewhat driven in the past. Now, I can’t even get to work on the projects that do interest me. I lose motivation too easily (i.e. if I see someone working on something cooler). Most of the times my projects end up “delayed indefinitely”
This isn’t a case of getting out of my comfort zone and trying other subfields either. That’s what I’ve been trying to do for 2 or 3 years, but nothing really interests me and the things that do... well, refer to the previous paragraph. The most recent project is very wide and covers many things, but I constantly lose and gain interest on it before even starting any work.
Sure I have things outside programming that interest me, but nothing conductive to hands on, hobbyist work, do at best, I’m stuck passively consuming content related to those.
So I’m not sure what to do now. How can I get the spark I used to have back,",,the_only_law,221,1607611384,2020-12-10 14:43:04+00:00,story,25374140,,166.0,, 1239,How to be less argumentative online?,,"Okay this might be a bit of an odd one, but here goes!
I've come to the realization that when I'm communicating online, particularly in chats, I'm really argumentative. It's like if someone writes something that I disagree with, I'm compelled to launch into a logical argument with them right there and then. I've realised it's a bad habit and I likely come across as boorish.
The weird thing is, I don't think I used to be like this. I love debate and hang around forums and HN a fair bit when online - maybe that's the issue? It's not that I actively want to 'prove someone wrong', but part of the way I learn is through argument; expressing my disagreement in the hope that the other person will prove me wrong and I might learn something.
So I'm throwing it out there to the HN community - anyone else in the same boat? How did you deal with it and break the habit?",,Fr0styMatt88,221,1566615916,2019-08-24 03:05:16+00:00,story,20784964,,239.0,, 1240,How do you log application events?,,"We are currently inserting our logs in an sql database, with timestamp, logType, userId, userAgent and description columns. It makes it trivial for us to debug any event by just querying the db. However, after three and a half years of continued use, the table is now way too large.
How do you guys log application events in such a way that extracting information from it is easy, but still keep the size of the logs manageable?",,GaiusCoffee,221,1430111481,2015-04-27 05:11:21+00:00,story,9444470,,109.0,, 1241,Screwed out of $12.8 million. Being Extorted. No Money for attorneys.,,"Hi Everyone,
In 2004, I co-founded an Internet security company called Anakam. I was a programmer with some interesting ideas, and my business partner and I agreed at the time that I would receive 20%, and my partner 80% (he was financing the whole thing). We had a personal falling out in early 2005, and I left the company, always believing that my ownership was still intact. In October 2010, the company was sold for $64 million to Equifax. I found out about the sale after the fact; my partner had simply pretended that I never existed and had assumed my ownership. I am listed as the inventor on the company's first patent, which is still a key part of the company's product offerings today.
In February 2011, I sent a cease-and-desist letter to Equifax. They sent back a letter saying that they viewed my letter as an extortion attempt, and that if I did not immediately sign a settlement and and NDA that were included with their letter (without compensation), they would file a criminal complaint against me. After this, I showed my cease-and-desist letter to an attorney, who assured me that my letter was well within the law, but that their response was in fact extortion. There is a specific federal law that prohibits threatening to accuse someone of a crime unless they give you some form of consideration - in this case the outright dismissal of $12.8 million in claims. Their response came entirely out of left field, and I have not heard from them since the moment the attorney I showed the letter to told them that he believed their response was a violation of Federal extortion laws. The letter was signed by my former business partner, who was at the time still the CEO of the Anakam division of Equifax, and was, oddly enough, forwarded to me from their law firm.
I do not have the resources to pursue this matter at this time. I am told that I could have those involved in authoring and delivering the extortion letter prosecuted criminally (possibly including Equifax itself), but I have little interest in that right now.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can/should do in this situation? I have come to the realization that I may never see my $12.8 million, but the extortion really added insult to injury. Any suggestions would be helpful.
You can email rr@guiyui.com if you would prefer not to post in public.",,downandout,221,1318851272,2011-10-17 11:34:32+00:00,story,3120052,,105.0,, 1242,What is the best “dumb” phone?,,"Due to privacy and time management concerns, I have decided to take the jump and get rid of my smart phone. Unsurprisingly, there are very few of resources online about which dumb phones are the best. Those of you who use a non-smart phones, which model is it and how do you like it?",,goldemerald,221,1552932269,2019-03-18 18:04:29+00:00,story,19423434,,217.0,, 1243,How do I find energy to work on hobbies after the work day ends?,,"I’m sitting here at 11 at night watching my 3rd straight hour of TV. It’s embarrassing, but I’m so wiped out after a day of work, that my brain just doesn’t feel like doing anything.
I’m sitting here in my bedroom looking at a book I’ve been meaning to finish for months, but it’s complex enough that when I start working on the next chapter, I get a quarter of the way through it and have to put it down, because I just dont “get it” when I feel this way.
Across from me is my desk, with a computer where somewhere on it, is a half built personal website I was using as a way to teach myself web development. But when I open it up and start working on it, I feel like I’m missing that spark that makes the right connections to learn new things like JavaScript objects and how they work.
I have Duolingo on my phone, which I complete in spurts lasting 2 or 3 days then I drop for maybe a week or so, even though I know it’s only “10 minutes a day”. If I do it now, I won’t remember most of it tomorrow.
My job isn’t particularly demanding. It’s average. I don’t work more than maybe 8-9 hours a day on stuff that I understand most of but still have a chance to learn new things. My point is it’s not like it’s a brutal work culture at all.
I even exercise mid day or after work (depending on how busy I am) which is proportioned to give one energy, not take it away.
But yet at the end of the day, I’m just beat.
How do you find the motivation to do the things you genuinely enjoy, when you’re too wiped out to do them?
Is this normal?",,cgb223,221,1616047552,2021-03-18 06:05:52+00:00,story,26500021,,136.0,, 1244,who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?,,"I think we are all interested in reading some inspirational success stories for summer 2012! I would really appreciate your responses, HN!",,withinthreshold,221,1339262173,2012-06-09 17:16:13+00:00,story,4088538,,193.0,, 1245,Any hackers over 60? 70?,,Are you still employed or retired? How does one's passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one's life?,,GuiA,221,1396771688,2014-04-06 08:08:08+00:00,story,7540232,,118.0,, 1246,Is Minix dead? No commits since 2018,https://git.minix3.org/index.cgi?p=minix.git;a=summary,,,haunter,221,1615681455,2021-03-14 00:24:15+00:00,story,26451540,,142.0,, 1247,Successful one-person online businesses?,,"This question was asked last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072) by gajus, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays.
> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?
> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
> Has recent shutdown of economy affected your business?",,committed,221,1586799869,2020-04-13 17:44:29+00:00,story,22858035,,87.0,, 1248,Which NoCode platforms are fine?,,"Which NoCode platforms are producing sensible applications, (assumed the "core logic" can be supplied with serverless "pure code")",,rweissgraeber,221,1635143070,2021-10-25 06:24:30+00:00,story,28984955,,135.0,, 1249,Why aren't you coding?,,"(Disclaimer: I'm building up material for https://whyarentyoucoding.com/)
I'd love to know, from developers who are being paid to write code, what it is that's stopping you from coding (apart from the obvious, that you're busy browsing HN!).",,boffinism,221,1613127674,2021-02-12 11:01:14+00:00,story,26112361,,296.0,, 1250,Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?,,"Mine was Fall of Civilizations Episode 12, about the Inca empire:
https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2021/01/12/episode-12-is-now-live/",,hnu0847,220,1640620945,2021-12-27 16:02:25+00:00,story,29703564,,140.0,, 1251,Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?,,"What are some single person creation that have stood the test of time. The creation, at present, may be under the umbrella of some big corp. But the entire core of it was developed and maintained by a single person. Like Minecraft.
And I am not talking about only tech project creations. Anything extraordinary that comes to your mind?",,debanjan16,220,1646058665,2022-02-28 14:31:05+00:00,story,30500188,,356.0,, 1252,Review my startup - Scribd (YC S06),,"In the past when Scribd has come up on Hacker News, a handful of HN readers made no secret of the fact that they saw the Scribd product as flawed. While the harsh feedback was painful at times, it was important for us to hear.
We are sincerely grateful for the advice and criticism that we got from the very smart people on HN. The conversations we have had with people here were instrumental in our understanding what was bothering people about Scribd, and how to fix it.
Today we're launching the largest product change ever on Scribd, and one that goes directly to the heart of those concerns. We are leaving Flash and moving to all HTML5.
The #1 problem people had with Scribd was the Flash reading experience. Scrolling was problematic, you said. It didn't respect your browser's search, text selection, or keyboard shortcuts. It didn't feel like your PDF reader, either, and it was missing functionality you expected in a document reader. Sometimes it slowed down or crashed your browser.
At a higher level, people challenged why we were using Flash to display documents in the first place. A lot of you suggested we build a Google books style viewer, using AJAX and images.
We ended up taking that suggestion, but we took it a step further. Rather than building yet another reading application based on images, we used the magic new stuff in HTML5 to convert documents into fully native webpages. It took us a while because we built this from scratch, and it was hard to do.
The result is that the reading experience on Scribd is now incredibly light and fast. It's no different, really, from reading a blog, since it's all in plain HTML yet it still preserves the exact complex and rich formatting of the original document. While it's an early beta product, I think it is already way better. But don't take my word for it - try it yourself:
http://www.scribd.com/html5
What is Scribd, anyway? There’s been a lot of confusion among HN readers over what Scribd is supposed to do, and I want to clear it up. The point of Scribd is, most emphatically, not to replace your PDF viewer, and that’s why we encourage users to download documents in whatever format they want. If you try to think of Scribd as an Acrobat/Preview/Foxit competitor you’ll never understand it. The purpose of Scribd is two-fold: 1) For authors/publishers: to provide a place where they can publish their book, essay, presentation, magazine, legal document, poem, catalog, scientific paper, etc. to a wide audience 2) For readers: To provide a place where you will occasionally find interesting content generally not available elsewhere and make it easy to share that content with your social graph.
Scribd’s real value is in the unique content – not available elsewhere – that we have added to the web. It is that store of content and the community around it that has made Scribd popular among authors, students, business professionals, musicians, cooks, companies, publishers, and other wide-ranging types of people.
What HN made clear was that while building out that community, we could not ignore the reading experience itself. When you find an interesting document on Scribd, you expect to be able to read it in an easy, natural way. That’s what we’ve tried to build.
Feedback When we've gotten feedback from HN, it has ended up dramatically improving the product. I have every reason to expect the same will happen this time. And I think we've shown that we do pay attention to what gets written here. So, please, tell us what you think in the comments (or email me directly). Kindly keep the discussion to the reading experience itself for now – that’s what we’re really trying to improve.
What else can we do to make Scribd the best reading experience on the web? The whole team at Scribd is anxiously waiting to hear your answer.",,snowmaker,220,1273187317,2010-05-06 23:08:37+00:00,story,1326047,,150.0,, 1253,How do you manage SSH keys and SSL certificates in your company?,,"Do you use - Universal SSH Key Manager, ManageEngine Key Manager Plus, Cyberark Solution, or any other tool? Tips please.",,johnmathew123,220,1494564269,2017-05-12 04:44:29+00:00,story,14321498,,107.0,, 1254,Should HN require/encourage job postings to have a salary range?,,In the spirit of some states now requiring salary ranges for job postings I think it would be good if HN followed that trend.
I often read the “Who is hiring?” posts but I have no idea if the jobs are even remotely within my range. I think it would save everybody a lot of time if a range was posted.,,spaetzleesser,220,1646157334,2022-03-01 17:55:34+00:00,story,30517434,,167.0,, 1255,Career and life advice for a 30yo,,"i'm 31.
have Bsc in CS, worked as software eng. for ~7 years.
tbh, i'm completely disillusioned with the industry and people in general. my expectations coming into the industry were based on the hacker ethos from the 80's and 90's, where a group of passionate and crazy smart people worked on tough and important problems, pulling engineering miracles daily. i'm talking about netscape and jamie zawinski, xerox and alan kay, l0pht and mudge, valve and gabe newell. legends.
entering the industry in the early to mid 2010's i found a landscape filled with self serving product managers, conmen (i think they call them executives and MBAs), and a populous of engineers that cared nothing for the tech or the work, and didn't need to as there were no real challenges to tackle.
perhaps i made bad career choices but what's frustrating is that the industry seemed to shift into something else. in other words, the hacker ethos was lost. the culture changed. instead of engineering-centric one it shifted to sales and "growth" and hype. engineers have become relegated to the "peasant" cast, working the fields so that the ceo can sell the company for an inflated sum and move on to the next con (sorry, startup).
as i see things, my choices are either to open a company of my own, making what i believe in, or go back to academia where i'll have more spare time to pursue my interests. but academia is dying, and dare i say irrelevant. it's an outdated concept for a world where i can get "educated" on a subject within a week using the internet, at least enough so i can accomplish what i need. i'm not going to discover the higgs boson, nor do i want to become an expert in a singular domain. i want to build things.
so that takes me back to creating a business around something i believe in. but, it'll have to be bootstrapped (vc money is just another boss), so the chances for success are extremely low.
what do you think?",,zalequin,220,1591788301,2020-06-10 11:25:01+00:00,story,23475890,,157.0,, 1256,How to transition from academic programming to software engineering?,,"I taught myself how to code and ended up doing a PhD in a computational discipline. Programming has been a big part of my life for at least the last decade, during which I've written code almost every day, but always by myself. After graduating I joined a medium-sized company (~10^2 developers) as a machine learning engineer and realized how much I don't know about software engineering. I feel very comfortable with programming in the small, but programming in the large still feels mostly opaque to me. Issues like testing / mocking, code review, management of dev / stage / prod workflows and, most importantly, the judgment / taste required to make maintainable changes to a million LOC repository, are areas where I can tell I need to improve.
Former academics who moved into software engineering, which resources did you find most useful as you made the transition? Python-specific or language-agnostic books would be most helpful, but all advice would be welcome.",,fdsvnsmvas,220,1536466348,2018-09-09 04:12:28+00:00,story,17944306,,103.0,, 1257,What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?,,"For a few weeks, I am doubting if HN is another "user engagement" place like you know Reddit, FB etc. It seems a waste of times (to me) as I don't see any tangible benefits I am getting out of it.
So I would like to know if any of you have such experiences. I am specifically looking for stories like: 1) I posted this project and I started some company. Sold it or earning a lot of money or living my dream 2) I was hired because of my post on HN. 3) Girls chasing you because of your reputation as HN or met your wife because of your cool project ( Please don't hate me for this)
Basically money, power etc..
Forgive me for being blunt but I am not looking for "10-sec fame". I mean one day you got traffic 100K on the website. Good. But just for one day. Also, I am not sure blogging count as a tangible benefit unless it is paid service. I hope you understand my point.
Also intellectual debate, I get more information, I feel smart as benefits etc. don't count in this context.",,ElectricMind,219,1615027042,2021-03-06 10:37:22+00:00,story,26366538,,272.0,, 1258,A patent troll is targeting my transit app,,"I created a transit app for the TTC in Toronto. (https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/ttc-watch-for-toronto/id505286932?mt=8)
Yesterday, I received a package from Lemer & Company representing Dovden Investments, Ltd. The package claims that my app infriges their patents.
Patents:
http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/2283239/summary.html
http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/2363556/summary.html
I am reaching out to HN because I know there are many transit apps out there that have the same functionality: letting users know when the next bus will arrive using a third-party API (from NextBus, or GTFS Realtime for example).
So, if anyone has dealt with Dovden or has had a similar experience (or ArrivalStar in the US), please contact me at barum.rho@gmail.com
More details: My apps use the API provided by NextBus who apparently licensed these patents. The patents describe a system that includes a vehicle unit (GPS) and a central server that processes GPS locations, neither of which are part of my app. They offered a ""discounted"" licensing fee, but my apps have generated income nowhere near the amount.
Please upvote for a better chance of finding other transit app developers.",,barumrho,219,1361674798,2013-02-24 02:59:58+00:00,story,5272575,,59.0,, 1259,What did the really successful programmers do differently?,,"This is a follow-up to the lengthy ""Do you want to be doing this at 50"" discussion that we've been having here on HN for the past week. For those of you who might have missed it:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4611337 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4620276 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4616635
As someone who is definitely on the path to be developing software for the rest of his life, I'm somewhat concerned. There are many anecdotes of programmers in their 50s having a pretty bad time, and yet there are real examples out there of programmers who have done phenomenally well: they've made a difference, they're well known and respected AND they've been financially successful as well.
I'm thinking of (contemporary) programmers of the caliber of John Carmack, Rich Hickey, Peter Norvig, Jeff Dean.. I'm trying to understand what it is that they did differently from everybody else that set them apart. I understand that many have been successful through their ventures (see Bill Joy or Eric Schmidt), is that perhaps the only route?
I think this is an interesting and valuable discussion for every developer out there.",,BadassFractal,219,1349691852,2012-10-08 10:24:12+00:00,story,4626201,,168.0,, 1260,Is there a powerful open-source Google Calendar replacement?,,"I realize calendars are not a simple tool to build well, but for such a basic standby of time management, I strive for a better, developer friendly, open source calendar system. Like what Atom did for text editors, to bring a powerful, well built basic toolset ready for modular extensibility and can run anywhere Node can.
(I use emacs, but you get my drift).
I would love to work on a project like this, if anyone is hiring or already pushing code to an open source repo I haven't found.
I have a 98% coverage of my time for the past two years and it's all in Google Calendar. I suspect there are many out there with dense calendars that would love to hack around in a friendlier environment.
Please advise.
Peace love and prosperity to the world.",,kfrzcode,219,1490993662,2017-03-31 20:54:22+00:00,story,14008085,,101.0,, 1261,Idea Sunday,,"Kick start the first Idea Sunday of May.
(PLEASE upvote if you like this post to be seen by more people, as someone in the previous Idea Sunday mentioned the post with less points than number of comments will be penalized in ranking. Thanks.)",,jw2013,219,1399177063,2014-05-04 04:17:43+00:00,story,7693262,,199.0,, 1262,How do custom software dev firms make money?,,"Hey HN, I'm working on a project for school and need to learn a bit more about the revenue model of custom software dev firms.
I've been googling, but can't seem to get a straight answer. It seems like there's an initial project cost & then maintenance revenue ongoing for the software / app's life. Is that accurate?
Appreciate any insight y'all can provide!",,vulpesx2,219,1604236125,2020-11-01 13:08:45+00:00,story,24959238,,106.0,, 1263,Time Management Tricks and Tips,,"I have seen numerous Software Engineers, Web Developers and, tech people working on various domains in different renowned companies, who are literally active in everywhere! For example, they are extremely good at their fields of work. They are equally active on Social Media such as Twitter or, Facebook etc. Also, maintain blogs with quality contents. Most of them posts valuable answers to Stack overflow, Quora etc. They also Attend conferences/ meetup with slides full of gems and, not to mention about their high quality presentations(indicates their dedication in preparation). And, actively posts update about recent series/movies/musics they watched or, books they have finished reading! I might have missed some other things they do but, I just wonder how do they manage their time to such extend! How do they do it?",,wasi0013,219,1512205374,2017-12-02 09:02:54+00:00,story,15831046,,78.0,, 1264,Who wants to be hired? (July 2019),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Disclaimer: my role will be in info sec.
Thanks,,0x01030307,219,1536064351,2018-09-04 12:32:31+00:00,story,17908547,,71.0,, 1266,I'm desperate to stay in Denmark. Anyone need a great web/ios dev?,,"Using a throwaway account, although I'm pretty active on HN.
I spent 6 years working in Silicon Valley where I worked many years for companies such as Yahoo! and Facebook.
My overall experience is probably around 10 years.
I specialize in Python/Django as well as pretty good in Obj-C/Cocoa/Cocoa Touch, and I've got many apps in App Store and few Mac OSX apps as well.
I know C, C++, and PHP pretty well. I also know some Perl, and can pickup any technology very quickly.
I can do development, server admin, IT work, etc.
I freelance and run my own small business specializing in web apps and ios/osx apps.
I'm from US, but now find myself in Copenhagen, Denmark where I met a nice girl and want to stay for foreseeable future.
My tourist visa is quickly expiring, and I need a work visa to stay longer than 3 months.
Anyone interested in hiring me and sponsoring my work visa? I promise I won't disappoint and can bring my tremendous experience to any tasks you have.
Send me an email at desperateincph@gmail.com and we'll talk more.
EDIT: Thanks for all the advice and suggestions. I'm floored at all of the help. If someone is in CPH, and wants to grab coffee, and talk about tech, travel, or whatever, let me know as well.",,throwawayCPH,219,1342435964,2012-07-16 10:52:44+00:00,story,4250118,,126.0,, 1267,What projects are you working on?,,I've recently finished working on some clients projects and now I've got some time to work on my own projects. I'd like to know in which projects the hn people is working on for some inspiration.,,mfalcon,219,1403956316,2014-06-28 11:51:56+00:00,story,7957989,,502.0,, 1268,How do you deal with chronic illness?,,"I've been reading about people who have chronic conditions, some of which can be quite challenging. I'm currently going through something relatively minor myself.
But it got me wondering, for those living with a chronic illness (not necessarily terminal), how do you deal with the stress of it?",,DantesKite,218,1603066282,2020-10-19 00:11:22+00:00,story,24822223,,178.0,, 1269,What skills to acquire in 2019?,,"I quit my software development job 4 months ago to take some time to travel, develop some ideas, and improve myself. I have a very flexible schedule, and I'm eager to make the most out of 2019.
What are some skills (technical or not) you think someone in my situation (or anyone else) should consider acquiring in 2019?",,miguelrochefort,218,1545862479,2018-12-26 22:14:39+00:00,story,18765383,,183.0,, 1270,Who's Hiring? (February 2011 Edition),,"As many have been posting about new beginnings and starting afresh, it's time for another Hiring thread.
Please lead with the location of the position and make it clear if working remotely is a possibility.",,meadhikari,218,1296480851,2011-01-31 13:34:11+00:00,story,2161360,,242.0,, 1271,"8 years working, now 3-4 months off to learn. Looking for advice",,"I have a Bsc in Software development which was extremely practical and light to non existant on real math or algorithms. Since then I have done very well as a contractor programming mainly in java building webapps for your typical enterprise shops, banks, big energy providers etc.
Now at age 33 I'm considering taking 3-4 months after this contract to take the following 3 courses:
- http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-042j-mathematics-for-computer-science-fall-2010/Syllabus/
- http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms-fall-- 2011/Syllabus/
- http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-046j-design-and-analysis-of-algorithms-spring-2015/calendar/
I want to stop contracting and apply to a company solving real problems after this process, google, facebook, zalando, amazon, etc..
I have always felt terrified of the google interview process, or any test on a whiteboard for that matter.
In the 3 months, I plan to work 6-7 hours a day and get a tutor 3-4 times a week on chegg.com. If I have time left I would also like to work through cracking the coding interview.
Would love any feedback on this idea, i.e. if I'm missing the mark, or picking bad courses it's best to know now.",,ramblerman,218,1470808688,2016-08-10 05:58:08+00:00,story,12259772,,117.0,, 1272,When are you considered a “senior” programmer?,,"I have been doing web development for as long as I remember. I get by with tools that are needed for the job. I don't fancy the new and shiny. I just get things done fast and done properly.
But I feel like I'm always a step behind the rest. There's this guy in the team knows how to operate Amazon, or this guy who that knows how to use Spring, or this guy that knows how to scaffold a Java app in minutes. Sure, I can write in the Java language but I don't know Spring by heart. I can build and run containers, but I don't know how to launch them in the cloud.
When is one considered to be a "senior" developer? Is there a means to measure where I am? How do I get there?",,lollipop25,218,1475123343,2016-09-29 04:29:03+00:00,story,12603303,,152.0,, 1273,Have you created a programming language and why?,,"Excluding school projects and toy languages, who here has created a programming language and why?
I'll go first. 13 years ago I created a specialized language for processing XML data. XmlPl marries the syntax of C, XML and XPath. It is very fast and efficient. It never caught on. See http://xmlpl.org.",,jcoffland,218,1488819481,2017-03-06 16:58:01+00:00,story,13803946,,237.0,, 1274,Where is it OK on the Net to say “I'm a developer looking for work?”,,,,hoodoof,218,1434433850,2015-06-16 05:50:50+00:00,story,9724031,,69.0,, 1275,Why can't I send faxes from my phone?,,on occasion i've had need to send faxes. most of the time i don't have access to a fax machine and so i end up paying some service that'll let me upload a pdf and charge me $10 for 50 pages.
what is it about fax technology that i can't just program my phone to send a fax? what are fax machines doing that i can't emulate in software???,,throwlaplace,218,1588457829,2020-05-02 22:17:09+00:00,story,23055335,,163.0,, 1276,Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox?,,,,pmcpinto,218,1393599185,2014-02-28 14:53:05+00:00,story,7318947,,195.0,, 1277,What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?,,,,forgottenacc56,217,1434541176,2015-06-17 11:39:36+00:00,story,9731111,,232.0,, 1278,How to find part-time developer work?,,,,wasd,217,1389981119,2014-01-17 17:51:59+00:00,story,7077234,,118.0,, 1279,What programming skills are required by HFT or Trading firms,,What are some skills required to land a job in Trading Firm especially in roles like DevOps or developing software. How can a person excel at the technologies required by these firms,,mraza007,217,1589538151,2020-05-15 10:22:31+00:00,story,23190601,,214.0,, 1280,How do I develop focus?,,I'm a nerd. I know tons of technologies in and out. And I am creative. I come up with new ideas all the time. And I start new projects all the time. They all have potential. But I do so many of them that none really gets enough attention to grow.
What can I do?,,FreeHugs,217,1649073520,2022-04-04 11:58:40+00:00,story,30905620,,191.0,, 1281,What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?,,"We've all been there (most of us, at least). What did you do (or not do), how did you first react, and how did you handle it?
Bonus points for sharing what you learned/key takeaways from the experience.",,kadabra9,217,1391013611,2014-01-29 16:40:11+00:00,story,7144934,,309.0,, 1282,"I'm making like 0 friends at college, how to fix it?",,"I talk to some people in classes and we're pleasant to each other but haven't gotten beyond acquaintance with any of them. I know some people from a club I'm in but don't see them outside of that. It doesn't help that I'm a computer science major and I don't have a lot of interests that CS majors have (anime, video games, social media, etc.) Advice on how to connect better with people?
I'm busy a lot of the time so don't think about this. But I've heard everybody talking about Halloween costumes in the past few days and realized I don't need one cause I'll be sitting inside alone on Halloween. I'd like to start fixing this but don't know how.
Edit: some people have asked, I'm a sophomore. Seems like a lot of people already formed their social groups last year.",,collegeburner,217,1634997261,2021-10-23 13:54:21+00:00,story,28968506,,205.0,, 1283,What did you make during lockdown?,,While we were all in lockdown a lot of makers have been making incredible things. So I decided to make Lockdown Showcase to showcase all those products.
Post your own product or browse through other ones here: https://lockdownshowcase.com/,,shimmmaz,217,1592755548,2020-06-21 16:05:48+00:00,story,23592788,,539.0,, 1284,What are some resources to improve speaking skills?,,I get nervous very easily and my heart starts throbbing when it comes to speak to anyone. It is affecting my career. How can I fix it?
What are the resources to improve speaking skill?,,throwaway_yc,216,1572539419,2019-10-31 16:30:19+00:00,story,21410579,,69.0,, 1285,Anyone have stock option horror stories?,,How much money did you lose exercising? How much taxes did you pay in paper gains?,,leet_thow,216,1647482649,2022-03-17 02:04:09+00:00,story,30706743,,193.0,, 1286,How do I learn drawing?,,"I have been bad at drawing my whole life, but I think drawing can improve my career as an engineer. I want to be able to illustrate my ideas when writing blog posts and documentation.
Where do I start? I have an IPad and Apple Pencil for digital drawing. I tried to learn how to draw by watching videos on Youtube and by practising a lot on my own, but I feel like I'm missing fundamentals.
I want to learn both raster and vector graphics. As it turned out, drawing complex real life objects using vector graphics is not easier.",,f311a,216,1614969977,2021-03-05 18:46:17+00:00,story,26360349,,117.0,, 1287,Books you should have read when you start a career in SE / CS?,,,,DDerTyp,216,1525885881,2018-05-09 17:11:21+00:00,story,17031609,,95.0,, 1288,Team fun event ideas during WFH?,,"Can y'all share any team fun event ideas that have worked well for you during the WFH/pandemic period? My folks miss the natural in-person interactions that occur in the office, and we could use some time together to decompress. But, how do we do that remotely? Maybe you long-time remote teams are already experts at this? Is there an "awesome-remote-team-fun-events" GitHub repo?
Any ideas are welcome, but I'm particular interested in events with $0-$100 per person budget and work with team size of 5-20 people. Thanks.
Edit: This is something we'd do during work hours.",,pseudobry,216,1612891539,2021-02-09 17:25:39+00:00,story,26080163,,265.0,, 1289,How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?,,"I used to code for a living but decided that I enjoy being a technical writer and PM much, much more.
Things I enjoy:
* Writing detailed functional specifications.
* Creating wireframes & mockups.
* Creating flowcharts, BPMN docs & graphs to explain a project.
* Planning Poker, Creating sprints.
* Discussing technical issues with developers.
* Simplifying technical issues for customers.
* Learning about new technologies.
* Explaining new technology to customers.
I love HackerNews. This is a great community with awesome people and marvelous content going on. It would be nice to receive some advice from you guys.
The professor is using the book "Analysis", from Terrence Tao. I am looking forward to supplementary material that will help me absorb this and gain some intuition.
1 - Is there a YouTube content particularly good for this topic?
2 - Is there some specific good strategy to study Analysis?
I really like to study doing exercises and, then, checking the answer. Not just the final answer but the whole answer.
This is not always available. Slader is a great website for that. Maybe there is an even a better resource than Slader that I do not know.
Thanks in advance!",,pedrodelfino,215,1521905641,2018-03-24 15:34:01+00:00,story,16667099,,101.0,, 1291,Non-tech professionals on HN?,,"If you look at the front page of HN on any given day you'll see 90% of the news leans heavily towards the tech industry. But you'll often see great comments from people whose profession isn't directly tech. I've seen historians, doctors, lawyers, folks in construction, agriculture, the armed forces, etc, show up here.
So the question is, what non-traditionally tech professions are represented here on HN and how did you get hooked to Hacker News?",,marai2,215,1633624108,2021-10-07 16:28:28+00:00,story,28788540,,207.0,, 1292,Great tools for solo SaaS founders?,,"I am building a web SAAS and being a developer, I want to mostly focus on development and skip the marketing, pr and other related stuff, hence I am looking for tools to automate/delegate as much as possible. I like building products after all.
There are so many great tools and strategies, but almost all of them require you to have a person or even a team to support it - for example all social media automation tools require you to prepare a lot of content to be effective. I can't do that.
Do you know any great tools that are more or less 0 maintenance, relatively short setup and deliver value?
It doesn't have to necessary be marketing tool, but it's what made me curious. If you know of development, accounting or whatever other tool please shoot!",,ponyous,215,1637510939,2021-11-21 16:08:59+00:00,story,29297229,,129.0,, 1293,I got let go this morning. What should I do next?,,"I went in to work this morning, in downtown Cleveland, ordered a BLT for our free lunch friday, and got called into a meeting. I was told my position was being removed (probably to cut costs, although they did not say), and I needed to clean off my desk. I'm a javascript developer. I built a large angular application while there, but it is now built and there are other developers who can support it.
As far as I see it, I have this great opportunity to break out of the regular 9-5 job world, which I have always wanted to do. I have been working weekends on pearmarket.co, which is a website for small farmers to more easily promote their products online (I have recently open sourced the core of the project at https://github.com/thecolorblue/beetpress). Unfortunately, it is not currently in a place where I can dedicate all of my time to it and see any income. I would say I am 3 months of solid work away from having a good beta. I do not see this as an option as it would clear out most of my savings, and leave me in mostly the same position I am in now.
I have looked into doing freelance work, but as I am self taught my CS skills are not as solid as other developers, and my design skills are just about average. I am more product focused, I try to work as closely to the end user as possible and clearly define what they need. There does not seem to be a need for freelance product people (is this a good assumption?). It's also important to note that I am 28 and just got engaged. Moving is an option, but living on a spare couch for a couple months is not.
So I really have two questions. What would you do in my situation (would you stay in a smaller city?), and if you could start over in web development, what would you focus on?",,thecolorblue,215,1422638267,2015-01-30 17:17:47+00:00,story,8973023,,200.0,, 1294,Did offering a money-back guarantee help your business?,,"I assume it will boost initial conversions significantly, but does it produce a long term net gain?
As a consumer, I've seen approaches ranging from very generous "no questions asked", to "you can have a refund if you jump through 100 hoops", to "all sales are final". Are there any guidelines around which approach to use?
I'm specifically concerned about one-time digital purchases, where once the customer has the file/valuable info there's nothing to stop them from keeping it and requesting a refund.",,nCHc,215,1549376907,2019-02-05 14:28:27+00:00,story,19085526,,153.0,, 1295,Strategies for mentoring junior developers?,,"Software development companies are often willing to hire developers who need a lot of guidance and direction. (Developers who can’t excel without help.) But a large segment of these companies have no strategy or program in place to help such developers reach proficiency and independence.
What are some good, holistic approaches for helping train up-and-coming developers all the way to “senior developer” skill level?",,PaulStatezny,215,1522331756,2018-03-29 13:55:56+00:00,story,16707059,,71.0,, 1296,How was your experience with AWS Lambda in production?,,"I would like to hear from people who have used AWS Lambda in production, how was there experience with it. It would be great if you have references to project repositories.",,chetanmelkani,215,1498032099,2017-06-21 08:01:39+00:00,story,14601809,,155.0,, 1297,Has working remotely harmed your career growth?,,There’s a lot of talk about remote work nowadays. But has the lack of being able to be with co-workers harmed your career over the long run? Especially if the team is a mixture of remote and co-located people? How have you tried to mitigate that?,,curiousgeek,214,1514039790,2017-12-23 14:36:30+00:00,story,15994294,,138.0,, 1298,What’s the legality of web scraping?,,"I teach machine learning applications to masters students. Many students ask me whether it’s legally OK to scrape websites without using an API and use the data for their projects for my course. I usually just direct them to use APIs with authentication or use tabular datasets on Kaggle, data.world, etc., because I’m not a lawyer and I don’t know the legality of web scraping. The most relevant article I know is from EFF (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/scraping-just-automated-access-and-everyone-does-it) but it’s more than a year old.
Can anyone who knows the law please guide me on this issue? Note that the concern is less about what’s ethical and more about what’s legal. This will also help me in my research because these days some reviewers are raising this concern when they see authors used web scraped data. Online there are a ton of opinion pieces but nobody is clear on the legal side of it. Mostly people oppose scraping because they think it’s unethical.",,malshe,214,1561307616,2019-06-23 16:33:36+00:00,story,20256681,,113.0,, 1299,How do I manage the profit of a successful website?,,"Some time ago, I started a subscription-based website that has slowly gained momentum and revenue. Currently, my monthly recurring revenue from this site is about $45k USD per month. I’m taking ~$14k/mo salary (which is far more than enough for my needs) and I’m paying one other dev part time about ~$6k/mo. My other expenses to keep it up and running are only ~$2k/mo. That leaves quite a bit leftover and I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with it. I have no desire to expand the operation for many reasons. I’m perfectly happy working on it full time myself and don’t want to change anything. My question is what am I supposed to do with that profit? Claim it all myself as income? Let it accumulate in the business account? The company is formed as an LLC and I am based in the US, for reference.",,Asking__HN,214,1641211729,2022-01-03 12:08:49+00:00,story,29779944,,134.0,, 1300,What's one book that changed your life?,,What's one book that changed your life?,,lando2319,214,1527443694,2018-05-27 17:54:54+00:00,story,17168136,,176.0,, 1301,Resources for catching up on modern JavaScript for Python/C++ Programmer,,"When first learning to program (back in high school 10+ years ago) I played around a lot with JavaScript, building 'cool' websites that did all kinds of things in JavaScript. I haven't really touched it since.
I moved on to Java and now program professionally in Python and C++ (desktop apps development) and do some webapps development as side projects.
I've found myself doing lots of data visualisation and analysis (performance benchmarking etc) and for the most part I used Matlab and various python libraries to achieve this - but I've been lately using the great Charts.js library. I would love to get up to speed with how 'modern' JS works for frontend development. I'm not so concerned with learning particular frameworks in depth (but should I be?) - moreover what particular programming/design paradigms are considered the most effective?
What resources have people in a similar situation to me found to be useful?",,alibarber,214,1523359240,2018-04-10 11:20:40+00:00,story,16800510,,71.0,, 1302,How do you earn your money?,,"I'm currently a student and wonder how developers tend to earn their money? Do you work for someone as an employee or have you got your own company? Or is it a mixture of both throughout your careers?
I do work part time as a developer in a start up and can't help feeling i'm building a dream for someone else. Not that the experience isn't really good, (It definitely is and I learn more in work than in uni!) but i can't help feeling that the current university paradigm of work hard, good grades, get a job seems to be bit of a misnomer unless you're happy building things to make others wealthy whilst you earn £30,000 a year?
Unless i'm missing something important, I am young and naive after all!
This is a subjective question. I just want to get a few thoughts especially from you old timers who want to tell a youngster some home truths! :)",,Dale1,214,1395506298,2014-03-22 16:38:18+00:00,story,7449728,,148.0,, 1303,What'd you do to get your first 100 users?,,"I've never done any kind of user acquisition besides posting to Reddit and HN. I realize that this is, needless to say, not a working strategy. What do you people do?",,brandonhsiao,214,1392578887,2014-02-16 19:28:07+00:00,story,7248829,,153.0,, 1304,What are the best resources to learn computer vision?,,"Ideally, I would like to be good enough to get a job at an AI/robotics startup. I already have a CS degree, a decent math background, and am working as an embedded software developer for a large company.",,ameyades,214,1498623751,2017-06-28 04:22:31+00:00,story,14651665,,57.0,, 1305,"Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)",,"Similar to the ""Who is Hiring"" thread but, please, remote positions only.
Remote and co-lo'd work posts should be kept separate. Many of us who work remotely tend to work exclusively remotely.",,sleight42,213,1288629180,2010-11-01 16:33:00+00:00,story,1857051,,85.0,, 1306,Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and counting,,"tldr: I launched Truple 4.5 years ago (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14113636). 2.5 years ago Apple froze my developer account. Since that time competitors released similar functionality for Apple products. Apple still has my Developer account on lockdown. What can I do?
long version:
4.5 years ago I launched Truple (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14113636), a bootstrapped parental control / accountability app. Truple is used by parents to gain insight into how their children use the internet, but also by adults who struggle with online habits they'd like to change (porn being chief among them). The screenshot based approach Truple offers proves to work much better than other solutions. It's the only solution that allows you to use social media, but still have accountability for what you're viewing through social media. For example, if you have access to Twitter, you have access to porn. You can't use twitter without having that access. Truple allows you to use twitter while still being held accountable for what you view on twitter. No other solution offers this, because they don't report what you're viewing within an app. Twitter is just an example, the same goes for all "innocent" apps (social media, streaming sites, etc) that contain concerning content.
2.5 years ago, I submitted an early version of a MacOS app for notarization. A couple of days later my Apple Developer account was "frozen" without any message or indication why. The signing certificates were just revoked. After a year or so, Apple said they found "potentially unwanted software" in my app and were investigating. I indicated that was unexpected (that's the only question they asked me). As background, to run the app you have to download and install it, login to your truple account, select what you want the monitoring settings to be, grant permissions, etc. It's a whole process. I point this out because the app didn't do anything malicious or against the device owners' will.
After nearly two years of waiting on Apple (I emailed regularly, they kept saying it was under review) Apple decided they wouldn't finish the investigation but that I needed to create a new developer account. I've since done so. I submitted a redesigned version of the app for notarization, and now, while my account isn't "frozen", notarization is rejected with the message: "Team is not yet configured for notarization." I submitted a "hello world" app using boilerplate code for notarization, and I get the same rejection. I now have another case open with Apple, and it's going nowhere it seems. I'm assuming Apple has flagged my second account due to the previous issue. I fear I'm stuck in a continual loop.
Truple was the first to offer screenshot based monitoring as a parental control / accountability app, but during the past 2.5 years, multimillion dollar competitors have been allowed by Apple to launch apps with similar functionality for Apple products. I have read and reread the Apple developer agreement. My app is in alignment with it... I've made sure since day one that a "reasonably suspicious" notification is present when the app is monitoring. Once enabled, the data captured is end-to-end encrypted and only made accessible to the account owner and their chosen recipients. I've expressed a willingness to make changes if need be, but Apple hasn't indicated I need to make any. They've just been silent.
What should I do? I've been extremely patient with Apple. But it's now been 2.5 years and it's gotten me nowhere. Apple seems unwilling to do anything for me but take my annual developer fee. I'm not famous and I have no significant following to rely on to garner attention to this unfair treatment. I ask for your help.",,camhart,213,1639592099,2021-12-15 18:14:59+00:00,story,29569561,,218.0,, 1307,How to blog things I've learnt in graduate school?,,"Hi, Currently, I'm pursuing a masters in Control systems. After looking for a couple of blogs by researchers and graduate students I've had some trouble understanding in how to document/write the things I'm learning in graduate school.
Ideally, I'd like to write to help understand how deep my understanding of the subject is but also be a way to contact people who are interested in the field of control systems & machine learning as two overlapping fields via a personal blog.
A few of my concerns involve:
1. How to maintain a technical blog without sounding like an academician i.e examples of other good blogs.
2. How to spread the knowledge from the courses I'm taking legally i.e. how much out of class homeworks/material is it okay to share?
Thanks for reading!",,jamesecurry,213,1527710303,2018-05-30 19:58:23+00:00,story,17191206,,51.0,, 1308,What's a starting point for learning how to write programming languages?,,"I've been thinking about writing my own programming language for some time. This to gain a deeper understanding of how programming languages, and by extent, computers work. I've bought the Flex and Bison book by John Levine to have a resource on parsing and lexing. I have come to realize however, that writing a complete language like Java, Python, Ruby, from bottom to the top, is of course not a small task. So therefore I started to think of writing maybe a compiler for another language, writing a "simple" language like SQL, Markdown etc. to begin with.
What are your experiences when writing a new programming language, where and how did you start?",,da_murvel,213,1536732451,2018-09-12 06:07:31+00:00,story,17965917,,95.0,, 1309,Is Public WiFi Dangerous?,,"I know there are several attack vectors on public Wifi, but these days are they mostly mitigated?
- Man-in-the-middle attacks: thwarted by certificate authority checking by the browser and/or certificate pinning in mobile apps. Browser will not let you advance if the certificate is invalid. - Replay attacks: OAuth tokens expire and good sites will use nonces. - Packing sniffing on open networks: thwarted by TSL over http and encrypted traffic (unless you have a root certificate installed). - DNS lookups are somewhat plaintext, but now started to be done over https. Even then, attackers would know what you're connected to, but not what you are saying. - Port scanning/direct attacks: Firewalls by default lock down ports and well-patched machines prevent this - Email (SMTP) and other protocols: are all encrypted as well to prevent snooping.
Is using public Wifi actually dangerous? If so, what's the attack vector?",,JaceLightning,213,1647623631,2022-03-18 17:13:51+00:00,story,30724830,,139.0,, 1310,What Happened to Borland?,,I recall early in my software development career Borland have a strong hold in the developer tool space (and largely loved by developers). What happened to them? They were the “JetBrains” of their day.,,tiffanyh,213,1639158343,2021-12-10 17:45:43+00:00,story,29512963,,307.0,, 1311,What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?,,"And what is the purpose?
I'm still using bash, awk, and a bit of FORTRAN for scientific computing.",,_of,212,1483460390,2017-01-03 16:19:50+00:00,story,13310159,,493.0,, 1312,How to build empathy?,,"As an engineer I run cycles of listening, paraphrasing and then solutionizing almost every day. This doesn't translate well in friendships & relationships where the other person just wants someone to listen. At the same time I rate lowly on empathy scoring tests on the internet. Other technical folks here who might have gone through this,
1. How did you develop your listening skill?
2. How to be more empathetic?
Update: Some more questions
1. What common failure modes do you hit in your relationships as a low empathy person?
2. How do you avoid them?",,break_the_bank,212,1616254320,2021-03-20 15:32:00+00:00,story,26523816,,164.0,, 1313,What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?,,"My experiment in working backwards from market to problems to solutions:
1. Start with listing markets that have a low degree of competition, but don't have a mega-monopoly owning them. These will mostly be small markets.
2. Examine the problem space within each and see if new technology (SW / HW) can deliver 10x improvements.
3. Determine whether these markets are a short enough hop away from deeper ones.
It's surprisingly hard to get a "map" of existing markets, but am curious about those the community can readily identify.",,trevett,212,1596671309,2020-08-05 23:48:29+00:00,story,24066842,,222.0,, 1314,What is your favorite motto?,,"You need mottos. There's nothing like a good motto to keep you directed toward your goals [1]. What’s your best motto? Thank you!
[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201508/9...",,MrXOR,212,1599769006,2020-09-10 20:16:46+00:00,story,24436135,,453.0,, 1315,"As a CTO, what is your most frustrating problem with technical debt?",,"_or as a person in a CTO-like role_
Ah, the technical debt.
While the concept is sweet from the business perspective, the result of leveraging technical debt, most often, is a big mess.
The technical debt is accruing every week, after each iteration, sprint, what have you. Your developers are whining about it, and they want to do a significant rewrite or solve it with microservices altogether.
And you know this rewrite, like others in the past, will be a significant sink of time, and likely a catastrophe.
This is how I see it from my humble developer/team lead perspective. I’m really curious to know how people in CTO roles perceive it.
I agree that this is a useful quality lever that can get the whole company out of a bind, or could let business leverage a market opportunity before the competitors do.
What I’ve found is that people in various project-manager-like roles tend to overuse this lever. I believe this lever should be used only when there is a significant gain for the business, and the debt should be paid shortly after that.
What I’ve personally seen, and what I’ve been told by my fellow developers, is that it is common to use the technical debt lever just to:
- reach the “sprint commitment,”
- meet the artificial deadline,
- increase “developer’s productivity,”
- show manager’s power.
These don’t sound like critical high-value goals to reach, given the price of the Technical Debt.
That is my perspective. Now, what do you have to say?
As a CTO (or in a CTO-like role), what was your most consistent pain, frustration or problem with Technical Debt in your company in the last 2 years?
Have you ever had any?
Thank you for your time reading this and giving a thoughtful response. :)",,waterlink,212,1532436570,2018-07-24 12:49:30+00:00,story,17600503,,221.0,, 1316,Why does visual programming suck?,,"Almost every visual programming tool I've seen on HN looks so cool when I see the gif, but when I start using it, it's invariably a frustrating experience. I think it might be because customizing the last 20% is difficult visually, and you so you have to drop down to code. But once you're in visual programming land, changing abstraction layers is difficult.
When I asked Alan Kay this question, his first response was "well there are various types of visual programming, some of them have taken off". The type of visual programming I'm thinking about here is a WYSIWYG drag and drop interface for building UIs. Imagine having prebuilt views (tables, buttons, dropdowns, etc.) and being able to drag them and lay them out how you want. Then you interact with their API: this table pulls in data from this SQL statement; this button executes this HTTP query; this dropdown publishes this value, which this SQL statement uses via string interpolation. These "widgets" publish their data, which can be used by other widgets (w1.value), and inside SQL queries. The tables can pull in data from SQL queries. You can use string interpolation inside SQL queries, so dropdowns can influence the query being run. So selecting a drop down value would cause the query to change, which would automatically propagate changes to the table.",,dvdhsu,212,1496603545,2017-06-04 19:12:25+00:00,story,14482988,,315.0,, 1317,How can I learn to read mathematical notation?,,"There are a lot of fields I'm interested in, such as machine learning, but I struggle to understand how they work as most resources I come across are full of complex mathematical notation that I never learned how to read in school or University.
How do you learn to read this stuff? I'm frequently stumped by an academic paper or book that I just can't understand due to mathematical notation that I simply cannot read.",,cursorial,212,1542900747,2018-11-22 15:32:27+00:00,story,18510528,,137.0,, 1318,Math books like SICP?,,"I'd like to start learning undergrad math at a rigorous level.
As a CS grad I already covered certain topics like abstract algebra at a respectable level. But I'm lacking consistent and broad knowledge throughout all areas.
I'm looking for math books covering undergrad topics like SICP, which Peter Norvig described as "[...] a way of synthesizing what you already know, and building a rich framework onto which you can add new learning over a career" [1].
[1] http://www.amazon.com/review/R403HR4VL71K8",,nextos,212,1397310353,2014-04-12 13:45:53+00:00,story,7577810,,89.0,, 1319,"Help, I think Amazon is stealing my ebook",http://www.amazon.com/FOUNDATION-PROGRAMMING-Building-Software-ebook/dp/B005BYS3FE,"I was recently pointed to a copy of my free ebook being sold on Amazon for the Kindle. I sent a DMCA takedown notice 5 business days ago and haven't heard anything back.
When I first saw it, I noticed that it was being sold by ""Amazon Digital Services""..which I thought was really fishy - like someone trying to pass themselves off as Amazon. Now that I've done more research though, it seems like this actually is Amazon.
If you open the book on the website and you look at the very top, you'll see the original CC Non-Commercial license.
What should I do?",,latch,212,1313143083,2011-08-12 09:58:03+00:00,story,2876637,,53.0,, 1320,Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?,,"Hey HN,
I'm a self-taught webdev with 10 years xp. I have lots of free time right now with a bit less freelance projects coming in, and I'm getting a bit bored of building web CRUDs and feel like I'm not learning much anymore.
I'm thinking it'd be better to specialize more, but I'm unsure which direction to go. I'm actually selling myself as a full-stack web developer, knowing JS/react/vueJS, PHP/Laravel, bit of design, server management etc.
If possible I'd like a job that can be fully remote or at most 1 day on site, which probably excludes security and high level stuff.
I have lots of time to learn so I'm open to any advice even if it's just to git gud and read SICP.
tl;dr webdev having done every type of CRUD under the sun - what do now
Thanks for your input !",,thatcodingdude,212,1597227057,2020-08-12 10:10:57+00:00,story,24130286,,317.0,, 1321,What non-technical skills make a senior dev and how to develop them?,,,,poushkar,212,1465980738,2016-06-15 08:52:18+00:00,story,11907960,,130.0,, 1322,How are you getting through (and back from) burning out?,,"Obviously, my tendency is to do what it is I did that got me here in a sense. I plan and I scheme. Maybe I should just be in the couch binge-watching Netflix, or double-down on physical exercise with the extra time on hand (not that I wasn't active before).
I'm really struggling to figure out what it is that I should be doing now to get back to wellness and then stay there so I was hoping it would help to read other people's experience.
Briefly, high-performance knowledge worker that places a lot of self-worth in the quality of his work and that subsequently spiraled as a work performance degraded as burn out symptoms started to set in that was caused by issues and events on multiple frontiers in life simultaneously. Some of those stressors remain, and are Intrinsic moreso than extrinsic and removing them doesn't really have a tangible timeline.",,leksak,212,1549460389,2019-02-06 13:39:49+00:00,story,19094945,,128.0,, 1323,"How to self study management, especially supply chain management?",,"I recently saw [an HN thread about the bullwhip effect] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22663332) where [one user discussed](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22664178) their experience in management school with that simulation.
I was curious about investigating more, but I realized that unlike topics like mathematics and computer science, I was having a lot of trouble even finding the search terms to use to find textbooks and syllabi, as I didn't even really know what they teach in management school. Could HN help me find a course of self study on management school? Knowledge of what they teach, or what different specializations train you in would be helpful as well, thank you!",,caaaadr,212,1585653955,2020-03-31 11:25:55+00:00,story,22736545,,49.0,, 1324,Desperate Python Hacker Seeking Help and Suggestions,,"I don't really know where to start here, as I'm near the end of my rope.
For personal, family, and financial reasons, I've been looking for jobs (unsuccessfully) in west Michigan for the past year. Now, my savings are depleted, and I might be looking at homelessness if I'm not able to get something going quickly.
Background: I'm a graduate-educated Python hacker with advanced coursework in mathematics and a couple CS courses. In my studies, I've taken courses in graph theory, linear algebra, neural networks, numerical analysis, and theory of computation. I also audited a course in programming languages one semester simply because I was bored.
I first learned C nearly 20 years ago, and, though I can't really quote chapter and verse of the standard anymore, I'm still quite good at it. I've also used Python in school and as part of a short stint as a software tester for about 5 years. I'm also interested in learning Haskell and have been working on that for a couple of months.
I can code FizzBuzz in multiple idioms (functional, OO, procdural) in multiple languages. I know algorithms fairly well and love solving problems. I'm willing to do any test anyone has for me to prove my abilities. I do also have some public code on github, but it's just a couple small projects that aren't even really useful at this point.
In spite of all that, I haven't been able to turn it into a job in this area, because I have no real contacts in the industry (meaning I have to go through HR), and all the job ads specify things like ""5 years C# experience,"" so I think my application is just ending up in file 13 because I don't tick the proper buzzwords.
I've tried Odesk &c and haven't been able to get any traction there. I don't really have the ability to do a startup because I'm about $100 short of ""$100 and an idea"" that's needed to do so. :/
I'd appreciate any help anyone has for me. Please either reply here (and please upvote! this account is, of course, a throwaway) or email to desperate_hacker@ymail.com.
Thank you all,
A Desperate Hacker",,helpmehn,212,1312054552,2011-07-30 19:35:52+00:00,story,2826493,,181.0,, 1325,What does performance management look like at your company?,,"I'm curious to learn about staff performance management at other companies to understand what works and what doesn't. How does your company set goals, evaluate performance, etc? Do you use OKRs or a similar tool? Thanks!
Edit: Clarified that I am asking about staff and employee performance management. Thanks!",,edgefield0,212,1599222796,2020-09-04 12:33:16+00:00,story,24374347,,163.0,, 1326,"As a freelancer, what's the best app to track finances?",,"Hi everyone!
I've been working as a freelancer practically my whole life. Although I'm not a very finances-oriented person, I do like to keep track of my spending and income, do some basic forecasting, budgeting, to also plan my time and activities.
One thing I've noticed is that most apps are really not oriented for people who, like me, dont have very fixed/stable sources of income. One month I'm doing something, next month I have very little work, next month I may be working on 3 different projects, with different wages.
I miss a simple way to track this, and to somehow allow me to plan my future, minimizing working hours and maximizing life (4hr work week anyone? ;)) But so far I haven't been able to find a finance management app that responds to the needs of freelancers like me.
Being in IT and software dev, I'm begin to think I should probably scratch my own itch and develop something that really suits my needs. So I'd like to ask you two things
2 - If you are somehow like me, would you give 5min of your time so that I could get more feedback from other freelancers about what would be useful for them, and other tips and strategies you might use for yourself for your own finances?
thanks so much!",,nunodonato,211,1553160186,2019-03-21 09:23:06+00:00,story,19450331,,132.0,, 1327,Should I sue drchrono (YC W11) for violating their contract w/ me?,,"[1 of 2]: My name is Dr. Dal Bedi. I'm owner of a medical practice in Va. I took a chance on a start-up drchrono as my EHR & billing service provider; both services being a vital part of my business. It's a decision I wish I never made. In the past 5 mo, I've had massive issues w/ the drchrono service. The setup of their billing & collections services has taken 4 months due to repeated, inept errors by outsourced-to-India drchrono billing staff. Other drchrono users have been complaining about similar issues & have asked for refunds: http://bit.ly/1doMER9 & http://bit.ly/1fL8dzH. I've forwarded pages of errors to the drchrono staff http://cl.ly/image/200i2D2y1s2R , http://cl.ly/image/1z0g230x0N1I , http://cl.ly/image/3H072F0f3k43 , http://cl.ly/image/0k3G1t2h3h3w , http://cl.ly/image/0V1x2h3E2m43 , escalated w/ their support team for months, and finally escalated to the CEO, Michael Nusimow. When that proved ineffective, I asked for a refund for the months when the service wasn't functional, all while being a committed customer w/o a single outstanding balance. This past Xmas Eve, drchrono sent me an email raising my monthly fee 3x from $1.5k/mo to $4.5k/mo starting Jan 1st, 2014 w/o any reason given -- even tho. we have a signed contract which sets the price for their services and can't be changed.",,drdal,211,1391527897,2014-02-04 15:31:37+00:00,story,7178004,,31.0,, 1328,What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?,,,,Kevin_S,211,1501867829,2017-08-04 17:30:29+00:00,story,14930317,,346.0,, 1329,Have you found a good desk chair?,,"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.
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).
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.",,DamnInteresting,211,1623944984,2021-06-17 15:49:44+00:00,story,27540941,,356.0,, 1330,How did you get started as a freelancer?,,How did you land your first customer? How did/do you market yourself? ...,,benicafe,211,1537296845,2018-09-18 18:54:05+00:00,story,18018083,,50.0,, 1331,"Developers who became engineering managers, how was the experience?",,How was the new role challenging? What skill-sets from earlier were important in the transition?,,6ak74rfy,211,1507875646,2017-10-13 06:20:46+00:00,story,15463612,,72.0,, 1332,I will pay you $2000 and code the MVP for your side-project,,"Premise 1: Investors/Incubators over-estimate their ability to pick good ideas/startups.
Premise 2: Software by a lone developer is not pragmatically different from software by a big A-team. It’s the market fit and marketing / sales that makes or breaks the project.
Premise 3: Most freelancers will not build and/or follow-through with their ideas, because they are not sure it will sell.
Premise 4: HackerNews has a decent number of people who know how the world works, and how a little glue would make it better.
Based on these premises I present The Proposition 2.0 (following version 1.0 [1]):
I’ll pay you $500 for your “real-life problem that needs a software fix” idea and market validation / research. I will build the MVP and give you another $1500 to bring us our first paying customer(s). We split the resulting product 80-20 as co-founders.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694 [2] https://www.simonnouwens.com/hn",,esquire_900,211,1554047188,2019-03-31 15:46:28+00:00,story,19536156,,122.0,, 1333,Learning the business-side of things as a developer?,,What are some good source for learning the fundamentals and specifics of the contemporary software business?
What software-specific business books would you recommend?,,hvasilev,211,1588414113,2020-05-02 10:08:33+00:00,story,23050717,,48.0,, 1334,Easiest way to build a CRUD app?,,"Ideally, there would be no:
>multiple programming/scripting languages to learn
>external dependencies: packages, api's, services, saas
Should be simple and resilient, can last for a long time.
Doesn't require a lot of maintenance, large multiskilled teams, or dependency on services or API's that have a tendency to deprecate or disappear. Something which is not easy to compromise or hack.
Is it a stupid question? The closest I can think of is a static site generator with some kind of self-hosted database but I'm not aware of any.
Thanks",,mouzogu,211,1644749438,2022-02-13 10:50:38+00:00,story,30320837,,231.0,, 1335,Which book are you reading these days?,,"I'm finishing the Art of War by Sun Tzu and I'm looking for some book suggestions, so I'm curious to know which books are being read by the members of the HN community.",,pmcpinto,211,1428567884,2015-04-09 08:24:44+00:00,story,9346313,,388.0,, 1336,What is the best online course you've ever taken?,,"Doesn't exactly have to be a MOOC. YouTube playlists and any other way of learning is fine too. Paid ones are fine as well.",,gymshoes,211,1543551684,2018-11-30 04:21:24+00:00,story,18566638,,56.0,, 1337,What do you regret in life?,,"I was reading this Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1879530) from about 6 years ago and wondered what HNers regret. Not necessarily your views on the concept of regret but actual examples from your life. I mainly regret not taking university seriously half a lifetime ago, but as a result I became a lifelong self-learner.
Suggested related reading on the topic:
"In Praise of Missing Out: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on the Paradoxical Value of Our Unlived Lives"
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/17/missing-out-adam-phillips/
___
In the Ask HN link above, a guy says he opened an unread email two years late and saw it was from Facebook in 2009 wanting to hire him.
Similarly, perhaps, one of my regrets was having received an early 2014 email that I didn't open, from someone I didn't much feel the need to keep in contact with. In late 2014, I finally read it. It was an offer to be the personal guide to the US team at the World Cup in Brazil...",,personlurking,210,1477914423,2016-10-31 11:47:03+00:00,story,12835898,,330.0,, 1338,HN Alternatives?,,"I love HN.
But HN is so news oriented it doesn't give me the kind of hacker/entrepreneur community that I'm envisioning.
What are some other sites where hackers/entrepreneur go to just to ...
- discuss early stage startup ideas
- brainstorm implementations and solutions
- give each other feedback on prototypes
... as suppose to commenting on news? I guess like a forum?
Reading news gets old after a while and makes me feel like I'm just a follower not a leader.
I'm planning to start a web community if there isn't one. I did a survey to see if people would be interested here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358654
But that post quickly got drown out by the noon news flood, which is part of the problem that I'm talking about.
(P.S. I do go to real-life meetups of hackers/founders. Those are great but scarce. The only good one I have been to so far in the Bay Area is ""hackers and founders"". And they don't even meet that often in San Francisco.)",,jaytee_clone,210,1274384988,2010-05-20 19:49:48+00:00,story,1365094,,88.0,, 1339,What is the point of “© 2020 CompanyName” in website footers?,,"If I simply add this to the footer of my website, does that automatically have legal authority?",,truetaurus,209,1589628831,2020-05-16 11:33:51+00:00,story,23202586,,77.0,, 1340,"Just Ask HN (or more precisely, url-less) posts",http://news.ycombinator.com/ask,,,pg,209,1267988747,2010-03-07 19:05:47+00:00,story,1173801,,46.0,, 1341,What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved?,,"I feel I just make some CRUDs. It's fine, since they useful for my customers. But they are not technical challenges. So please tell me yours.",,pauletienney,209,1398587477,2014-04-27 08:31:17+00:00,story,7654392,,173.0,, 1342,Which non-programming books are a beneficial read for programmers?,,.,,tomerbd,209,1527015716,2018-05-22 19:01:56+00:00,story,17128513,,85.0,, 1343,How to prepare for a Front-end Developer interview?,,How should I prepare for a front-end dev interview? What type of questions do you usually ask / or have been asked in an interview?,,eesta,209,1471197048,2016-08-14 17:50:48+00:00,story,12286547,,136.0,, 1344,Is your company considering inflation in this year's comp review cycle?,,"My current company (not FAANG but a household name) just handed me a sub-inflation raise (5.5%) in spite of my "exceeds expectations" performance rating. New hires are getting 50% more equity than the total value of my unvested equity. The official line is that inflation is not a factor in assessing annual comp adjustments.
Does this match up to your experience elsewhere? I'm certain I could make more by switching jobs, but I wonder if I'm being screwed by more than the usual amount by staying.
I'm really effective in my current role. Past a certain level of seniority it's a big ordeal to change jobs, rebuild your network within a new company, rebuild reputation and social capital, etc. These network effects are a big part of your effectiveness as a staff+ engineer. I'd rather not move, but it seems I have to given the hundreds of thousands being left on the table.",,jurassic,209,1646966398,2022-03-11 02:39:58+00:00,story,30635501,,277.0,, 1345,Is Ryan Bates okay?,,"Ryan Bates announced he was taking a monthlong break from Railscasts -- he then updated saying he would be taking another month. It has now been about 7 months since his last message on the site, his last tweet, and his last commit on Github (except for one day in October). Is he okay? It is great that he is taking time off, 400 screencasts is a library if content to create, but he seems to have completely dropped off the face of the internet -- and with his last few communications sounding very tired, it is a little bit worrying.",,mmanfrin,209,1395707365,2014-03-25 00:29:25+00:00,story,7462865,,30.0,, 1346,What book changed your life in 2013?,,"Ok this question is a shameless attempt to find out what the HN community has been reading in 2013 but the caveat is that the book must have had a meaningful impact in the way you live your life. That's fairly open ended and can include anything such as new programming languages learned, health and fitness, investment philosophy, relationships and so on. Choosing one book is an artificial constraint but it does help with focusing on that one big change. Also the book doesn't have to be from 2013 only that you read it during the year and it in some way changed your life.
The most significant book for me was in the area of health and fitness as I finally read The 4-Hour Body (2010) by Tim Ferris. I'd read about many of the topics he covers before but they just didn't stick until The 4-Hour Body. What I like about Tim's approach is that one should experiment to see what works rather than following a rigid plan. I tried many of his suggestions and some worked for me while others didn't. The binge day was particularly bad so now I just follow the same plan every day; as well I had to increase the amount of carbs before my last meal of the day to get a better sleep. But experimentation and tracking my results has made all the difference from other diet and exercise changes I've attempted in the past. It's definitely worth the read even if experimentation and tracking are the only things you get from the book.
Thanks for a great community and I look forward to your suggestions.",,fraqed,209,1388254570,2013-12-28 18:16:10+00:00,story,6975638,,177.0,, 1347,"How did you grow from 100 to 1,000 users?",,,,sherm8n,209,1493480670,2017-04-29 15:44:30+00:00,story,14227063,,65.0,, 1348,What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?,,"I still use Wordpress and shared hosting for most projects and microsites, simply because it's easiest and I'm not a developer. But I suspect there are better ways to do this in 2016/2017. Especially since I'm prepared to learn more.
Essentials: static hosting, custom domains, html, css, js Nice to have: php, FTP, markdown support
Am I missing out on AWS, Github, Digital Ocean, Heroku?
What are the pros and cons?",,shovel,209,1479899643,2016-11-23 11:14:03+00:00,story,13021722,,220.0,, 1349,The WSJ paywall workaround no longer works. Why are their links allowed?,,"https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
The official guidelines only permit paywalls with a viable workaround and the WSJ workarounds have all stopped working for many people, myself included. I'm getting pretty tired of clicking links and getting a headline + 12 words.
Before someone asks, I don't think the WSJ has earned a subscription from me. But that's beside the point - isn't it now in violation of HN's rules?",,ddevault,208,1484825459,2017-01-19 11:30:59+00:00,story,13434938,,96.0,, 1350,What podcasts do you listen to regularly?,,,,lsr_ssri,208,1537942265,2018-09-26 06:11:05+00:00,story,18073169,,147.0,, 1351,What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?,,"If you have unlimited time and/or resources, what single software engineering problem would you address? I'm not talking about "Peace on Earth"-type problems, but rather real world practical problems facing software engineering that could be actually solved if you could pay an rationally large team of serious hackers a rationally large amount of money for a rationally long period of time. Another way of asking this is: What's the most important piece of technical debt across software engineering, that could practically be solved if we put enough energy into it?",,abrax3141,208,1581110721,2020-02-07 21:25:21+00:00,story,22271124,,352.0,, 1352,"""Basic SEO""?",,"I see this phrase thrown around like a magic spell from time to time, a la ""Put up a site about a profitable niche, do some basic SEO, and bam! presto! Instant $50/month!""
But what is ""Basic SEO"" to you? Blogging? Adwords? Paying dudes via MechTurk to write articles for you?
Googling ""Basic SEO"" brings you a few good articles, but a LOT of ""buy our ebook"" articles too. I just feel that if it were so basic, it'd be more common to find.
So what do you consider to be ""Basic SEO"", HN?",,DanHulton,208,1268079397,2010-03-08 20:16:37+00:00,story,1176294,,57.0,, 1353,I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs,,"I use Linux and I have for nearly all of my teenage and adult life. I had a short foray into Solaris; ZFS was nice, and so were the raid tools. Otherwise I found it to be rather tedious.
Tell me, why would I ever want to use one of those BSDs over Linux of some sort? What's the allure?",,ghotli,208,1280793074,2010-08-02 23:51:14+00:00,story,1569559,,161.0,, 1354,"One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?",,"with say 30 tabs open, 3+ GB is gone, chrome is such a dominant memory consumer! in fact it takes about 10X more memory than everything else combined on my ubuntu all the time, why?
Yes I use onetab extensions etc to save memory, just wondering why one tab takes so much memory, is this a design fault?",,ausjke,208,1520723801,2018-03-10 23:16:41+00:00,story,16560655,,202.0,, 1355,How do you start a new career with minimal qualifications?,,"This week will be my 16th Thanksgiving in a row working. I haven't had a cost-of-living increase since 2008, the annual merit increases cap out right around inflation (or under) most years, I've been working 60~ hour weeks, working 6 day weeks, for over half a year now. In the past 2 weeks we've had 3 people quit from just my team. Put a fork in me, I'm done.
The problem is, my job doesn't really translate to much. I fill out paperwork all day, clearing international freight through customs. I don't have a GED, I'm still 3~ years out from earning a degree (which I don't actually want, but employers 100% do). I've even been rejected by companies in my industry, Flexport for example rejected me outright for not having a degree at a time when I had 11 years of experience "Hope all is well, Ryan! I wanted to extend a virtual wave and thank you for your interest in joining our team. You obviously have many of the skills we're looking for. However, for the Customs Brokerage role we require a BA/BS degree as well as previous experience in a broker role doing entries and customs classifications." so I struggle to even escape my current employer for a job that pays even remotely what I make (about 39k in central Indiana after 15 and a half years, while McDonalds is starting at $13-15 an hour all over the state...).
I'm at the point where the only joy I have in my life is what little time my wife and I get to spend together, and some volunteer stuff through my religion. Today I'll clock in, work 11 hours, get to have dinner with my wife and do some classwork, then back to bed to rinse and repeat. On Thanksgiving I'll only work 10 hours...
What do I do? I can't get a degree any faster than I already am.",,ryanmercer,208,1637581979,2021-11-22 11:52:59+00:00,story,29305389,,152.0,, 1356,Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends,,"I'm currently looking for a solution to provide (non-technical) team members with a way to interact with a SQL database (MySQL at the moment; PostgreSQL in the future). Basically, I want/need to build several very simple web-based CRUD-forms. Does anyone remember MS Access...
While my initial thought was to build a simple Django application, I'd prefer something non-developers could also work with. -> Low-/No-Code Solution
While I'm generally willing to pay, I'd really prefer an open and self-hosted solution.",,codechoir,208,1617264336,2021-04-01 08:05:36+00:00,story,26657803,,142.0,, 1357,What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server?,,I installed Kubuntu on an old PC and am currently using it as a remote dev environment & FTP server. Any other cool use-cases for a spare Linux box?,,lordleft,207,1562161890,2019-07-03 13:51:30+00:00,story,20344244,,139.0,, 1358,"Elizabeth Holmes has 200 patents – if tech didn't work, why not noticed?",,"I searched her name on a couple of patent search engines.
Turns out she has around 200 patents (with other people mostly).
So if her tech didn't work, then why didn't people figure it out sooner? Why did it take a journalist from WSJ to find the fraud?
How come some prominent physicist or biologist doing "competition research" didn't declare that the patents were based on bogus claims?",,anonymousmoose,207,1529173946,2018-06-16 18:32:26+00:00,story,17328664,,118.0,, 1359,Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN?,,"I've been programming for about 4 years now. During that time I've become an integral part of my team and have constantly been learning. Despite this I always read comments on HN and feel like there is SO much to learn that I'll never have the time for. I work at a big company and desperately want to leave so I have been dedicating time to prepare for interviews (pretty much just CTCI at this point). Even if I do get better at my interviews and land a job elsewhere, I'm worried that either I'll 1) not be as good as the other engineers there and they will quickly notice or 2) will basically feel the same as I do now. Hopefully the latter doesn't happen. My work environment is pretty negative right now so maybe a change of scenery will help.
Anyway, back to the original question. Does anybody else come on here and feel overwhelmed? Too much to learn, a lot of other people out there who are so much better than you etc. Could be just me, the Bay Area, or tech in general.",,yeswecatan,207,1497027561,2017-06-09 16:59:21+00:00,story,14522653,,147.0,, 1360,Turning 40 soon – seeking personal and professional life advice,,Hi HN - I have always enjoyed being part of this community. I am turning 40 within a month and would love to have any personal and /or professional life advice you might have to give a curious person (and a techie) who is married and a father of two. Look forward to all you have to offer!,,quietthrow,207,1524970777,2018-04-29 02:59:37+00:00,story,16950507,,102.0,, 1361,"Product Managers, how did you get there and what's your background?",,"There aren't "junior product" positions. What skills must be demonstrable?",,mezod,207,1485263207,2017-01-24 13:06:47+00:00,story,13470985,,115.0,, 1362,How to do cross platform GUI?,,"In essentially every discussion about desktop applications there are a lot of comments about how not to build desktop apps, but very little sharing of resources showing how to do it right.
I’ve seen people defend electron, talk about core logic in a cross platform language and native gui code and any number of other options.
As a middle of the road developer I think it’s difficult to find any consensus (besides electron being both simple and hated).
What resources are there for building quality, functional cross platform desktop application?",,anang,207,1598081493,2020-08-22 07:31:33+00:00,story,24242412,,388.0,, 1363,What percentage of your users are using social login?,,"In first quarter of 2018, what percentage of you users have been using social login (Facebook/google/etc) for you projects? I've never liked the idea of using social login as a customer, but I don't want to alienate users as a dev.",,honksillet,206,1521896241,2018-03-24 12:57:21+00:00,story,16666373,,167.0,, 1364,Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?,,"Change and variety of options is a good thing, but in js the rate of change in methodologies, frameworks, libraries is so much high. For example angular 2 is not compatible with angular 1, so before you even learn a framework its API is different and when you finally learn it, probably is considered outdated. Why is this happening especially in js?",,blohs,206,1477022987,2016-10-21 04:09:47+00:00,story,12758085,,294.0,, 1365,How to not fail on coding interview questions?,,"I'm a mid-senior level software engineer with 5+ years of industry experience and making $100,000+. I don't consider myself a bad software engineer, and yet I can't seem to solve some basic problems on a white-board in 30-60min (i.e. traverse a heap, merge sorted arrays etc).
I joined my company as an intern ~5 years ago & when I interviewed for the position I didn't have to solve any white-board style interview questions etc., since it was an un-paid internship. After a few months I had demonstrated my ability to write code they made me an offer.
When I now casually look around and apply for mid-to-senior level positions I cannot seem to get past phone (coding interview) part, that involves solving some basic algorithm on collabedit. I get nervous and given I need to solve (perhaps a simple) problem in an optimal/sub-optimal way in 30 minutes, my brain sort of shuts off and I cannot arrive at a clean solution, let alone solve the problem end-to-end.
I'm respected within the company, if you were to ask any colleague I have worked with whether I can write clean testable code that solves real business problems, everyone would attest that I absolutely can.
How do you create that environment of - "Coding under pressure and someone looking at your code while you're trying to think of how to solve a problem and your brain is thinking about everything other than a problem itself"???
One idea is to just keep applying and failing until I become immune to it. But each failure kind of brings me down, and makes me think that I'm a bad engineer.
Last thing I want to mention is that I don't blame the process itself. I think white-board style questions eliminate a lot of bad candidates. I know that the process has to be rigorous because those jobs pay well. But there's also extreme examples like the inventor of homebrew that got rejected by google because he couldn't reverse a binary tree.",,evoneutron,206,1529261725,2018-06-17 18:55:25+00:00,story,17333697,,126.0,, 1366,HN Political News Overload?,,"There has been a noticeable increase in political topics since I joined HN a few years back. The HN Guidelines lead off with the following:
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."
Some of the stories posted are indeed of specific interest to community. Very few are evidence of some "interesting new phenomenon". Most are a rehashing of the same old topics.
One of the most admirable things about hackers is their ability to accomplish great things without - or in spite of government. The recent preoccupation is a bit sad. Great minds could be focused on better things.
Any thoughts on solutions to this concern? Yes - one would be to ignore political posts and move on to others of interest. But based upon comments I have seen by numerous respected HN members, I am not the only one seeing this. Any thoughts on how filter/tagging/flagging might apply?",,EzGraphs,206,1375094041,2013-07-29 10:34:01+00:00,story,6120201,,149.0,, 1367,Team for Hire?,,"Is there anyone who wants to hire a whole team?
Due to a corporate decision, the OpenTable branch office in Chattanooga, TN is being closed down. Many of us are unwilling or unable due to family and homes to relocate to San Fransisco. (No, not everyone wants to live in SF, and we have faster internet here.) So we're looking for an "acquihire" without a company name.
About 8 Backend and 4 frontend engineers as well as a few product & design guys—all ready to hit the ground running. Most of us are startup veterans.
Interested parties can email me: wil@wilwade.com",,wilwade,206,1475849009,2016-10-07 14:03:29+00:00,story,12660702,,102.0,, 1368,Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?,,"Some common interview types are algorithm problems, pair programming exercises, take-home assignments, etc.
Has there been any research into the predictive power of such assessments? Is there any evidence that a particular type of question correlates well with job success?",,CSMastermind,206,1556198904,2019-04-25 13:28:24+00:00,story,19747821,,122.0,, 1369,"Learning to code, without a computer?",,"I have a friend who is incarcerated, and is dedicated to learning how to code, no matter how slow or arduous the process may be. He has no access to a computer, just books and writing utensils. While it may be very difficult, what are suggestions you have on how to give him the best chance for success?
Even if he's not learning a specific language, what are some background concepts he can learn in depth that will help him understand coding? I recommended he study algorithms as a starting point but I am not a dev and am not sure how to proceed without a computer.
I realize this is an unusual question, but I greatly appreciate any responses. It's sad that someone so badly wants to improve themselves and can't easily do so because of our archaic prison system. I want to help give him a chance to have a real profession once released. Thank you!",,givinguflac,205,1475936541,2016-10-08 14:22:21+00:00,story,12667012,,185.0,, 1370,How do you roll back production?,,"Once you have pushed code to production and realized there is an issue, how do you roll back?
Do you roll forward? Flip DNS back to the old deployment? Click the button in heroku that takes you back to the previous version?",,mooreds,205,1572784865,2019-11-03 12:41:05+00:00,story,21433526,,152.0,, 1371,CS and programming books of 2017,,Which CS/Programming related book(s) that were released in 2017 would you suggest?
My suggestion: Clean Architecture by Robert Martin,,avrmav,205,1512741036,2017-12-08 13:50:36+00:00,story,15878575,,71.0,, 1372,I've learned a programming language – how do I solve problems with code?,,"I've spent a lot of time learning JavaScript (done the Codecademy JS course, finished CodeSchool's Real Time Web with Node.js, and read and implemented most of Node.js in Action), and I thought all I would need to do after I learned it was to start writing code.
Well, I can write code, sure. But I don't know how to _solve problems_ with it. I know how to create a webserver in Node that echos "Hello, World!" because I've done it a thousand times. But I don't know how to make a site with logic and structure behind it that will lend itself to solid functionality that users can benefit from.
How do I learn that?",,bnb,205,1417209312,2014-11-28 21:15:12+00:00,story,8672200,,104.0,, 1373,What are you doing to improve your health?,,I guess this is aimed more at older devs and admins who have been sitting at their computers for the last 20 years like me.
I'm starting to feel my age. I get tired quicker. My health isn't what it used to be. I get the feeling that staring at a computer screen and sitting down all day in an office is not particularly healthy.
Has anyone got any tips how to improve mental and physical well-being?,,junto,205,1428671230,2015-04-10 13:07:10+00:00,story,9353998,,357.0,, 1374,Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort?,,"I recently purchased a boxed set of Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming on Amazon ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321751043 ) based on its stellar reputation as one of the indispensible, foundational computer science books that every programmer should read.
I excitedly started delving into it last night but after an hour or two of reading and exercises I started getting the sinking feeling that I'd just wasted $178.08. It seems quite mired in 1960's-era academic minutiae and tedious mathematical formalism that doesn't seem very relevant to a modern practicing programmer.
For all its focus on algorithmic performance I found no mention of pipeline stalls, designing for cache performance, branch prediction, multithreading, etc. which are all very fundamental aspects of good performance on modern hardware.
So for those who are practical programmers and have gone down the Knuth TAOCP rabbit hole I ask - was it worth it? Did it give you knowledge and skills applicable to your programming work or was it mostly academic / intellectual entertainment?",,QuadrupleA,205,1452718811,2016-01-13 21:00:11+00:00,story,10897460,,132.0,, 1375,Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class,,"Hello HN! My name is Sankalp. I’m taking a class called Fixing Social Media at MIT (https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu). We are examining problems with existing modes of social media and exploring affirmative visions for social media that are good for individuals and society.
At this point, the class is working on case studies of successful and healthy online communities, where we are seeking insights from online communities we are part of, inspired by, or find interesting. The goal of the assignment is to figure out whether an online community exemplifies or doesn’t exemplify ‘healthy’ behaviors, from the points of view of their own members, on their own terms. I’m here to understand HN from your perspectives and I’m interested in hearing from all of you.
What criteria do you use to determine 'health' in online communities? How do these differ from those criteria you use to determine ‘health’ in offline communities you are in? How does HN exemplify or not exemplify 'healthy' behaviors? What behaviors of your own would you acknowledge may or may not contribute to the overall ‘health’ of HN?
How did you get into HN? Who introduced you? What makes you stay?
I began using HN as a source for news, projects, ideas, etc. a couple years ago when a mentor referred me here, but I hadn’t made an account until this week for this Ask HN. I check HN once or twice daily and I actually stay for the discussion as much as the links shared by HN members.
In case this is helpful for our discussion, something that our class recently discussed is that communities with controversy aren't necessarily 'unhealthy' — as in, the ability of some communities to work through a controversy and maintain coherence, and to exist as multiple voices coming out of a controversy can be an indicator of being 'healthy'.
I aim to share my findings as well. I hope these questions are interesting to you and that we can hear a variety of perspectives in the comments!",,sankalpb,205,1585324963,2020-03-27 16:02:43+00:00,story,22704051,,364.0,, 1376,Which companies work like Gumroad?,,"I understand that it’s not for everyone, but I’m curious to see which companies work that way. Would love to give it a shot.
Edit: @Waterfowl posted the specifics:
this article about how gumroad works was at the top of the front page yesterday.
https://sahillavingia.com/work
discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673275 reply",,sudhirj,205,1610124963,2021-01-08 16:56:03+00:00,story,25686678,,147.0,, 1377,Recommendations for AI generated music software?,,"It's surprisingly hard to find a solution for these simple requirements:
I want to create AI generated to use as soundtracks on videos - so there must be no question about royalties or copyright
I want to be able to specify how long the music should go for.
I want to be able to save the music.
It would be great if I could have some control over the pace/style of the music but I'm not a musician so lots of options would be detrimental. I don't want to compose music - I want it made for me.
I'm happy to pay, but the prices must be clear and up front and not require me to email the company to "make an enquiry".
I've done a fair bit of searching but not found anything to make AI music that meets these needs. It's strange given there is so much interest in AI I would have thought there would be plenty of good products available to buy.
Ideally I'd like to make music such as ambient music, similar to Brian Eno, Jean-Michel Jarre, Phillip Glass, but it would be great just be able to explore a range of types of music to find what I want.
Can anyone recommend any good AI music generators?",,andrewstuart,205,1563971043,2019-07-24 12:24:03+00:00,story,20514446,,83.0,, 1378,What do you do when you've lost motivation at work?,,"I'm woundering how do you approach this kind of feeling when you don't feel motivated at work.
I think that majority of people will solve it with finding a new job or maybe take a vacation. But, this is all about long term soltions. What I want to know, how to turn your motivation back right away, without changing a job or taking a vacation. Is it even possible?",,julianusti,205,1493826308,2017-05-03 15:45:08+00:00,story,14256746,,136.0,, 1379,Books that teach you programming languages via systems projects?,,"Looking for a book/textbook that teaches you a programming language through systems (or vice versa). For example, a book that teaches modern C++ by showing you how to program a compiler; a book that teaches operating systems and the language of choice in the book is Rust; a book that teaches database internals through Golang; etc. Basically, looking for a fun project-based book that I can walk through and spend my free time working through.
Any recommendations?",,Foe,204,1631259521,2021-09-10 07:38:41+00:00,story,28478751,,66.0,, 1380,Any recommendations on resources for learning one algorithm a day?,,,,alphanumeric0,204,1475966553,2016-10-08 22:42:33+00:00,story,12669054,,40.0,, 1381,What's the state of the job market in data science and machine learning?,," If one were to use Hacker News as their only source of information, it would seem that machine learning is a very overrated topic. There is something related to it on HN's front page almost every day. This proliferation of courses, resources, books and startups would hint that machine learning is becoming more and more accessible to the average programmer and that the market is on track to getting saturated quickly. Is this the current trend? If yes, is it limited to the US? What about the machine learning scene in Europe? Maybe someone here could provide some perspective.",,TXV,204,1482356536,2016-12-21 21:42:16+00:00,story,13232883,,137.0,, 1382,What current companies have the best software engineering culture?,,,,kalarikos,204,1483513220,2017-01-04 07:00:20+00:00,story,13316234,,214.0,, 1383,What are your go-to blogs and books on building business applications?,,,,PirxThePilot,204,1533568040,2018-08-06 15:07:20+00:00,story,17698231,,20.0,, 1384,Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?,,"Despite all the posts about the declining quality of Google, we haven't seen any serious competitors arise over the last years. DDG is at about 2% market share, which is great but still very low.
Apart from Google's monopoly and the big technical challenges, what would a competitor need to defy Google?",,hubraumhugo,204,1648383604,2022-03-27 12:20:04+00:00,story,30819678,,319.0,, 1385,Books on specific topics that have applied to many areas of your life?,,"What are books that you read for a specific topic, that you've found massive use for in a variety of areas in daily life?
I thought to submit this thread after reading
> Reading the book (on operant conditioning, with particular emphasis on how it can be used to train dogs) was transformative for me. Operant conditioning is such a major force in shaping our behaviour. I learnt an awful lot of things from this book which should have been taught in school; I see the principles around me in action every day, but they're just not the kind of thing one habitually pays attention to.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11425249
In regards to a book about dog training.
Other books I've seen this mentioned about:
- "The Inner Game of Tennis"
- "Nonviolent Communication"
- "The Design of Everyday Things"
- "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk"
What are books you read on a specific topic, that have ended up changing your view of daily life, or being useful in many more situations than just the topic of the book?",,arikr,204,1511393279,2017-11-22 23:27:59+00:00,story,15761599,,105.0,, 1386,What about a platform for hiring teams instead of individuals?,,"We see a lot of startups that use existing platforms for individual hiring to team up freelancers. However building teams on in individual hires take too much time and effort, with no knowledge about compatibility or assurance regarding the resulting efficiency of the team.
Startups need more than an group of people, they need an efficient team to move fast. As Aristotle said "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts".
What do you think of a platform where recruiters can search and hire teams based on their portfolio and soft skills, while still having access to each individual technical expertise?",,dpflucas,203,1499343423,2017-07-06 12:17:03+00:00,story,14709767,,157.0,, 1387,What has the past 12 months taught you?,,,,onuralp,203,1529017015,2018-06-14 22:56:55+00:00,story,17316120,,334.0,, 1388,Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?,,"I realize this is somewhat of a taboo topic but I feel like if there is anywhere we can have a real discussion on mental health it's going to be HN.
I have been struggling with depression for as long as I can remember.
Life has taken me on ups and downs but as far as I can can tell I'm fairly lucky, well-off and have every reason to be happy.
Unfortunately I'm not.
I wake up with a pit in my stomach that I carry around all day and no matter how hard I try I just can't shake it.
It also gets really bad in waves to the point where I nearly can't function but most of all it makes me procrastinate on almost everything.
I usually end up using all my effort just to be a functional member of my team at work.
The sad part is that I know that if I didn't have this condition and I was able to sleep when I wanted to I could be many times more productive, not only at work but also in life.
The obvious solution to these problems are SSRIs and other anti-depressants. These drugs are very powerful but have really bad side-effects for most people that take them.
For these reasons I am completely shit-scared of them. I see them as my option of last resort but increasingly I feel my options running out.
I have tried therapy, I have tried all sorts of coping mechanisms but nothing solves the problem permanently.
So HN, what has your experience been with depression? Have you tried the drugs? What worked or didn't? Have you been able to triumph without chemical assistance and what did that look like? Is my utter terror of these drugs warranted or should I just bite the bullet and try them?",,jpgvm,203,1649186659,2022-04-05 19:24:19+00:00,story,30923701,,365.0,, 1389,How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?,,"I know the easy answer to my question is ""just take a rest and don't think about it,"" but how would you really know? Do you have a personal acid test to know if you're really tired or just plain undisciplined?",,fezzl,203,1321874838,2011-11-21 11:27:18+00:00,story,3260751,,100.0,, 1390,"Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what do you do with it?",,"I'm sort-of intrigued by Perl 6, but a curiosity of mine, which I believe that I share with some other people, is how it's used in the real world, be it in little scripts or commercial software. What are your feelings and comments on Perl 6, and if you use it, how and where you use it (I'd be glad it people shared links to published projects and actual code out in the internet). Thanks in advance!",,gkya,203,1486392442,2017-02-06 14:47:22+00:00,story,13579838,,152.0,, 1391,Is big-endian dead?,,"Are there any big-endian chips still in production outside the embedded or specialty market?
Even MIPS and PPC now support a little-endian mode and are usually deployed that way. ARM is nearly always LE or deployed that way, and RISC-V is LE.
Edit: bonus factoid:
Little-endian is slightly more confusing for humans but may be objectively better for machines. On a little-endian machine integer size casts are free -- e.g. casting a uint64_t to uint32_t just means reading the first 4 bytes of it. On big-endian machines integer size casts require pointer math.",,api,202,1516382647,2018-01-19 17:24:07+00:00,story,16187939,,187.0,, 1392,Who's Hiring? (take 2),,"The original "Who's Hiring?" thread was one of the most active threads ever at HN, and I know it did a lot of good for a number of companies and individuals. I think we are due once again for such an opportunity to connect these people.
So, as LukeG put it "Are you hiring? Does your company (or your friend's) have openings? Let HN know!!! Let's get some good people good jobs."
Notes:
* I got my current job from the previous thread. It has been a pleasure.
* Original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375410",,qhoxie,202,1250116749,2009-08-12 22:39:09+00:00,story,759452,,227.0,, 1393,How to leave a startup when you own a third of it?,,I'm leaving a startup I founded due to disagreements over team/strategy. I worked on it for about 16 months.
We are 3 co founders and we have 33/33/33.
I want to quit it in 2 months and we are currently in the process to raise 500K for 25% before the end of the year.
Is it reasonable for me to keep 10% of it. - They think it's way too much.
Sell to them 10% right now - How much??
Sell 13% of it after the 500k raised - How much??
Thanks!,,Jomi,202,1495020230,2017-05-17 11:23:50+00:00,story,14357379,,158.0,, 1394,How do I ask for a raise?,,"What do you think is the best approach?
-I'm a shy person regarding this question, I have a friend that his method is "I have another offer, can you matched? or I'll leave" and got a raise 3/4 times.",,lelima,202,1554114515,2019-04-01 10:28:35+00:00,story,19541937,,152.0,, 1395,How much did you earn as an employee from an exit?,,"If you joined a startup before as an employee, how much did you earn out when it exited?",,twidlit,202,1315108462,2011-09-04 03:54:22+00:00,story,2958766,,110.0,, 1396,"Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code easier for you?",,I've often wondered what things we have in style guides which make it difficult for visually impaired programmers. I would like to know how to make my code easier for you to read and write. Please help me to improve my code for you.,,ioquatix,202,1542512750,2018-11-18 03:45:50+00:00,story,18478776,,43.0,, 1397,Why isn't Erlang more popular?,,"The old Erlang mailing list/twit o'sphere is in a fluster. A manic phase: “WhatsApp - they'll no be asking who uses Erlang now!" preceded by a depressive phase "why isn't Erlang more popular?".
The Erlang community is the last place with insight into why Erlang is not popular.
So lets ask people NOT in the community. Here is a list of hypotheses.
Erlang is not more successful because:
* OTP means Open Telephony Platform
* Erlang/OTP is run by Ericsson
* the syntax is prolog-y & not c-y or ruby-y or python-y, its just too damn erlang-y
* no package manager
* no list of open source packages
* no community site
* the mailing list is the community
* everyone knows each other from Stockholm
* it is too hard to get a first working app
* lists for strings, aargh!
* no for loops, eek!
* variables don't vary, whimper!
* people don't learn OTP first but start with Erlang
* people don't learn Erlang first but start with OTP
* no docs
* too many docs but it is the wrong sort
* not enough teaching materials
* doesn't run on the JVM
* we used to think that it was because there were no books...
* Erlang Solutions isn't a proper internet company
* the language develops too slowly
* emacs is the IDE
Some things people are pinning their hats on:
* more books, yay!
* WhatsApp!
* Elixir is irresistable to Rubyists
* LuvvieScript will prove irresistable to the JSers (disclaimer, I'm lying)
* FP is trés, trés à la mode
* LFE & Joxa will be the little lisps that can...
* something will turn up
* something better turn up
* oh God, get me another drink, even at Stockholm prices, I'll be here when something turns up, but by God, a feed of strong drink is the only way to endure the wait
It would be helpful if you would say if you have:
* never used Erlang nor considered it
* tried it & stopped
* use it regularly
So fire away. Do your worst. Hold nothing back.",,gordonguthrie,202,1393001266,2014-02-21 16:47:46+00:00,story,7277797,,235.0,, 1398,How much do developers earn in Europe?,https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTh14SV6qbMvGrGz5-XQz0aGp04j5M4P_4ciaSOXsTBfzvGA/viewform,,,ciaoben,201,1503569023,2017-08-24 10:03:43+00:00,story,15088840,,180.0,, 1399,Why Isn't the Construction of CRUD Web UIs 90% Automated?,,"It seems silly to write the same types of code over and over to build CRUD web user interfaces. There have of course been hundreds of UI builders. Why aren't they used? Styling should just use plain CSS. Behavior should be mostly auto generated config from a standardized format such as json schema or a db schema. Behavior customizability should come from tweaking the auto generated json config, and adding some HTML and JavaScript to higher order components. The build targets should use plugins, starting with angular and react. Components should use a shared plugin infrastructure. Designers should be able to prototype in an invision like tool with real CSS and HTML that can be checked into source control. Why isn't this the way things are done?",,davidjnelson,201,1507491720,2017-10-08 19:42:00+00:00,story,15429616,,186.0,, 1400,How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB?,,"This is just insane. Photoshop takes less space than that, most fully functional desktop apps take less space than that. If you work for FB, or know someone who does, can you enlighten us as to what in the hell is in that HALF a GB (!!!) app?",,x0054,201,1537044218,2018-09-15 20:43:38+00:00,story,17995954,,156.0,, 1401,Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?,,Might be useful to provide some information about existing conditions you may have so that we can get a picture of what symptoms to watch for beyond the "fever and difficulty to breathe" described by most sources.,,ekianjo,201,1584184677,2020-03-14 11:17:57+00:00,story,22574497,,190.0,, 1402,"Are you happy, well-rounded? (dealing w/ depression/lack of motivation)",,"HN, I ask this question here as I'm unsure of where else to go with it. I'm sure a lot of people like myself are members (mid-20s, striving to be self-actualized and think about life goals and happiness, or went through this before) and I'm sure someone dealt with something similar. I have basically lost the motivation to do anything, in my professional and personal lives and am sure it's something akin to a quarter-life crisis.
More importantly, I have lost the ability to tell if and what I want anything from life. I have been a few years out of grad school; the train tracks of school/first job are fading. I have no idea where I want to live, no idea what I want to be doing, no idea where I want to be doing it and no idea what will actually make me happy. Or if I do know exactly where I want to live, I'm always terrified that I'll regret the move later.
This is affecting me emotionally, hurting my relationship with my long-term girlfriend (hopefully soon fiance), and is much more severe than what I've experienced before. I am going to make an apointment with a psychologist, but after a few unsuccessful attempts to appeal to parents and friends, I'm not sure what else who else to turn to or how to proceed.
Some people say this is what entering adulthood's like, but everyone around me seems to be perfectly fine.
Thank you in advance for any advice and I hope it helps someone else who's going through something similar.",,asym,201,1270604902,2010-04-07 01:48:22+00:00,story,1246200,,138.0,, 1403,How much of your time at work do you spend not working?,,Let's include meetings/email as job related.,,acalderaro,200,1491858710,2017-04-10 21:11:50+00:00,story,14082599,,155.0,, 1404,Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread),,"I thought I'd start a ""brag"" thread. I know there are some really interesting and inspiring people here and I want to hear all the cool, unusual, unique things you have done.
Examples:
* I've travelled to all 7 continents
* I've won an olympic gold medal
* I've built a start-up from scratch and sold to Google
* I invented a consumer electronic device that has sold 10M units
* I've produced a feature length motion picture [Insert Title]
* I had this ... funny life experience
* I went drinking with Vladimir PutinWhat would HN have the modern western high school student learn with respect to "Information and Communications Technology"?",,NiloCK,200,1574982287,2019-11-28 23:04:47+00:00,story,21660754,,236.0,, 1406,What is your financial “setup”?,,"I've gotten a lot of good recommendations for software from this community - most recently AVRFuses and pyenv. These both focus on being simple and "doing one thing really well". They're tools and don't require much active thinking to use them regularly, which I really like.
I'm trying to get my finances set up better, and I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a "setup" of bank account, credit card(s), investment platform, budgeting tools, etc along these lines. Ally Bank and SoFi seem good, as does Wealthfront, but I'm just not sure if I'm using them right. I have Mint but it spams me with notifications and I'm not sure what exactly it does for me. Credit cards feel stressful to think about with keeping track of what to use for what purchase or making sure they're all paid off - I recently got a Citi card and the app alone makes me want to get rid of it.
Does anyone have a "setup" for how you manage your money that you really like? Anything that follows the "don't make me think" philosophy?",,PascLeRasc,200,1576966389,2019-12-21 22:13:09+00:00,story,21853636,,143.0,, 1407,What are your passive income sources?,,I do affiliate marketing. Just looking for few other options and would love to hear your experience/story of creating passive income sources !,,introvertmac,200,1477502629,2016-10-26 17:23:49+00:00,story,12798447,,144.0,, 1408,What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?,,"I want to become a better developer and ideally get more into artificial neural networks also. Looking for audiobooks mainly, as I've found most podcasts quite light on substance. Any recommendations from the HN crowd?",,bberrry,200,1504550906,2017-09-04 18:48:26+00:00,story,15170121,,93.0,, 1409,Is there a way to efficiently subscribe to an SQL query for changes?,,"I know [RethinkDB][1] used to do this with their SQL-like ReQL language, but I looked around a bit and can't find much else about it - and I would have thought it would be more common.
I'm more interesting in queries with joins and doing it efficiently, instead of just tracking updates to tables that are modified, and re-rerunning the entire query.
If we think about modern frontends using SQL-based backends, essentially every time we render, its ultimately the result of a tree of SQL queries (queries depend on results of other queries) running in the backend. Our frontend app state is just a tree of materialized views of our database which depend on each other. We've got a bunch of state management libraries that deal with trees but they don't fit so well with relational/graph-like data.
I came across a Postgres proposal for [Incremental View Maintenance][2] which generates a diff against an existing query with the purpose of updating a materialized view. Oracle also has [`FAST REFRESH`][3] for materialized views.
I guess it's relatively easy to do until you start needing joins or traversing graphs/hierarchies - which is why its maybe avoided.
EDIT: [Materialize][1] looks interesting in this space: "Execute streaming SQL Joins" but more focused on the event streams rather than general-purpose DML/OLTP.
[1]: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb_rebirth
[2]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incremental_View_Maintenance
[3]: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DWHSG/refresh.htm#DWHSG8361
[4]: https://materialize.com/",,vaughan,200,1619089499,2021-04-22 11:04:59+00:00,story,26901352,,104.0,, 1410,How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?,,"Hi, I believe I'm a decent programmer, may not be a rockstar or anything. Recently I've changed my company to one of the "sought afters", and I've noticed that I've been getting some comments about the quality of work and some uncomfortable questions about my skills. I've been forced to change my design more than once during code review and there were other times when my PR was outright rejected as it did not meet the required standards.
Now I'm a little worried that if my situation doesn't change, my career would suffer. I've started to watch a few videos online about design. But I'm not sure if they're going to really help as they usually talk about very basics which doesn't help in real world coding.
I usually take 3-4 tries with some significant amount of testing to get my code to a working state. I refer to stack overflow or ask my colleagues if I get stuck on some design / technology feature which I haven't seen before. I feel the above contributes to reduction in my speed of delivery and the rush to complete the deliverable on time, compromises the quality.
Are there any good ideas to improve one's coding / design skills significantly ? The challenge here is to deliver good quality code, while maintaining a decent speed of delivery.",,vcool07,200,1575724584,2019-12-07 13:16:24+00:00,story,21730125,,175.0,, 1411,What are some alternatives to HN?,,"Specifically, sites where you can post links and comment on them, but with a focus on technical topics.
EDIT: it's okay if it's not a popular (yet) site, just looking for all the options
EDIT2: this isn't a complaint about HN, just asking
EDIT3: please post them in auto-link format, thanks a ton",,_vya7,199,1392675306,2014-02-17 22:15:06+00:00,story,7254884,,186.0,, 1412,What landing page do you love?,,"I saw this question today on Indie Hackers and thought it would be interesting to ask the HN community.
For me, the answer would be Stripe Atlas (https://stripe.com/atlas)",,richardreeze,199,1578247133,2020-01-05 17:58:53+00:00,story,21962712,,147.0,, 1413,What is your Git commit/push flow?,,"I've long been in the practice of "commit early, commit often". If one use case works I commit, if the unit tests pass I commit. The code may be a mess, the variables may have names like 'foo' and 'bar' but I commit to have a last known good state. If I start mass refactoring and break the unit tests, I can revert everything and start over.
I also push often because I'm forever aware disks can fail. I'm not leaving a day's worth of work on my local drive and hoping it's there the next morning.
I've become increasingly aware that my coworkers have nice clean commit histories. When I look at their PRs, there are 2-4 commits and each is a clean, completely functioning feature. No "fix misspellings and whitespace" comments.
What flow do you follow?",,nineplay,199,1647530871,2022-03-17 15:27:51+00:00,story,30712175,,191.0,, 1414,Has anyone fixed their own bruxism?,,"I’ve clenched my teeth for 9-10 years. It either happened from a bike accident hurting my left jaw, wisdom teeth extraction, or stress from starting a business. All three happened pretty near together. It is not malocclusion, dentist ruled that out.
I clench. No longer damaging my teeth as I have a guard. But I still have tight masseters and neck pain.
I would like to eliminate or reduce the habit. Has anyone succeeded in doing so?",,graeme,199,1593296745,2020-06-27 22:25:45+00:00,story,23665164,,228.0,, 1415,Which are the best Go repositories to read to learn the language?,,I am looking for examples of open source projects showcasing best in class use of Golang. It doesn’t need to be the famous products we all know about.
I am looking at examples of real world professional usage for somebody already familiar with the language constructs and syntax.,,Kreotiko,199,1610900775,2021-01-17 16:26:15+00:00,story,25812021,,49.0,, 1416,Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?,,I did my MS and PhD in agriculture but am looking to pivot into something that gets me out of the lab.
I'm now doing the NYC Data Science course (https://online.nycdatascience.com) but am getting concerned I may have missed the boat. What does HN think?,,kylebenzle,199,1605423277,2020-11-15 06:54:37+00:00,story,25098921,,143.0,, 1417,How did you find your current job?,,,,onuralp,199,1534639096,2018-08-19 00:38:16+00:00,story,17791766,,207.0,, 1418,Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?,,"Whenever I'm searching for anything even mildly off the beaten path, it's not uncommon for the top results to be SEO stuffed spam websites, or maybe even real websites that I can't access (like paywalls or requiring adblocker exceptions to proceed). Usually pages from the same domains are top-ranked for other related searches too.
As a user I'd love to be able to tell my search engine to "Never show me results from this domains" (similar to blocking an account on Twitter) – but as far as I can tell there is no way to do this in either Google or DuckDuckGo search.
This seems like such low-hanging fruit to me that I'm wondering if other people have ever wanted this, and if there's actually a reason not to do it.",,pketh,199,1648562162,2022-03-29 13:56:02+00:00,story,30842565,,120.0,, 1419,Best Static Site Builder?,,"What's the best static site builder these days? One that generates static assets you can host yourself, say, on S3, etc.",,leoh,199,1574539270,2019-11-23 20:01:10+00:00,story,21616149,,160.0,, 1420,How can we fix Wikipedia?,,"Hi, not sure whether this is a good topic to discuss here or not but I keep seeing issues with Wikipedia which are getting worse with time, with regards to neutrality and editorialisation.
While Wikipedia's model seems far better than an individual publishing house's encyclopedia one where they can draw editors from millions of people throughout the world and are not bound by ads or sales to keep them afloat, in terms of editing it hasn't been working well.
Not every editor has equal power on Wikipedia. The more you have stayed on the site and the more time you spend on the site, you tend to have more say on what gets inside the articles. I have seen talk pages where the same three editors who seem to be part of the same echo chamber discussing issues preventing any alternative opinion or tone to come in the article. A behaviour very similar to Reddit where some subreddit moderators can sustain echo chambers by moderating anything not falling in line. In Wikipedia's case this often even leads to some sources getting picked over the other specially when it comes to media or books.
Is it possible to break the grasp of "editors" or is every user curated platform doomed to reach this state?",,actuator,198,1646488380,2022-03-05 13:53:00+00:00,story,30567593,,290.0,, 1421,Anyone have a really smart way to organize css?,,"I'd love to see an example of super organized, tight CSS. Do you organize by location (header, footer, body), by function (typography, position data), or both, with multiple instances of the same selector? Wondering how my css stacks up and where I could improve. Thanks! (:",,katieben,198,1301277646,2011-03-28 02:00:46+00:00,story,2376782,,119.0,, 1422,Current Crypto Best Practices,,"For a run-of-the-mill programmer, where are some places that I can look for crypto best practices? Eg. For storing passwords, Coda Hale's https://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ looks like it is still relevant, but how do I know that? I know that cperciva and tptacek are some go-to people on HN, but where can I point other non-HN readers?",,msingle,198,1491398155,2017-04-05 13:15:55+00:00,story,14041827,,68.0,, 1423,Are there good self-hosted video conference tools?,,"As we switched to full home office at my university, we started establishing short regular video conferences. Unfortunately, most tools are overwhelmed and we would like to self host our infrastructure.
Do any of you have experience with self hosted tools for video conferences?",,ketzu,198,1584355369,2020-03-16 10:42:49+00:00,story,22591543,,87.0,, 1424,What sort of side-projects are useful for getting jobs?,,"Most of mine are more of demo's I built for blog posts and teaching rather than SaaS products people are actually using. Some of my projects are rather complex and (at least I believe) do well to show knowledge and understanding, but I feel like the fact that they are demos rather than products make them rather useless.",,jamesmp98,198,1485187584,2017-01-23 16:06:24+00:00,story,13463105,,163.0,, 1425,Do software engineers have leverage?,,"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.
Some other people say it's actually a sucker shortage, meaning that employers do not compete on salary.
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."
A handful of software engineers produce software used by millions, and therefore generate an immense amount of value.
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.
Do software engineers really have leverage?
How could we increase our leverage?
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?
[1]: https://triplebyte.com/blog/rethinking-triplebyte",,5444r1f4tg,198,1624194116,2021-06-20 13:01:56+00:00,story,27569539,,199.0,, 1426,Courses/resources to improve my self-esteem and believe in myself more?,,I've been well aware I suffer from low self-esteem for many years and have worked with a therapist to try and address this but it's obvious I've got as far as I can go with my current therapist. Before I just change therapists I'm looking for empirical evidence from HN readers that might have gone a different route that has yielded tangible (if personal) results. Does anyone have anything to recommend?,,tinktank,198,1579452120,2020-01-19 16:42:00+00:00,story,22092303,,131.0,, 1427,Why aren't there middle class cars shaped like Ferraris?,,I always wondered why car companies like Mazda or Hyundai or Honda don't produce cars that may not have the performance capabilities of a Ferrari but resemble one in their shape? Thus advancing the way the car market looks now a days. Does anyone have a clear answer?,,amitassaraf,198,1485089867,2017-01-22 12:57:47+00:00,story,13454977,,212.0,, 1428,Which book have you re-read recently?,,,,samblr,198,1486210976,2017-02-04 12:22:56+00:00,story,13566733,,213.0,, 1429,Configuration Management for Personal Computer?,,"Hello HN,
Every couple of years I find myself facing the same old tired routine: migrating my stuff off some laptop or desktop to a new one, usually combined with an OS upgrade. Is there anything like the kind of luxuries we now consider normal on the server side (IaaS; Terraform; maybe Ansible) that can be used to manage your PC and that would make re-imaging it as easy as it is on the server side?",,jacquesm,198,1565554950,2019-08-11 20:22:30+00:00,story,20670235,,139.0,, 1430,What influenced your personal growth the most?,,,,shubhamjain,198,1515999135,2018-01-15 06:52:15+00:00,story,16149006,,168.0,, 1431,Best Engineering Blog Posts?,,"Looking for examples of high-quality engineering blog posts, and particularly interested in posts from tech company blogs.
I'm looking to see quality writing in this genre- brief explanations of technical concepts, good structure and flow, and tying things back to business context.",,themoops36,198,1641046490,2022-01-01 14:14:50+00:00,story,29758396,,47.0,, 1432,How does your company keep track of lessons learned?,,"As a single developer, I would usually just keep a .txt file with interesting things that I've learned throughout my tenure. It's a lot harder to replicate that efficiency for a large team; especially a distributed team. How do you effectively share knowledge with your co-workers? What have you seen work/fail?",,KennyFromIT,198,1581422345,2020-02-11 11:59:05+00:00,story,22297780,,128.0,, 1433,Resources for blind developers and sysadmins?,,"Two weeks ago, I woke up one morning with slightly blurry vision and a big, opaque, dark circle getting in the way of many things (especially if I close my right eye). Visited the doctor and I'm told that I have macular degeneration in my right eye and a retina problem in my left eye. It's surprising because I'm not yet 40. Doctor said I won't go blind and prescribed me some medicine for an initial treatment. I'm now looking into treatment options and researching this. I am supposed to go back to the doctor soon for a checkup. The dark circle has never left me; in fact, it's now been joined by a transparent, shimmering circle.
I'm not worried about going blind based on the doctor's opinion, but I am concerned that I will have to deal with long-term vision issues. Currently, I cannot read the text on my screen if I close my right eye, as the dark circle gets in the way of everything.
It left me with an interesting question. I'd read about blind people working as developers and sysadmins before. But I never really thought about it, because my vision was so good. I'm curious now, depending on how bad my eyes get, how would I transition so that I'd be able to continue my chosen profession? Are there blind developers and sysadmins here who can toss a few resources my way?
Much appreciated to the HN community in advance, thanks. I'm currently based in Asia, so about to sleep soon, hopefully I'll wake up with a big load of comments to read. ;)",,PakG1,197,1543074338,2018-11-24 15:45:38+00:00,story,18522497,,44.0,, 1434,Online Security Tips for Newbie Freedom Activists?,,"I'm becoming active in a local group of citizens (constituents of one electoral district here in the United States) who are trying to promote protection of civil liberties. Many are quite new to any kind of political activism and quite a few are very new to participation in online networks. What are your recommendations for sources of advice on best online security practices, easy for beginners to understand? The local group includes some technology professionals familiar with online security and administration of websites and mailing lists. The group plans to build a public-facing website, an internal use website, a mailing list for group participants, and other online channels of communication. It already operates a Twitter account and Facebook group (which is becoming quite active) and hosts in-person meetings. I would appreciate tips to pass on to new members about personal Internet security best practices and resources for nonprofit organizations or political action organizations to maintain secure communications in a possibly hostile environment.
Thanks for any suggestions you have.",,tokenadult,197,1485718627,2017-01-29 19:37:07+00:00,story,13516116,,131.0,, 1435,Please stop making infinite scrolling websites,,"Please, stop.
Sarcastic disclaimer: I am not backing my statements with facts. I think infinite scrolling websites are already a fact against themselves.
- They might be visually appealing (sometimes) but they are against usability, load and usefulness in general.
- Not even Pinterest (one of the most famous infinite scrollers advocates) allows you to go back to your scrolling level if you refresh.
- They are annoying. Their format fits mostly mobile devices where knowing where you are in a page is perceived differently (and sometimes totally not important).
- Fitting analytics (that make some sense) on infinite scrollers is another pain.
- If I am using a website for anything different from leisure, I want to use its content as a reference for something I need to share or use later.
- They were already despised in 2013: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/03/infinite-scrolling-lets-get-to-the-bottom-of-this/
- They got XKCDed: https://xkcd.com/1309/
Even Google didn't like them, then got used to them: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-tries-to-save-the-web-from-the-curse-of-infinite-scrolling/
Other sources http://www.nngroup.com/articles/infinite-scrolling/ http://www.sitepoint.com/ux-infinite-scroll-good-bad-maybe/ http://designmodo.com/infinite-scrolling/ https://econsultancy.com/blog/61703-infinite-scrolling-pros-and-cons/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140626160300-5182010-bad-website-bad-infinite-scrolling-pages https://www.quora.com/Is-infinite-scroll-and-parallax-design-good-or-bad-for-conversions-for-single-product-sites
- The only funny source: http://whitemenwearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com/
EDIT: improved readability",,gcatalfamo,197,1429641300,2015-04-21 18:35:00+00:00,story,9416017,,94.0,, 1436,Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures,,"I want to learn Algorithms & Data Structures from scratch then move on to doing LeetCode.
But I want a structured guide / textbook that I can follow which also contains exercises.
I have checked the CLRS book, but, it's more of a reference than a book that you can read from cover to cover. For example a basic Stack is explained in a page and a half or two, for me this is not enough, I want a book that can go into the details of each specific DS or Algorirhm.
*TL;DR:* Are there any books better than CLRS for DS & Algos?",,OulaX,197,1636899177,2021-11-14 14:12:57+00:00,story,29217252,,96.0,, 1437,"What happened to Proposition HN? (""$8000 for your side project"")",,"Long ago, an anonymous user offered to pay $8000 to several people to build side projects.[1] The blog for the project hasn't been updated[2] since January, and the names of those selected were never made public.
Is anyone involved able to comment?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694 [2] http://hnproposition.blogspot.com/",,technel,197,1376941486,2013-08-19 19:44:46+00:00,story,6239304,,42.0,, 1438,Alternatives to HN,,"Are there other similar sites to HN which focuses more on technical topics, constructive discussions and other interesting things?",,klrr,197,1370507563,2013-06-06 08:32:43+00:00,story,5831208,,168.0,, 1439,What is the best enterprise software you use every day?,,A few days ago there was a discussion about worst enterprise software. What is the BEST one?,,bonfire,197,1594927904,2020-07-16 19:31:44+00:00,story,23862903,,407.0,, 1440,Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable?,,"I'm looking for a wristband/watch/"thing on the arm" with GPS, heart monitor and pedometer(accel+gyro).
I looked at what is on the market, but sending my bio metrics to fitbit or garmin servers is not something I want to do.
Is there a fitness tracker band that is hackable in a sense that I can get the data out of it without proprietary software? I don't mind the firmware being closed source, as long as there is no LTE. I just want to sync and manage my data myself.",,kuon,197,1512134384,2017-12-01 13:19:44+00:00,story,15823597,,118.0,, 1441,What's your favorite bookmarked HN thread?,,,,dot,197,1296398269,2011-01-30 14:37:49+00:00,story,2158116,,42.0,, 1442,Best self-starter resources to learn web design?,,Finding it a bit hard to separate the noise from the signal when it comes to learning web design/UI/UX. I'm looking to level up enough to be able to use design tools well + have an intuition for good vs bad design + be able to (hopefully) design well myself. Please assume I'm a complete noob. thanks in advance HN!,,shry4ns,197,1638527791,2021-12-03 10:36:31+00:00,story,29428533,,44.0,, 1443,How to reskill without losing income?,,"I am making a good living with a niche skillset. It's a fairly old technology and there's less and less work in that area. I'd like to move to another technology stack - it's not too hard for me - different keywords etc and I've actually done some hobby projects already. I think if I applied for a job I'd get rejected as there is no track record of being able to work with that tech. Best get case I could probably apply for a junior job which would pay well below my current. It will probably take years to get to the same level of pay, assuming that particualr tech stack takes off. Is there any eascape from this? Are there any companies that would be willing to hire a grumpy 30-something and recognise his/her experience as something reusable?",,xchaotic,197,1433775188,2015-06-08 14:53:08+00:00,story,9679435,,93.0,, 1444,Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage?,,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?,,ronyfadel,197,1624658139,2021-06-25 21:55:39+00:00,story,27636743,,110.0,, 1445,How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?,,"Hey HN.
We're two hackers from Korea, visiting SF from June 13 to June 24.
Our current plan is to just jump around good cafes and parks, while doing Kaggle competitions.
Any recommendations on places to visit? Things to do? Cool meetups?
What's the best way to experience the Bay Area?
On the small chance that anyone is super generous enough to give a tour around their HQ, I'd be greatly appreciative. (email in profile)",,imgyuri,197,1497016226,2017-06-09 13:50:26+00:00,story,14521322,,150.0,, 1446,Favorite HN comment(s),,There are bunch of informative/interesting comments on HN. Throwing here just few of them:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14327829
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12941574
Which HN comment(s) are among your favorite ones? Which ones have created value for you?,,_6cj7,197,1495480086,2017-05-22 19:08:06+00:00,story,14396104,,89.0,, 1447,How to effectively learn PowerShell?,,"I've been looking around for a while now, but haven't really found what I'm looking for. Essentially, what I'd like to use to learn powershell effectively with is a "powershell by example" page somewhere, similar to gobyexample.com or rustbyexample.com where the tutorial encourages active tinkering.
What have you been using to effectively learn the ins and outs of powershell usage?",,mondoshawan,196,1484499857,2017-01-15 17:04:17+00:00,story,13404912,,100.0,, 1448,How bad will the 2020 economic crisis be?,,"I run a ~40ppl business in Europe (Fr & UK). While young and in a trendy sector, we aren't a startup, in that we invested a lot in being profitable and using our profits to fund our growth. I'm trying to get a sense of what's to come.
Our revenue this week is down 20x compared to the average of the past 4 weeks. In France, many local businesses are basically down to 0 turnover.
We can read here and there that the economic downfall will be worst than the 1929 crash. What will be the chain of events? How bad unemployment can get? Should we expect the real estate market to crash too? In 1929, what kind of businesses were affected the most, should we expect something similar here?",,p0la,196,1584875399,2020-03-22 11:09:59+00:00,story,22654131,,167.0,, 1449,Intellectually simulating Podcasts/conversations/Talk,,What are some of really intellectually simulating podcasts/talks/videos you have come across. In any of the categories.,,gajju3588,196,1588419198,2020-05-02 11:33:18+00:00,story,23051122,,99.0,, 1450,PostgreSQL or MySQL?,,"I have four questions related to SQL
1. PostgreSQL or MySQL? And why?
2. Is it possible to build a hybrid database schema? For example, SQLite+JSON?
3. Is it possible to convert XML(XMI) schema to SQLite schema automatically?
4. Is it possible to build a custom file format based on SQLite or hybrid one based on SQLite+JSON?",,ReD_CoDE,196,1569148062,2019-09-22 10:27:42+00:00,story,21040625,,175.0,, 1451,I am the dumbest person in the room. What should I do?,,"I see a lot of articles and posts about hiring the right person, dealing with underachievers, etc, but still did not see one with underachiever's perspective.
I was hired 4 months ago to work for a quite desirable software company. On my interview and first days I was quite confident and a bit cocky I must admit. I thought I knew more that I actually did, but at the same time was aware that I was lacking specific experience needed for that particular job, but was very willing to work hard to develop myself, and actually saw that as a desirable challenge! I thought that mentoring and time was given to ramp up and learn the missing pieces. Non of that happened.
My teammates have tons of experience, and there is a clear “every man for himself” mentality. Most of them have big egos and really rotten and bitter attitudes. They are stars, they know it, and treat people who are not at the same level like idiots (like idiot me).
As a result, I stress through the work days trying to decode what my co-workers are thinking, and trying not to say the wrong words (which keeps me silent for most of the meetings, work days and then bleeds out into my personal life). By night I have a quick dinner and bury myself in intense study. Honestly, its horrible. My self esteem plunged, I am ashamed to communicate with talk with other people. It is wearing me out. I question myself several times per day if this is really worth it.
Questions:
1. I feel I handled this wrongly, and started with too much confidence. If I am the least knowledgeable person, and a co-worker ignores, despises and almost makes fun of me for your lack of experience, how should I act in order to maintain my dignity but also be humble enough to acknowledge the co-worker's knowledge?
2. Is it normal to be hired as a junior and just being thrown to the lions, with no help or time to ramp up?
3. Do all star/ninja/rock-star software developers have rotten attitudes?",,byrain,196,1427375151,2015-03-26 13:05:51+00:00,story,9269221,,183.0,, 1452,What Happened to Evernote?,,"I have depended on Evernote for a long time without even realizing how much of a daily utility it is. It has been so seamless that I had forgotten I was rolling with the free version, until recently. I noticed a few UI changes which seemed a little unintuitive and some of my notes didn't seem to sync as reliably between my phone and laptop. No biggie, I have gotten used to updates.
Then this week I was working through a new project on a customer's site taking notes in Evernote as I normally do. I spent a good chunk of time going through the project onsite and making a comprehensive list of everything that would need to be done. I noticed the header on my note was grey but assumed it was a UI change. I had 4G reception on my phone and figured, even if something's not quite right I can sync it up back at the office like I normally do as the note would be on my phone. So I proceeded like normal.
The whole note is gone as if it never existed.
Is this some sort of effort to onboard me to the paid version? Have I inadvertently clicked a "yes I accept that the free version is going to become unreliable" button?
I appreciate I am not a great customer - I have been using a free version for years without even thinking about it. But thats kind of the point, Evernote worked so well I never gave it a second thought.
Now I am not 100% sure on the safety of my notes...
What is other people's experience? Have I just been caught napping because I mindlessly clicked an updated terms of use without reading it (as I do)?
If I go paid am I getting something as good as what the old Evernote was like?",,cconcepts,196,1649582823,2022-04-10 09:27:03+00:00,story,30975586,,274.0,, 1453,How big does an open-source project need to be for a lifestyle business?,,"Specifically, about how many "stars" on Github would such an open source project need to start realistically thinking about turning it into a lifestyle business, since GH stars are probably the most prominent quantitative indicator I know of in this area.
I've got an open source project that has grown fast with relatively little promotion. I know that a good number of companies are using it in production. I also know of a good way to monetize it, while keeping the existing software exactly like it is (not "open core" but somewhat related).
Is this a pipe dream, or do I have a realistic chance into making this a lifestyle business that -- with hard work -- can start providing a reasonable income (say $100,000/yr) within a year or two?",,jnbiche,196,1435392982,2015-06-27 08:16:22+00:00,story,9789459,,111.0,, 1454,Films that made you see the world differently?,,"Hello all. There are nice frequent Ask HN threads where people share books that made a large impact on them and how they saw the world, and I was just thinking it would be good if there were a similar thread about movies.",,pizza,196,1596855710,2020-08-08 03:01:50+00:00,story,24088582,,327.0,, 1455,"What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?",,Repeating the fun question originally posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284918,,pensv0,196,1587848789,2020-04-25 21:06:29+00:00,story,22981491,,453.0,, 1456,How do prolific programmers go about their daily lives?,,"When I read the interwebz, I see other devs pumping out code to open source projects like food-to-code machines. They manage open source projects, be on top of the latest trends and even drive the hype causing these other developers to follow suit. Part of me wants to become like one of these prolific developers. I want to learn a lot of things, do a lot of things.
However, in contrast, I find myself out of energy after work that I just drop dead in bed only to wake up the next day. People advise me to do recreational stuff instead of writing more code on the weekends. Even my boss advises against writing code even when deadlines are just right around the corner. Forcing myself a few times, I felt like I was inches away from becoming part of the zombie horde.
How do these prolific developers spend their time? How do they work, do open source while staying healthy and awesome, and not become zombies at the same time?",,lollipop25,196,1453660168,2016-01-24 18:29:28+00:00,story,10963401,,81.0,, 1457,What's your latest failed side project and why?,,"With the recent posts on successful/profitable side projects, I figure it'd be good to learn about some failed ones. Let's stick to "launched" projects instead of those that never happened.
What was the project and why did it fail (best to your knowledge)? Or what's a side-project of yours that's actively losing money?",,NoOneNew,196,1582475583,2020-02-23 16:33:03+00:00,story,22397720,,222.0,, 1458,"To those who became fluent in a second language, what did you do?",,"I'm overwhelmed by all the options out there. Duolingo, pimsluer, classes, books, etc. What did you do to become fluent in another language? How long did it take you?",,snowdragon,195,1476584934,2016-10-16 02:28:54+00:00,story,12716549,,200.0,, 1459,"I suck at math, where to start?",,"As a self taught programmer I feel like I have a big gap on my math knowledge, where can I start learning math concepts that will help me in my career?",,novakor,195,1641991371,2022-01-12 12:42:51+00:00,story,29905554,,149.0,, 1460,What's your spectacular burnout story?,,"What's a spectacular burnout story of yours that happened to you or someone you know? How did you crawl back to reality, did it change your outlook on life? was it a meh experience? what would you advice others to not do or do?",,coackroachhead,195,1503158839,2017-08-19 16:07:19+00:00,story,15054099,,152.0,, 1461,Disillusioned with the direction of society and technology,,"Technology seems like a giant waste of time and energy for human civilisation.
Specifically the social media giants and advertising funded tech companies seem like the definition of emotional vampires. So do cryptocurrencies.
They are making society worse not better. For a time maybe 15-20 years ago, maybe peaking around the era of Snowden it looked like technology was going to truly democratise the world.
Now we are being led into an orwellian hell hole.
For what tech produces it is overly rewarded economically. The true economic value of some companies like facebook or amazon may be negative.
What can we do or is it already too late to save the world from the big tech monster?
I think it is already too late. The internet is like an opiate or stimulant for the masses and a vampire, feeding off of and feeding into emotions and mass popular delusions allowing people to be manipulated as sheep and resulting in time and energy being wasted by literally billions.",,morpheos137,195,1644762092,2022-02-13 14:21:32+00:00,story,30321888,,188.0,, 1462,Do you still use MongoDB?,,Haven't heard anything about it in a while. Do you still use it or stopped using it. Why?,,macando,195,1590142454,2020-05-22 10:14:14+00:00,story,23270429,,234.0,, 1463,What are good projects to understand CUDA and GPU Programming?,,I have taken an Introduction to GPU Programming Course in my college and I want to do a project which covers all the details that I have learned. Something in the image processing field would be nice.,,skywalker212,195,1538463390,2018-10-02 06:56:30+00:00,story,18119345,,37.0,, 1464,I am about to be fired. What should I do?,,"I am currently a data scientist for a major firm, and I am facing a manager who wishes to fire me.
He assigned me to follow the instructions of an "expert" in completing a compliance document (a task in which I am not trained), and the "expert" turned out to be producing documents that are not in compliance with Federal law. The "expert" repeatedly stated in writing that I was doing an "excellent" job, and I am concerned I am facing retaliation for reporting that her work was simply not correct.
When I raised that issue, he immediately began the process of putting me on a 30 day review, a necessary step prior to termination. Such programs are ostensibly to give an employee an opportunity to improve performance.
When I asked whether this was a true opportunity to improve performance, or simply a formality, he hesitated for a great deal of time before making statements that strongly implied, without directly stating, that it was a mere formality.
I have no desire to lose my job, but I am most concerned that being fired would place future job prospects in jeopardy.
According to my colleagues, I'm very competent at my position, but this supervisor has been angry with me since I pointed out to him a few months ago that he may have violated firm policy in a severe way.
What should I do? I would like to remain with the firm and be transferred to another project, but the steps he will take will prevent that.
I do not wish to move, and if fired I will be effectively blackballed from most firms in this city. I have a life, friends, a girlfriend I love very much, and don't wish to leave that behind.
HNers, whether or not you know it, you've been a big part of my life since this site's founding. I value your input and advice tremendously.
What do I do? Do I simply begin looking for other positions? Do I report his increasingly erratic behavior, and waste of firm resources? Do I quit before the period expires?
What are your thoughts?",,s_q_b,195,1430064138,2015-04-26 16:02:18+00:00,story,9442157,,189.0,, 1465,Resources on how to improve abstract thinking skills?,,,,mezod,195,1511193352,2017-11-20 15:55:52+00:00,story,15740777,,81.0,, 1466,Best paid courses you've taken?,,"For 2020 I've decided to focus on taking online courses to further my education. With that, I have a rough budget of $50/month to spend. Looking for suggestions on paid or free courses you may have taken that you found beneficial.
edit: 2020, not 2019",,selleck,195,1581538718,2020-02-12 20:18:38+00:00,story,22312366,,77.0,, 1467,How old were the most talented software engineers you've met?,,Talented in terms of general knowledge and practical skills,,diehunde,195,1546486903,2019-01-03 03:41:43+00:00,story,18812643,,180.0,, 1468,"Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?",,"There are many models of routers that support open source router software/firmware like OpenWRT, DD-WRT and Tomato. However, when you look around, it's very difficult to determine the recency of router models out there and post date isn't always useful since many use which ever router just happens to be available to them for free. If one were to decide to buy a brand new model router to install open source router software on, where would you go to find out the best current models and be able to compare their features?
While it would be nice to know the best models as of today (December 1st 2013), I think it's more interesting to be taught how to fish instead of being given a fish. This also makes it easier for me (and anyone else) to pass this advice onto the next person.",,malandrew,195,1385925180,2013-12-01 19:13:00+00:00,story,6828699,,119.0,, 1469,What's your favorite TED Talk?,,"I've been going through the thread from about a year and a half ago that has a myriad of great TED talks, watching one or two of them every few nights. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442022)
I'm starting to run out on that thread, and I'd love to get a good compilation going that includes some from the past 2 conferences.
So, HN - what are you favorite TED talks? I'll get it started with these: Sir Ken's Robinson's talk on nurturing creativity in education (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html) and Inspiring Action through leadership (http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html)",,biggitybones,195,1277076798,2010-06-20 23:33:18+00:00,story,1447418,,87.0,, 1470,How to learn about text editor architectures and implementations?,,"I am a self taught developer. Its been more than 3 years. I know decent JavaScript, and full-stack developement knowledge. I recently started admiring text editors. I use vscode. I have also used VIM and EMACS. I tried reading their source code, also of atom, brackets, light table etc.
Honestly I don't understand anything. I am not able to make sense of the data flow and the architecture. I want to understand how text editors work under the hood. Also I want to understand the plugable architecture they use to extend the functionalities of the editor.
Please suggest me any articles, videos, conferences, blogs, where I can pick up the concepts. I have been troubled by this lack of knowledge and unclear path to access it.
Edit: Reasons for this quest: I am not here to create yet another text editor. But I do understand that they are one of the complex peice of software which still is under constant improvisation and developement. Also text processing is the one of the core concepts of computer science. A lot of algorithm and data structure knowledge is hidden inside it. Besides, I feel through real world projects one can learn alot about core computer science foundations.",,s3arch,195,1641822369,2022-01-10 13:46:09+00:00,story,29874669,,72.0,, 1471,Relationship between OO and functional programming?,,Since Alan Kay has shown interest (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11806853) in saying something on the topic of OO and functional programming I opened this thread.
I purposefully left out the word "versus" because I do not believe there is such a strong dichotomy and to avoid flamewars.,,spdionis,194,1464717577,2016-05-31 17:59:37+00:00,story,11808551,,98.0,, 1472,I really need your help (resolved),,"Hacker News -
I'm working on a mobile application called MinoMonsters. We are using a Ruby EventMachine backend to track behavior, persist user objects, and handle virtual good transactions.
I'm in a very sticky situation. Our user numbers are exploding off the charts and our backend is failing. It's silently crashing without leaving a trace. It's getting into some hard to reproduce states. The situation is not looking good.
And I need to get it fixed -tonight-.
I am looking for an experienced Ruby dev on a short term contract basis ASAP. I've set aside a budget to make this happen truly ASAP. Deep EventMachine experience is highly preferred, as that's the core source of my issues. San Francisco would be nice, but I'm willing to talk to anyone with the chops to help me fix this.
If you know someone who can help, please reach out. If you don't, you can help by sharing this post with someone who might.
I can be contacted at teej.murphy@gmail.com or by phone (410) 236 - 2894
EDIT: This is now resolved! Thanks for your help, HN. You guys are the best.",,teej,194,1324345359,2011-12-20 01:42:39+00:00,story,3371938,,36.0,, 1473,Why don't transistors in microchips fail?,,"Considering that a Quad-core + GPU Core i7 Haswell has 1.4e9 transistors inside, even given a really small probability of one of them failing, wouldn't this be catastrophic?
Wouldn't a single transistor failing mean the whole chip stops working? Or are there protections built-in so only performance is lost over time?",,franciscop,194,1436437950,2015-07-09 10:32:30+00:00,story,9857094,,111.0,, 1474,Share a gem. Teach me and you.,,"One of my favorite discussion threads of all time, on any forum, was ""Teach me and you. Give a gem"" on the Civfanatics forum. It wound up being 15 pages of insights on how to play Civilization IV well, and was really a wonderful, enjoyable, community building experience.
Here was the first post:
""Share a ""one-liner"" simple strategy that can help beginners, seasoned players and maybe even be a gem that one of the pros can learn from.
Feel free to explain your tip, but avoid complex, in-depth strategy.""
So, care to share a gem about technology, entrepreneurship, or general Hacker News type topics?",,lionhearted,194,1280399058,2010-07-29 10:24:18+00:00,story,1557119,,300.0,, 1475,What's happening in agricultural technology?,,"Not sure if there are any experts here, but if there are, I'm quite curious about the following:
1. Do we have any technology (independent of cost) existing today to have a fully automated farm? Meaning, set everything up and it'll just spit out yield? This would include taking into account weather, planting, removing weeds, etc. The input into this "system" of course would be the "ingredients" such as soil, soil, and of course, sunlight. [1]
2. What's the maximum yield we can get out of an acre these days? If I wanted to buy, say, an acre (for food) and start a small town in southern United States and feed 1000 people easily, is that possible? For simplicity let's say everyone is vegan.
[1] Here's a snippet of research I've done that may be of interest to readers.
Air and soil: There's been some advancements in sensors which is an obvious requisite towards the auto-farm. However I haven't read anything recently about this. Most recent was (http://gizmodo.com/swarms-of-soil-sensors-may-help-farmers-water-smarter-d-1713098054)
Robotics: I know they (farm bots) exist (http://modernfarmer.com/2013/08/5-robots-on-the-farm/), but I haven't heard of them actually being more productive than existing high-yield solutions. I do think in the end they'll be superior.
The single most advanced modern farm I've heard of is: http://seedstock.com/2013/01/24/indoor-grower/. Anyone know of anything that surpasses this? Just making farming (perhaps one of the most labor intensive things you can do these days) less of a burden will prove to be a game changer (e.g. you may find a single person willing and able to maintain an entire one acre farm).",,tabeth,194,1485227460,2017-01-24 03:11:00+00:00,story,13468508,,143.0,, 1476,Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked?,,"A few months ago, I spent a couple days reverse engineering the Snapchat protocol and wrote a quick and dirty library to use it in your own PHP apps:
https://github.com/tlack/snaphax
Today Snapchat has written me requesting that I take it offline:
Hi Thomas,
I'm writing to ask that you remove Snaphax from github
and no longer publish or distribute it. Snapchat does
not permit third party software to access our API and
we consider Snaphax to be an unlawful circumvention
device under 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1).
Please confirm that it has been removed by end of day
Monday, July 22nd.
Thank you,
Micah Schaffer
Snapchat, Inc.
I am under the impression that reverse engineering is still protected under fair use doctrines. Is this the case? How should I respond, if at all?",,tlack,194,1374503057,2013-07-22 14:24:17+00:00,story,6083812,,133.0,, 1477,Where should I start as a 34-year-old switching to software as a career?,,"I'm currently a lab technician with a background in microbiology and would love to get into software development; however, I lack experience and I feel I'm too old to ever get a job in the field. I'd appreciate any tip!",,serbiruss,194,1552090517,2019-03-09 00:15:17+00:00,story,19343521,,122.0,, 1478,What is the oldest image online in which the link is not broken?,,"I think there are amazon affiliate banner image links from the 90s that still display images, such has the 'buy a book' icon. How about google image logo links from 1998. I wonder if those still work.",,paulpauper,194,1612358530,2021-02-03 13:22:10+00:00,story,26013354,,131.0,, 1479,Learning modern web design and CSS,,"So I've been mostly doing back end stuff for a few years. My ability to fix float issues in IE6 just isn't relevant any more. What's the best way to get an understanding of modern CSS and web design? Preferably simple approaches that don't involve horrible, huge, redundant class names or bloated, overbearing frameworks.
This is for a couple of personal projects. I may ultimately end up hiring designers but I want to know what I'm taking about and I'd want to be able to maintain their output.",,themanr,194,1506331463,2017-09-25 09:24:23+00:00,story,15328992,,53.0,, 1480,I started a company in Japan but I'm in over my head,,"So, long story short, I invested 50k USD into incorporating a company in Japan (a 株式会社) and now I'm realising I probably don't have what it takes to make this work.
A bit of background: I've been in Japan since 2011, doing a mix of programming, studying and English teaching. I've never managed to keep a programming job longer than 6 months, so realistically I was mostly supported by English teaching.
I like living in Japan but I haven't been able to progress my career much. I thought maybe I would have better luck starting my own company so I paid an judicial scrivener to incorporate a company and I invested all my savings into it. Another reason for starting the company was to allow me to extend my visa.
Well, after starting the company at the start of this year I realise I was hopelessly naive. I haven't really managed to do anything (the same problem I had when I was working for other companies). I've only really managed to use my bank account recently. I've got lots of forms and paperwork that I'm supposed to file but I don't really know what its for or how to fill it in. I've very much in over my head.
I haven't managed to release any software or do any consulting.
What is my next step? I have honestly thought about suicide, or just fleeing the country. But I want to do the right thing, I don't want my actions to reflect badly on other foreigners in Japan.
Does anyone have any advice about what to do next, or how to avoid getting into scrapes like this in the future?",,ownerthrowaway,193,1528712466,2018-06-11 10:21:06+00:00,story,17283119,,157.0,, 1481,what was the best life/programming choice you ever made?,,For me:
Life: deciding that I wanted to take care of my body.
Programming: deciding that I wanted to master 1 new tool and a language every year. Last year was Python/Emacs and this year it is Rust/DTrace.,,batgaijin,193,1354451841,2012-12-02 12:37:21+00:00,story,4861022,,223.0,, 1482,How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs?,,"I have been in my current role for about 6 years. While I wasn't hired for it specifically, my average week has my time split between product management, managing a small team to develop those products, ux design, and front-end JS/Python development. It's really a roll where I am all over the place and I do really enjoy it. However, due to the Covid reality in the world right now I am starting to think my time here is up. How can I find another job that isn't specialized to one specific roll as I really do enjoy being a jack of all trades master of none and would like to continue to do that in my next role. I'm also fairly experienced with 16 years of "jack of all trade" type positions.",,stevenhubertron,193,1601429470,2020-09-30 01:31:10+00:00,story,24634939,,97.0,, 1483,How much do you make at Google?,,"I don't work for Google, but I would like to.
How much do senior software engineers make? What level are you? Do you work at Mountain View HQ, or elsewhere?
I don't have much to share, but I make $130K base at a Silicon Valley startup. Options aren't worth anything (yet), but from what I've read on HN, they probably won't be worth anything anyways. (-:
Thank you in advance for sharing!
This post was inspired by an earlier post by an Amazon Employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312984",,googsomeday,193,1458330944,2016-03-18 19:55:44+00:00,story,11314449,,81.0,, 1484,Good tech talks on how analytics systems are implemented?,,"I am doing a new sub-system, for analytics, which I can design / implement from scratch. I get a bunch of unique users (say a few thousands). Now I need to track each of these users and do some analytics (Which places are they logging in from ? How long do their sessions last on average ? What are the usual links/endpoints that they visit ? etc.) in my API server. I have a few thousand active users and about two dozen parameters on which I want to track and analyze these parameters.
I have never implemented such an analytics type system. I want to learn about people who have already implemented similar systems. Are there any good tech talks, engineering blog posts, video courses, etc. that highlight the design/technology/architecture choices and their benefits.",,psankar,193,1560314816,2019-06-12 04:46:56+00:00,story,20161841,,81.0,, 1485,Best cars without too much digitalization?,,"As we all know, there is a trend in the automotive industry towards ever more digital "features" in cars. Many of these software systems pose privacy risks; many others simply don't work as intended, leading to frustration and trips to the dealership. For those of us who are "old-school" and prefer their cars without fancy digital gimmicks, which cars would you recommend?",,gautamcgoel,193,1637349165,2021-11-19 19:12:45+00:00,story,29281034,,327.0,, 1486,What stacks dominate in remote jobs?,,"I work as a dev in UK for 6 years now, mostly JVM (Scala, Java), SQL, Javascript, some Python and Rust. I am now very interested in starting working remotely, so I'm curious what stacks are popular in remote jobs? What should I concentrate my attention towards from purely realistic and practical perspective?
Obviously if I could choose I'd prefer something like Scala/Big Data or Rust/Real time, but something tells me Ruby/Rails and Python/Django or something with Javascript will be way more popular?",,throw31337,193,1477039978,2016-10-21 08:52:58+00:00,story,12759064,,90.0,, 1487,My startup has concealed from me that it raised funding. What to do?,,"I'm a founding engineer at a startup and just found out that the founders have concealed an investment from me leaving me with a potential tax bill on $10,000s of income that I had not received.
I did my best to keep my story within 2000 words but I couldn't shorten it anymore without leaving off important details so I posted the full text here: http://pastebin.com/xLLNUF0H
I feel so disgusted and cheated right now. I had worked for this company for almost 3 years doing everything possible to maximize its chance of success: from working overtime to meet deadlines to answering support emails on weekends, and now I find out that they've kept this investment (and the tax implications that go along with it) hidden from me for over a year. I'm left thinking that they concealed it so they wouldn't have to give me a raise, but I am more concerned about the tax implications of these shares. I had to leave work early yesterday when I found out about this and I don't think I'll be able to come in to work today. What should I do? Should I confront the founders about this? Is there any use in contacting a lawyer?",,mendacium,193,1425652266,2015-03-06 14:31:06+00:00,story,9157098,,107.0,, 1488,What Has Happened to Twitter?,,"In the last few months Twitter has went from letting you browse the site without signing in, to now prompting you to sign in to do pretty much anything. Even something as simple as scrolling down with my mousewheel in Twitter prompts me to sign in. This also happens with official government communication pages. I thought courts already decided in the US that the public has a right to access official government communications on social media. When requiring users to sign in and agree to the companies terms, wouldn't this be considered a form of preventing access to those communications?",,encryptluks2,193,1644395928,2022-02-09 08:38:48+00:00,story,30270379,,179.0,, 1489,What's the best technical eBook you have read?,,,,davidshariff,193,1404735533,2014-07-07 12:18:53+00:00,story,7998382,,82.0,, 1490,Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition),,Please lead with the positions' locations.,,falsestprophet,193,1285958080,2010-10-01 18:34:40+00:00,story,1748045,,213.0,, 1491,Papers you read in 2015?,,Curious about scientific publications in your field that are worth sharing.,,racoonear,193,1450887631,2015-12-23 16:20:31+00:00,story,10783983,,45.0,, 1492,"I am wasting so much of time, what can I do?",,"Hi guys.. I am wasting so much of time, working few hours, although I have so much of work and pressure, but I am still just surfing the internet and waste time..
I hardly deliver jobs on time, and my clients are annoyed because of that.
What can I do to solve this horrible issue? Any tips pls?",,ahmedaly,192,1315751230,2011-09-11 14:27:10+00:00,story,2983834,,79.0,, 1493,Should I quit my job?,,"I'm working for a German automobile corporate in Spain as a project leader. I'm 29, I've studied electronic engineering, I don't have kids, and I'm not married. What I do at my current job all day is emails, spreadsheets, power points, and some electronic testing. I've been working there for already five years, and I've been climbing the ladder as much as I managed. I also work on the afternoons on a side project that is making close to $100/m
However, my day job is draining all my energy in a way that I am grumpy from Sunday night to Saturday morning. I wake up at 6:20, commute 45 minutes, work 8h, commute 45 minutes, arrive home at 18:00 and then I try to squeeze time for my side project, going to the gym, making groceries, hang out with my gf, etc. I probably push around 10h/week to the project. The worst part of it is getting home exhausted in a way that it's impossible for me to do any work done. It makes me feel miserable, depressed, and tied. I could create more value just by myself. During my office hours, my energy levels are, and the atmosphere at work is pleasant. Also, my salary is above the Spanish average, but nothing special, my uni friends are also making similar numbers.
My gut is telling me to quit my job and work for my products. I have enough savings to survive for five years. I don't think about going nomad or any of these hippie trends. I'm focused on building a business and feel accomplished by something I've done with my hands.
My biggest fears are: - To not stick to a schedule/routine once I am solo. - People's and family opinion. - Failing and losing motivation.
Should I quit my job and work on my stuff or search for another position that would give more motivation?",,manceraio,192,1558987883,2019-05-27 20:11:23+00:00,story,20024943,,124.0,, 1494,What industries are underserved by software?,,"Successful software companies are mostly founded by software engineers, or at least other white collar professionals. And since people mostly work on what they know (which is good) this seems to leave a lot of industries behind. What blue-collar industries do you know that could really be helped by better software?
For more background, I'm in the early stages of forming a startup, and just narrowing down problems. I'm trying to get a friend on board as a cofounder. He's great at mobile, and I can handle the backend. We also both worked other careers before switching to software (oil and aviation). I've got B2B sales experience.
When you put this all together, it makes an interesting combo of an app for non-office businesses. I'd really like to make something that's more of a tool than just an app. Think "mobile phones in airplanes tracking your rental fleet" over "weather app".
Any direction-pointing is very welcome!",,travisjungroth,192,1583431210,2020-03-05 18:00:10+00:00,story,22496129,,169.0,, 1495,Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?,,What are your thoughts on the Go programming language?,,asim,192,1603643726,2020-10-25 16:35:26+00:00,story,24887521,,300.0,, 1496,How has volunteering helped you grow?,,"Hi HN, I enjoyed volunteering teaching children to code back at university and during the holidays I like gathering food for homeless people. What kind of volunteering has helped you grow the most? What kind of volunteering do you find the most fulfillment from?
Discussion about volunteering software skills online: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13678952 I am looking for something more physical or personal in London. Feel free to get in touch to chat more about volunteering, we can grab a coffee if you are in London.",,kuro-kuris,192,1493030516,2017-04-24 10:41:56+00:00,story,14183219,,133.0,, 1497,Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?,,I don't like the new GA interface. It's hard to do simple things like display full-urls when you serve multiple subdomains.
What alternatives do you like and why?,,nyellin,192,1640273990,2021-12-23 15:39:50+00:00,story,29662859,,123.0,, 1498,What is your password management solution?,,"I'm a bit unhappy with 1Password. I don't want a subscription service, I want something that keeps an encrypted file that I can put in dropbox.
What is everyone else using these days?",,ericb,192,1500126999,2017-07-15 13:56:39+00:00,story,14776620,,301.0,, 1499,Why doesn't HN alert users in some manner to new replies?,,"The last thing I found was this Show HN post from 2016 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080539)",,warrenm,192,1645106921,2022-02-17 14:08:41+00:00,story,30373171,,233.0,, 1500,How bad should the code be in a startup?,,"Hey Hacker News! I was recently involved in a startup where the CEO had made a crazy complex app with prisma - it did loads of things but it was a mad balancing act of insecurity, bugs, badly mangled code and database design that left a lot to be desired. I think my problem is they were just copying something that already exists rather than making something new that needs extreme user testing for it to become a thing. Obviously on such a codebase the CEO could get things done pretty fast but I couldn’t help feel it was completely hopeless for anyone else trying to make the project work correctly. Of course even with all this brittle code there were no tests.
My question first is
a) has Hacker News/YC ever seen a startup fail because the codebase is so bad.
b) what is the best calculation to make when trading off code quality vs features?
c) do most YC startups write tests and try to write cleanish code in V1 or does none of this matter?
Should we just be chucking shit at the wall and seeing what sticks? Do most startups bin v1 and jump straight to v2 once they have traction?",,andy_ppp,192,1591529522,2020-06-07 11:32:02+00:00,story,23446627,,176.0,, 1501,Captcha Alternatives?,,"TLDR: I help with a gaming community-related site that is being targetted by a script kiddie, they are registering hundreds of thousands of accounts on our forums to 'protest' a cheating (aimbot) ban. They then post large ASCII art spam, giant shock images (the first one started after we blocked new accounts from posting [img]), the usual.
Currently we use a simple question/answer addon at registration time - it works against all untargeted bots and is just a little "what is 4 plus six" or "what is the abbreviation for this website" type of question. It's worked fine for years and we don't really get general untargeted spam.
I am somewhat ethically disinclined to use reCAPTCHA, and there are some older members that can't reasonably solve hcaptcha easily. Same for using heavy fingerprinting or other privacy invading methods. It's also donation-run, so enterprise services that would block something like this (such as Distil) are both out of budget and out of ethics.
Is there a way I can possibly solve this? Negotiation is not really an option on the table, the last time one of the other volunteers responded at all we got a ~150Gbps volumetric attack.
I've tried some basic things, like requiring cookie and JS support via middleware; they moved from a Java HTTP-library script to some kind of Selenium equivalent afterward. They also use a massive amount of proxies, largely compromised machines being sold for abuse.",,ev1,192,1598899628,2020-08-31 18:47:08+00:00,story,24334657,,146.0,, 1502,How liquid is Bitcoin?,,"Let's say I have $1 million in Bitcoin? How easy would it be for me to sell it all in 1 day and get $1 million in cold, hard cash back?
If it's not feasible in 1 day, how many days roughly would it take to sell it all?",,AznHisoka,192,1495501823,2017-05-23 01:10:23+00:00,story,14398091,,103.0,, 1503,"Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based",,"I'd like to move away from Apples Photo.app to open-source, self-hosted, and browser-based application that may run on a NAS or Linux server.
There seem to be lots of alternatives out there (Nextcloud, Piwigo, ...) but I'd love to hear about recommendations and experiences.",,trbfred,191,1556274671,2019-04-26 10:31:11+00:00,story,19756110,,118.0,, 1504,"Can we get a ""Show HN:"" section",,Seems obvious that people would like to showcase their launched product (including me). I am thinking that once a "Show HN:" post got enough upvotes it would be added to the possible front page pool of links.,,pumpkinattwelve,191,1399986505,2014-05-13 13:08:25+00:00,story,7737921,,34.0,, 1505,What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months?,,Is there a minimum funding they need to raise to qualify for a long term visa ?,,tophernash,191,1445017738,2015-10-16 17:48:58+00:00,story,10400912,,122.0,, 1506,Who wants to be hired? (May 2020),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
I'm building a programmable PostgreSQL proxy in Rust. The idea is to make it easy to consume the replication stream so it can do query caching with automatic invalidation, and so that people can build custom partitioning, caching, or real-time features on top of PostgreSQL. The proxy part is implemented, but there's still a lot of work to add the replication and caching features, and to test and polish everything to production standards - databases are serious business. The project is on github here: https://github.com/riverdb/riverdb
I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it. And then there's the task of marketing/selling it, which is way outside of my skillset. Should I just give up (grow up?) and get a job? Is it worth pressing on here? I'm not consuming my savings, but neither am I making financial progress, and I'm not getting any younger.",,eloff,191,1646324391,2022-03-03 16:19:51+00:00,story,30542955,,237.0,, 1508,Interview tomorrow – How to learn whether an org is “healthy”?,,"Recall the NYT article describing Google's team culture case study. (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?_r=0).
I am being recruited by a manager & two technical leads for a leadership slot. They want to replace the existing manager for vague, but apparently real, "communication" problems - details forthcoming. 3 teams on 3 continents, perhaps 30 people total.
I know & trust the two technical leads, but want to have solid due diligence in place before accepting any offer. What questions can I use to learn whether the dev teams play well together?",,mud_dauber,191,1469111216,2016-07-21 14:26:56+00:00,story,12137049,,122.0,, 1509,Anybody who left IT?,,Why did you do so? What do you do for a living now? Do you regret it? And why do you still read HN?,,bizon,191,1489927859,2017-03-19 12:50:59+00:00,story,13906768,,117.0,, 1510,Why is there no small Android phone?,,"When I search for phones with 3GB+ RAM and <=140mm height, there's only iPhone SE, iPhone 12 mini, and iPhone 13 mini.
The fact that Apple released 3 phones in 3 years with this form factor shows me that it is a profitable market segment and that there is demand.
Why is there no Android equivalent?
https://m.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2019&nHeightMax...",,fxtentacle,191,1645357754,2022-02-20 11:49:14+00:00,story,30405011,,220.0,, 1511,Have you ever been sued by your startup?,,"So, I'm being sued by a startup that I used to work for. I don't want to go in to the details for obvious reasons, but it's been really stressful and difficult.
I was recruited to work as the first employee for this startup, spent a good deal of time and effort on it, and then had the founder turn around and sue me. They're demanding more money from me than I was ever paid to begin with, because of some vague damages that I (allegedly intentionally) caused.
All of his claims are patently false (and I have documentation to that point), and boils down to the founder trying to scapegoat me for his own mistakes. However, he's independently wealthy and knows that I don't have much money and likely won't be able to defend myself. So, in essence, it feels like an adult form of bullying.
I have no idea what to do. I can't afford an attorney. I'm also concerned that there's this public mark on my record (e.g., a future employer googles me and finds this lawsuit).
So, what do I do? Have any of you been in a similar place with an early-stage startup? How do it go? Why do people suck so much?
EDIT: I was apparently responding to too many questions, and am rate limited, so I can't respond anymore.
I am a student and I have called my student legal services. This case is too big for them to handle. In the words of one of the people I spoke with, ""you would have been better off getting a DWI.""
It is a lawsuit in federal court, not just a threatening letter. I have considered going pro se, but I'm too concerned about following proper procedure.
I was W2 not 1099. I've reviewed my employment agreements, and that's part of what makes this whole thing baseless. Without going into details, their allegations suggest that my employment agreements require me to do things that they don't actually specify. It's akin to firing a airline pilot because they didn't serve enough soda to the passengers.
Thanks specifically to the users that recommended Grellas. I'm speaking with him later today :)",,throwaway10283,191,1364230470,2013-03-25 16:54:30+00:00,story,5438040,,98.0,, 1512,What are well designed SaaS websites?,,,,piu,191,1523719371,2018-04-14 15:22:51+00:00,story,16837683,,73.0,, 1513,Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? Where to?,,"Has anyone moved out of SF/SV to work in a different tech city? If so, where?
Currently Seattle, New York, Austin, Portland, and Boston/Cambridge seem to be the hot destinations as secondary tech hubs. But their costs of living are likely climbing as well, especially Seattle and Austin. How about Raleigh, how's their startup scene? Or Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, or Nashville?
Not to mention cities outside of the U.S.",,Apocryphon,191,1457462126,2016-03-08 18:35:26+00:00,story,11247368,,383.0,, 1514,What are the most important problems in your industry?,,1. Which industry do you work in?
2. What are the biggest problems stopping your industry from growing?
3. Can something be done about it?,,aman-pro,191,1492704145,2017-04-20 16:02:25+00:00,story,14157880,,149.0,, 1515,Fully online CS degrees?,,"Any recommendations for a worthwhile, fully online CS program? I'm more interested in a BS than a BA, but if online programs are limited (and that seems likely), I won't rule anything out.",,intermittently,191,1513019142,2017-12-11 19:05:42+00:00,story,15899383,,113.0,, 1516,"Those who moved careers from the West to China, what's your experience?",,"There's often talk in the news about China wanting to poach Silicon Valley talent to build up their own tech scene. There's also talk of founders who moved to Shenzhen to be closer to hardware development for rapid prototyping.
However, I've struggled to find individual examples of experiences. Has anyone done this, or know someone who has and blogs/tweets about it? I'm curious how this looks in reality.",,jaxbot,191,1553694393,2019-03-27 13:46:33+00:00,story,19500740,,163.0,, 1517,Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companies/people?,,"There exist lots of material about trending companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Apple and the people behind them such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, etc...
But what about companies such as Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Intel, Red Hat...and people involved in tech such as Tim Berners-Lee, Marissa Mayer, Brian Kernighan...?
For instance, I read the "iWoz" book by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, and loved it because he describes lots of technical challenges he faced, as well as what problems had Apple back at the time. Lots of fun facts, anecdotes and info, mainly from a technical perspective.
Another nice book was "Just For Fun", by Linus Torvalds. It provided a human perspective on Linus, who is usually depicted as a tyrant. In addition he describes the initial development of the Linux Kernel as well as the whys behind it, a nice introspection for those who are into programming.
Those are the kinds stories I'd like to read, material about tech companies: how they got created, what struggles did they have to face, the people that founded them and developed them.
Do you have any recommendations in the form of books, documentaries, blog posts or other sorts of material?
Thank in advance!",,__exit__,190,1527854325,2018-06-01 11:58:45+00:00,story,17204467,,113.0,, 1518,Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?,,I still feel like it was a better communication tool compared to the smartphone touchscreens of today. Really miss the good old days.,,jaytaylor,190,1631570447,2021-09-13 22:00:47+00:00,story,28517447,,261.0,, 1519,What tech stack would you use to build an open-source Google Keep clone?,,"I'm sick of waiting for Google's Keep team to improve their app, or even to respond to feature requests. (Crickets.)
So I'm going to attempt to build my own - despite being a real noob when it comes to JS-based tech stacks. What would you use as a starting point for a tech stack, if you want:
- public/private/sharable card options - import/export to a couple of mainstream alternate formats - reasonable response times - an improvement over downloading the entire DB upon page load - markdown-capable cards - sort/filter/tag options
I'm assuming this is going to be some flavor of Angular/Vue/React. Suggestions?",,mud_dauber,190,1549211021,2019-02-03 16:23:41+00:00,story,19070438,,123.0,, 1520,Blogs about Being CTO/Head of/Lead Dev?,,"Mainly interested about retrospectives, feedbacks, tips, etc., from CTO/Head of… or Lead dev of 10+ teammates, about growing teams, people management, project management, tech decisions, processes, etc.",,ggregoire,190,1558466582,2019-05-21 19:23:02+00:00,story,19973875,,54.0,, 1521,What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?,,"Also, how do you respond when someone brings up concerns of E2EE platforms being used for child sexual abuse imagery or terrorism?
Keep in mind that these arguments have to be made to laypersons who aren't necessarily from the United States, and who don't usually have a lot of technical knowledge.",,rahuldottech,190,1570189850,2019-10-04 11:50:50+00:00,story,21156664,,245.0,, 1522,What interesting stuff are you browsing?,,"My online activity seems to be in a loop comprise of hackernews, email check, and google news recently. It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too frequently?
What interesting stuff are you browsing recently?",,strooper,190,1589734627,2020-05-17 16:57:07+00:00,story,23213268,,109.0,, 1523,Organizing company knowledge?,,"In the world of collaborative systems and wikis, what are some good resources for learning how to organize and structure knowledge at a company level?",,tmaly,190,1523457595,2018-04-11 14:39:55+00:00,story,16811499,,106.0,, 1524,Starting a career in security at 40?,,"For the security folks out there, what is the market like? How much weight is put on having some of the various certifications out there?
I have always had an interest in security, especially the red/blue team side of things as well as the forensics area. I have spent my entire career in the world of sysadmin/SRE/shitty dev however so nothing on my resume shows "security". The last couple of weeks I have been looking at some of the certification classes and... wow, they can get pretty crazy. The SANS online stuff is like $6k per course!
Being close to 40 and making six figures (not a brag, just using it for background) I am worried that it's too late to make the jump and still be able to provide for my family. It seems like a pretty big risk to drop multiple thousands on certifications only to start at a salary much lower than I currently have. I'm not willing to impact my family by taking a potential 50% pay cut. I realize there are risks with any kind of career change, I just want to make sure I'm not going into this blind.
Does it make sense to go after some of these certifications, even if they are not from SANS? Is the security world hiring and paying well these days? Am I looking for too much and should just except the fact that a major pay cut would be part of the process?
TIA",,johnnycarcin,190,1542645260,2018-11-19 16:34:20+00:00,story,18487547,,111.0,, 1525,Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?,,I was looking at Kotlin and was curious. It looks very interesting feature wise but I worry about its long term viability given it's low presence on GitHub[1] and < 40 users on #kotlin on Freenode IRC. Is this worth writing a big project in?
[1] https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=language%3AKotlin&ref=searchresults&s=stars&type=Repositories&utf8=,,lemevi,190,1437797709,2015-07-25 04:15:09+00:00,story,9946527,,199.0,, 1526,What should I say to my manager when my performance starts suffering?,,"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.
The message goes something like:
"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."
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".
Is there another interpretation? Is there a way to negotiate different or better terms at this point? How should she approach this?
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.",,chrishemsworth,190,1624792144,2021-06-27 11:09:04+00:00,story,27650550,,156.0,, 1527,Passive income ideas?,,"I can code well and I have 1-2 hours daily that I can spend on any project/activity that will, after some work, generate $1000/per month net in passive income. I have kept the number at 1000 as my hours to spend are limited. Change the number if you think I can have a bigger passive income with the amount of time I am have. I would like to hear ideas from the community, specially from folks who have done this in the past or are doing this currently. Please give concrete actionable ideas.
EDIT: I am willing to learn anything.",,quietthrow,190,1371619824,2013-06-19 05:30:24+00:00,story,5903868,,172.0,, 1528,Do I place the fan so that it blows air inwards or outwards?,,I am positive that there's a huge difference between the theoretical model and reality here.
Let's assume it's 30 celsius inside the room and <20 celsius outside.
Enjoy your Monday my thermodynamics friends!,,optimmal,190,1527490812,2018-05-28 07:00:12+00:00,story,17170970,,116.0,, 1529,How do you personally learn?,,"My short list of the skills that have helped me the most in my career as a software engineer is not sorted. But the ability to quickly learn things is easily on that list. With technology constantly and rapidly changing, small improvements in the speed at which I learn things can have a big and cumulative impact on my productivity. But we rarely discuss personal learning strategies. What are your personal strategies? Please consider mentioning even what you consider to be dead obvious. It might not be to others.",,tchaffee,190,1563118150,2019-07-14 15:29:10+00:00,story,20433926,,80.0,, 1530,How to setup a company in U.S. without being there?,,"Hi guys, I am working on a startup, and I will need to charge users for my services.
I am in Egypt, and its not possible to have an international merchant account, or in other words, its very expensive..
So I would like to know, how can I setup a tax ID and EIN or whatever, so I can make a merchant account based in U.S.?
Is it possible to do that without having to be physically in the U.S.? Are there any companies that help do that?
Thanks so much in advance.",,ahmedaly,189,1339935429,2012-06-17 12:17:09+00:00,story,4122794,,71.0,, 1531,Which types of tech jobs are best for people that can't handle stress?,,,,yasp,189,1535314894,2018-08-26 20:21:34+00:00,story,17847668,,162.0,, 1532,"What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks?",,"For self-education from books, textbooks are essential. They are literally designed to convey information on a subject to students. But there are a lot of textbooks. Which ones are the best?
Preliminary research has suggested Spivak is best for Calculus. SICP is another famous one I've heard of. What about Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy, History?
Any contributions to this list are much appreciated.",,Alekhine,189,1591853449,2020-06-11 05:30:49+00:00,story,23485477,,108.0,, 1533,Any indications Copilot scans your local files?,,"A client of mine is just about to launch a startup. There's nothing public on the web yet. Today, while hacking a very minimal prototype of a HTML page into VSCode, I got a strange suggestion from GH Copilot. When I entered the client's name Copilot prompted me with a ready-made <article> block containing a marketing claim of their company. So far so nice.
Strange thing is the claim is not public and not contained in the codebase I'm currently working on, in no codebase I know of and to my knowledge, I'm the only related dev using Copilot. It's also not listed on Google, thus I assume it's not leaked somewhere else that could be indexed by GH (which is an assumption of course, but appears likely). But it can be found in a completely separate local folder with project assets that is not published on GH.
The marketing claim is about the length of a tweet and is not exactly generic. It requires understanding of my client's business (which again, cannot be derived from my codebase). So it's not GPT3 output that matches coincidentially.
The GH „About GitHub Copilot Telemetry” page [1] does not indicate that your locale file system is scanned though.
Can anyone explain that or observed a similar phenomenon?
[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/about-github-copilot-telemetry",,polycaster,189,1636384102,2021-11-08 15:08:22+00:00,story,29150011,,83.0,, 1534,How much do you earn on average through software freelancing?,,,,worldexplorer,189,1478547393,2016-11-07 19:36:33+00:00,story,12894209,,123.0,, 1535,What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018?,,,,xstartup,189,1520079616,2018-03-03 12:20:16+00:00,story,16508965,,177.0,, 1536,What happens next after a successful lockdown?,,"Optimistic scenario - lockdown everywhere is a success and after a month there're single cases here and there, maybe even 0 cases. Would countries resume travel and ease gathering restriction before a vaccine has been invented? Or we can expect to be in a lockdown for 12-14 months until a vaccine comes to market, if it comes to market?",,martokus,189,1584381789,2020-03-16 18:03:09+00:00,story,22595415,,201.0,, 1537,How do I earn money as a teenage programmer?,,"I'm having trouble working this out, because I have to earn money to pay for car insurance and such, but software companies are not willing to hire people my age for good reason. My resume is also limited because I have only built applications for a few businesses who I had previous connections with. I'm looking for advice for how to start freelancing, because that seems to be the most viable way, without a large resume to start.",,Sxw1212,189,1496790123,2017-06-06 23:02:03+00:00,story,14502233,,98.0,, 1538,What was the job market like during the dot-com crash?,,"With all the talk of us being in a bubble lately, I've been wondering:
What was it like for developers when the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000's? I didn't start coding until after that, so the job-market I've always experienced has been one of ever-increasing demand. How different was it then? And how did you make it through?
What were job-prospects like? How were your wages affected? Did recruiters simply cease to exist? More to the point, what advice do you have for developers who want to be well-insulated if/when the next crash happens?
Thanks a bunch",,MalcolmDiggs,189,1419217167,2014-12-22 02:59:27+00:00,story,8781768,,155.0,, 1539,"Google workers, sister is visiting S.J. Can she tour the Googleplex?",,"She is 21 years old and has an inoperable brain tumor. She is recovering from several surgeries. She has limited body movements, but wants to go back to school. She is unsure as to what she wants to study. I think it might inspire her to visit the campus and see people being innovative/productive in an office setting.",,fumar,189,1368237446,2013-05-11 01:57:26+00:00,story,5689455,,37.0,, 1540,"If you've used a graph database, would you use it again?",,,,networked,189,1520481621,2018-03-08 04:00:21+00:00,story,16542183,,82.0,, 1541,Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?,,"Past few days(weeks?) I find myself more and more frustrated with google search. It seems to frequently omit the most important keywords I'm typing. I constantly have to click "Must include 'Keyword'", because more than half the links on the first page miss it, even if it's the first one out of 3 words in my query.
I'm not the kind of person who thinks about search quality, this is the first time in my life I have ever noticed it being frustrating.",,alan_wade,188,1549874789,2019-02-11 08:46:29+00:00,story,19132927,,100.0,, 1542,How to Find the Best Info on Cancer Treatments?,,"Hi Everyone, one of my close relatives has been diagnosed with Stage IV Glioblastoma (GBM), and while there's literally tons of information online about treatments and procedures, how would one go about digesting it all ? For example there's 75 publications from the recent ASCO 2015 congress about GBM treatments, is there any tool out there to compare what works vs what does not work as well? Another question would be, how to find the best specialists in my Area for this kind of cancer?
Any help/advice is very much appreciated!",,ekianjo,188,1440946890,2015-08-30 15:01:30+00:00,story,10143485,,86.0,, 1543,How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?,,"In the course of reading lots of tech news, and occasionally hanging out with other hackers, I've come under the impression that there is some kind of intense, difficult black art to building large services that scale to 10^N number of users, for any impressive value of N.
I'm a dev of 20+ years who has worked on everything from games, to desktop apps, to web apps. I worked as a front-end web development lead at Microsoft on several small web apps, and as the back-end dev on a small web service.
I think I could get interviews at any number of interesting places, but if I was going for back-end work (the part that interests me), I feel like I would simply be out of my depth. How do I get there? I'm sure there are obvious answers like ""read books"", ""learn on the job"", or ""try to build youtube/facebook/twitter, and succeed"". So specifically, my question is for those who have already learned to build medium-to-large services: what was your path to acquiring these skills, and do you have any advice for people like me?",,andywood,188,1299279440,2011-03-04 22:57:20+00:00,story,2290180,,30.0,, 1544,What are you learning in 2019?,,"Feeling a little too comfortable where I'm at now. In the last couple years I had some side projects in distributed systems.
Those were fun, learned a new language, came to the conclusion that Go is overhyped and immature and helped me appreciate that Java ain't that bad after all. Feel like the project did help me be a better developer, understand load balancing, databases, storage systems etc better.
What new tech have y'all learned in the past 6 months - 1yr that you found to have made you a better developer?",,dadoge,188,1566748295,2019-08-25 15:51:35+00:00,story,20793590,,215.0,, 1545,How does my Instagram keep getting compromised?,,"I was an early Instagram user and got my nickname as my handle and I keep getting either locked out of my account or compromised altogether.
Over the years, hackers have tried a number of things to steal my handle and I can usually tell how they get in. These days, I have no idea. I've been SIM swapped a handful of times. One time a hacker faxed a fake ID to Godaddy to try and swap out my domain to gain control of my email (they were successful).
Now, I will try to log in to my account and will just be locked out. The email I created specifically for Instagram is not recognized, and there is no way to reset my password.
I have two-factor auth on, I don't use the same password anywhere else, I change it regularly, etc.
My current theory is there is some employee at Meta that's ultimately stealing the account. Does anybody have any idea how they're hacking me?
PS: the worst part about all this is in order to get the handle back, I have to pull strings with folks I know at Meta, for a normal user, they would have absolutely no way of regaining access...
[Update] Just got the account back and still have no idea how my email was removed from the account...
[Update 2] Reviewing the security section I see a password reset email was sent to [username]@instagramz.com. No clue how or who changed the account email to that though.",,china,188,1640713358,2021-12-28 17:42:38+00:00,story,29715989,,112.0,, 1546,People who cashed out early and stopped working: What is your life like?,,"inspired from: retired husband syndrome [0] and original comment [1]
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28785222 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28786321",,saadalem,188,1633693148,2021-10-08 11:39:08+00:00,story,28798089,,186.0,, 1547,How did you hack the press when you launched your startup(s)?,,"How did you get on TC, RWW etc? Did you know your journalist before pitching him/her? How many signups/users/downloads did the post refer? How did it affect the future of your startup?",,akos,188,1347199259,2012-09-09 14:00:59+00:00,story,4495786,,46.0,, 1548,Companies using Racket?,,"Hello everyone,
I'm looking for companies that are currently hiring Racket developers or did so in the past.
I created https://www.racketjobs.com, because I was myself interested in workplaces that use Racketlang commercially, but couldn't find any. After sharing the site on /r/Racket and a couple of other sites I got a bit more than 100 people to sign up for the newsletter.
If anyone knows a company, using Racket, or a place on the web where I can find open Racket positions, I'd be happy to hear from you. Of course I did my Google searches before.",,ctas,188,1541246888,2018-11-03 12:08:08+00:00,story,18369822,,132.0,, 1549,How to understand the large codebase of an open-source project?,,Hello All!
what are techniques you all used to learn and understand a large codebase? what are the tools you use?,,maqbool,188,1517686562,2018-02-03 19:36:02+00:00,story,16299125,,47.0,, 1550,Who's looking for employment?,,"It's the reverse of a ""Who's hiring?"" thread. Since I'm currently looking for a job, I thought it might be helpful to get my name out there on HN.
If you're currently looking for work, post your name, the type of work you're looking for, and where you're looking for work.
I'll go first:
Andrew Dobrenko, I'm looking for python web development work, I live in Washington DC and would like to work here.",,johnwall,188,1326640777,2012-01-15 15:19:37+00:00,story,3467298,,153.0,, 1551,Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps,,"We asked the HackerNews community, “What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?”: https://ubu.one/AskHN and a passionate discussion ensued, the results are at: http://ubu.one/thankHN
You can check that link and see our progress. Already in beta for 17.10:
- GNOME replaced Unity
- Bluetooth improvements with a new BlueZ
- Switched to libinput
- 4K/Multimonitor/HiDPI improvements
- Upgraded to Network Manager 1.8
- New Subiquity server installer
- Minimal images (36MB, 18% smaller)
And several others have excellent work in progress, and will be complete by 17.10:
- Autoremove old kernels from /boot
- EXT4 encryption with fscrypt
- Better GPU/CUDA support
Your feedback matters! There are hundreds of engineers working for you to continue making Ubuntu amazing!
We're now reviewing the desktop applications we package and ship in Ubuntu.
We invite you to submit the apps you find most useful in Linux, in the format defined below. You can suggest multiple apps in priority order (e.g. Web Browser: Firefox, Chrome, Chromium). Please note apps that are now you use exclusively on the web (e.g. Email Client: Gmail web, Office Suite: Office360 web). If the software isn’t open source, note that (e.g. Music Player: Spotify non-free). If we missed a category, please add it in the same format. If your apps aren’t packaged yet, please let us know, as we’re creating hundreds of new snap packages for desktop apps.
===
Web Browser: ???
Email Client: ???
Terminal: ???
IDE: ???
File manager: ???
Basic Text Editor: ???
IRC/Messaging Client: ???
PDF Reader: ???
Office Suite: ???
Calendar: ???
Video Player: ???
Music Player: ???
Photo Viewer: ???
Screen recording: ???
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We’ve cross-posted this thread to Reddit and Slashdot. We very much look forward to another friendly, energetic, collaborative discussion.
Thanks!
twitter.com/@DustinKirkland @Canonical @Ubuntu",,dustinkirkland,188,1500635606,2017-07-21 11:13:26+00:00,story,14819508,,243.0,, 1552,Who's switched from Chrome to Firefox 57?,,"I haven't used FF in years but I've been so impressed with 57 that I've finally come home. I'm wondering if I'm alone. If you switched, please let us know why you decided to switch.",,alistproducer2,187,1510777541,2017-11-15 20:25:41+00:00,story,15707412,,201.0,, 1553,Post Burnout Ideas,,"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.
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.
If you've found yourself in a similar position, how have you dealt with it?",,burnoot,187,1622956261,2021-06-06 05:11:01+00:00,story,27410951,,117.0,, 1554,First month job anxiety. Am I actually an impostor?,,"I joined one of the big-4 tech companies a month ago after years of freelance work. Since joining, I’ve had trouble “hooking in”. For one, it doesn’t seem like I have all that much to do. I’ve submitted a few very simple bug fixes, and I have some larger feature work coming up, but it’s all on the order of maybe a few hundred lines of code. I’ve also spent maybe a week more than I should have on a fairly simple feature, just from fighting with my tools and trying to figure out where to put a few sparse calls in the codebase. It’s really embarrassing.
The other issue is that I’m riddled with anxiety every day. For one, I’m worried that my coworkers might think I’m slacking off, or that I’m incompetent or a bad hire. Everyone around me is always on point though many of them are younger than me. Their thoughts are completely clear. I rarely hear them make mistakes or misunderstand anything: they seem to have no weaknesses. In contrast, my thoughts tend to be extremely muddled. I often take in information without making much sense of it at first, and it seems to take me a while to clarify these thoughts into some whole. (And even then, I’m not always able to talk about it clearly.) I think this has always been my way of thinking, but it feels out of place here..
The other big issue is that I don’t really know how to reach out to people. I’m not a collaborator; I’m a recluse. In my life, I’ve always done things from scratch. Now I have to make meetings, ask people for information, decide that something needs to be done and tell another team to do it, etc. To get good at this, it feels like I basically have to rewire my entire personality, and I don’t know how to go about doing this. I’ve also found myself not asking clarifying questions when something doesn’t make sense in a meeting—see “muddled thoughts” above—and then I’m stuck figuring out whatever it was that I misunderstood on my own time (or not at all).
I don’t know if this is impostor syndrome, because I might actually be an impostor. Deep down, I think I’m riddled with fear that I’m just not good enough to be a “Googler” (or your favorite FANG here).
What do I do? How do I get better?",,rericks,187,1539965907,2018-10-19 16:18:27+00:00,story,18257767,,88.0,, 1555,"Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much",,"The internet is my industry and takes care of me well. It is also the biggest hinderance to my productivity. I lose a very large amount of time reading / watching stuff that seems interesting. While I have learnt a lot with my unquenchable thirst for things knowledgy, I am not able to meet my time goals. How do you at HN avoid this trap?",,vain,187,1301760522,2011-04-02 16:08:42+00:00,story,2400184,,145.0,, 1556,How do you manage your companies knowledge base?,,"After losing a few key personnel lately I have become painfully aware of the amount of knowledge stuck with individuals. While we do have a wiki of knowledge, a lot of the pages are outdated, incorrect or just not needed anymore.
My problem is, I know that we are missing information, what I don't know is how to tease out that information from myself and other coworkers. Do you have any advice on how to get the knowledge out of my coworkers and into the knowledge base? Or, do you have a book you recommend? I have found a few books on knowledge bases but the reviews seem to be pretty hit and miss.
Edit: After talking with some friends about it I think I was able to articulate my main issue I have. In making this documentation it feels like I am winging it. However, all my training has been in coding and coding always has standards, guidelines and frameworks. It's hard for me to just work on the docs as I feel like I should be following some sort of standard as I do it.
Edit: Currently I am stuck with Confluence as the actual technology to use.",,hifikuno,187,1645094971,2022-02-17 10:49:31+00:00,story,30371723,,118.0,, 1557,"Are compiler engineers still in demand, and what do they work on?",,"I have just graduated and would like to get into the Compiler Engineering field.
Is the field still in demand? Are there any opportunities? What will I be working on? What tips can you give me?",,logcrater,187,1579499583,2020-01-20 05:53:03+00:00,story,22096628,,96.0,, 1558,As a programmer do you have ups and downs and periods of intense doubt?,,"Hi all,
Am a developer based in Africa and have developed small applications for the company I work for an airline ground handling company and have also created apps for sale on codecanyon.
Am a competent programmer not necessarily a good one but am able to get things done when under pressure, For example I made the codecanyon application at a previous job as an intern when we were required to comply with certain ISO regulations within a month. I did it as I had no way out. It has earned me approximately 250USD per month which in Africa is enough to pay rent but not be self employed.
The problem comes when I need to do something that I am 100% responsible for. For example create a SaaS app. The usual process goes like this Have an idea, Get excited, come up with all kinds of cool/new features that look marketable/useful, sometimes I go to the extent of buying a domain, when it reaches to implementation I get this crippling doubt on whether what am creating will sell/will be a profitable SaaS application. I am simple crippled by the fear of failure and abandon my wonderful idea. As a result I have numerous half baked personal projects. This projects do have their advantages as I discover new ways to do things that are very beneficial to my work projects but for my personal projects and personal life they are a dead end.
Do any of you experience this, do you just push it to the back of your mind and push on forward or is it just that am a coward?",,Madawar,187,1466503626,2016-06-21 10:07:06+00:00,story,11944685,,61.0,, 1559,What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizing it?,,"I have to admire the guy for sticking to his guns and his vision and not monetizing it. It would be so easy too- keep the existing version free but create an iOS/Android app with some bells and whistles like longer words and boom rake in the cash. Being so hell bent on your vision commands respect. But I can't help but feel that the guy is about to let someone else benefit from his creation and am not sure how to feel about that (see https://twitter.com/zachshakked/status/1481345622938685443).
Apple is cracking down on blatant Wordle clones in the appstore right now but there is demand there, there is going to be a different app with a different name with a different ui with some added features like multiplayer that is probably gonna make some good money for a few months.
If someone is gonna inevitably end up benefiting from it, I'd rather the guy who made the original rather than an app cloning team in China or some bay area tech bro. I am putting myself in his shoes and even if I had the vision that he has, I would not be able to stop myself from monetizing it even if just to not let the copycats make as much of a windfall.
What do people here think of this situation?",,avl999,187,1642048428,2022-01-13 04:33:48+00:00,story,29916899,,281.0,, 1560,Who's running a profitable newsletter?,,How do you do it and how much are you making?,,cronjobma,187,1498179229,2017-06-23 00:53:49+00:00,story,14616440,,99.0,, 1561,"I'm an incoming freshman to college for a CS major, what should I know?",,"I've been coding since I was young, so I'm not worried about struggling academically, at least in my CS classes. I'm more interested in knowing what I should do now to give me an advantage in getting a job or otherwise.
All advice is appreciated!",,fish45,187,1590950035,2020-05-31 18:33:55+00:00,story,23371530,,273.0,, 1562,Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?,,"I couldn't think of a better word than 'unfashionable' but what I mean by this is a programming language that is not new, upcoming, or has much traction.
The language may have unique or novel features, it may be a language with a passionate and dedicated band of programmers. But one thing the language does not have is much 'mindshare' amongst programmers: its time in the spotlight has passed. It may still be in active development, or it may be moribund.
Examples of 'unfashionable' languages include: Cobol, Snobol, Icon, Unicon, Forth, Pascal, Eiffel, D, Smalltalk, Basic etc.(Note, I realize this is subjective to a degree.)
If you use an 'unfashionable' language, what keeps you using it? It is a unique feature? Is it familiarity or comfort? Is it speed or performance or some other quality? What do you think we could learn from that language when developing programming languages today?",,open-source-ux,187,1454159942,2016-01-30 13:19:02+00:00,story,11001693,,327.0,, 1563,What talks or videos do you suggest to watch on a long flight?,,,,tarikozket,187,1530891841,2018-07-06 15:44:01+00:00,story,17472338,,159.0,, 1564,How have you achieved financial independence?,,"I know this is a niche question, but have you reached a point where you have enough passive income to not to have to work for a living? If so how did you accomplish it?",,tsaprailis,187,1470990454,2016-08-12 08:27:34+00:00,story,12274094,,176.0,, 1565,What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?,,Recently a bookstore near me that used to carry lots of interesting periodicals (including my favorite 2600) stopped all of them. So I have decided to subscribe directly. What are some of your favorite magazines/journals (tech and non-tech) that you love and wish would last for a long time to come.,,pthreads,186,1605876494,2020-11-20 12:48:14+00:00,story,25159931,,135.0,, 1566,Review my site - devcheatsheet.com,http://devcheatsheet.com,,,tim_church,186,1264088463,2010-01-21 15:41:03+00:00,story,1067474,,90.0,, 1567,What is your best passive income 2019?,,"Time to ask again :)
Any side projects, Games, OSS.",,sa-mao,186,1547497212,2019-01-14 20:20:12+00:00,story,18906094,,84.0,, 1568,Should Techcrunch be banned on HN?,,"When I click on a Techrunch link, it tries to redirect me to some tracking url on advertising.com. That would probably collect data about me, set cookies and send me back to Techcrunch. Since I do not allow that, I cannot read Techcrunch articles at all.
I have the feeling that links on HN should lead to pages with at least a minimum of adherence to what one expects from a website.
A site that immediately redirects a visitor to a different domain is not what I expect from a link.",,TekMol,186,1583871566,2020-03-10 20:19:26+00:00,story,22539255,,18.0,, 1569,What do you wish you had known before you turned 40?,,"So I've noticed a few posts over time where users have asked similiar questions but at younger age brackets (18, 20, 25 mainly).
I'm slightly more interested in further down the road. I know HNs user base might be skewed to the younger crowd but I'm sure there are a number of 40+ year olds who can impart their wisdom.
Thanks.",,cup,186,1424658704,2015-02-23 02:31:44+00:00,story,9092246,,180.0,, 1570,Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s,,"I'm fascinated by what I read in HN everyday. I want to start my career in IT. I'm now 44 though, and trained as a mechanical engineer in my career and spent the last 20 years in business (finance, strategy and operations).
I'm looking for wisdom and pointers from the community here.
How can I go about it? I have access to Coursera/EdX and around 1.5 years to focus full-time on retraining. Any advice would be appreciated.",,5F7bGnd6fWJ66xN,186,1636303149,2021-11-07 16:39:09+00:00,story,29140927,,146.0,, 1571,Is RSS dead?,,Or is there a hope for new clients on web and mobile .,,totaldude87,186,1583436726,2020-03-05 19:32:06+00:00,story,22497184,,204.0,, 1572,"Former software engineers, what are you doing now?",,"I've been programming since middle school, and have been working as a software engineer for the last 5 years. The pay is great (FAANG-level comp), but I'm extremely bored and considering leaving software engineering altogether.
I'd like to better understand what career options other software engineers have explored.
If you are a former software engineer:
1. What are you doing now?
2. Why did you leave software engineering?",,zffr,186,1595706433,2020-07-25 19:47:13+00:00,story,23951850,,157.0,, 1573,What are pros and cons of PostgreSQL and MySQL?,,I searched the web but most of the articles are written several years before. Many cons have been fixed.,,stanhou,186,1491722657,2017-04-09 07:24:17+00:00,story,14070930,,210.0,, 1574,How do you read programming books?,,"How do you read a programming book? By programming books, I mean books which teach a language/framework/tool.
Do you read it in one go and later try examples or go through entire book by trying all examples?
Do you read the entire book or just the part to get the job done?
What methods/techniques have you found useful while reading such books?",,pvsukale3,186,1511096730,2017-11-19 13:05:30+00:00,story,15733745,,78.0,, 1575,Any good collaboratively built documentation on good parenting?,,"Lastly, I wonder whether there is a good collaborative resource providing consensus-based good parenting practises and guidelines, from a general point of view: Which, of course, would include, techniques, methodologies or guidelines depending on the age, type, culture or context where children grow up.
Am I requesting for a kind of an impossible-to-find asset?
I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.",,davidpelayo,186,1525805926,2018-05-08 18:58:46+00:00,story,17023693,,123.0,, 1576,Recommendations for Working from Home?,,"I've worked from home occasionally, but only in short stretches where I could get some work done from my laptop at the kitchen table.
With the recent WFH-mandate for my company, my team is now entirely WFH. I've set up a designated space at home to work from with some proper ergonomics, and I'm interested in hearing general advice and recommendations about staying productive, striking the work/life balance, and keeping the casual/social in-person environment alive. Any specific recommendations?",,otras,186,1583953888,2020-03-11 19:11:28+00:00,story,22549300,,87.0,, 1577,What do you wish someone would build?,,"It's time for another go at this question; we had interesting ideas the last time. What do you wish someone would build, either for your personal use or for your business?
Edit: fixed typo",,prmph,186,1474661909,2016-09-23 20:18:29+00:00,story,12567645,,526.0,, 1578,"Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?",,"So I've been working in the industry for a while, and as a hobbyist for a good bit of time before that. Currently my career have consisted of writing and maintaining simple CRUD apps, and to be honest I hate it. Its mind numbingly boring and I certainly dont want to spend my life doing that. I've tried to branch out into a number of different things, but nothing sticks. I fail to understand, fail to recognize patterns, am too slow to understand simple concepts and never retain anything. Occasionally understand the individual concepts of something but then her completely lost when they're all combined in some applied method. Thi bis true not just for CS and software development, but other technical and mathematical subjects I've attempted to learn.
The typical suggestions for people in my situation dont interest me. These seem to be roles adjacent to what I do now and often, but closer to business then tech. These might include becoming a business analyst, technical salesman, fast tracking to management, etc. These are sound even worse to me than what I do now, and given the choice I'd just stick with development.
Now I'd likely have to return to some sort of schooling and I'm young enough to do it (I guess), but given my intellectual limitation and my stubbornness on what I take interest in, I'm not sure what options I have.",,throwaway88p,186,1587923802,2020-04-26 17:56:42+00:00,story,22988809,,164.0,, 1579,Have you ever inherited a codebase nobody on the team could understand?,,"How did you deal with it? (Reverse engineer requirements + rewrite, convincing higher-ups to cut ties with the code, something else?)",,ironmagma,185,1543430335,2018-11-28 18:38:55+00:00,story,18554272,,217.0,, 1580,Resources to start learning about quantum computing?,,"Hi there,
I'm an experienced software engineer (+15 years dev experience, MsC in Computer Science) and quantum computing is the first thing in my experience that is being hard to grasp/understand. I'd love to fix that ;)
What resources would you recommend to start learning about quantum computing?
Ideally resources that touch both the theoretical base and evolve to more practical usages.",,edu,185,1595406092,2020-07-22 08:21:32+00:00,story,23914992,,50.0,, 1581,Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing?,,"Visual programming seems to unlock a ton of value. Difficult concepts can more easily be grokked in a visual form. Programming becomes more approachable to first-timers. Since text is difficult to manipulate without a physical keyboard, visual programming opens the doors to doing development on mobile devices. And yet it only seems to be mainstream in education (i.e. Scratch). Why?",,remolacha,185,1590012065,2020-05-20 22:01:05+00:00,story,23252448,,297.0,, 1582,"Do I have to go through recruiters nowadays, how do you find new jobs?",,"I posted on the Who wants to be hired thread last week. I have received a ton of recruiter spam, all saying "We have the perfect position for you". I quickly realized they say that to everyone. I'd rather talk to a company directly.
What's the procedure for getting a new job without going through external recruiters?",,minionslave,185,1462981968,2016-05-11 15:52:48+00:00,story,11676417,,144.0,, 1583,Starting blogging when you're not an expert?,,"Hi everyone,
Does it makes sense to you to start a (technical blog) when you know you're not an expert in any field ?
I would like to start a blog where I could put articles about things I'm learning (frameworks, programming languages, concepts...) but I'm afraid it won't be relevant for anyone as I'm don't have any real advanced knowledge in any fields in particular.
Just to be clear : I don't expect/want to make money of it or to become suddenly attractive for recruiters, I just think it could help me learn more, faster and to improve my communications skills.",,Prygan,185,1501594080,2017-08-01 13:28:00+00:00,story,14900376,,118.0,, 1584,I feel trapped in my job and city,,"I'm 34. I work in quant finance in London, UK (in ML/statistics). I graduated with a PhD in CS and sort of fell into this field when a recruiter contacted me with the promise of $$$ that is hard to get in any other field unless you're at Google. I'm on a pretty decent salary even by London standards, but I'm utterly miserable.
1. The job is meaningless. When I first started in the field I thought I enjoyed it, but now I see that the bonuses were what excited me about the job, not the actual work.
2. Although the money is good, an 'adequate' house in London would cost at least 10 times my salary. I'm renting a flat with my partner. It's a reasonably decent flat by London standards, but because we're renting we can never really make it a home.
3. London is a horrible place to live. I have no affinity for it whatsoever. Even if I could afford a house I would not want to live here.
4. My home town is an hour flight away but if I were to move home I would most likely take at least a 2/3 pay cut. I would prefer to live back home. But doing that would ruin any chances I ever had of being able to retire early.
5. My parents, like most boomers, had a much better standard of living when they were my age. My father had a pretty average salary, bought a massive house for a reasonable price, and saw his wealth multiply many times over. It's not like that for my generation.
My partner is in a similar job to me and he is making multiples of what I'm making (although it's more stressful than mine). Luckily for him, he hates his job less than I do, so he could probably stick it out a few years longer.
I have just come back from 2 weeks holidays at home with my parents and was pretty much in tears this morning starting another day at work. It's so hard to muster up any motivation for the job, especially now that the company is in a dry period pnl-wise. I much prefer my home town to London, but I can't expect my partner to move back with me, as he is doing extremely well in his career and it would be career suicide for him.
I have racked my brain trying to figure out what field I would prefer to work in, but I can't think of anything. I just go round in circles thinking about it. Given that anything else would involve a massive pay cut, I think I would regret leaving the job I'm in. I could probably grind leetcode for a couple of months to try to get into Google, but I would find working at Google utterly meaningless as well. I have the ability to work hard to pass an interview, but I've been working for long enough now that I find it difficult to muster up any enthusiasm during job interviews, which is probably a red flag for potential employers. I'm no longer young and excited about this stuff!
I'm interested in computers and programming in general, but doing it for a living ruins the joy. I would love to be able to retire and get into meditation / travelling the world / learning about things for fun.",,thebrowncat,185,1629135696,2021-08-16 17:41:36+00:00,story,28200727,,256.0,, 1585,We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?,,"It's not the product, I strongly believe we have a decent product.
we recently launched Sieve PRO https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sieve-pro
https://www.sievehq.com/ a saas, where we provide all tools for anyone in tech to start freelancing in 15 minutes. This includes a personal website, client on-boarding, NDAs, requirement collection, eventually invoices, payments, and agreements.
When we had 600 people coming to our website, had 400 people click the signup but only 40 people signed up and NO ONE PAID.
We were asking for yearly payment $348 ($29/mo) as a part of Elite 100 program where we give away 100,000 shares for the first 100 people and all the features coming up in the next year for free.
What did we do wrong?",,cod3boy,185,1511076840,2017-11-19 07:34:00+00:00,story,15732752,,317.0,, 1586,How did you get started in Network Security/Penetration Testing?,,,,Txmm,185,1504306549,2017-09-01 22:55:49+00:00,story,15152957,,64.0,, 1587,Why are a large proportion of legit posts being marked [dead]?,,,,ekpyrotic,185,1333384834,2012-04-02 16:40:34+00:00,story,3788902,,103.0,, 1588,TrueCrypt audit status?,,"After raising over $70,000 from the community in October 2013, progress on the TrueCrypt audit has been fitful at best. The last update on http://istruecryptauditedyet.com was April 14, 2014.
Two key contributors, Matthew Green (https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green) and Kenn White (https://twitter.com/kennwhite) remain active on Twitter.
I am aware of VeraCrypt and CipherShed but these appear orthogonal to the original audit.
Does anyone know what the heck is going on?",,mukmuk,185,1424276667,2015-02-18 16:24:27+00:00,story,9069295,,157.0,, 1589,Best linux laptop right now?,,"I get to choose a new laptop for work. I'd like to switch back to Linux as I think it does 95% of what a Mac does, and it's better at some things. What are people using?",,vise890,185,1460725843,2016-04-15 13:10:43+00:00,story,11503951,,158.0,, 1590,Best project management practices in 2018?,,""Agile" and "scrum" were the hotness a few years back, but now it seems that the hype mostly subsided. It's reasonable to assume that the Agile practices are put in context and incorporated into the mainstream now. Are there any recent works on project management that systematically present modern best practices? What have we been left with few years since the Agile revolution?",,lambdadmitry,184,1518629641,2018-02-14 17:34:01+00:00,story,16377523,,108.0,, 1591,How do your enterprise customers pay you?,,"If you are a SaaS company, how do your customers pay you? Credit, ACH, etc, monthly vs. annual contract. Any good resources on the subject?",,zackliscio,184,1424370030,2015-02-19 18:20:30+00:00,story,9075768,,117.0,, 1592,Who wants to be hired? (September 2020),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Is it necessary to invest some time in building an impressive app of my own or is it possible to find someone who'll hire me despite the fact that I have almost nothing to show?",,Sargis,184,1327864320,2012-01-29 19:12:00+00:00,story,3525861,,53.0,, 1594,What manual processes would you automate in your company?,,"E.g. Onboarding of new employees, expenses, security, etc..",,anacleto,184,1483716839,2017-01-06 15:33:59+00:00,story,13337024,,249.0,, 1595,Do you meditate? How/Why? ,,"I've been doing a little bit of meditation lately and it helped me take time off to put things in perspective and generally feel a little less stressed out about life and work. However, I sometimes find myself thinking that maybe I should spend that time doing something useful (even if I know meditation is good for me).
What's your take? Do you do it? How and why do you do it? Care to share your experience? I guess what I'm looking for is a bit of peer validation for either side of the coin, and your thoughts. Thanks everyone.",,fredoliveira,184,1295554887,2011-01-20 20:21:27+00:00,story,2125115,,118.0,, 1596,Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?,,"I am a developer and the startup I joined as employee #2 a year and a half ago has been growing steadily. There are now double digits employees and I've been given more responsibility and authority.
Aside from development, some of my responsibilities up to this point have already included project management, staff management and proposal writing. Now I am joining the senior management team and taking on more strategic responsibilities, including determining the direction of many of the company’s future plans and projects.
There are several paths I am looking at for preparing myself for my new responsibilities. I thought I’d start a discussion as out of the demographic on HN, I am sure I am not the only one in such a situation.
Self-teaching directions I’ve been looking at so far are: - Business Analyst processes. - Agile planning - Agile requirements modeling - Effective proposals - Business development
Although there is certainly no absence of literature in this area, I've found it hard to find good recommendations. Does anyone have any suggestions for specific books in those areas, or any other areas that would benefit a developer taking on a more strategic role?",,rodh,184,1403607067,2014-06-24 10:51:07+00:00,story,7937002,,81.0,, 1597,"At 91, My Grandfather's Only Regret Is Never Skateboarding. Best VR Rig?",,"My grandfather just passed his 91st birthday. His only regret about getting older is that he will never experience what it is like to skateboard or rollerblade.
I would like to give that to him.
My grandfather is a veteran of World War II, a former FBI field agent who fought against organized crime, a father of four, a grandfather of nine, and not only the most honorable, but also the most consistently jovial person whom I have ever known.
When reflecting over his long life thus far, he was asked if there was anything he wished he had done when he was younger. He looked off into the distance, and after a long while, said, "Well, I'd like to learn to use a skateboard, or maybe rollerblades. Yeah, that might be easier on me."
He smiled and we all laughed, but as we looked back to him, he said wistfully and without a trace of irony, "I really would... But sometimes I have to remind myself I'm not seventeen anymore."
This is where I need your help.
Earlier today a friend sent me a video of her bed-bound grandmother taking VR tours of distant cities to which she had never traveled. As she looked left and right, her expression became one of pure wonderment, an unrestrained smile spreading wide across her face.
I want to provide the same experience for my grandfather.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a performant VR stack, preference of VR make/model (HTC Vive vs. Oculus Rift), or knowledge of high quality content sources?
With regard to price, I am on a limited budget due to recent medical expenses, but I earn a good living. So if there is one option that is clearly better, I would rather sell every luxury item I have than deny him the best experience.
Thank you all for reading.",,s_q_b,184,1477859027,2016-10-30 20:23:47+00:00,story,12832027,,67.0,, 1598,Best current book to learn JavaScript?,,,,babyboy808,183,1496326829,2017-06-01 14:20:29+00:00,story,14460429,,93.0,, 1599,Where do you go for civil discussion on the Internet?,,"Is there a place on the Internet for general -- including political and economic -- discussion that is filled with civil, insightful commentary?
Outside of specialist corners (such as HN), the Internet often appears to be filled primarily with hateful repetition of populist punchlines, providing little to no insight into the big topics that concern the world at the moment. This is such a shame, as the Internet really should be the enabler of discussion across borders and societies (which of course can become heated but should always be respectful and rooted in trying to understand each other!).
From what I have read, The WELL seems to have been such a place (or still is?) in the "old days", but where do you go today for such an exchange of ideas on a variety of topics?
(Note: It is allowed to cost money.)",,ar0,183,1472820954,2016-09-02 12:55:54+00:00,story,12412661,,221.0,, 1600,Anyone built a business with no-code tools?,,"SaaS, productized service, freelance - anyone doing it successfully with no-code, low-code tools?",,akudha,183,1624376381,2021-06-22 15:39:41+00:00,story,27593073,,100.0,, 1601,How is software development different in China and India?,,What programming languages are popular there? Is code written in a mix of the local language and English (for the keywords)? Is Agile used?,,baron816,183,1545781370,2018-12-25 23:42:50+00:00,story,18759658,,137.0,, 1602,Do you self-host your database?,,"Now that there are so many options like AWS GCP Azure Digital Ocean Heroku Render Firebase Supabase etc..
I was wondering does anyone these days Self-host databases on their infra?",,vira28,183,1624937003,2021-06-29 03:23:23+00:00,story,27671376,,231.0,, 1603,"Non-VC backed founders, any tips on growth?",,"I am involved in two bootstrapped startups (group of buddies saved up and some work remote from my house) and it is getting to the point where we do not really need the money or investments as we have some earnings keeping us afloat. One of the apps is enterprise, has shown market fit, and has some great clients. We have been approached already with VC offers, but I am just so hesitant to let someone else in. Sometimes (read: lots and lots and lots of times) something that started as a noble pursuit ends up being corrupted by all of the cooks in the kitchen. Any guidance to those that have been similar situations? Thanks.",,melonbar,183,1555081320,2019-04-12 15:02:00+00:00,story,19645363,,108.0,, 1604,Is it possible for someone to not be cut out for software engineering?,,"I'm pretty new to software engineering (~1 year out of college as a CS major) and am having some serious problems improving my skillset (particularly with interviews).
Background:
- I worked as a linux sysadmin at a startup before going to school for CS. After 3 years, I graduated with a decent GPA (>3.6) and a couple internships at a large tech company.
- In college, I always felt like I had to work a harder than most of my classmates in order to get the same result. I would regularly spend 60 - 80 hours per week on schoolwork.
- Upon graduation, I accepted a job with the company I interned with and have worked there for ~1.3 years. However, I've been prepping to jump to a different role for a few months now.
- Recently (past 1.5 months), I've spent 1 - 3 hours per day on tech interview prep using CLRS, Cracking the Coding Interview, etc. My current target is a role at one of the "big four" tech companies or a high-quality startup doing either webdev or infrastructure engineering.
- So far, I have interviewed for and been rejected by no less than 10 different roles. I was also rejected by approximately 20 companies during college. I always fail during tech portions.
- I am REALLY bad at algorithm problems and experience serious performance anxiety. Concentrated studying and mass interviewing haven’t led to positive results so far. I can solve most problems correctly given enough time (usually 2x+ longer than interviews).
Questions:
1.) Does there ever come a point where it just isn't worth it to continue trying to be a software engineer who can get into top-tier companies / projects?
2.) How can I find some positive reinforcement in interviewing / interview prep even if I constantly get rejected? I do perform post mortems on every interview in order to find areas to improve.
3.) If my goal isn't an impossibility, how can I efficiently progress towards it? Would a mentor be helpful?",,conflicted_dev,183,1474054085,2016-09-16 19:28:05+00:00,story,12516611,,185.0,, 1605,How do I help my Indian coworker get a raise?,,"I have an Indian colleague who is smart, articulate, and very technically capable. His work products are excellent, and he’s a delight to work with.
I recently learned that he has not gotten a raise in the time he has worked for our present employer, in spite of his increasing responsibility and consistent good results. When I probed him on why, and why he hasn’t been negotiating for one, he explained to me that he is dependent on our employer for his visa. My understanding is that it’s very challenging to both change jobs and stay in the USA under this visa due to the burden placed on the employer to get this visa.
Strategically, that puts him in a really bad negotiating position: ultimate leverage over your employer in this scenario stems from the threat (implied or not) that you might leave. This appears to be a trump card he doesn't have in his hand, as he wants to stay in the US.
What can I do to coach him to getting paid more? What sort of strategy can he use to show his value and demonstrate his leverage?",,ShowMeTheRupees,183,1582810532,2020-02-27 13:35:32+00:00,story,22433069,,112.0,, 1606,"Compiler Engineers, what would you advise new grads/students to learn?",,"What skills, technologies etc.
Inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/d1fqwd/people_of_this_sub_who_have_jobs_as_data/",,generichuman,182,1567985377,2019-09-08 23:29:37+00:00,story,20914046,,45.0,, 1607,Is it a waste of time to teach yourself data science without a degree?,,I see a lot of people teaching themselves data science and machine learning but it seems that in the real world you won't be allowed anywhere near such a position without having a degree in the subject.
This is opposed to regular programming gigs where you can get work based on a portfolio.
Also there are efforts to commoditize common methods and algorithms by wrapping them up in APIs and SDKs.
So is it a waste of time to learn it on the side with the hopes of getting a data science job ?,,thewarrior,182,1493970982,2017-05-05 07:56:22+00:00,story,14271819,,138.0,, 1608,What are some good alternatives to HN?,,Lately it seems I go to HN look at the front page and decide "I don't want to read any of these". Where do other HN readers go for finding out about new and interesting technology or science?,,fabrizioc1,182,1384673627,2013-11-17 07:33:47+00:00,story,6748001,,110.0,, 1609,"As a programmer, how do you know if you're a good one or not?",,"I always want to be a better version of myself, but it's unclear how to quantify my quality. In sporting, there're many stats about athletes to look at. In academia, you can look at some indirect indexes about your research quality. But as a programmer at work, I often receive feedbacks from 1 or 2 persons at most. It's easy to think that I'm good enough, when the truth may be not.
So, as a programmer, how do you quantify or estimate how good you are?
Thank you,",,dvnguyen,182,1543275661,2018-11-26 23:41:01+00:00,story,18537865,,99.0,, 1610,Does anyone use Nim language in production?,,How has your experience been compared to your previous tech?
How mature is the standard library? How abundant are third party libraries?,,sharmi,182,1495910786,2017-05-27 18:46:26+00:00,story,14431315,,82.0,, 1611,Anyone getting sick of all the 'web apps'?,,"Or at least, attempts to make simple content based websites work more and more like apps?
Because it seems every site that's gotten a 'redesign' in the last year or so seems to have become some clunky, awkward to use 'app' like thing with dynamic content loading where simple text would do just fine.
Reddit's annoying enough like this (thank you mobile 'loading' screen for every page), but then you've got stuff like Wikia where it seems every single page is loaded via AJAX. Then breaks horribly because it gives me 404 errors 9 times out of 10.
Do these companies not realise how awkward these new designs are to use? Or that if you're not making a social media site, your site doesn't need to load like one?",,CM30,181,1508408698,2017-10-19 10:24:58+00:00,story,15506763,,136.0,, 1612,What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?,,,,riskish,181,1311382070,2011-07-23 00:47:50+00:00,story,2795760,,156.0,, 1613,Best sleep trackers?,,I have pretty chronic sleep problems. Several in fact :-/. I wanted to get a sense form the tech-aware community what sleep trackers do people use? How accurate are they? Can you sleep comfortably with them? One challenge I have is I need to track my leg movements given restless legs...
(Yes I’ve had sleep studies and know home sleep tracking is imperfect...),,softwaredoug,181,1585150423,2020-03-25 15:33:43+00:00,story,22685537,,179.0,, 1614,What have the past 12 months taught you?,,"The same question was asked a year ago with so many amazing answers, experience, and deep advice. Asking the same question again after almost a year.
Previous entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17316120",,chauhankiran,181,1563526212,2019-07-19 08:50:12+00:00,story,20477104,,227.0,, 1615,Who has moved from the U.S. to Europe?,,"I've long considered leaving this country for a multitude of reasons.
I'd be curious to hear some first hand experiences of those who've made the move to Europe and what you think of the process and considerations one should make.
A few questions to start the conversation:
- Where do you live?
- What's the biggest sacrifice you had to make (i.e. pay, housing, friends, etc.)
- What have you gained?",,feraligators,181,1643125465,2022-01-25 15:44:25+00:00,story,30073066,,454.0,, 1616,Why don't more open-source projects monetize?,,"I don't own/lead any significant open source projects, but it seems like there are very few projects that even attempt to monetize via dual-licensing, service contracts, etc. Is there some major barrier to monetiziation (i.e. legal fees)? Is it a philosophical barrier?",,techspring,181,1496162170,2017-05-30 16:36:10+00:00,story,14446516,,123.0,, 1617,Who Is Hiring? (July 2012),,"Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please also see: ""Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184757",,whoishiring,181,1341151864,2012-07-01 14:11:04+00:00,story,4184755,,249.0,, 1618,What did you do to improve your company?,,"Hi! I work at a mid-sized tech company as a Software Engineer. There are, probably, tons of things we can improve in our processes, infrastructure, technologies, etc. But sometimes it's hard to see the place with most impact from within, especially if you are pretty long in the company. That's why I'm looking for some inspiration.
So, how did you improve your company? By that I mean: processes, tech stack, optimization, etc.",,kalimatas,181,1599471329,2020-09-07 09:35:29+00:00,story,24398077,,168.0,, 1619,How can I learn computer security?,,I am taking some data science courses. Is there any link between data science and cyber security? and where can I learn cyber security stuff?,,boniface316,181,1513932249,2017-12-22 08:44:09+00:00,story,15986100,,55.0,, 1620,Good books?,,"I just finished reading Atlas Shrugged, which I thought was a fantastic book. I'm reading Another Roadside Attraction now on the recommendation of a friend, but I think I want to read some non-fiction next, or at least eye-opening fiction. I'm thinking about some Bertrand Russel, Richard Feynman, or books on philosophy, human behavior, or economics.
What are some good books that you've read that are ground breaking, thought provoking, or changed the way you think/look at things?
ps: you can check out my shelf at shelfari.com/herms",,bherms,181,1286082590,2010-10-03 05:09:50+00:00,story,1752139,,167.0,, 1621,Why isn't Prolog more popular?,,"Also, what would it take for Prolog to become a great general-purpose language?",,miguelrochefort,181,1496066874,2017-05-29 14:07:54+00:00,story,14439137,,184.0,, 1622,How to survive as a homeless engineer?,,"TL;DR I'm about to get evicted because I ran out of money and can't seem to land a job. I'm also in a bit of a rush, so i apologize for any grammatical errors.
I have been a web developer / software engineer for 15 years (fullstack, 5 languages).
I am living in Colorado with my wife -- I quit my job In Jan due to issues I had with the way our company was treating customer data. This turned out to be a foolish move as it has proven difficult to find a new job (I had something lined up when I quit, but it fell through).
I did land a contract between then and now, but in order to survive I had about 1.5 months to find a new job and that hasn't happened.
I was 3 days late on my rent this month and now have to appear in court to explain why i haven't paid. I fully expect that to lead to an eviction.
I've never had an issue finding a job prior to this so I'm quite frustrated with myself.
I don't own a good laptop (i use a desktop) and have about $400 to survive on. I've tried upwork but can't drum anything up quick enough / at all. I have multiple interviews lined up but I'm not hopeful at this point. I have things I can sell but I'm not sure how quick I can turn them around. My wife has a job but its only a couple days per week so not enough to survive on... she has another interview on monday but no clue how it will turn out of course. We own a car and are currently planning on a shelter (car is second plan).
The questions I have for HN are: what are my best options for survival? any pro tips on how to live on the streets and still land an engineering job?
Thanks in advance guys",,homelessdev,181,1529024524,2018-06-15 01:02:04+00:00,story,17316695,,174.0,, 1623,Better tools for the software requirements / scoping phase?,,"Many software projects seem fail or go over-budget from poorly defined or changing specifications. It seems we have excellent tools to manage the delivery of software, but less so at the design/scoping phase. What are your thoughts of using better tools that leverage, say, Domain Driven Design or BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) that would engage end-users early on?",,castdoctor,181,1537690207,2018-09-23 08:10:07+00:00,story,18049999,,102.0,, 1624,"If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost?",,"(throwaway account)
I have a chance to basically migrate 90% of my F50's data centers to commercial providers. The cost savings are awesome, but what about the people currently doing legacy stuff? theyre doing stuff like manual config, and future state is everythign automated as much as possible in the cloud and shutter the data centers.
I think the harsh truth is that many wont have jobs post move, but maybe I'm being cynical. maybe theres a chance to retrain the employees, but even doing that automation generally reduces the workforce.
whats your take? what do I tell current employees? how many can I realistically be able to save from being jobless?",,throwawayacct4q,181,1529178940,2018-06-16 19:55:40+00:00,story,17329028,,142.0,, 1625,Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a budget?,,"I've been taking a break from working to relax and visit some friends in a few countries. So I don't have a lot of money, but with my newfound free time, I've been inspired to take a shot at a few ideas I've always wanted to build.
One idea is particularly media heavy. I have 5+ TB of media that I'd like to build something around.
Services like S3 are pretty expensive, especially bandwidth. Backblaze has been trying to market their storage solution (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html) against S3.
But I can get even cheaper by using low quality hardware and bandwidth like Kimsufi's 2TB machines for $10/mo (https://www.kimsufi.com/en/servers.xml).
Does anyone have another ideas for stretching a dollar?",,wild_preference,181,1523147105,2018-04-08 00:25:05+00:00,story,16783852,,97.0,, 1626,How do you organise your files and folders?,,"By project, by tool? What do you do with pdfs and reference stuff, surely not Dewey Decimal?",,throwawayt856,181,1591199995,2020-06-03 15:59:55+00:00,story,23404900,,173.0,, 1627,Neurodiversity/ADHD Friendly Companies,,"I'm ~40yo semi-successful full-stack engineer/hacker who had been recently diagnosed with ADHD (after more than decade of self-seeking journey and introspection). During my diagnosis I learned that ADHD is persistent in 5-7% in general population with some specialist speculating it's more common in IT due to hypnotizing effect of computers. I know I'm not alone with this :)
In hindsight ADHD helped me to get into current position. Being constantly bored, high energy, positive-minded solution and tool seeker is often good thing in times of crisis. When things go stale and there are no things to fix but only boring forms remains it's usually mortal battle with burnout, procrastination, self-doubt. One which usually ends with me quitting due to burnout or - rarely - getting kicked off because the next more boring thing took longer than anticipated.
Right now I'm on hiatus since couple last couple of weeks, but lack of direction and purpose is awful and with every morning I feel fires of restlessness growing.
Today I read recruitment ad about neurodiversity program which - supposedly - caters people with different neurodivergencies. Those were US on-site positions though and I'm in EU.
So getting to the point: Do you know / can recommend companies with neurodiversity programs?
For myself obviously I'm looking for remote or EU companies (with relocation) but even if you know something that's not in the region please feel free to contribute - maybe someone else looking will make use of it.
Obvious throwaway. Some half-truths embedded.",,adhd_thraway,181,1644306875,2022-02-08 07:54:35+00:00,story,30255923,,217.0,, 1628,What to do if you hate working for someone else and arent an entrepreneur?,,"Looking at the last five years of my career, I have come to realize I might hate working for someone else.
I resent spending 48 weeks a year in an office and stressing over issues that will only make the company's owners richer but won't change much for me. I say don't change much because a 2-3% raise once in a while is nice, but it's nothing in comparison to the thousands/millions extra it will make the company, while the only result for me is that I get to keep my job and do more of that.
I also have a very hard time feeling any personal pride or accomplishment for helping the company's bottom line. It's not my company, and I really don't feel anything whether they sell more or made a couple millions extra this year because employees worked (unpaid) overtime. My boss getting a new Tesla or yet another house from the extra profits doesn't make me happy.
This thinking is hurting me though because it makes every job I ever had barely tolerable, slowly creeping towards miserable after enough time. I am aware of it but I can't overcome it. I've tried working at startups, and 150-300 people mid-sized companies.
On the other hand, I don't think I'm the entrepreneur type either. I don't have any idea that I'd like to pursue and start building a company around, going through that grind is not something that appeals to me.
Has anyone ever felt this way? What did you do about it and how do you cope with it?",,amiuba,180,1512847996,2017-12-09 19:33:16+00:00,story,15887587,,203.0,, 1629,My startup failed. $9k in debt and need to pay most of it in 12 days.,,"HN,
A startup that I am part of failed. Prereq: USA, C-Corp in Delaware. We have $6k in server fees to Rackspace and $3k in debt with our lawyer. We also have a huge amount of credit card fraud that went through our credit card processing account/merchant account (like $8k), which is going to be an ongoing issue for the next year+ and may end up in me and my SSN being blacklisted from Visa and Mastercard.
I used to be able to cover this kind of failure, but over the past few months, I've sunk tons of my money into this company and completely depleted my checking and savings accounts.
The account goes into collections in the first week of October (which means my credit will be destroyed). I will be leaving the startup after I sort everything out.
I need a way to make this $6k in about 12 days. My savings is shot. I have some consulting (WordPress, PHP, Rails) money coming in, but it's only $1k and might not even be on time. My co-founder owns a majority of the company but he's traveling so he's a bit unavailable.
This seems to be the ""low"" of that rollercoaster we call serial entrepreneurship. Thank you for your help, Hacker News.
EDIT: I'd just like to say that I'm using a throwaway because I'm pretty well known on HN, which makes this pretty interesting. I usually read these kinds of Ask HN posts and think ""ouch""—funny to be on the other side.
EDIT: I'll respond soon, HN is giving me the ""You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."" thing. I'm reading all your comments—they are not going unnoticed. And thank you.",,debtscrewed,180,1285346376,2010-09-24 16:39:36+00:00,story,1724247,,157.0,, 1630,Resources for engineers new to system design,,I came across a twitter thread on resources for engineers new to system design* - there are some great recommendations there. What would (or do) you recommend that first-time system designers read?
* https://twitter.com/HenryR/status/1094033131399565313?s=19,,ledneb,180,1549877270,2019-02-11 09:27:50+00:00,story,19133097,,19.0,, 1631,Famous anonymous inventions other than Bitcoin?,,"Do you know famous inventions whose authors have always remained completely anonymous and never reveled their identities ? Other than Bitcoin.
PS: In any field, not only technology, and any time in history.",,amineazariz,180,1545841830,2018-12-26 16:30:30+00:00,story,18762932,,131.0,, 1632,What should I do when I'm bored with my career?,,"I really like programming but I quickly get bored at work. I often work on personal projects during work hours because they're more interesting. The success or failure of a business, even one I depend on for income, does not motivate me. None of my personal projects are monetizable. They're just things I do to learn. It's the experience of learning that excites me. I have a little experience teaching (after-school program) and writing about what I learn. I enjoy that too. My ideal life would be one where I am free to explore things that interest me and share that knowledge with others.
Unfortunately, I can't afford not to work. So I need a career of some kind and am looking for a career that's more aligned with what naturally motivates me. I've contemplated going back to school but am not convinced this is a good idea. I have a degree from an art school, no formal computer science education, and no math since highschool. I also don't have much money. If I wanted to study computer science, I'd have to start at the undergraduate level and borrow a lot of money. School as an investment makes sense to me but I'm not sure what I would be investing in. I don't think a career in academia would appeal to me, and borrowing that much money because I'm bored at work sounds like a bad idea.
Does anyone have a suggestion for what I can/should do to improve my circumstances?",,throwaway12JpuG,180,1545916930,2018-12-27 13:22:10+00:00,story,18769266,,109.0,, 1633,"Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I be aware of?",,"To add more context to my question, I’m currently in a product leadership position at a ~300 person SaaS company and I found my way here by way of a semi-decent exit as part of a startup’s founding team. However, I have been considering a switch to a much bigger company (Microsoft, Google, AWS) of late. All I’ve ever learnt over the last decade has been by operating in a capital constrained environment. Moreover, I don’t have a lot of reserve energy in the tank to direct it at another startup after 10 years of blood, sweat and toil.
I often find myself thinking of and seeking out experiences from my peers at these behemoths on how decisions are made and products get built there. On one hand, I’m scared of slowly going further away from all my learnings as an entrepreneur (a lot of which haven’t come easy!!!) but on the other I feel like not having had relevant experience in the right BU/product within a big co is limiting my field of vision. What are some things I should consider before switching?",,1729,180,1591613119,2020-06-08 10:45:19+00:00,story,23455415,,159.0,, 1634,Does anyone know what's going on at Coinbase?,,"Maybe a Coinbase engineer can anonymously tell us what's going on over there, because nobody trying to trade with Coinbase can get a public answer.
Money is going missing. Transactions have been delayed for days and, in some cases, over a week. Even amounts already in BTC aren't leaving the system.
Coinbase claimed the other day this was all due to a database migration[1], but they're offline once again.
[1]: http://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/1051063-pending-transactions",,joezydeco,180,1364044472,2013-03-23 13:14:32+00:00,story,5427985,,139.0,, 1635,more sites like HN,,I run out reading material pretty quick on HN and then I'm left wondering where I can find submissions just like on HN. Where do you go after you exhaust HN?,,adityar,180,1332337184,2012-03-21 13:39:44+00:00,story,3734303,,94.0,, 1636,How do you start contracting?,,"I'm a developer and product manager, about ten years into my career and making pretty good money.
I'm curious to explore if contracting makes sense as an alternative to full time employment. How do I start? How do I position and price myself?",,leros,180,1641741882,2022-01-09 15:24:42+00:00,story,29864014,,112.0,, 1637,"What is the oldest, still supported OS?",,"I recently discovered that TSOS, an old Univac OS that I used (and loved!) in the mid 1970's and first released in 1968 by RCA, is still supported (although the name has changed) as Fujitsu's BS2000 OS. Unix was released a year after that (1969). Is there something that beats these?",,abrax3141,180,1646082813,2022-02-28 21:13:33+00:00,story,30505219,,220.0,, 1638,What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?,,"I'm doing a lot of teaching and I've been using PowerPoint. I recently saw some people use Prezi and liked what they were able to do to map concepts visually to make them easier to understand. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of the features that made Prezi powerful have been neutered in Prezi Next and isn't able to do a lot of what I'm looking for (no path editing, no infinite canvas, etc). What alternatives are there?
Some requirements for me:
* WYSIWIG editor * Tutorials * Infinite canvas/Path editing",,altoz,180,1509203426,2017-10-28 15:10:26+00:00,story,15575363,,98.0,, 1639,How can I prepare for hard economic times?,,With massive drops in productivity and increases in government spending the economy was hurting. Now with Russia attacking Ukraine oil prices are going to hurt the economy more.
I'm worrying about the future for me and my young family.
Do you have any advice for someone with dependents during this time?,,xupybd,180,1647249276,2022-03-14 09:14:36+00:00,story,30670110,,327.0,, 1640,Review RentPost.com,http://rentpost.com,"After our team has spent the last 2 years in development, working countless hours, we have been able to FINALLY push out our service to the public! We welcome your feedback and thoughts. Cheers.",,oojacoboo,179,1296062537,2011-01-26 17:22:17+00:00,story,2143977,,247.0,, 1641,Why don't many video hosting companies adopt PeerTube or P2P?,,"I recently found the peertube and its technology is very nice. You could deliver video using p2p torrent like streaming if there are more than 1 user watching it. For me it looks like the hosting provider gets a huge savings in terms of bandwidth. But I don't see many companies making use of this technology.
I think Bitchute is using p2p to deliver videos, or is it, really?",,arunharidas,179,1646308577,2022-03-03 11:56:17+00:00,story,30539791,,106.0,, 1642,Resources for getting started with bare-metal coding?,,"Several years ago I bought a used copy of the original x86 manual and wrote a proof-of-concept OS. I’m interested in getting back into it, but with more of a focus on HPC and utilizing the more advanced features of modern architectures. Where should I start? Even back when I wrote my toy OS, the contemporary Intel manual was 10x the size of the original that I worked with. Does anyone even work with assembly anymore? (If not, how is software keeping up with hardware advances? Do newer low-level languages like Rust and Go really utilize the massive advances that have taken place?)
My history: I’m a devops guy with about four years of experience in IT and about a year of experience writing Python at a professional level. My degree is in general mathematics, though I did best in the prob/stat courses (and enjoyed them more than the others).
Side note: I wonder if I “33 bits”’d myself above...",,DATACOMMANDER,179,1561257082,2019-06-23 02:31:22+00:00,story,20252926,,68.0,, 1643,Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition),,Please lead with the positions' locations.
And make it clear if working remotely is a possibility!,,scorchin,179,1291202626,2010-12-01 11:23:46+00:00,story,1957538,,162.0,, 1644,"""Creative"" ways to handle abusive http traffic?",,"Hi all,
I run a pretty popular site that is constantly experiencing some form of abusive traffic- most notably attackers running password dumps against our login endpoint (sometimes from 10k+ ipv4 addresses among several subnets and ASNs). We've mostly mitigated this with rate limiting, captcha and other forms of "suspicious login" detection. But I've been recently pondering ways to waste their time or resources to make password dumping less appealing.
The most recent attack could be accurately and precisely detected, and I noticed the abusive traffic would follow 301 redirects, so I decided to redirect all requests back to their own IP addresses.
I don't think it really slowed them down, but got me thinking of otherwise to stop/slow them down:
* 301 redirect them to a "honeypot" server that holds onto sockets for as long as possible and/or causes the client to waste time/cpu cycles (perhaps, constantly asking the client to renegotiate TLS)
* 301 redirect to https://nsa.gov so they might get on someone's radar with the time and resources to stop them
* Redirect them to a non http protocol, like geo:, potentially blocking the abusive client with a dialog "Want to open this with <Maps Application>?" (Some attacks originate from Android devices- I'm not sure how deeply the custom protocol hooks are registered and if that would even work)
I know abusive web traffic is pretty widespread and was curious how others dealt with it other than standard captcha, rate limiting and iptables rules",,c4e2bedf40955d8,179,1527278939,2018-05-25 20:08:59+00:00,story,17157437,,139.0,, 1645,Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?,,"Obviously, outside of Hacker News.",,nrs26,179,1642980672,2022-01-23 23:31:12+00:00,story,30051782,,151.0,, 1646,How to manage developers who aren't very good?,," Before becoming a team lead, I was the type of developer who, when given a task, would dig into the application api's, the database schema, the configuration, whatever it took to fill in the gaps to accomplish the task. Sure I'd get stumped sometimes, but I'd always try to ask for help sooner rather than later.
Now, I'm a lead of 4 developers. Two are like I was, I can give them a task, they'll go do it with minimal guidance. The other two will spend hugely more time on tasks. I've notice they tend to go off on tangents, spending time things that aren't relevant, like setting up vm envirnoments they don't need when they can develop and test locally. There have been occassions when they have asked me for help, and then a week later come back with the same question as though we had never talked about it.
It's baffling to me, it's like they're "scatterbrained", ie not focused or concentrated. How does one manage people like this?",,marktangotango,179,1423229589,2015-02-06 13:33:09+00:00,story,9008845,,203.0,, 1647,Is it normal to fall out of love with coding?,,I started coding when I was 11 years old and I am 26 now so thats about 15 years.
All through this I have always enjoyed coding which is why I chose to study CS at college and then have been working as a dev post college. But of recently it has started to feel more monotonous and boring.
Last year I started my own company and then got acqui-hired into a startup. I realised that talking to customers and solutioning is more fun than wiriting code. How many of you have felt or feel the same way and what are you doing about it?,,ganadiniakshay,179,1547015947,2019-01-09 06:39:07+00:00,story,18862790,,120.0,, 1648,Resources to learn basic UI layout design for React apps?,,I'm a systems developer. I have been trying to learn web development using React so that I can create MVPs for some ideas I have. I've enjoyed learning React and I'm sure I can handle the backend code as well. What I struggle with is designing a layout. I've been using a layout library (material-ui) but I struggle with how to layout two elements horizontally or vertically etc. (Container element?). Is there a tutorial that can teach me enough to get by on this front ? I get too bored while learning the nuances of CSS.,,mav3rick,178,1586429640,2020-04-09 10:54:00+00:00,story,22821336,,49.0,, 1649,What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?,,"An obvious one might be a new car (e.g., Tesla), or a house that you improved your quality of life.
What other purchases might be worth considering?",,lllllll0,178,1603040463,2020-10-18 17:01:03+00:00,story,24819254,,519.0,, 1650,Anxiety is limiting my enjoyment of a wonderful career. Can you relate?,,"Hey HN,
Here's the thing: I'm incredibly lucky. I'm working in a field I absolutely love (the intersection of technology and medicine), with a brilliant and compassionate group of people who I respect greatly, in an environment flowing in autonomy, doing work I find unbelievably interesting and impactful. There is nothing I would rather be doing, and (for the most part) no group of people I'd rather be doing it with. As someone who sought such a situation for a long time, that's not a statement I take lightly.
So what's the problem? Anxiety. So much anxiety. An onslaught of worry and fear, (quite literally) every minute of every day, all self-imposed and mostly centered on a fear of embarrassment. Do I know enough? Am I doing enough? What if I don't know the answer to that extremely basic question? How do I make sure that no one "finds me out"? Many imposter syndrome concerns: some of which are grounded in reality but none of which are helpful to me.
These thoughts fill up my mind in such a way that I don't have many brain cycles left for learning new ideas, solving problems or remembering details. (I have OCD, and these thoughts become obsessions that don't let up.) This creates a negative feedback loop: anxiety leads to decreased performance (in terms of learning/solving/remembering/accomplishing), which leads to anxiety about my performance, which further decreases my performance. As a result, I find myself becoming the imposter I'm trying to conceal, and am often unhappy.
Why am I writing this post? I'm seeking understanding, support, and related stories/situations. I'm not seeking a cure-all. I'm not seeking a pharmaceutical or therapeutic recommendation. Just support.
I'd love to hear from you all!",,awaythrow15,178,1425661994,2015-03-06 17:13:14+00:00,story,9158141,,114.0,, 1651,Is the semantic web still a thing?,,"A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about the semantic web as the next big thing. What happened? Are there still startups working in that space? Are people still interested?",,sysk,178,1414305709,2014-10-26 06:41:49+00:00,story,8510401,,113.0,, 1652,I'm a small business and Google locked me out,,"I'm the owner of small construction business and I need to get access to an old gmail for recovery purposes that Google has suspended for nonpayment.
I can't get a hold of anyone at the same time that my email is more important than ever. Google suggests to "contact their support, may take 7 days" even after I successfully entered the phone 2FA and a recovery email code.
Every day I'm locked out things get worse.
Does anyone have any tips for contacting Google, maybe talking to a human being?
Thank you HN",,CoreSet,178,1585331874,2020-03-27 17:57:54+00:00,story,22705122,,83.0,, 1653,How do you pivot your career when jobs want years of exp in a stack,,"Learning frameworks and platforms through udemy and pluralsight. Side projects on github. What did you do to get a response back from jobs you've submitted an application to? Did you apply to junior roles when you were a senior in the other stack? Thank you.",,milofeynman,178,1504574076,2017-09-05 01:14:36+00:00,story,15171858,,145.0,, 1654,Where do you go for learning about health and well-being?,,,,stevofolife,178,1473053783,2016-09-05 05:36:23+00:00,story,12428340,,85.0,, 1655,Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?,,"I am new ish to perl, coming from Python, and absolutely love the language and the community! I've been poking around perl 6 and it seems even cooler! It has everything I want: gradual typing, multiple paradigms, an up and coming package manager, and a nifty logo.
So, why isn't it the poster child of the scripting languages yet?",,totalperspectiv,178,1478492450,2016-11-07 04:20:50+00:00,story,12888784,,271.0,, 1656,Is Xamarin worth learning?,,"For context I'm a day to day iOS developer. However I'd like to quickly be able to make cross platform applications, and React Native is apparently lacking for Android.",,ceeK,178,1479116221,2016-11-14 09:37:01+00:00,story,12948611,,159.0,, 1657,How to Self-Study Integrated Circuit Design?,,"Hey HN,
I am a graduate student doing ML research, and lately I've been thinking a lot about designing learning systems from the hardware through the software layers.
I have no experience with what is going at the processor levels, and I was wondering what prerequisite subjects or general curricula I should follow to learn and reason at these lower levels of abstraction.
To be clear, I'm doing this to build intuitions about new computational systems and how different chips, from ASIC to neuromorphic, may be designed.
Any resources or advice telling me I'm a fool is welcome!",,hsikka,178,1557653186,2019-05-12 09:26:26+00:00,story,19890949,,39.0,, 1658,How does Facebook know what I buy on Amazon or vice versa?,,"Following just happened: An hour before lunch I googled and visited websites that sell bicycles. I also visited Amazon during this research. I then bought a bike from one of the manufacturers' websites. A few hours later I browse facebook and see ads to this manufacturers' bikes in my newsfeed, via an Amazon sponsored ad.
I use one browser (Safari) for facebook exclusively, and browsed the bikes / Amazon / made the purchase on Chrome. I have different email addresses for facebook, amazon and, well, google.",,kmonad,178,1503950503,2017-08-28 20:01:43+00:00,story,15119591,,127.0,, 1659,Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life?,,Which books do you wish read when you were younger?
Alternatively:
Which books that you read while younger do you wish you'd followed more closely / taken to heart more?,,arikr,177,1517632522,2018-02-03 04:35:22+00:00,story,16296200,,136.0,, 1660,How do I choose between a job offer from Google and a promising startup?,,I believe in what the startup does but they are at very early stages and the salary they offer is 1/3 of what Google offers but I get about 6% options over 4 years.,,siatsfu,177,1537031673,2018-09-15 17:14:33+00:00,story,17995053,,213.0,, 1661,General Mood of the Community,,"Has anyone else noticed that HN feels a lot more angry all around lately? There seems to be little peace or excitement in people's comments. It feels mostly like people attacking each other or attacking something.
I know the pandemic has been hard; but, we've got to fight to keep our peace through this and not attack others during this time, where we can.",,t-writescode,177,1643903464,2022-02-03 15:51:04+00:00,story,30193946,,202.0,, 1662,What is the best Linux distro for a development laptop?,,"Recently I upgraded my 2yr old laptop (now it has 16GB RAM, 275GB SSD, baklit keyboard) and now consider which linux distro use as main OS.
What are your experience with various linux distros as main OS? Which one is the best? How looks like your dev environment?
For me are important these points :
- Ability to run virtualized systems (Windows, other linux distros)
- Good battery management
All necessary dev tasks and experiments will be performed in virtualized systems.
Thanks",,selmat,177,1483778477,2017-01-07 08:41:17+00:00,story,13343042,,318.0,, 1663,Negotiating Salary,,"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.
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.
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.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.",,2bor-2n,177,1622372460,2021-05-30 11:01:00+00:00,story,27332305,,167.0,, 1664,Ex-Employer gossiping I “hacked” their platform – what to do?,,I am really at a loss right now. I worked for a startup for two years and put my heart and soul into helping build the company as a senior manager.
I ended up quiting about 2 months ago to focus on relaxing during the holidays and spending time with my family (did not take a vacation) before seeking a less intense position.
Some old members of my team have come forward to inform me that their was a set of data breaches on the platform and the internal answer was to not announce it and put the blame on me. From what I am told their is no prooof other then a geo location that points to where I (and multiple other employees) live.
I reached out to the CEO and basically the first question whas who was it to leak this and then basicly a statement that the company did not accuse me of anything and there is nothing that can be done about the gossip. When I left the company I took every precaution to revoke my credentials and return my equipment promptly. I now know I can not use anyone at my current employer as a reference and feel these false accusation will greatly damage my future employment opportunities. I am currently have meetings with attorneys on how to protect myself but figured I ask the community if anyone has ever gone though this.,,_u844,177,1577714790,2019-12-30 14:06:30+00:00,story,21913383,,91.0,, 1665,How to deal with incompetent people,,"Long story short: I've been working in this position for a couple of years with a colleague at the same level as me. We both lead a few product team giving them advice on technical implementation, best practices and architecture.
I've been doing a lot of work to clean up the debt that was accumulated and, meanwhile, I improved the reliability and the efficiency of the infrastructure. I wrote common components and library to avoid duplication and shared it with wiki pages on how to implement certain things correctly.
On the other hands, my colleague, is more focus on building relationships and acting like he's the manager even tho he's not. In a couple of circumstances he event tried to give me orders which is not what he supposed to do. In meetings with our manager he brag on stuff that I did sharing it as a "we did", while when he does something alone (which most of the time asks to me as well) he would say "I did".
Most of the team members know it as they always asks technical informations to me. Most of the new architectural design has been done by myself same as the library that they use daily bases.
This kind of behaviour was ok at the beginning but since our boss left and he got promoted as manager is not sustainable anymore.
So here I'm asking for some advice. I started to look for a new job already, other than that I can't find a way to make my life easier has it might required some time (European market is not that good) and I got a break to travel a bit and clean up my mind.",,zldkz5,177,1542724391,2018-11-20 14:33:11+00:00,story,18494028,,130.0,, 1666,Starting a Career in Programming at 61?,,"Yesterday I had a conversation with my dad (61), in which he asked me whether it made sense to start programming professionally at his age. It is kind of a crazy idea, but I promised him I would ask my "hacker friends" about it, so here I am ;)
A bit more context, in case you are interested: he has worked as an executive at multiple companies in the past decades (CEO, CCO, CFO). As he grows older, he has noticed it becomes increasingly difficult to find work, even though he would love to continue working for the years to come. I think he feels inspired by seeing me thrive as a contractor, with access to a global marketplace and seemingly endless working opportunities.
He learned to program when he was a student, probably Pascal or Basic, but as far as I know he has never needed to use that skill in his professional life (though I assume his excel-fu is excellent, because that is the preferred "programming language" in a business environment).
I have no idea what to advise him, so I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Maybe I will even send him the link to this page so he can read along!",,wofo,177,1648219345,2022-03-25 14:42:25+00:00,story,30802740,,181.0,, 1667,"Questions about subversive programmers, NSA inside Mozilla?",,"I was recently reading reddit /r/netsec, about the New York Times using WebRTC to gather local/vpn ip's (Thanks to Dan Kaminsky).
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3dgwee/how_the_new_york_times_uses_webrtc_to_gather/
https://webrtchacks.com/dear-ny-times/
In that thread, I noticed something very interesting, that apparently one of the same guys involved in the NSA backed Pentagon paper touting Extended Random on top of Dual Elliptic Curve, Eric Rescorla, is now working at Mozilla, and has some say in keeping the WebRTC setup in Mozilla working like it is.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959893
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/uk-usa-security-nsa-rsa-idUKBREA2U0U620140331
So far any attempts to get a comment out of Mozilla about hiring someone who was known to participate in weakening crypto has been met with silence as far as I can tell.
The question that this brings up in my mind is what should companies and communities built around those companies do with programmers who have been involved in such subversions? It's entirely possible Eric Rescorla was unaware of the purposeful weakening proposed in the 2008 paper, and that it was the NSA contributor who performed this function, but the fact that Mozilla declines to comment on the matter and that this is a person who has quite a bit of say over a very commonly used browser raises concern.
As leaks like Snowdens become more and more prevalent, how should programmers who have been known to be potentially hostile to user privacy or other user concerns be treated, both by the community and by the companies that employ them?",True,arca_vorago,177,1437084200,2015-07-16 22:03:20+00:00,story,9900168,,,, 1668,How do I easily catalog a couple thousand physical books?,,"I own a couple thousand books. I'd like to catalog them all. I have a child who is a broke college student, so I was thinking of paying them to do it over break.
What's the most efficient way to do this from an INTAKE standpoint? I need to get all the ISBNs into a database of some kind.
(The only other info I need is whether or not it's a hardcover or software -- that's something only the physical copy can tell me, everything else I should be able to get from the ISBN.)
I don't want my daughter to have to find and key all the ISBNs in. Can they be scanned in some way? Is the ISBN in the UPC code? Could I buy a cheap bar code scanner and just have her scan away?",,deanebarker,177,1632236898,2021-09-21 15:08:18+00:00,story,28605777,,121.0,, 1669,Software with biggest potential for positive impact in 5 years?,,"What is 'positive impact', you ask. Well, I'm eager to hear your ideas but I'm thinking software that tackles the big challenges: energy usage, preventing armed conflicts, reducing poverty, STEM training, improving access to sustainable environments, implementing AI, et cetera.
I would argue Wikipedia continues to be a very important software project (albeit with an emphasis on the database on content than the wiki software itself), and Linux as this specific piece of software serves as a platform for many other applications and services.
What do you see?",,bkmn,177,1648462576,2022-03-28 10:16:16+00:00,story,30829003,,253.0,, 1670,Who are some unsung heroes in open source that need more support?,,,,notaplumber,177,1530565025,2018-07-02 20:57:05+00:00,story,17445280,,118.0,, 1671,What is the future of back-end development?,,"Apparently, WebAssembly will revolutionize the client-side development. The web apps will be very much like desktop ones: high performing, can be written in any language. At the same time they are cross platform, can be easily distributed, and do not require installation.
Meanwhile, every "builder of web3.0" who's trying to "fix the Internet", or "make the web faster, safer, and more open" is doing it in such a way that back-end development is not required. I.e. they are working on decentralized (either p2p or federated) universal back-ends that they assume should be used by everyone.
Do you believe that in future the back-end development as we know it today will be obsolete as everybody will use some p2p BaaS platform and the web-development will be all about implementing client-side apps?",,johnnydoebk,177,1470991436,2016-08-12 08:43:56+00:00,story,12274150,,156.0,, 1672,Is brogrammer a sexist term?,,"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3167412
First term I've heard this term is in a YC funded company recruitment post. I know I'm directly referring to a YC company's recruit post here, but someone did not switch their brain on when they posted that one.
Stating that you should be a fan of 'brogramming' to get a job comes across as blatant sexism to me. Especially given the pages that promote it at the moment.
Seriously, you're a company now, not a frat club. I'm not trying to spoil your fun, I'm sure that's your culture, but you just can't advertise for men only roles in this day and age.
I don't know the law in the US but over here in the UK these guys would be opening themselves up for a nasty lawsuit.",,mattmanser,177,1319806498,2011-10-28 12:54:58+00:00,story,3168038,,201.0,, 1673,"Are you working on any side projects that make ""small/passive"" income?",,"If so, what are they and how long did it take to make your first dollar?",,riskish,177,1300856664,2011-03-23 05:04:24+00:00,story,2358111,,167.0,, 1674,"I'm a terrible developer, what now?",,"I've been programming for a while purely as a hobbyist for many years and as a professional for less. I've come to realize I'm not very good at it and thats unlikely to change. I have basically no CS knowledge and am not even really that great with the "practical" stuff despite having been at it for so long. There's not a single language I'd consider myself good with, maybe one or two I can write and maybe one I'm ok with. I can read most code and I suppose consider myself well read when it comes to tech in general, in that I have very surface level familiarity with all sorts of things many most people have never heard of, although I must stress the "surface level" part. Its good for temporarily sounding smart or experienced, but most of that however is unfortunately useless. I can recall my last interview tripping up on questions about very basic OOP concepts, which you'd think I'd have internalized now and there's no way in hell I'd make it past a phone screen for your average whiteboarding company. I know many people much less experienced or even relatively new who are significantly better at this. I suppose that some people are simply more intelligent or at least more inclined to the proper skills than myslef, which isnt neccesarily good or bad, more of just a fact. I also suppose that I'm an ok "hacker" in that I can get very interested / fixated on certain problems, although my solution is more likely to be a complete mess.
Main problem is I'm not sure what quite to do about it. I'm not sure this is a "try harder" type solution, as I've been at it much too long for brute forcing to be realistic, but most of the alternatives seem dreadful. Not sure what options I have given my strengths and weaknesses.",,throghawayacct,176,1599843314,2020-09-11 16:55:14+00:00,story,24444705,,249.0,, 1675,What are the biggest challenges preventing startups from hiring remote?,,"We're starting a new company focused on solving the problem of talent war by helping late-stage startups have successful remote collaborations with tech talent. However, we're still trying to figure out which vertical to focus on. Which of these verticals is most pressing?
1. Sourcing & vetting candidates? 2. Managing international payroll? 3. Bootcamps? 4. Infrastructure & working space?
Let me know your thoughts!",,hichamin,176,1525793581,2018-05-08 15:33:01+00:00,story,17021655,,135.0,, 1676,How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?,,"Even though cloud based password managers have been around for a long time now, I never felt comfortable using them - the idea of handing over my important login details to some third party company seemed really weird to me. Most people might not care but the HN crowd are generally security conscious or say paranoid about security(for good reasons). But from password managers related threads, its apparent that many of you use them. So I wanted to get a general idea of how HN users feel about them.",,bishala,176,1567925797,2019-09-08 06:56:37+00:00,story,20909019,,192.0,, 1677,What do you do when competition signs up for your service?,,"I'm founder of robusta.dev which automates day 2 operations and monitoring on kubernetes. In recent months we've seen a close competitor sign up for our SaaS service (using email addresses and names that clearly identify who they are) and experiment with the platform. This is a similar sized startup in the exact same market as us, competing over the exact same customers.
Is there anything we should or even can do about this? Or is this form of competitive research simply unavoidable?
We also have an open source offering which obviously everyone can try and even reuse. We're ok with that, of course",,nyellin,176,1648304764,2022-03-26 14:26:04+00:00,story,30812066,,162.0,, 1678,2018 resolutions?,,,,justswim,176,1514772894,2018-01-01 02:14:54+00:00,story,16044255,,251.0,, 1679,Is there a website specialized in mathematics courses?,,I have a BSc in computer engineering and part of the major was just a couple of calculus and discrete math courses. I want to expand my knowledge in mathematics through online courses. Is there a specialized website that offers courses in various mathematics fields?,,dalleh,176,1603699035,2020-10-26 07:57:15+00:00,story,24893771,,86.0,, 1680,Ask HN - Where do you look for jobs?,,Here are my sources:
* HN Monthly Hiring threads
* GitHub
* 37Signals Job Board
Any other sources?,,factorialboy,176,1350310825,2012-10-15 14:20:25+00:00,story,4655144,,94.0,, 1681,Who's hiring? (September 2010),,"I'm really interested in London, UK but I'm sure one of these is overdue so feel free to let others know what else is out there.
A little format to the first couple of lines is always helpful. <Vague Job Title> - <City>, <Country>
And then a little bit describing the role and your startup/company.
Thanks in advance.",,buro9,176,1283519353,2010-09-03 13:09:13+00:00,story,1659409,,236.0,, 1682,How long until Google charges for private Gmail accounts?,,"Given the recent changes to workspace, it seems inevitable that someone at Google start to think this might be a huge revenue generator",,jusonchan81,176,1644255637,2022-02-07 17:40:37+00:00,story,30248203,,196.0,, 1683,Why is Confluence Wiki Search so bad?,,"The title says it all. To me, the most important component of a wiki is search. With that said, why is confluence wiki search basically unusable?
(by unusable, I mean I can never find the page I am looking for when I search. Basically, I have to maintain my own wiki of important links I may need to reference in the future)",,nicktorba,176,1632166763,2021-09-20 19:39:23+00:00,story,28597895,,124.0,, 1684,What should I do?,,"I work in the UK. I earn £15000 a year. For a web developer who has 3 years experience and always gets good annual reviews I feel I am underpaid. Normally the best course of action is to start looking for other jobs. But there is a problem... I have a terrible stammer
I've had lots of interviews for other positions, infact almost every position I apply for I get an interview for but my stammer that leaves me practically unable to talk in interviews.
I've asked my current employers for a raise but because they know my situation and they know my stammer means I interview badly they know I am stuck here.
I used to think my code would be able to win these battles for me but I think I'm wrong. What shall I do?",,pattle,176,1364903032,2013-04-02 11:43:52+00:00,story,5478713,,152.0,, 1685,Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1999?,,"The person (or persons) deserve a medal.
All I can find is it was built for Outlook Web Access. Nothing more. No names, no nothing.
Who's idea was it, and who built it?
Anyone know?
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/123475/who-first-created-or-popularized-the-original-xmlhttprequest-msxml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest",,donohoe,176,1367243169,2013-04-29 13:46:09+00:00,story,5626079,,55.0,, 1686,"I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?",,"I used to love software/programming but it's getting boring now. It seems so clear to me that so much futile effort is being put into building yet another language, yet another editor, yet another UI rework, yet another infrastructure rework. And for what, just because people would have something to show for. Seems the number of people trying to come up with futile things for the sake of popularity has outnumbered the ones who try to do real work.
The hate for one language as if other languages are elite. Trying to use all the features of a language and thinking a one liner is cool even when a five liner and a one liner is same when compiled into machine code. Too much jargon, falsely claimed software engineering practices and overly zealous object oriented mentality (Seems people try to use Object Oriented for everything, they call it the best, even better than simplicity in many cases.)
Quite frankly many years of self hacking/studying and experience in industry, I think I've just had it with software industry. Does it get any better ? Am I seeing things correctly ? Is this a burnout ?",,zippy786,175,1437793945,2015-07-25 03:12:25+00:00,story,9946399,,128.0,, 1687,Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?,,i.e. firms using collaborative/innovative/participatory methods of organizing?,,ninamiriamjnana,175,1417011731,2014-11-26 14:22:11+00:00,story,8662376,,114.0,, 1688,"If you could live and work somewhere, where would it be?",,If you could pick one place or city in the world where you'd live and work (software dev) for the next 10 years. Where would it be? And why would you pick that place?,,bsvalley,175,1483325228,2017-01-02 02:47:08+00:00,story,13298734,,382.0,, 1689,What “dumbphones” are available and viable in the US?,,"There’s an increasing interest in “dumbphones” these days, but it seems that options for a basic phone are fairly limited in the US market.
If you have switched, what did you switch to? If you’re looking to switch, what are you considering?",,msftie,175,1532917340,2018-07-30 02:22:20+00:00,story,17641613,,171.0,, 1690,Who wants to be hired? (October 2020),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Inevitably, a shift in culture/moderation/interests with cause me to seek out new communities. HN has been fairly consistent in it's discussion since I've joined, and I'd like to find some similar sites.",,pmohun,175,1549758969,2019-02-10 00:36:09+00:00,story,19125674,,75.0,, 1692,How do you overcome the problems of task switching?,,"Hello! I am a software developer and over the years I found that I am extremely unproductive when it comes to finishing one task and then starting another right away. It is best noticeable when I complete something that took me more than one day and then I am guaranteed to not do anything productive for the rest of the last day(doing something for 3.5 days - unproductive for the half of the last day). Same applies to working on side projects. I am focused when I research one problem, implement it, but I have no willpower to continue to the next problem. This affects my career in a bad way and I am sure I am not unique and there are ways to fight it.",,penetrarthur,174,1519480089,2018-02-24 13:48:09+00:00,story,16453227,,58.0,, 1693,"Weird, curious or bizzarre subreddits that you would like to suggest",,"Sometimes I like to rediscover the good old days of the Internet, and I think I can find some of the frontier spirit on reddit (or maybe other communities like 4chan?).
What are the subreddit (or other forum) that you sometimes follow and that you would like to suggest to the HN community?
They can also be super niche but not necessarily inherent to technology or computer science.
(sorry for my english)",,maremmano,174,1489257653,2017-03-11 18:40:53+00:00,story,13846545,,60.0,, 1694,Ever faced difficulties pivoting your job or career later in your life?,,"Tldr; I'm an architect (in a niche industry) trying to get a job in another industry but find myself constantly rejected for either having not enough experience for a similar architect/lead role or being overqualified for a lower role (i.e. dev, support, etc).
I've been in the telco industry for 12 years where I started as a systems tester, became a support engineer, got into a lead role for a team of support engineers (i built the team from scratch at a startup!) and eventually ended up as an architect for a vendor (think Cisco) where I do pre-sales, architecture design and lead the onshore/offshore teams to deliver client projects.
Early last year, I noticed a big shift in my industry to Managed Services and knew that it is a space I need to get myself involved in if I were to stay relevant for the next few years. Unfortunately, the company I am with is neither in this space nor have any plans in the future to be in it hence I started to look around for jobs at other companies in this space. After 3 months in, I'm now feeling utterly perplexed.
I tried applying for lead/architect roles and was rejected (without even going to the interview stage) being told that I don't have enough experience or expertise. Fair point I guess since I'm in a niche industry thus I started looking at roles that allow me to start at the bottom (i.e. dev, support/operations, customer success). Even then, I keep getting rejected with the common trope that I don't have enough experience or I am either overqualified and/or will not be a good fit for the team!
I asked my professional network for some inputs on the matter and I've been told that I'm in an age group (30-40) where companies are not that keen to hire cause I'm considered too old (ageism). Is this possible? I'm barely in my early 30s so I find that very strange cause I don't consider myself old at all.
So, have any of you ever been in the same situation and do you have any advice on how should I overcome this?",,innomansland,174,1485846538,2017-01-31 07:08:58+00:00,story,13528434,,72.0,, 1695,How do you keep your files organized on macOS?,,I tried to use Finder's tags but failed to keep things organized everytime. Are you using a specific app? Do you have some "tips" to keep a setup clean?,,wassimdotis,174,1551958791,2019-03-07 11:39:51+00:00,story,19327264,,140.0,, 1696,Novelty addiction is ruining my life and career. What should I do?,,"I have an extreme case of neophilia. Well, most of HN readers like new things, but in my case this is really extreme. I start many projects, but never finish them because they are inevitably losing novelty (I had better luck with shorter projects). I am a fairly decent software engineer, but I never held a job longer than 1 year (for the last 12 years), and recently I realised that the only thing that motivates me in software engineering is learning new things and trying new fancy toys, not building something working and useful (this is obviously an invalid approach in engineering, and it makes me sad enough to consider leaving this career path for good). I've been fired from 2 jobs this year (having a stellar start, then quickly boring for good). Everything I do seems to be motivated by novelty, it seems like a dangerous addiction now. I am 32, jobless, and have more than $50k in debt now.
What should I do? Is there a cure from novelty-seeking behavior? Or how it can be managed to be useful, not disabling? Please help, if you have any experience coping with this...",,atemerev,174,1449959931,2015-12-12 22:38:51+00:00,story,10724460,,190.0,, 1697,What are you using for public documentation these days?,,"On a new side project I'm working on I need to have a fair amount of documentation for usage, implementation, options, etc. In the past I've used https://docsify.js.org hosted on Vercel, but I was curious if there is anything else out there people like. Looking for free or paid options. So long has I can host on a subdomain I'm indifferent.
Thanks!",,vital101,174,1637235819,2021-11-18 11:43:39+00:00,story,29264374,,109.0,, 1698,Is Google Compute down?,,"I'm not able to ssh into any of my boxes or access any of the sites, yet my status monitor isn't showing downtime. Spotify is also down for me, which is another GCP customer.
I'm in Los Angeles but the servers are hosted on us-central1",,hellcow,174,1542059265,2018-11-12 21:47:45+00:00,story,18436187,,74.0,, 1699,Why should I trust password managers?,,This is a piece of tech that has slipped under my radar for a long time. I've been having my own methods for safe handling of passwords on the web.
Why do people trust password managers?,,acadapter,174,1645115245,2022-02-17 16:27:25+00:00,story,30374896,,286.0,, 1700,Is Someone Hijacking Google Images?,,"I was looking for ideas on how to build a simple network analyzer to test antennas, filters etc. so I typed "network analyzer schematic" (without quotes) on Google Images and it apparently returned some results I was expecting, but clicking on a lot of results from the first page opened some subscription only websites with suspicious names nagging me to create an account to see the actual images, some of which I'm 100% sure I already have seen on their original authors websites. Those websites are clearly made by the same entity, and to me it appears they're essentially hijacking Google Images results for their profit. Here are some of those results; many more on the 1st page. I had a hard time finding something that returned an actual loadable image or an article without asking for subscription. Note that they all return URLs containing "spectrum analyzer schematic" although I searched for "network analyzer schematic".
http://yyrfm.microdeo.de/spectrum_analyser_circuit_diagram.php
https://4.twizer.co/rf-spectrum-analyzer-schematic.html
http://5.6.gvapor.nl/rf_spectrum_analyzer_schematic.php
http://18.10.ulrich-temme.de/spectrum_analyzer_schematic_symbols.php
http://4.3.beckman-vitamin-d.de/vcr_tuner_based_rf_spectrum_analyzer_schematic.php
http://18.10.ulrich-temme.de/spectrum_analyzer_schematic_symbols.php
http://2.4.wohnungzumieten.de/gbppr_1_ghz_spectrum_analyzer_second_local_oscillator_schematic.php
http://5.6.gvapor.nl/rf_spectrum_analyzer_schematic.php
http://13.1.starpartybus.com/lm3915_spectrum_analyzer_schematic.php
Edit: it appears those pages are being slowly buried by legit results, but some of them still surface although much deeper.
Examples:
http://3.17.tierarztpraxis-ruffy.de/pna_x_block_diagram.php
http://10.10.artatec-automobile.de/block_diagram_power_antenna_wire.php
http://9.20.wohnungzumieten.de/logic_probe_with_sound_circuit_schematic.php
7.12.gvapor.nl/dds_function_generator_mcu_schematic.php
Note that I searched for the same exact phrase as above.",,squarefoot,173,1552866368,2019-03-17 23:46:08+00:00,story,19417561,,72.0,, 1701,Who wants to be hired? (October 2019),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Why is that? Wouldn't they have the existing source for the originally received page cached already? Is it based on Cache-Control headers?
This has been on my mind for a while (usually comes up when looking at what's behind slow web apps) and came up again with Piwik on the front page[1]. Their website was semi-down (HN hug of death) but eventually loaded. I wanted to see what their GA equivalent tracking code looks like but the page failed to load as rather than showing the cached copy, it tried to fetch a new one.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13210195",,koolba,173,1482150709,2016-12-19 12:31:49+00:00,story,13210979,,93.0,, 1703,What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?,,...and what did you learn in the process?,,kernelv,173,1482874435,2016-12-27 21:33:55+00:00,story,13266386,,306.0,, 1704,How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?,,"I work on programming languages (as a career & hobby) and I’d like to make sure that my main language project is designed with accessibility in mind. I need some guidance & opinions from people with disabilities (e.g., blind or visually impaired people, or people with mobility issues) about your pain points with existing tools.
This doesn’t need to be just about the language itself, but the whole experience of developing with it, e.g., tooling, error messages, documentation, editor integration, &c.; as simple as “Avoid making me press Shift” or as involved as specific problems with existing tools and what you wish they did better. I’d also welcome examples of tools that do things particularly well!
So far I’ve had/implemented a few general ideas:
1. Making whitespace-sensitive syntax, like in Python & Haskell, optional syntactic sugar for explicit brackets & separators. It can also be turned off entirely, if e.g. you work with a screenreader and prefer it not need to speak all the indentation.
2. Striking a balance between concision and avoiding excessive punctuation-based syntax. I’ve also tried to make sure that visually similar characters have clearly distinct functions, so it’s less likely to mix them up—or if they are typo’d, at least the compiler should reliably detect this and produce a useful diagnostic.
3. Working on integration with existing editors (through the Language Server Protocol, an Emacs mode, &c.), so ideally you can continue to use the editor you’re comfortable with that supports your setup.
4. Allowing the interactive mode (sort of a souped-up REPL) to be customised to support screenreaders, colour settings for colourblind people, adapting gracefully to large fonts, and so on.
I’m certain there are plenty of things I’m still missing, though! So I’d really appreciate any help, personal stories, or links to the work of similar initiatives (like Accessible Scala) that you can offer. Thank you!",,evincarofautumn,173,1541773790,2018-11-09 14:29:50+00:00,story,18414562,,116.0,, 1705,High functioning alcoholism – anyone?,,"Hi,
I'm in my mid thirties, rather accomplished, with a very good job (tech) that I like, family with 2 kids etc. I drink way too much however and I fear I'm already borderline alcoholic. I've recently found this 'high functioning alcoholism' term and realized this is me. Which scares me a lot. I do know people that drink a lot in my family (I'm from eastern Europe...) and until recently I've never considered myself similar to them. For the record, I'm drinking on average 5 evenings per week, between half and a full bottle of wine (which is not that much, certainly I got used to it, so it doesn't put me in the drunk mode neither).
I keep an 'inner scorecard' which means I evaluate myself against what I used to be, and what I think I can accomplish (did I perform / accomplish something up to my potential, or did I just did a half-ass effort). Funnily enough, I always somehow discarded alcohol as a factor, justifying it (to myself) that it's not that influencing. Which is of course false. I should add that I work in the evenings very often (I love what I do btw) and most of those time, I drink too when working.
What made me realize this problem much more efficiently was running. I started quite recently and did some tests - how I perform, with the same training scheme, with and without alcohol for a period of time. Numbers don't lie. I run much better and also feel better.
As to why I'm drinking when I'm working alone, I don't really know (other than I like the taste). Not necessarily to forget problems or something. With perspective, this amounts to huge chunks of time, which certainly impacts my work on side projects / business. Sometimes I think I drink because I'm scared to actually succeed with this side stuff, and somehow unconsciously I sabotage myself.
Are / were you in this situation ? If you managed to stop, I would appreciate the 'how'.",,alcoholicornot,172,1511597308,2017-11-25 08:08:28+00:00,story,15774980,,131.0,, 1706,Are Glassdoor reviews a reliable indicator of a company's culture?,,"A particularly negative review of a London startup[0] by a former employee has been doing the rounds on social media recently. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a couple of extremely positive reviews by current employees have suddenly cropped up for that company as well. So positive they feel a bit like HR plants. But then again, the original feels like a gleeful hatchet-job and is maybe a bit extreme going the other way.
Is Glassdoor reliable, and if not, are there any reliable alternatives?
[0] https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Employee-Review-ROLI-RVW17219691.htm",,startupfreak,172,1507900232,2017-10-13 13:10:32+00:00,story,15465252,,153.0,, 1707,Is there any work being done in speech-to-code with deep learning?,, Is there any work being done on speech to code in a deep learning area . I have severe RSI which prevents me from coding at all . I have tried to use speech recognition software such as vocola and windows speech engine . but it required me to speak in such a way that I always would hurt my throat . I have also injured my throat multiple times so I am searching for a solution that is more conversational then command driven . I have written over 10000 lines of command Fargo Cola and they're still too many edge cases which require me to continually speak in an Abrupt manner that causes strain on my throat .,,raidicy,172,1591956980,2020-06-12 10:16:20+00:00,story,23497756,,61.0,, 1708,You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?,,"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.
How are you going to make the Internet better?",,lowercasename,172,1624896220,2021-06-28 16:03:40+00:00,story,27663618,,308.0,, 1709,Do you have a side project you want to sell?,,"A similar thread was posted a couple of years ago. If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, I'm sure the HN community would have an interest in hearing about them.",,ShaneCurran,172,1478537339,2016-11-07 16:48:59+00:00,story,12892473,,144.0,, 1710,How do you escape CRUD jobs?,,"You know the drill. When you left college, you wanted to work for the big guys - Intel, Google, Apple, NASA - doing things which can change the world. You wanted to do stuff like create a compiler or figure out an algorithm.
Unfortunately, reality hit back hard and you got stuck at a typical company doing CRUD operations. Make reports here, manage documents here, upgrade calendar software here. It pays pretty good but it's not the dream you wanted. Irony then rings and the deeper you move in your career, the more CRUD experience you get and the less ""let's design the next generation algorithm"" experience you have. Thus causing those companies to pigeonhole your resume to pass you on for someone else.
How do you escape from this trap?",,diminium,171,1356504710,2012-12-26 06:51:50+00:00,story,4968452,,87.0,, 1711,Where is the Hostility on HN Coming From? ,,"Jut take a look at this thread that is proposing NOT implementing a new design for Wikipedia. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352290 The presentation is very polite but the HN'feedback'? Woah!
The responses even from veteran HNers is nothing short of shocking. I can mildly 'understand' harsh responses from people whose present jobs are to design Wikipedia however, the extremely harsh responses from others is not constructive and leads to no learning whatsoever both for the designers and others.
This post is just an example of the latest trend of a new and unusually hostile HN.
Not cool.",,OoTheNigerian,171,1344417241,2012-08-08 09:14:01+00:00,story,4354635,,151.0,, 1712,"27, accidentally became wealthy, lost drive. What should I do?",,"Hi everyone. I'm a random guy based in Munich who got accidentally wealthy and thus lost my drive for pretty much everything.
After my Bachelor in CS I launched three startup, which all failed. So a year ago I decided to enroll in a Masters program at LMU at the age of 26. Back then I was living quite on the edge and thus was very motivated to ace my studies to get into a FAANG company.
Around the same time I also invested all of the ETH I had at the time into an ICO, which turned out quite well for me. In early November I sold everything and after taxes I now own 7.5 million euros. A sum I would have never imagined.
I have no idea what to do with the money. And I also have no idea what to do with my life now. I have not talked to anyone about it but I start to feel fatigued, even though I am not doing much. My motivation for my study is gone, I stopped working out, stopped reading books and am basically becoming insanely depressed in the process. The covid situation is not helping much either.
I am posting this here because I think there might be founders out there who sold their company and experienced similar issues afterwards. How did you get out of this? What can I do?
I am still doing my Master studies and will finish it within the next three semesters but I worry to fall into a void afterwards.",,prelifecrisis,171,1639848955,2021-12-18 17:35:55+00:00,story,29606476,,253.0,, 1713,Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?,,"I'm looking for things that help more than expected or in ways you wouldn't expect. It could be a second monitor, a really good mouse or even a microplane.",,Cr0s,171,1644143285,2022-02-06 10:28:05+00:00,story,30231171,,582.0,, 1714,Is there really a market for deep learning skills without a Ph.D?,,"Earlier I was intrigued by an crash-course posted on here titled "Learn Tensorflow and deep learning without a Ph.D", linking to a GCP page here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/01/learn-tensorflow-and-deep-learning-without-a-phd
Would those offering jobs related to deep learning really be comfortable offering the a position building / using these kinds of models without an advanced degree?
Those who have gotten a job in deep learning / machine learning without an advanced degree, could you share your experience?",,meow_mix,171,1485273298,2017-01-24 15:54:58+00:00,story,13472331,,58.0,, 1715,How did you become fluent in English?,,I am learning English. My communication skills are not good. How can I improve and become fluent in English?,,dustinty,171,1523200476,2018-04-08 15:14:36+00:00,story,16786453,,178.0,, 1716,What kind of information do you look for before learning/using new tech?,,"Hey. I am currently writing a blog post about my experience with Elixir. I aim to write about things I liked, but also I want to describe stuff that I just hated or disliked. Because I've noticed that people always try to praise the new tech they are using, but rarely point out bad things. And the truth is that learning a new technology is many times very time/money consuming process.",,wrestlerman,171,1548677593,2019-01-28 12:13:13+00:00,story,19016869,,110.0,, 1717,"As a skilled developer, how do you make pocket money with little time?",,"Hi, I'm a web developer and I search a way to get extra money, in a regular way if possible.
I tried to be a freelance, it is well paid but with my full-time job it's too time consuming and I'm not so ambitious.
I'm not here to make advertisement but to hear your experience. I'm considering security audit, consulting and things like that be it's the same as to be freelance: you need to search for prospects, etc.
Do you have some clue or experience?",,Kmaschta,171,1496428951,2017-06-02 18:42:31+00:00,story,14472353,,95.0,, 1718,Books you read in 2015?,,I'd like to know which books HN read this year. Did you like them or hate them?,,dbalan,171,1450878661,2015-12-23 13:51:01+00:00,story,10783219,,164.0,, 1719,Can web scraping be the basis of a viable business model?,,"I'm a data engineer at heart, and I never did or enjoyed front-end work. Having said that I always was happy to code and evolve crawlers and web scrapers. Now I've taken some time off from work and gigs and I'm working on a side-project I've been hacking for some time.
Without getting into the details yet: it aims to make web data collection a little bit easier for non-devs. I'll soon have an MVP and will start pitching to investors: aiming for an open-source business model (after a few months of stealth development) and eventually a typical SaaS offering for extra functionality.
At this point I'm trying to consolidate and counter the steel-man counter-arguments I should expect from investors. The most obvious one: as one can imagine, the product it's not magic and, after a certain point it does require some manual work from the customer, hence this is an aspect I should prepare for.
I have done some preliminary analysis of the space of potential competitors (think import.io, Apify, Zyte/ScarpingHub, etc.) and described opportunities for differentiation. What I'm afraid of is getting sidetracked in a discussion of "um, this is web scraping and it's hard to make a business on top of it".
I understand that there's not much context now and one could easily say "well yeah, anything could be possible with a good team, product...", but I'm reaching out to the HN community to gather some considerations, mental models and pointers, I may not think of myself at this point.",,fforflo,171,1639841109,2021-12-18 15:25:09+00:00,story,29605104,,111.0,, 1720,Learn Math the Hard Way,,"I am looking to teach myself Mathematics, mainly to improve my thinking processes and learn more about the basis for CS based topics like algorithms and proofs, and other practical applications.
Suggestions for resources? (textbooks, videos, etc)",,nsomaru,171,1341749106,2012-07-08 12:05:06+00:00,story,4214403,,84.0,, 1721,Favourite blogs?,,Whose blogs should I read? Can be technical or personal or essays. Basically anything interesting!,,rhezab,171,1600658119,2020-09-21 03:15:19+00:00,story,24539445,,75.0,, 1722,Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Alamos?,,"For a decade I have been advocating for the government of Los Alamos County in New Mexico to help with county wide broadband. The coincidence of my renewed effort, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a sympathetic County Council is yielding progress. At the direction of the County Council, the County staff has a job posting for a Broadband Manager. (See the posting at https://selfservice.losalamosnm.us/ess/employmentopportuniti...) The staff is posting the opening for a second time because the first time, only one applicant met even the minimum qualifications.
My questions for Hacker News are:
1. Does the posting look realistic?
2. Does it describe someone who could get a community broadband network built?
3. How can the County get qualified people to apply?
I've been pushing on this issue since 2011. I went so far as serving on the County Board of Public Utilities and becoming its Chair in 2015. Finding that the Board had no authority over the issue, I turned to political organizing and set up the website blabnow.blog. On that site, you can see what I think we need a Broadband Manager to do at https://www.blabnow.blog/los-alamos-broadband-manager-positi...
Beyond asking for thoughts on the Broadband Manager position, I would like to read general comments on:
4. How to get local governments to take responsibility for modern communication utility monopolies?",,fraserphysics,171,1631832922,2021-09-16 22:55:22+00:00,story,28558854,,67.0,, 1723,One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?,,"Hi HN,
Do you know any one man SaaS app that are profitable?
I'm asking this because I'm considering starting a SaaS app as a side project, and I'm looking for some inspiration.
Thanks!",,Im_a_throw_away,171,1466184144,2016-06-17 17:22:24+00:00,story,11924009,,92.0,, 1724,Desperately need “sales for nerds” advice,,"My background is software development but I spent my COVID year creating a brand of skincare products for climbers.
In terms of product dev we did great: we have at least one product that could revolutionize climbing & climbers really like our whole line-up. Our IG, brand & message is well-received.
BUT: I feel like I can’t SELL if my life depended on it. Talking to people, let alone selling, turns out to be extremely hard for me.
I am DESPERATELY looking for advice on transitioning from development to traditional sales. I LOVE what we built but my lack of sales acumen is slowly killing the brand. Any advice from the HN community?
The brand is http://www.chalkrebels.com",,c1sc0,171,1621332282,2021-05-18 10:04:42+00:00,story,27192884,,152.0,, 1725,How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?,,"I’m happy to be able to directly attribute my livelihood to Linux, which is kind of a cool thing to think about.
Would love to hear other anecdotes as to how others got into tech/Linux.
I’m 44 and got my start in 2009, after doing a myriad of other things, like carpentry, aircraft catering, etc.
After an injury, I was basically ruled out of any jobs that required consistent physicality, so I hunkered down and decided to just focus in on Linux full-time (I was already somewhat of a Linux hobbyist, but knew I had a lot of learning to do). After about 6 months of self study, I decided I wanted to work for a webhosting company, and that I really wanted to work in the hosting/server/datacenter/Linux environment. So NOC Technician is basically where it’s at for that sort of thing to get a foot in the door.
I was hanging out in an IRC channel for a local Linux user group, and lo and behold, there was a guy who worked in a local datacenter/hosting company. I got the manager contact from him, and basically called and emailed and bothered the hell out of him until he relented and said OK come work as an unpaid intern. I worked hard, learned and incredible amount there (they hired me on after a few weeks, albeit very cheaply of course)— DNS/network/webserver/troubleshooting, all the fundamentals, and there were incredibly smart and brilliant people there that I learned from. Those were very cool days.
From there I kept learning and have done fairly decently for myself. Good amount of luck on the way probably, sort of right situation/right timing... have worked at two very large ISPs/telecoms in Systems and Server Operations since then.
Wanted to share this maybe to also give encouragement to people just to keep trying and working hard and it can work out. Potentially also a good message in this hard time of the Coronavirus.
Would love to hear some other foot-in-the-door stories.",,indigodaddy,171,1601717040,2020-10-03 09:24:00+00:00,story,24670746,,152.0,, 1726,What do you use Machine Learning for?,,What real-world applications are you finding it useful for right now?,,endorphone,170,1495027361,2017-05-17 13:22:41+00:00,story,14358120,,160.0,, 1727,How to overcome fear of flying?,,"I'm in my early 40's and have traveled a lot during my 20's and 30's. I think I was always a little bit nervous about flying, but never enough to make me really anxious.
A few years ago, on a short flight to NYC, the plane went through a sudden turbulence. It was strong enough to send 2 flight attendants to the floor. It probably lasted 10-20 seconds and, during those seconds I thought we were going to crash because I had never experienced turbulence that strong.
Since then, I started to develop fear of flying. Even though I have flown since then, each time it has made me more anxious. Now I actively avoid flying.
After some introspection, I realized that I'm more afraid of the moments preceding the crash than actually dying. This fear got worse after I had a daughter because now I also picture how the last moments would be if she was by my side on a falling plane.
Rationally, I do know how infrequent plane crashes are, and how driving is more dangerous, but at the end I convince myself that the best way to not die on a plane crash is to not get on a plane. Since flying is not required for work, and I've already seen most of the world, it's not hard to convince myself that I don't need to get on a plane.
The last few times I've flown, I used a mental trick to help me get through it. I read that the odds of a plane crash is 1 in 1.2 million, so I used a random number generator to generate a number between 1 and 1.2 million, and then tried to guess what that number was. That gave me some relief but didn't completely stop the bad thoughts.
How do I overcome my fear of flying?",,flyingquestion,170,1533053988,2018-07-31 16:19:48+00:00,story,17654487,,254.0,, 1728,Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition),,"As many have been posting about new beginnings and starting afresh, it's time for another Hiring thread.
Please lead with the location of the position and make it clear if working remotely is a possibility.",,scorchin,170,1293894708,2011-01-01 15:11:48+00:00,story,2057704,,158.0,, 1729,How do you sell to governments and large organizations?,,"I've been seeing repeated mentions of early warning systems for a lot of diseases, but not too much technical development! I think I could hack something together that would be an interesting proof of concept and function as an effective early warning system, using my ML and Public Health background. Of course, I don't know who to directly sell to, its not like most businesses or consumers are interested in reducing disease burden, government folks seem interested though!",,hsikka,170,1531941634,2018-07-18 19:20:34+00:00,story,17561322,,57.0,, 1730,Best hard scifi AI novels?,,"I don't think 'i robots' are hard scifi. Today i sixth times read The greatest 'True names'(1981) by Vernor Vinge, it is an incredible AI cyberpunk hard scifi novel，aslo a great literature.
Update: Thanks for all the great recommends，it is greatest time to find ideas in these books today. Please aslo add the book publish year，i think it will be helpful to see the writer's wonderful superior consciousness.",,ghosthamlet,170,1507476522,2017-10-08 15:28:42+00:00,story,15428558,,99.0,, 1731,Have you successfully moved away from Google search?,,"I'm seeing more and more people saying they've switched to DuckDuckGo. For me, 95% of my google queries are programming related. I'm wondering, for anyone who has switched, how has DDG performed in terms of surfacing the programming topics you're looking for? Does using it decrease productivity?",,chatmasta,170,1502370707,2017-08-10 13:11:47+00:00,story,14979251,,115.0,, 1732,How can I become more eloquent?,,"I was taught four languages growing up and despite me being fluent in speaking almost of them, when I try to present or argue a point in writing, I find it hard to come up with a clear structure that conveys that point well. I tried reading a lot, especially in English, but I can't seem to remember the structures prolific writers use.",,curiousgal,170,1529572796,2018-06-21 09:19:56+00:00,story,17363395,,81.0,, 1733,What's the best way to write an API spec?,,"I'm working on a project that contains a REST API, and I want to write out a spec before I start. Are there tools for this, or should I just make a Google Docs table for it or something?",,chrisshroba,170,1421688858,2015-01-19 17:34:18+00:00,story,8912897,,56.0,, 1734,"Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project",,"Would like to make the homepage of my me-too FOSS project (a command-line static site generator (IT'S DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHERS, I SWEAR)) as sexy as possible. Even more than that I want it to be functional and clear. Would you mind linking to super-good home pages of CLI projects? For example, I think Jekyll's is pretty darn good but Hugo, which product I much prefer, has an oddly subpar home page.",,tomcam,170,1618943437,2021-04-20 18:30:37+00:00,story,26878936,,141.0,, 1735,Alternatives to AWS?,,AWS has captured an enormous market. As a user I'm surprised there are only few serious contenders (cloud provider with an API and global footprint). Digitalocean has managed to captured the low end of the spectrum for people looking to run a few servers. Any serious alternatives to AWS today? Google App engine is still closely tied to there way of doing things.,,bachback,170,1475403637,2016-10-02 10:20:37+00:00,story,12621716,,207.0,, 1736,Any unfinished side projects to give away?,,Would anyone like to give away / sell the projects which they've started but have no time or interest to finish?,,s3b,170,1472975013,2016-09-04 07:43:33+00:00,story,12423281,,130.0,, 1737,How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week?,,"I am from ECE background, been working in machine learning, and data analysis fields for couple of years, and have decent coding experience in Python and C/C++.
I am about to be interviewed by one of the big five (they reached out to me, I wasn't actively preparing for interviews).
Not being from a CS or software engineering background, I never took an algorithm and data structure course, and from what I know the coding test mainly involves those.
I know there are a ton of resources online for coding interview preparation, but I wanted to seek suggestions on an efficient/quick resource given that I have strong coding skills but not familiar with data structure/CS algorithm.",,mattdue,170,1534222889,2018-08-14 05:01:29+00:00,story,17755688,,100.0,, 1738,Best ways to volunteer?,,"What are some of the best ways to volunteer as someone working in tech? Many of us have valuable skills that we can put to use such as software engineering, data analysis, product management, project management, etc.
What are some of the best ways to use those skills to help out those in need?
Ideas that come to mind: * Contributing to civic tech projects * Contributing to open source projects * Helping out non-profits * Donating money made by using the aforementioned skills
Which methods of volunteering or giving back do you think are most effective?",,marz0,170,1576256901,2019-12-13 17:08:21+00:00,story,21783323,,95.0,, 1739,How to incorporate machine learning into day job?,,"I work for a small regional shipping company, mostly building CRUD apps and doing EDI integrations. I'd like to find a practical side project using machine learning and/or data science that could add value at work, but for the life of me I can't come up with any problems that I couldn't solve with a relational database (postgres) and a data transformation step. I've spent some time learning pytorch, numpy, and pandas but I know that if I don't use it, especially at work, I'll just forget everything I've learned. My boss is a dev and is generally supportive of learning new things and finding ways to innovate independently, so if I can come up with a good idea I'm sure he'll let me pursue it in my spare time. Has anyone tried to do this before? Any suggestions would be great.",,s_c_r,169,1544471391,2018-12-10 19:49:51+00:00,story,18650646,,53.0,, 1740,I joined a FAANG and it is awful,,"I've worked for startups for 10 years and recently joined a FAANG company. Compensation and stability were part of my motivation, but the biggest reason was the assumption that I would be able to work with A+ players solving hard problems.
Instead, I'm on a team that has and horrendous turnover and is staffed with below-average IQ people.
This company builds EVERYTHING in house, and the toolset is like going backwards in my career 10 years.
If I do want to stick this out and turn this team around, I'm going to be working nights and weekends for at least a year - there's just too much to fix.
I've told this to lots of people who work in other division (that I can trust) and they've said the easiest thing is to just accept it as it is and coast. I've never done that in my career and don't think I could do that.
Has anyone been in the same boat? I'm told that it becomes easier to switch teams after a year.
I feel like I've made a terrible decision and don't know what to do next.
Any advice is appreciated.",,tZqGafFdSbj5w34,169,1629298362,2021-08-18 14:52:42+00:00,story,28221821,,237.0,, 1741,Passive Income Suggestions 2016,,"Similar questions have been asked in the past, but things change quickly. What are some passive income strategies that have worked for you in 2016?",,drumttocs8,169,1464022303,2016-05-23 16:51:43+00:00,story,11755036,,99.0,, 1742,What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?,,"Looking for some inspiration. Ive done a lot of MVPs/Early-stage apps over the years and I tend to lean on the same SaaS portfolio for mails, text gateways, payment etc, but Im sure Ive missed a few valuable additions.
Here's a few I use: Mails: Mailchimp / Mandrill Payment: Paylike Search: Algolia",,lbj,169,1592213189,2020-06-15 09:26:29+00:00,story,23525456,,81.0,, 1743,and now what?,,"I'm desperate.
I'm almost 38. Start programming at 10. Spent 7 years in video game industry as programmer, project manager, CTO. I tried during 5 years to create a ""startup"".
I still have a half time job that pay the bill and give me enough time to create something. During these 5 years I created a game, a tool for geeks, a B2B project and lot of more things. I created some projects alone, with CEO partners, CTO partners. Each time, I have no traction, negative feedback, I demotivating and then I stop the project. I read too much about pretotyping, MVP, lean startup, marketing.
Now I don't even know what to do. All ideas I have seems already made by someone else, and often better than I planned to do them. Each partners I meet seems too newbie to work with.
It's horrible because I have time and skills to do lot of things but nothing motivate me anymore. I think all those failures killed me and now I'm lost. What a waste.
If you have any advises, ways to help me, ideas, insult, whatever, shoot.
--- UPDATE: Thank you so much for your advises, I need to think about all this. I'll answer you one by one.
I'm on HN since 1400 days with a total of 42 karma point and never been on HN homepage. My anonymous account have more karam and on homepage in 30mn. What a pitty! but anyway, I'm not looking to be a star or for vanity metrics so it's not a problem.
Lot of people would love to enough money each month and free time to do whatever they want. It's a waste because I don't know what to do with this free time...
Everything is insipid for me. I have no hobby, no programming idea, no desire to meet people, travel whatever. When I try to get a hobby, I m fed up after a few try. When I go to nice tech event, I'm bored.",,shameonme,169,1369406776,2013-05-24 14:46:16+00:00,story,5763100,,85.0,, 1744,Your must-read HN post?,,"If you had to choose 1 HN post, that you think every other HN visitor should read, which one would it be?
My suggestion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943749",,imheretolearn,169,1589827118,2020-05-18 18:38:38+00:00,story,23226615,,29.0,, 1745,News site that provides world updates only when relevant?,https://legiblenews.com/,,,tbihl,169,1639491339,2021-12-14 14:15:39+00:00,story,29551686,,135.0,, 1746,What do you look for in a remote developer?,,"I'll be applying for jobs soon. I'm a Rails dev with 4 years exp, currently learning Elixir. I've just created a blog for my future employer and potentially future clients, gotten testimonials from my previous clients, reading interview questions, anything else that I can do to improve my chances/add value to the company I'll be joining?",,daryllxd,169,1519818744,2018-02-28 11:52:24+00:00,story,16482351,,53.0,, 1747,What skills will be useful during an upcoming recession/depression?,,"My economic knowledge is limited but it seems like the effects of the global domino triggered by conoravirus will echo for many years to come. As a generalist who never had an issue finding a job so far, I'm afraid that in this new reality my software/management skills won't be of any use in 6 months.
What skills would be valuable to develop now to adapt as quick as possible to the new state of things?",,sideway,169,1584898366,2020-03-22 17:32:46+00:00,story,22656749,,185.0,, 1748,When did people start paying for your SaaS and why?,,"When did people start paying for your SaaS?
How many times did it take before you got it right? I don't suspect most people get it right on their first go, so what have you taken from your failures and what have been the biggest factors in your success in terms of gaining traction with your SaaS?
In particular, what marketing/promo tactics have served you best?",,n_coats,169,1373726925,2013-07-13 14:48:45+00:00,story,6037636,,74.0,, 1749,Best Lisp for software development?,,"Hi HNers, I've built a lot of software in Python and Ruby over the years and recently, I've become interested in Lisp but am unsure which Lisp/Scheme variant to learn for building production grade software.
Ideally, I would like to learn the most modern one i.e. robust package management, tooling, ecosystem, etc. Really the main requirement is that I would like to be able to build production ready software with a Lisp that I can use at and for my company.
I've looked into Clojure and like a lot about it, but don't want to have to dig into the Java world. Is there any alternative out there? Any suggestions are appreciated :)",,foobar123321,168,1564312098,2019-07-28 11:08:18+00:00,story,20546906,,133.0,, 1750,How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns?,,"Intuit, the owner of TurboTax is one of the largest players in tax e-filing. How do they seem to employ so many dark patterns with little complaint from consumers? TurboTax employs user hostile UI patterns that attempt to get consent to release filing information to Intuit and 3rd parties, switch to more expensive plans, and open new Credit Karma accounts (another Intuit owned property). I don’t understand why consumers are not more frustrated.",,cebert,168,1645393404,2022-02-20 21:43:24+00:00,story,30409523,,122.0,, 1751,Any “Git diff”-like service but for when terms of conditions changes?,,"One gets the terms of conditions updates via email, like linked-in, or just as start-up popup when you init the app, like xcode, anything that helps to understand exactly what changed especially for well-known apps?",,panchicore3,168,1574089862,2019-11-18 15:11:02+00:00,story,21564850,,28.0,, 1752,How to initiate or respond to small talk (not the programming language)?,,I am not able to initiate or respond to small talk. What are your methods for small talk? How do you initiate one?,,phekunde,168,1558928572,2019-05-27 03:42:52+00:00,story,20019258,,64.0,, 1753,What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?,,Has anyone figured out a cross-platform setup for reading PDFs / ePubs with the ability to synchronize highlights / bookmarks among iPad / iOS / Android / PC / Linux etc?
What do people use today?,,dot1x,168,1580226312,2020-01-28 15:45:12+00:00,story,22170395,,108.0,, 1754,"How much did you, as an employee, make when your startup exited?",,,,saaswarrior,168,1537671654,2018-09-23 03:00:54+00:00,story,18049153,,166.0,, 1755,Was GitHub Hacked or Me?,,"http://confidencetoexplore.com/
That's my page. My other github pages are working fine, but that one redirects to a crazy screen with a lighting strike gif, an email address, and something about "muslim cybersecurity".
I changed the A records to put up a parking lot page and that worked, so I think it's something around github. As soon as I add the A records and CNAME records back to point to github, the hacked page goes back up.
How do I fix this?",,scottndecker,168,1554317388,2019-04-03 18:49:48+00:00,story,19566075,,42.0,, 1756,Best practices for onboarding new employees?,,"I'm starting a new gig as a product manager with a startup in a few days. ~20 employees (most but not all in one building). Good customer traction.
I'm building a personal checklist of onboarding items. It contains the usual categories - hr/payroll stuff, phone/email/slack setups, product details, customer commits/requests, risks/issues, etc.
The main concern is how to be productive from day 1 without being a time suck for the CEO & CTO. Does anybody have 1) a shareable best-practice checklist, or 2) a methodology of quizzing my new coworkers?
Appreciate it.",,mud_dauber,168,1528287847,2018-06-06 12:24:07+00:00,story,17246431,,82.0,, 1757,Is working as a developer on technical route until retirement feasible?,,"I'm in my mid 30s and has been working in the software industry for the past 16 years. I'm a Lead Engineer at the moment and I've tried jobs as architects previously and didn't enjoy it. I still love writing code, learning new tech/tooling/stack and doing hands-on technical implementation. However, at some point it seems that everyone at my stage is moving into management or higher level positions doing project management, meetings, architectural discussions (mostly meetings), etc. which I really don't enjoy doing. Has anyone here work as a technical guy until retirement and can share your experience if you have any regrets?
Thanks.",,jackalx,167,1591996167,2020-06-12 21:09:27+00:00,story,23503947,,108.0,, 1758,How are lean startups easily accepting CC payments?,,"As a single developer that has only given ""online payments"" a cursory glance the whole dance of gateways, merchant accounts and front-end recurring management platforms like Chargify or Recurly make my head spin.
I'm not the biggest fan of PayPal (reading enough horror stories over the last decade tends to cool you on some companies), but if it's the best option out there I'll use it.
I'm curious what the other single-person startups or small team startups that don't have the expertise to do full integrations with authorize.net/Braintree/etc. are doing to collect recurring/subscription payments?
I am hoping I'm missing some amazingly simple ""all in one"" company out there where a user can just enter credit card details and be done. I'm avoiding Amazon Payments and Google Checkout because of the required ""create an account"" step that a few companies have blogged about mucking up their follow-through with new customers.
Any tips would be much appreciated.
Links for reference (for anyone else in this boat) Intuit's full solution: http://payments.intuit.com/products/online-credit-card-processing.jsp
PayPal's full solution: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-pro-overview
BrainTree's full solution: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/services/recurring-billing
If anyone is using any of these successfully for subscription-based payments I'd love to hear about it. I spoke with someone at Recurly who (fairly?) pointed out that subscription management isn't the primary feature of any of these services, so some of the implementations are awkward; on that note I'm not ready (since I have little idea of how this business will do) to purchase more management layers like Recurly into my billing process until business picks up.",,rkalla,167,1302737566,2011-04-13 23:32:46+00:00,story,2444709,,120.0,, 1759,How to best acquire theoretical computer science knowledge?,,"I didn't know what I wanted to do before going to college at Penn State. I just knew that I had to go to college. I was always interested computers so I ended majoring in Information Sciences and Technology. About halfway through when I actually got to take some programming classes I discovered that I had a passion for software. I went to my counselor and inquired about switching over to CS. Unfortunately, almost nothing from my major would transfer and I had to pretty much start over. As someone paying for college myself this really wasn't an option. I continued on with IST in the Design and Development option.
I ended becoming the first employee at Bay Area startup. They were a bit desperate and I convinced them I could make their Android apps. I did and they are both highly rated. I also made one of my own that ended up getting featured on Google Play and receiving a lot of press. I have a bit of knack for it but I am so bored with GUIs and UIs. I want to work on harder problems and not just use other peoples libraries. The problem is that my lack of knowledge limits my thinking. I want to fix this. I am torn between going back to school for another BS in CS, pursuing a MS in CS, or teaching myself from things like MIT Open Courseware and Udacity.
I am not really worried about getting a job. This is about gaining knowledge. Although having a "real" CS would certainly help keep me from being pigeon holed as an app developer and open a few more doors. I do think that going back to school would be the quickest route to gaining the knowledge I want. I am just worried that I wouldn't get into a top school and I don't know if I should try to do a BS, MS, or just take classes. I really don't want another $50k in debt either. Especially when things like the Georgia Tech online MS CS is coming out for $7k.
So, what is the best way for a proven and largely self taught developer to take their knowledge to the next level?",,jophde,167,1378568670,2013-09-07 15:44:30+00:00,story,6345368,,116.0,, 1760,Replacement for Stack Overflow jobs section?,,"After stack overflow closes their jobs section, which site would you consider a replacement, both as employee and/or employer?",,dgarud,167,1646402621,2022-03-04 14:03:41+00:00,story,30554840,,94.0,, 1761,Good Go codebases to read?,,I'm a Python programmer and I just started learning Go. What are some good Go codebases to read? I feel it helps me learn better if I look at some existing high quality open source code.
There was a similar post about Python a couple of years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896369) and it helped me tremendously. I'm looking for something similar with Go.
Thanks!,,ra7,167,1496336608,2017-06-01 17:03:28+00:00,story,14462125,,52.0,, 1762,Do you still use UML?,,"A client asks to add UML diagram support to my Helpinator, but I am not sure that it's worth my time.",,dmitripopov,166,1478341388,2016-11-05 10:23:08+00:00,story,12879056,,185.0,, 1763,How do you learn to develop exploits?,,"Too few people in the world understand technology. Of those, the vast majority don't do anything creative with it. I would put myself in this category. A few people are extraordinarily creative and come up with the exploits we read about in the news.
Let's say you're a competent programmer with minimal prior exposure to security. What should you read/do to learn how to see and engineer these kinds of exploits? I don't want to be Picasso, I just want to learn how to paint so I understand how he does it.
For the record, I'd say a working hands-on knowledge of this should inform the design of any system.
Is it a person-to-person oral tradition? Is it on some private message boards somewhere? Text files? There used to be 2600 Magazine, does anyone still read that?
Maybe it's all of the above. Where is the best place for somebody smart to start reading/inspecting/programming and quickly learn what matters?",,bcattle,166,1339867064,2012-06-16 17:17:44+00:00,story,4121062,,78.0,, 1764,What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?,,"HN produces better book recommendations than any other place I know of. People at HN have recommended such books like Chimpanzee Politics, which are so basic yet eye-opening that everyone would benefit from reading them.
If you would get to recommend a single book for everyone to read, what would it be?",,mach1ne,166,1644216441,2022-02-07 06:47:21+00:00,story,30241190,,354.0,, 1765,Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?,,Today my google account was suspended for ToS violation. I think it might have something to do with the "ruin my search history" viral thing yesterday.
Did anyone else who participated in that have their account suspended today?
(Talking about this -- do not open link if you do not want to literally ruin your search history: ruinmysearchhistory.com),,WhatIsThisIm12,166,1465592629,2016-06-10 21:03:49+00:00,story,11880008,,112.0,, 1766,How did Google botch messaging/video/hangouts so badly?,,"Several years ago, from within Gmail, I could:
* Make a phone call
* Send an SMS
* Send a Google chat
* Start a video call with my parents
Now, all of this has been split up, and to start a video call, I have to start a video and send an email inviting someone. SMS has been split up into a separate web app that won't work without my phone being present.
How did it come to pass that they took an easy, integrated system and mangled it so badly? I mean, it wasn't perfect, but it mostly just worked, and was easy to use.",,davidw,166,1632067306,2021-09-19 16:01:46+00:00,story,28585379,,95.0,, 1767,Introduction to Analog Synthesizers (Simulation OK),,I realized I've had a long fascination with analog synthesizers going back to the first one I saw in 1977. The band teacher had one in his office.
And I was tempted toward random knob twisting today when I saw yet another 'analog' synthesizer runnable in the browser.
But I'd really like to have some basic idea of how to put together rudimentary sounds with intent.
I was wondering about book like objects that explain the basics. Maybe a good used book to pick up. Thanks.,,brudgers,166,1626191566,2021-07-13 15:52:46+00:00,story,27822489,,122.0,, 1768,How does a 1990s web developer get back on track?,,"During the late nineties I was making various interactive/dynamic websites using the then standard technologies: HTML, PHP, Perl, Mysql, and a tiny bit of CSS. This was the time when Javascript was really only used for form field validation and to spawn popups (Ajax was not yet around), when all layout was done using borderless table/tr/td HTML elements, when there were no mobile devices and all you had to care about was one or two screen resolutions and basically two browsers: Netscape and MSIE. Since then I have been pursuing my IT career in a different area. But sometimes I still find myself wanting to setup a website every now and then. But in the little free time I have available, I stumble upon all kinds of web technologies and frameworks: JQuery, Node.js, Ruby on rails, AngularJS, Backbone.JS, Django, Bootstrap, to name a few. Ofcourse all have their purpose, weaknesses and strengths. But after work and family, there isn't much time left for exploring and trying new things. Maybe other people have already made this journey and can share their experiences? What would be the best way for a nineties web developer to update his knowledge and skills?",,neLrivVK,166,1452420071,2016-01-10 10:01:11+00:00,story,10874842,,115.0,, 1769,Share Your Raspberry Pi Project,,I'm looking for some inspiration for what I can do with my $35 computer. I think we can all learn a lot from any cool hardware project.,,samayshamdasani,166,1501078202,2017-07-26 14:10:02+00:00,story,14856277,,155.0,, 1770,Who wants to be hired? (December 2020),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
I've had enough.
Hear me out. I've spent the last 5 years of my life slaving away on startups and new business ideas and I'm failing, bad. So tonight I've come to the conclusion that I clearly have no fucking idea what I'm doing. I've lost pretty much all my friends because of the time I've spent trying to make my ideas work. I have spent money I can't afford on ideas that have never came to light. And now it's 2:31am on a Sunday evening and my girlfriend is in bed wondering why I won't come give her a cuddle, but I can't. Because I know I have to wake up tomorrow morning and hit the repeat button on my life again. I have to work all day just to put a roof over our heads. She wants to travel and damn I want to take her so bad, but I can't. I hate what my life has become.
But I have a solution, because I know complaining won't change this. Truth is, I have no idea about business. That's why I can't do it. I come from a working class family, I have working class friends, no one I know has any idea about business or even any interest in the topic. I've read a lot though: on business, development, management & self help. I can do it, I know I can, I just need some guidance. So here I am; asking for guidance. I have about $5000 and I'm willing to put that into an idea, and I have some of those too. So who's ready to play ball with me? I can guarantee the technical skills, could you guarantee the business skills? Maybe together we won't need to press the repeat button on our alarm clocks next Monday.
Let me know, hnineedhelp [at] gmail.com",,kriptonic,166,1396230827,2014-03-31 01:53:47+00:00,story,7499035,,132.0,, 1773,Is there something wrong with internet right now?,,Down Detector (http://downdetector.com/) is showing a huge spike in reports over the past 30 minutes. Many of our users are having trouble reaching our LB in Northern Virginia.
Anyone else having this issue or any insight as to what's going on?,,leesalminen,166,1509993067,2017-11-06 18:31:07+00:00,story,15637607,,73.0,, 1774,Who's firing?,,I feel that the previous iteration of this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851987) was interesting. A group of people looking together might also be very appealing to some companies.,,patmcguire,166,1486495614,2017-02-07 19:26:54+00:00,story,13591889,,46.0,, 1775,What does the percentage next to posts mean?,,,,flippant,166,1440210069,2015-08-22 02:21:09+00:00,story,10101229,,68.0,, 1776,Best Git workflow for small teams,,I have been building up a small team of programmers that are coming from CVS. I am looking for some ideas on ideal workflows.
What do you currently use for teams of 5-10 people?,,tmaly,166,1479014613,2016-11-13 05:23:33+00:00,story,12941997,,87.0,, 1777,"What is the fastest way to ramp up on DevOps, k8 and GCP?",,"I have a limited time and need to quickly ramp up on these skills. I need hands-on experience as that's how I learn best. What would be your go-to resource/workshop for that?
Is there some standard "here are existing 10 services and in this guide we'll go through deploying them, securing them, installing service mesh, provisioning database..." kind of thing?",,epimetheus2,165,1637146245,2021-11-17 10:50:45+00:00,story,29251343,,75.0,, 1778,I feel my career is at a dead end. Any advice on what could I do?,,"Hey HN,
I'm 35, working for an IT consultancy company and I feel my career is going at a dead end.
I did well with my career (maybe too much?) and after 10 years I'm far away from coding activities, more involved in project management and I'm not sure that this is what I want.
I like coding (that's why I started this job, I also consider myself good at coding) I like to learn and explore new things.
The problem is that, at same time I feel that coding can't be a lifetime career: what will happen in 10 years from now? Maybe company will prefer younger coders to hire and I will not be able to find a job anymore? (I have family, I can't risk to lose my job) Shall I find now another role or company that may be can offer me a job where I can cover for both roles (Coding and project management)?
I'd like to hear your point of view, maybe I'm missing something here. Thanks in advance for any advice.",,iamcirou,165,1618141896,2021-04-11 11:51:36+00:00,story,26769638,,143.0,, 1779,How much is Google collecting and keeping on Android if not signed in?,,"From a privacy perspective, how much does not signing into a Google account help at device setup?
Thinking about picking up a 5a but CalyxOS isn’t ready for it yet.",,privacyisntdead,165,1630792916,2021-09-04 22:01:56+00:00,story,28419727,,52.0,, 1780,"Company got acquired, new contract seems oppressive",,"The company I work for (software engineer, advertising industry) was recently acquired by a larger company.
The new employment contract stipulates the usual oppressive confidential information and IP assignment things, detailing how the company owns anything I come up with. The state I'm in specifically protects my rights to things I create entirely independently (outside company time and equipment) but the contract also has a clause that says I must disclose any existing inventions or ideas to the company now and that anything not enumerated belongs to them and that by not listing I am acknowledging that the invention idea was not developed or conceived before the commencement of employment.
Assuming I were to sign and return without enumerating any specifics they would own the IP to anything I've done previous to this?
I'd love any advice anyone here has, but perhaps a better question would be-- Are there any "uber for lawyers" services online where I can pay to have someone with bonafides read through this for me?",,ExhibitAClause2,165,1434511291,2015-06-17 03:21:31+00:00,story,9729916,,284.0,, 1781,Who hires mathematicians?,,"Granted, as I am only graduating with a straight BSc it is perhaps a bit presumptuous of me to consider myself a mathematician, but I would like to. I've been looking at jobs and the only people who seem interested in me are banks or people looking for a "quantitative analyst" in the financial sector.
Who hires mathematicians, other than the aforementioned financial industry?
I know that machine learning is pretty math heavy, and I have taken a look at some of the mathematics involved and some programming firms also don't mind if you have a BSc Mathematics/Applied Mathematics degree. But doing that doesn't seem like doing mathematics.
This is perhaps an odd question for the site, but I have been struggling with this and everyone here seems professional and helpful from my years of reading here.",,gremble,165,1512581833,2017-12-06 17:37:13+00:00,story,15863010,,142.0,, 1782,What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?,,"From novels, to nonfiction, to the art of leisure.",,whitepoplar,165,1529763285,2018-06-23 14:14:45+00:00,story,17381352,,173.0,, 1783,Best resources on webapp security?,,"TLDR; What are your favorite resources for how to build a secure webapp?
I've been looking to learn how to secure web apps more systematically. Just thinngs that (should be) well-understood by now--logins, customer data security, how to take payments with or without storing credit card info (even if that's just using a third-party processor). I've found the OWASP site, which seems poorly maintained and terribly organized, and a bunch of books that focus on how to pentest existing apps. The books that focus systematically on security, like Security Engineering, are extremely general and don't explicitly cover the webapp use case.",,zipfle,165,1439036609,2015-08-08 12:23:29+00:00,story,10027055,,42.0,, 1784,What is key to good technical documentation?,,"Imagine you are a junior software developer who is entering a relatively large and complex project with 150,000 lines of code. It is not some web software, but something way more complex, say an embedded system, or a navigation system, or a digital camera, or maybe a complex device for medical imaging. It is a lot of code in different languages. What you know is that the major aspects are working but there still might be some problems.
And of course, management is eager for you to get stuff up and running, as the project is already severely delayed, needs to be shipped as soon as possible, and the customers and investors are getting impatient.
There is only one problem - all the three senior engineers which were working on the codebase have left suddenly, only their manager is still there, and you have to start with reading and understanding the code, and what needs to be done. It is somewhat commented, but, of course, it is not easy to understand. And as it looks, the previous developers did not had any time to leave you proper technical documentation! What are you going to tell the manager?
But then, suddenly, a fairy godmother appears, which has a magic wand in her hand. It is a kind and witty documentation fairy, and she says: "I will fulfil you a single wish. By my magical powers, I will give you exactly the documentation which you think is most important. It can be anything you want. Anything! The only condition is, it must not be more than a good software developer can produce in a month."
What do you wish for?",,jnxx,165,1567940840,2019-09-08 11:07:20+00:00,story,20909783,,88.0,, 1785,Have you ever gone without a computer or phone for an extended period?,,"I've been considering going "cold-turkey" and packing my laptop away for a while in order to unlearn some bad habits related to focus/distractions/procrastination, but obviously there are downsides to this for someone based in tech.
I'm wondering if anybody in the community has ever attempted this and would like to share their experience.
A handful of questions to seed the conversation (but please don't feel obliged to answer them all): - What did you give up? How long was this for? Was this intentional or due to external circumstances? - What were your motivations for giving the technology up? - Was your overall experience positive or negative? In what ways? - Did you notice any changes in your happiness, focus or stress levels? - Is an "all-or-nothing" approach as such unrealistic? Would a strategy of using tech "in moderation" be more suitable? - Do you have any advice for how someone could regain focus, avoid distractions and generally use technology in a more mindful manner?
If you happen to know of any interesting blog posts/articles/previous discussions on the topic, please share.
Thanks in advance for your insights!",,luddite99,165,1591267395,2020-06-04 10:43:15+00:00,story,23414896,,184.0,, 1786,Has anyone undergone stem cell treatment for auto-immune disease?,,"I am asking because I have Ankylosing Spondylitis and it is seriously reducing my quality of life. I have been considering to go for stem cell or similar (NK cell TR cell etc) treatment for 6 months now but am very apprehensive.
There is anecdotal evidence that my condition can be "cured" (at least for 3 years at a time) with stem cell treatment and there are some phase 1, 2 & 3 studies out of China [1][2] (that aim) to back this up. That said I am also aware of the risks and don't want to make a bad situation worse especially considering that I have reduced the conditions negative effects from an 8/10 to 3/10 using diet. Google is practically ineffective for research as it is polluted with companies offering treatment who are heavy on hype and light on evidence.
I'm curious to hear first or second hand experience of stem cell treatment for auto-immune conditions from the HN community. Please let us know about the condition, the treatment, the clinic and the outcome.
[1] https://sci-hub.tw/10.3892/etm.2017.4687 [2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02809781?term=stem+cell&cond=Ankylosing+Spondylitis&rank=4",,rorykoehler,165,1541415776,2018-11-05 11:02:56+00:00,story,18381376,,119.0,, 1787,Why is machine learning easier to learn than basic social skills?,,(and any advice on acquiring these basic social skills?)
A year of haphazardly watching YouTube videos and reading papers and I learned enough to start contributing to real research. But 18 years of human interaction and I'm still missing out on social skills apparently. It's like everyone else has a degree in all these unwritten rules that I'm just supposed to know.,,btheshoe,165,1637833204,2021-11-25 09:40:04+00:00,story,29339776,,176.0,, 1788,Why are flash memory prices going down so much faster than RAM?,,"You can now buy 128gb USB sticks or SD cards for around $20. Meanwhile, 16 gb RAM sticks still are $100+.
Are the performance specifications for RAM that much more stringent? Is the demand for SD cards and USB sticks that much greater that there's more economies of scale?",,altoz,165,1483329537,2017-01-02 03:58:57+00:00,story,13298947,,76.0,, 1789,How is your mental health?,,"How and how well do you keep track of your mental health, particularly for those with a history of mental health issues, and those with a family history of mental issues.
As for me I like to think that I try really hard to monitor my mental health, I suffer from anxiety disorder and my father and mother both had mental health issues at one point in their life, which makes me constantly fear for my mental health and hence my monitoring of my mental state of mind like a hulk.",,smithmayowa,165,1572986212,2019-11-05 20:36:52+00:00,story,21456399,,153.0,, 1790,All startup websites look the same,,"All recent startup websites look the same to me. I don't have the designer chops to explain it clearly, but the main style is:
A whole lot of white, plus one dominant color (usually blue, green or dark grey) used for footer/header.
Layout uses light-grey-to-white gradients to make gentle borders between columns and even tabs.
Borders that don't use gradients are always 1px grey.
Large rectangular rounded buttons in dominant color (or green, orange) with white lettering.
Sans serif font everywhere.
Bunch of links that don't fit anywhere are moved to lower footer in small font.
Approximately 940px wide fixed main layout.
http://www.loopt.com/
https://indinero.com/
http://www.nozbe.com/
http://www.peerindex.net/
Does anyone know how/why this came about?",,phugoid,165,1281852989,2010-08-15 06:16:29+00:00,story,1604693,,82.0,, 1791,Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?,,"Tired of other discussions dominating the front page? Tell us what you're working on right now, and please include a link to actual code. Let's get back in touch with hacking!",,raganwald,165,1241050542,2009-04-30 00:15:42+00:00,story,586140,,102.0,, 1792,"Do you use automated tools to create APIs, or do you code them manually?",,"Do you use some sort of framework/tool for creating the APIs needed for your product/service/application/ecc, for example (https://loopback.io/), or do you code by hand?",,highhedgehog,165,1561374156,2019-06-24 11:02:36+00:00,story,20262176,,67.0,, 1793,Please review my new project: almost.at,http://almost.at,,,davidcann,164,1243887734,2009-06-01 20:22:14+00:00,story,636711,,81.0,, 1794,How many of you have been impacted by a layoff?,,I'm curious to see how many of you have been impacted and how you bounced back? I'm building a project around this and would love to hear about your experience.,,mrburton,164,1570836678,2019-10-11 23:31:18+00:00,story,21229345,,169.0,, 1795,What's your favorite way to save money?,,"My startup has been kicking around the idea of developing a Chrome extension to help save you money.
I've been wondering - what are some of everyone's favorite apps or extensions for saving money? I've heard of Ebates, Honey, and Ibotta. Is there a need that's currently going unmet?
Would love to get potential user feedback. Thanks!!",,jmaccabee,164,1468355433,2016-07-12 20:30:33+00:00,story,12082078,,183.0,, 1796,Why can't I see downvote or upvote arrows anywhere?,,,,aviraldg,164,1382784393,2013-10-26 10:46:33+00:00,story,6616972,,57.0,, 1797,What do you want to tell Microsoft?,,"Short version: I've been asked to compile a document that will go to various people at MS, including Steve Ballmer (before anyone asks, no I'm not giving you his or anyone elses contact details).
As such, what would you guys like to see from Microsoft in the future? Suggestions can cover anything from IE9 to Windows 8, your thoughts on 7 (desktop or mobile), Xbox, Zune... Also, thoughts on competitors and their movements would be welcomed too.
Please note that this isn't just a feature request list, so anything to do with the strategic direction of MS and/or any of its divisions would be great.
Fire away!",,petewailes,164,1284718706,2010-09-17 10:18:26+00:00,story,1700623,,375.0,, 1798,Switching from developer to project manager. What to keep in mind?,,What is the most important thing to think about when you’re switching from a development to a (project) management position?,,alaaf,164,1483111369,2016-12-30 15:22:49+00:00,story,13284742,,103.0,, 1799,Who wants to be hired? (October 2016),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
I'm curious to find out what other entrepreneurs think of this situation, where a partner, once trusted, and for which technical foundation has been built upon, now has shown to be acting in bad faith.
Every once in a while, some scammer will send a phishing text message to one of our phone numbers. Here is an example: """ Your Facebook account has been placed on hold for verification. To avoid account suspension, Please visit: https://opensopstat.com/ """
The message will be relayed to en employees cell phone as is what happens with all txt messages. Now Twilio thinks our account was hacked and someone is sending text phishing text messages from it.
The latest time this happened, the account was immediately suspended by an automated system. They did not communicate to us that this happened or why it happened. I had to fill out a support ticket and wait about 3 hours for a response before I even knew what the problem when was. This happened at night, so no one knew there was even a problem until the next morning when business operations resumed and the phones didn't work.
Its bad enough that they shut down the phone system for my entire company because of their mistake, but in order to get the system back online, I have to go through their ticketing process that is only through e-mail, where it takes hours or days to receive a response. If I want to speak with someone on the phone, which probably would have gotten the problem resolved more immediately, I have to pay $1,500 per month for their phone tech support. Obviously this is an unreasonable amount to pay. I don't need tech support, I just need someone to call, explain the situation to, and have them click a button.
We pay them about $600 a month and have been working with them for over 10 years. I understand their profit margins might be thin? But are they really that thin? And if so, there should be a more reasonable phone option. I don't need to speak with an engineer, I just need to speak with someone who can click a button and unblock the account.
Temporarily, I will re-program the system so that it does not forward text message content to my employees phone numbers. Which is fine. But my bigger problem is what do I do now? If they're willing to shut my system down without even giving me a number to call, what else are they going to do to me in the future?
The way in which they have been so cavalier with me is a red flag. And if I'm being honest, it does make me angry how they are willing to so readily damage my company in such a profound way AUTOMATICALLY without giving me a way to talk with them. I understand they may have a big phishing problem and will need to use automated software to help, but it is very reckless to not have this counter-balanced with a reasonable way for legitimate customers to even contact them after the suspension.
Are there other API-driven VOIP options that I should be considering bearing in mind that it would be expensive to re-write the software to work with another vendor? Or is there some way I should be looking to work things out with them?
What do you guys think?",,ChrisDutrow,164,1641490716,2022-01-06 17:38:36+00:00,story,29826725,,191.0,, 1801,How do security researchers know where to look for vulnerabilites?,,"Also, in a relatively open ended project, llike Google Zero, how do people there decide upon a course of research?",,vedanshbhartia,164,1527571523,2018-05-29 05:25:23+00:00,story,17176711,,30.0,, 1802,What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?,,"I was reading this article (https://themdpreneur.com/purchase-future-cash-stop-buying-more-stuff/) on HN the other day and it talks about a hypothetical person who buys a condo and rents it out, or a vending machine and has it serviced, and a website that brings in income.
I come from a fairly traditional investing background of purchasing equities or ETFs as my primary investments, and am interested in learning what else is out there in a non-traditional sense like the above?
What other kind of passive income or cash flow helping investments are out there?",,cgb223,164,1620664697,2021-05-10 16:38:17+00:00,story,27107919,,253.0,, 1803,Is it just me or do 99% of SWE jobs offers seem completely pointless?,,"I'm kind of looking for a job, and even though I really need one, I'm completely unmotivated by 99% of the job offers I see and rarely apply.
Maybe I'm naive, but it just seems that almost every job out there is about squeezing more profit out of people, and absolutely nothing else, and it doesn't really make me want to work.
Since college I've been working the bare minimum (or less)to live, 3 months there, 6 months there, 2 months there... I don't know how anyone manage to work full-time for a long period of time at unrewarding jobs that just don't matter.
People who have really great jobs(not talking about money ofc), how did you find them?
People who work 8 hours a day, mostly for a paycheck, how do you cope without wanting to off yourself?",,throwawaynay,164,1642869430,2022-01-22 16:37:10+00:00,story,30038145,,198.0,, 1804,What are your best “soft skill” resources?,,"I'm at this point in my career where I'm in a good groove improving my technical skills, but I'm starting to require more and more time into my softer skills (communication, negotiation, persuation, et al). What are your favorite resources (classes, websites, books, blogs) that you use to develop those skills?",,acconrad,164,1438444704,2015-08-01 15:58:24+00:00,story,9987495,,66.0,, 1805,Blacklist Forbes?,,"Would it be possible to blacklist forbes.com links? They now block viewers who are using ad blockers, and have recently been serving advertising malware to visitors [1].
They also have awful interstitial ads [2] and, while they masquerade as a news organization, are actually a blog farm [3].
Blocking Forbes would be no great loss in terms of content, and would avoid a surprising amount of advertising- (and malware-) generated pain.
[1]: http://www.extremetech.com/internet/220696-forbes-forces-readers-to-turn-off-ad-blockers-promptly-serves-malware
[2]: <any Forbes article, e.g. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2016/01/08/meet-the-queen-of-imgur-the-image-sharing-site-thats-half-the-size-of-twitter/ >
[3]: https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3zs6qk/gq_and_forbes_go_after_ad_blocker_users_rather/cyp2uls?context=3#cyowy51",,willwhitney,164,1452351181,2016-01-09 14:53:01+00:00,story,10871410,,41.0,, 1806,How can I get better at design?,,"While for larger projects it makes most sense to partner with a designer, I would like to be able to make my own hobby projects/sites look a bit better (http://vowsjs.org/ is a fantastic example - I wouldn't even know where to begin). The problem is, I'm not terribly artistic. I understand HTML/CSS fine, and I can tell what (I think) looks good, but I wouldn't have a clue how to do it myself. Is this something I can improve at, and if so, how? Thanks.",,nudge,163,1277890234,2010-06-30 09:30:34+00:00,story,1474315,,98.0,, 1807,Best office chair for home office work?,,I'm looking for an office chair that I can spend 6-10 hours a day in. Looking to spend under $500 if possible but I am open to suggestions. I really wish there was a service that I could test out an office chair for two weeks and return if it doesn't not perform as expected.,,vuln,163,1562438238,2019-07-06 18:37:18+00:00,story,20371095,,137.0,, 1808,Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?,,Why is visual programming so popular for game programming compared to other domains?
For example Unreal Blueprints
What is it about them that makes it so popular?,,arduinomancer,163,1649277545,2022-04-06 20:39:05+00:00,story,30937201,,147.0,, 1809,What are your favorite algorithms?,,"Post any algorithms you think are cool, inventive, or useful. PDF links or blog posts are appreciated.
My current favorite is SWIM. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asdas/research/dsn02-swim.pdf",,EFruit,163,1485733987,2017-01-29 23:53:07+00:00,story,13517597,,89.0,, 1810,Who's Hiring?,,"We're in a recession. Many great, talented people are out of work (including plenty of folks here at HN, I'm guessing). We know, though, that many companies are also still hiring - so let's put these companies and job seekers in touch.
Are you hiring? Does your company (or your friend's) have openings? Let HN know!!! Let's get some good people good jobs.
(We've got 900+ startup jobs at Startuply right now, and we'd love to get you all involved - it's easy and completely free for everyone. That being said, post any openings you know of here, too, to get some love from the best hacker community evar.)",,LukeG,163,1227561395,2008-11-24 21:16:35+00:00,story,375410,,208.0,, 1811,Who wants to be hired? (June 2020),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
The code is not pretty to look at, but this is not our biggest problem. We inherited a weird infrastructure: a mix of files in HDF5 and Parquet format dumped in S3, read with Hive and Spark.
Here are the current issues:
- The volume does not require a solution that is this complex (we’re talking 100Gb max accumulated over the past 4 years)
- It’s a mess: every time we onboard a new person we have to spend several days explaining where the data is.
- There is no simple way to explore the data.
- Data and code end up being duplicated: people working on several projects that require the same subset write their own transformation pipeline to get the same results.
Am I the only person here who finds it completely insane?
I was thinking about building a pipeline to dump the raw data in a Postgres and then build other pipelines to denormalize and aggregate the data for each project. The difficulty with this, and any data science project is to find the sweet spot between data that is fine-grained enough to allow to compute features, but fast enough to query to train models. I was thinking that in a first iteration, data scientists would explore their denormalized, aggregated data and create their own feature with code. As the project matures we could tweak the pipeline to compute the features. Do you have any experience with this?
Finally, I love data science and I really don’t want to end up being the person who writes pipelines for everyone. Everyone else is a consultant, and they don’t have any incentive to care about the long-term impact of architecture choices: their management only evaluates delivery (graphs, model metrics, etc.). How do I go about raising awareness?",,remilouf,163,1555749918,2019-04-20 08:45:18+00:00,story,19705461,,104.0,, 1814,Why does a busy man build a shed?,,"This is the time of year for pondering and learning. I am pondering why during 10 years of helping grow/maintain a busy Saas infrastructure I spent a great deal of my free time building two sheds in my garden. They have been a place to deal with stress, an office, and now a place to hangout. So why does someone create work for themself when they are already busy and is this wise?",,p0d,163,1641121008,2022-01-02 10:56:48+00:00,story,29767682,,132.0,, 1815,Who wants to be hired? (May 2019),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
YC Work at a Startup Career Expo, June 29: https://www.workatastartup.com/expo",,whoishiring,163,1556722891,2019-05-01 15:01:31+00:00,story,19797592,,273.0,, 1816,Single-person company exit,,"Can anyone share an experience from selling a self-founded, single-person company?
Topic is created because of a comment in this[1] thread
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065355",,michaeloblak,163,1468246215,2016-07-11 14:10:15+00:00,story,12071129,,78.0,, 1817,Learning to write good JavaScript,,"The majority of my programming since university has been in the .net space... but am being increasingly required to deal with JavaScript day-to-day and would like to learn more. Initially this will mostly be for web development, but I've been meaning to play with node for a long time as well.
I am comfortable enough with the basic syntax etc, so not looking for absolute beginners stuff, but I would love some recommendations of resources that teach about real world use of the language ... common patterns & anti-patterns, typical coding style etc. A nice book or two would be ideal, but online resources are fine too!
Basically I don't just want to write JavaScript, I want to write good JavaScript.",,rcknight,163,1350647878,2012-10-19 11:57:58+00:00,story,4673106,,49.0,, 1818,Do you know any good audio books for developers?,,"I am curious if you know any good audio book for developers.
The topic of programming usually don't lend itself well for audio books.
I know there are a lot of podcasts about programming out there. Most times I don't think you learn by listening to them.
This is why I am searching for good audio books about programming.",,macco,163,1576936827,2019-12-21 14:00:27+00:00,story,21851207,,49.0,, 1819,Recent computer hacking convictions and employability?,,"I was involved in a high-profile computer hacking case in 2015 which received international interest. I eventually pleaded guilty to charges of blackmail, fraud, and computer hacking. Following that, I was sentenced to four years in prison. I'm currently on probation for a year, and I'm also under the supervision of the Serious Organised Crime Unit for another four years. I'm bound by a number of technical constraints. The authorities in charge of my supervision are happy for me to find legal work in cybersecurity, but given my current circumstances, I just wanted opinions on how I should approach this.
I'm completely self-taught, and while on bail, I did a lot of responsible disclosure. I collaborated closely with CIRT teams, system administrators, website developers, and government agencies to ensure the remediation of over 3,000 web-application vulnerabilities. I wrote technical reports, provided remediation guidance, and validated patches to ensure that security issues were properly closed (in an informal capacity). My first bug bounty contribution took place in 2012 which was a GET-based reflective XSS on a subdomain belonging to Microsoft.
Over 30 private and public sector entities have sent me letters of acknowledgement. I've also been inducted into a number of hall of fames for uncovering vulnerabilities. In 2019, I was also ranked 11th out of 25,000 active researchers on a bug bounty platform.
I can't just walk into employment with my skillset because I'm not particularly talented, just proficient in web-application security and various methodology used to identify vulnerabilities. This leads me to believe that I should look for entry-level positions but I've been told I'm overqualified. Some opinions would be appreciated.",,dk79XuL9,163,1644849647,2022-02-14 14:40:47+00:00,story,30332534,,147.0,, 1820,What was it like to quit your job and focus on your successful startup?,,"For most people, dreaming about quitting a job to focus on a side project or a startup is a dream come true, especially if it ends up being successful. It can bring about so many emotions and fears all during that entire process... not knowing what is going to happen.. and what if it failed? Would it have been possible to return to your old job? So, for those who quit their jobs and were successful, how did it feel and what did you learn?",,mattbgates,162,1498004773,2017-06-21 00:26:13+00:00,story,14599687,,112.0,, 1821,Who's hiring (take 3)?,,"We've had a couple of popular hiring threads in the past so it'd be great to have some updates.
""Are you hiring? Does your company (or your friend's) have openings? Let HN know!!! Let's get some good people good jobs.""
Internships and contracting are also welcome. Previously:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375410 [Ask HN: Who's Hiring?]
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759452 [Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)]
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=759756 [Ask HN: Who's Hiring... Students?]",,eb,162,1258740949,2009-11-20 18:15:49+00:00,story,952915,,201.0,, 1822,Favorite/Classic HN threads of all time,,"The only similar thread that I could find was from 2012 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996652), so I decided to start one. Please share your all-time favorite HN threads here.",,caaqil,162,1641054970,2022-01-01 16:36:10+00:00,story,29759993,,54.0,, 1823,Do you manage your family's digital safety?,,Most of my family members (nuclear and extended) have little interest in spending time to manage their digital selves. Amongst other things making sure they have control of their passwords and accounts in a safe matter.
I've lately decided to set up a 1Password Family Account to help at least my nuclear family into taking net security more serious.
- What steps did you take to make it simple enough for your family to care?
- Did you retain any restorative powers? As in keeping master passwords to certain things and/or emergency accesses like in LastPass?
- Which subjects spurred the most discussions and how did you solve it?
- Which items do you share amongst all family members?
Edit: Formatting,,arzmir,162,1649947879,2022-04-14 14:51:19+00:00,story,31027766,,128.0,, 1824,Any recommended resources to learn market analysis?,,,,febin,162,1526392732,2018-05-15 13:58:52+00:00,story,17073937,,36.0,, 1825,Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?,,"Why doesn't anyone use Datalog (or another limited-by-design logic programming language) as the query language in a public Web API? The adoption of GraphQL suggests demand for letting the API user write more sophisticated queries even at a performance cost per query. Datalog would let the user do more, likely saving many HTTP round-trips. A lot more research exists on optimizing Datalog than GraphQL. It is unclear that the total impact on performance would be significantly negative compared to the typical GraphQL API. If this line of thinking is valid, where are the Datalog API experiments?",,networked,162,1575839378,2019-12-08 21:09:38+00:00,story,21738331,,107.0,, 1826,What Happened to Larry Page?,,I can't find any news about him since he left Google.,,mrkn1,161,1599236724,2020-09-04 16:25:24+00:00,story,24376380,,252.0,, 1827,What was your experience using a graph database?,,"I have an idea that I want to work on during the break. And I think this is something that would suit a graph db, (a service that would link users together depending on their choice profile). So what was your experience of working with one? Which graph db did you use?
Edit: What sort of problems are well-suited to graph databases? In other words, what are some scenarios where something like Postgres is not suitable anymore?",,tiuPapa,161,1546276130,2018-12-31 17:08:50+00:00,story,18795498,,93.0,, 1828,Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?,,I'm seeing a lot of "submit your application" web forms with a required linked-in field. Would it be absolute folly to attempt to get hired without using linked-in? What are your experiences?,,c64d81744074dfa,161,1641995901,2022-01-12 13:58:21+00:00,story,29906328,,201.0,, 1829,How does a great resume look like? What are the best tools to make one?,,"Hey everyone! I'm a self-taught full-stack web developer. I've spent the past few years learning webdev, working on personal projects, and building a portfolio (https://startuplab.io/portfolio).
Now I want to find good clients, or work remotely for a startup, and to do that I need to make a resume(or CV?).
So I wanted to ask a few questions:
- What should I put on my resume?
- Can you share some examples of how a great resume should look like?
- What are some of the best tools for making one?
- What do you look for when deciding to hire a developer?
- Can you share some advice that would help me increase my chances of finding a good job?",,rayalez,161,1521819979,2018-03-23 15:46:19+00:00,story,16659255,,96.0,, 1830,Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?,,"I chat with my teammates (who are ready to agree on a particular messenger)
So, far we've tried
1. Telegram - The problem here is that E2E encrypted messaging (secret chat) is not available on the desktop.
2. Tox - Works everywhere but qtox crashes randomly on Mac. Antox also doesn't work well on Android either. Utox crashes randomly on Linux. Qtox has no way to disable notification on Linux.
3. Whatsapp - You always need your phone android
4. Signal - Message syncs is very slow if you switch between desktop/phone often.
I've reported these issues to all these projects but it's been a long time and nothing resolved so far.
The situation is still pathetic. What do you recommend?",,xstartup,161,1522747369,2018-04-03 09:22:49+00:00,story,16743055,,193.0,, 1831,"Cheap, hackable e-reader?",,"I would like to buy a cheap e-reader where I can replace the software with my own (or at least be able to write my own software that I can launch and stay in, with minimal UI chrome around it). Preferably about $50 or under. I would like to have a touch screen or to be able to use most of the buttons.
What are some good options for this?",,0942v8653,161,1489443680,2017-03-13 22:21:20+00:00,story,13863046,,57.0,, 1832,What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?,,I do not belong to USA or UK. I am a software engineer with a Bachelor's degree in computer science. But I would like to do a distance learning program to earn an additional bachelor's or master's degree in math or physics or another related topic to satisfy my eagerness to learn more.
I would like a distance learning degree from a UK or European University because they are cheaper than American ones. Any suggestions of degree programs and universities?,,polyphonicist,161,1582559190,2020-02-24 15:46:30+00:00,story,22404989,,66.0,, 1833,How do you manage multiple learning projects?,,"Hey all and happy Sunday,
I have a lot of learning projects in the pipeline, and selected three for this season (3-6 months.) I don’t aim to master them; I just want to have a good (non-superficial) understanding of the overall picture, and to be moderately proficient in applying the principles/tools.
For background, the projects are art (moderately skilled), data science (only interested in foundation/background level) and reading (practise covering as much as possible, without sacrificing thoughtfulness.) There is also a new language but I’m keeping that very light (radio and penpal exchanges only.)
Even though they are meant to be recreational, and I have learning strategies for each of them, I sometimes struggle to juggle between them. I also have other commitments (I would say the ratio of commitment:recreational is 60:40). It’s a bit frustrating and I feel that it’s more of a personal flaw, as I know that many others have even less recreational time, yet successfully diligent with their learning projects. (I don’t beat myself too much though, haha)
So, I am interested to hear about your learning projects, how you manage them without losing your sanity, and how you maximise short time periods. Plus your own tips for learning. Thanks :)",,jansho,161,1509889171,2017-11-05 13:39:31+00:00,story,15629309,,78.0,, 1834,Why is software quality always decreasing?,,"I have worked in tech for about 14 years at companies big and small. I've worked in startups, big tech, consultancies, and I've been a freelancer. The one thing that's been pretty consistent is excessive technical complexity (aka tech debt). Probably < 10% of codebases I've seen used proper abstractions and commonly accepted software engineering best practices. The exceptions to this are newer codebases (< ~3 years old), smaller codebases (< ~10,000 LOC), and smaller development teams (< 10 contributors).
I've pondered this problem quite a bit. I initially perceived it as the result of engineers compromising in the face of business pressure or engineers making mistakes due to lack of experience or foresight. But as I've become more experienced (and worked as a manager), it seems like a tech business problem. Tech businesses face undesirable situations that result in low quality code as a side effect. Examples include critical employee departures, hyper growth, critical customer demands, and even changes in government regulatory requirements.
Can this be avoided for codebases that are old and large? Does anyone know of examples of codebases (public or private) that have maintained a high quality codebase that is large, old, or supported by a large number of contributors? If so, how is it done?",,timhrothgar,161,1641930547,2022-01-11 19:49:07+00:00,story,29896815,,159.0,, 1835,Thinking of moving to Europe from USA,,"Not sure where to begin I am a US Citizen not a felon but wondering what I can do or the process to get started in moving to Europe?
what's it like out there comparing to America. I want a new life fresh start new faces.
I have family in Europe I don't have a degree or anything yet. I know some programming but I plan to live with an aunt out there. No kids no job 26 years of age",,alexhakawy,161,1483188739,2016-12-31 12:52:19+00:00,story,13290818,,226.0,, 1836,Who's Hiring?,,"I noticed a few threads with people saying that their company is hiring and it's been about a month since the last one of these (so I'm sure needs have changed).
As a reminder, please include the location if you would need employees to work on-site.",,mrduncan,161,1272644423,2010-04-30 16:20:23+00:00,story,1308582,,169.0,, 1837,What is the best way to spend my time as a 17-year-old who can code?,,"I'm 17 and I can code at a relatively high level. I'm not really sure what I should be doing. I would like to make some money, but is it more useful to me to contribute to open-source software to add to my portfolio or to find people who will hire me? Even most internships require you to be enrolled as a CS major at a college. I've also tried things like Upwork, but generally people aren't willing to hire a 17-year-old and the pay is very bad. Thanks for any advice!
My GitHub is: https://github.com/meyer9",,jmeyer2k,161,1506226528,2017-09-24 04:15:28+00:00,story,15323267,,180.0,, 1838,Computer science for the self taught programmer,,"Can you list the essential readings for a self taught programmer - I'm guessing this will include things like Big O, and recursive functions, etc.",,andys627,160,1333300684,2012-04-01 17:18:04+00:00,story,3784294,,36.0,, 1839,How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?,,"I'm using Github, Dropbox and iCloud, but this makes me nervous about my data's privacy and longevity for a number of reasons. Among the three services, I have ~700GB of data.
But I got to thinking, aren't USB thumb sticks reliable and big enough nowadays to fit this much data? I could just buy two 512GB sticks and use rsync to backup to them a few times per week. This way I wouldn't have to lug around an awkward hard drive if I'm ever traveling.
What strategy do you use to keep your data safe and private for the long term? Do you have a portable solution, or do you recommend something else?",,sbjs,160,1532454339,2018-07-24 17:45:39+00:00,story,17603348,,107.0,, 1840,Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve,,"Is there a line of research that looks into solving difficult / intractable problems by finding a mapping that expresses them as different problems that we know how to solve?
A fairly surreal and probably overly optimistic example would be, for example, to solve traveling salesman problems using chess engines. What we would need is to find right mappings: (1) from a traveling salesman problem to a chess position and, (2) from a traveling salesman route to a chess move (or move sequence)
A general solution for a "compiler" that can translate between any pair of problems feels unrealistic but I can imagine developing a mapping between, say, a tic tac toe game and simple chess positions where you could: (1) translate a tic tac toe position into a chess position (2) solve the chess position (3) translate the solution into a tic tac toe sequence
Any thoughts or pointers to relevant research would be much appreciated!",,piotrgrudzien,160,1642416533,2022-01-17 10:48:53+00:00,story,29965282,,76.0,, 1841,What's Your CI/CD Workflow for Your Machine Learning Projects?,,"We are working on an ML project (Computer Vision specifically) and we are in the process of productionizing our models. What kind of tools do you use and what's your workflow for integrating, testing and deploying your models? Do you have any suggestions or tips about what to do and what to avoid?",,swyea,160,1520332061,2018-03-06 10:27:41+00:00,story,16528009,,30.0,, 1842,Fastest way to get started with freelancing?,,"Other than upwork, are there other sites that I can get started with? I don't have any contacts or a great portfolio (all my projects are corporate, behind logins) to show off. This is for some quick cash, so I am not looking for some anything great",,justaguyhere,160,1546658606,2019-01-05 03:23:26+00:00,story,18829691,,48.0,, 1843,Books for Effective Communication,,Being very good at writing and speaking are very valuable skills that come in handy in all situations in life.
What books have you read or want to recommend to enhance these skills?
Any specific book that changed how you articulate your ideas and thoughts?,,2bor-2n,160,1622923973,2021-06-05 20:12:53+00:00,story,27408120,,54.0,, 1844,How would you implement a verifiable open-source web application?,,"Wasn't really sure how to make the title descriptive enough without putting the full question there.
Anyway, I have been toying with the idea of creating an open-source web application. Open-source in the way that I would host the product on my own servers but the full source code, except, of course, authentication info, tokens and things which shouldn't be under source control anyway, would be available on Github. Anyone would also be able to set up a self-hosted version of the product, and if anyone wanted to contribute, I would accept pull requests, etc.
The idea behind that was that, since it would be targeted mostly at a tech-savy crowd and deals with personal information, I would like to introduce some level of trust that I'm not doing anything sneaky or unexpected behind the scenes (like storing information I shouldn't be).
So basically I started wondering if it is possible to implement a way people could verify that the same code they see on the Github repo is the code that's also running on the live hosted site? I will be working with node.js, but I don't think the tech stack is too relevant here.
The client-side part, as I imagined it, would be relatively trivial to verify - run the build part locally, compare fingerprint of the live code and the local version.
But my idea got stuck on the server side. Since there, even if I would make a server side endpoint that returns the fingerprint of the live code, there is no way for someone to check what is actually going on, I could just as well return a static file with a hardcoded fingerprint.
I'm sure someone has dealt with or thought about similar problems before, and I would be happy to hear some insights. Feels like this might be a pipe dream, but at least some level of verification would be nice to achieve.",,gvido,160,1426768111,2015-03-19 12:28:31+00:00,story,9231386,,83.0,, 1845,What are your profitable side projects?,,,,jiblyyyy,160,1485697637,2017-01-29 13:47:17+00:00,story,13514093,,130.0,, 1846,Is it safe to use Facebook's open source projects?,,"There is a PATENTS file in almost all Facebook's open source projects with statements on "Additional Grant of Patent Rights".
E.g., React (https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS)
Why Facebook adds this declaration on top of the BSD license of the software? Is it safe to use those projects in my commercial project?",,kfei,160,1424945228,2015-02-26 10:07:08+00:00,story,9111849,,54.0,, 1847,"Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?",,"It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue.",,tagabek,160,1386716861,2013-12-10 23:07:41+00:00,story,6884552,,163.0,, 1848,Has anyone curated a list of hidden interview questions?,,"For example Uber in-app hacking challenge https://danonrockstar.com/uber-hacking-challenge-decf3276207a
Googles foo https://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed-me-a-job
I remember finding a really cool one all over network requests at one time but can't remember the company. What are other great hidden interview processes?",,Neablis,160,1551208284,2019-02-26 19:11:24+00:00,story,19257350,,43.0,, 1849,Did your life as a parent affected your life as a developer?,,"I have a full time job as full stack developer, wife and 2 kids. I commute every day 1 hour in each direction. On a work day I woke up at 5:30 am, wash, dress and jump in a car at 6:00 am, so that I can be at work at 7:00 am. I usually go home at 3:00 pm and if there is no traffic jam I am at home at 4:00 pm. I eat something, change clothes, clock says 5 pm and I try to spend some quality time with my wife and kids. Kids go to bed at 8 pm and at 9 pm I am exhausted as hell, and I fell to bed. And this repeats every work week.
On weekends I barely have time for my side projects (one is familyokjobs.com, which I created over several weekends when wife and kids were sleeping), because there is always something to do around the house. What I'm trying to say: where do you take time for your side projects or studying new technologies?",,johngorse,159,1493930032,2017-05-04 20:33:52+00:00,story,14268528,,130.0,, 1850,Is anyone else genuinely scared that this is the start of WW3?,,"Russia has invaded Ukraine, and four days on I feel powerless to both do anything (in a country that is neither of those two!) and to look away from the news and social media coverage of it. It's an abhorrent waste of human life.
News and reports today of Russian ICBMs and other nuclear forces being placed on high alert (and moved further towards the west of the country) [1] frankly scares me. While some observers think that this is "overplaying" his hand [2] I know that all of this is deeply concerning. The world does _not_ need another cuban missile crisis; it also does _not_ need to vanish in a pile of radioactive smoke.
I live in Europe. My father sent me a message to essentially ask if I'd had a thought about where my nearest "shelter" would be -- and I had. My partner's family have too. It feels awful, but I can't concentrate effectively -- I'm glued to the news and I need to put it down, convince myself that the world won't end tomorrow, and get back to work.
Am I the only person affected similarly by events? How else have you been coping with it all?
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin-puts-russia-nuclear-deterrence-forces-on-high-alert-ukraine
[2] https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/02/25/is-putin-overplaying-his-hand-by-moving-icbms-into-western-russia/",,azalemeth,159,1645995888,2022-02-27 21:04:48+00:00,story,30492487,,347.0,, 1851,How does one create a fake identity?,,"I imagine it depends on how this identity is to be used, and what sorts of scrutiny it must hold up to, so detailed information on the topic would be much appreciated.",,filliamhmuffman,159,1373217278,2013-07-07 17:14:38+00:00,story,6002595,,110.0,, 1852,How come there is no example code for B2B-SaaS apps?,,"I'm truly baffled! There are probably 1000s of consumer (B2C) SaaaS example and OSS apps in virtually all languages. But there is virtually ZERO examples or OSS projects that talk about B2B multi-tenant apps! The worst part is that even companies like Google Cloud don't provide an example.
What I'm looking for is: A SaaS app that allows people to create tenants (companies), and allows admin of the tenant to login and manage group of users, keep track of billing for each tenant, have super-admin who can access any tenant. But the rest of the app code is shared across the tenants. I'm looking for code that's either in Java or JavaScript(NodeJS). Are you in the same boat as me? If not, could you please point me to something? I really appreciate that!",,node-bayarea,159,1588453404,2020-05-02 21:03:24+00:00,story,23054881,,90.0,, 1853,What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?,,"I'm approaching my 30s, and I thought I could draw on the wisdom and experience of the HN community, particularly those of you who are 40+ years old.
Thanks.",,yamrzou,159,1648067764,2022-03-23 20:36:04+00:00,story,30782994,,275.0,, 1854,Does being practical act as a hinderance to one’s imagination?,,"I'm asking this from the context of ideas & solutions, I'm facing this sort of struggle that I'm unable to find solution that is completely outrageous. I feel that my level-headedness could be one of the factors for my failure to come up with some out-of-the-box thinking.
HN, am I valid in this assumption or completely stupid?",,itsmefaz,159,1573910246,2019-11-16 13:17:26+00:00,story,21552491,,78.0,, 1855,"What Is the Google 'Software Engineer, Machine Learning' Interview Like?",,"Is it any different from the normal SE interview ? Also how is that role different from normal SE, if at all ?",,neuralFatigue,159,1491493093,2017-04-06 15:38:13+00:00,story,14051529,,82.0,, 1856,"Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs?",,"I've worked at my current company since my college internship in 2012, and have not sought a new gig in all of that time. The company was a travel tech startup that I joined as an early employee, and it was acquired a few years ago. The app is still active and supported, but it feels time to start exploring what else is out there.
In case it matters, my background is largely in various QA and product roles, most recently transitioning from project management to product management.
Are the traditional places like Linkedin and Indeed the best places to upload resumes, update skills, etc.? Do I need to fully dive into the job-hunting waters and network with recruiters to get a good idea of where I "stack" so to speak?",,brayhite,159,1638278516,2021-11-30 13:21:56+00:00,story,29391785,,136.0,, 1857,Who wants to be hired? (April 2021),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
They seem to be interested in launching it under their own brand, so I think a simple investment is out of the picture. I think it’s going to go down as an acquihire of some sort. We are moving into the more detailed stage of a technical due diligence type discussion, and we're not sure to what extent we should allow that exploratory effort go. We don't really mind talking about our infrastructure and business aspects, but is it considered acceptable to let them explore the code in great detail? Again, it's a very big and reputable company, so I don't know if we should be so paranoid as to make them walk away.
Should we have in place a more specific NDA or a letter of intent of some kind? We are open to doing a joint venture or even an outright acquisition as they have the right resources to take our product very big very fast.
Any tips or suggestions?",,throwaway__x,159,1412624862,2014-10-06 19:47:42+00:00,story,8417825,,81.0,, 1859,Which successful startups were rejected by YC?,,And if the founders or anyone in the YC jury read this: what was the reason?,,mrborgen,159,1457191416,2016-03-05 15:23:36+00:00,story,11229700,,60.0,, 1860,Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?,,"It seems to me that journalists and activists could benefit from software that could help track networks, timelines, etc., and organize unstructured data the way an intelligence analyst would. Anything like that out there?",,ljw1001,159,1485405745,2017-01-26 04:42:25+00:00,story,13488795,,45.0,, 1861,Anyone doing business using Estonian e-residency?,,Do you think it's a viable solution for doing online business? How is that working out for you in general?,,Crazyontap,158,1546109795,2018-12-29 18:56:35+00:00,story,18785112,,71.0,, 1862,How do you overcome decision fatigue in software development?,,"Name any kind of project in nearly any domain, and you can choose from a dizzying array of possible language choices and tech-stacks. The modern state of software development in nearly any mature ecosystem, and many even that aren't so mature, allows for building just about anything on any platform. Want to build a web app, but don't like javascript? There are so many options in languages that compile to JS, as well as languages with front-end WASM frameworks. Want to write a websocket server? Nearly any language can do that now too. Want to store your data? Phew don't get me started on the infinite ways to do that one, with or without a database, with or without a server... it just seems overwhelming, in part because software development is very time-consuming. You don't want to spend all the time on the inferior choice or the choice that will bite you later and trigger a rewrite and decision fatigue all over again. Or so the psychology seems to go. How do you deal with it?",,jb1991,158,1597575160,2020-08-16 10:52:40+00:00,story,24176774,,120.0,, 1863,How can a non-techie mom regain access to her FB account?,,"I’m a mom of two young daughters and I have used my Facebook account mostly for work, and to communicate with my family, some of whom are now deceased. I have never pushed or broken Facebook’s rules or uploaded obscene images.
On Monday my account was suspended because someone broke into my account and uploaded prohibited images and then also used my associated bank card to make a fraudulent purchase of £200.
I had 2FA enabled so I have no idea how someone managed to access my account. I am not a techie.
My bank has refunded the £200.
Facebook won’t even tell me what I am supposed to have done nor will they unsuspend my account.
The most I have got is that 27 of my posts go against the community standards on nudity or sexual activity - which is nonsense because I am just a mom using FB to connect with family and friends. I am not a porn star and I don’t upload such images.
I am so upset because I have so many memories on the account with my Grandma and Grandad (both deceased), photos and videos of my two young daughters growing up, as well as many others.
I sent my ID to FB and have not heard anything more. I feel scared that I have sent my ID to someone that has somehow hacked my account, used my bank card, and now knows more about me than before.
I feel violated because of this and now Facebook won’t even listen to me.
I am sure that a human at Facebook would be able to look and see that I didn’t do this. If they checked the IP addresses used if they just used common sense to see what has happened.
Please, I am desperate, does anyone have any advice on what I can do next?",,lsjfd,158,1639996737,2021-12-20 10:38:57+00:00,story,29623254,,105.0,, 1864, Who is Hiring?,,"It has been a few months since one of these got attention.
Let's try and preface each submission with city or country info, ie SF, NYC, etc.",,mschaecher,158,1276772919,2010-06-17 11:08:39+00:00,story,1438505,,174.0,, 1865,Best Startup City - Outside the USA?,,"I know the recommendation is that your startup should locate in the Bay Area or another startup hub for the best access to resources and networking.
But for many people, the US is not an option. These days you can't necessarily easily get a visa, especially if you're a young startup.
So, the question is, what location is the most like SF in all the ways that are beneficial for starting a startup but outside the USA?
We're a two person team. Founders have been together for a decade. One is engineer with deep experience, other is marketing and design expert. We're already slightly successful with our first product that has pointed the way to the Big Product for us.
We can relocate just about anywhere in the world, except the USA. Our passports will allow us to visit most countries without a visa and we should have little trouble getting work/residency visas in countries that welcome entrepreneurs.
So, where's the silicon valley besides silicon valley?
We've thought about: Toronto- seems to have a very strong startup scene, but this is just an impression.
Bratislava- Near vienna, but relatively low cost. Seems to be growing in leaps and bounds and has a well educated populace. Environment of low regulation and capitalism, so this could be the startup hub of the next decade. Might not be that now.
Big Cities in Asia- There are a number of candidates here, from Manila to Bangkok. Seems the creation of a middle class has unleashed a wave of creativity and desire to create internet startups amongst the youth in asia. Hong Kong is an obvious possibility.
But these are just impressions. We'd like to find a place where there is the possibility of having relatively low costs, since the access to venture capital will not be the same as it would be if we were in the Bay Area.
But access to talent, and more importantly, a startup culture seems like it would be really valuable.
But where can you find this best outside the US?",,lzw,158,1280675845,2010-08-01 15:17:25+00:00,story,1565375,,283.0,, 1866,Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off the ground?,,"A lot of mixergy interviewers say that in the early days they've done things that would be considered unethical in order to get their sites off the ground.
A good example of this would be Facebook, which has done a ton of things early on.
So have you yourself(or the company you worked for) done anything that would be considered unethical to get the business off the ground?(if you are worried about your reputation just use a throwaway account)
This may involve:
- spamming comments to get links/users
- creating a ton of pages with keywords to get long tail google traffic
- scraping other's websites to fill your DB
- putting up an order page when your site wasn't ready
- putting up 235 users online when you only had one
- pretending to be bigger than you were
- voting up your own submission on HN/Digg/Reddit
- creating a fake back story to make your startup interesting(we just want to save the world, we don't care about money)
- astroturfing your site with fake accounts
- sending fake numbers to get coverage(i.e. traffic, revenue, profit)
- buying an email list to spam people
- promising unrealistic delivery dates
- using the user's email address to spam their address book
- pretending the site has users when it doesn't(this hottie is 5 miles away from you, register to contact her)
- etc.",,vaksel,158,1281385660,2010-08-09 20:27:40+00:00,story,1589257,,122.0,, 1867,"Programmers Above 50, Is It Possible to Have a Career Past Your 50s?",,"This article is on the frontpage so this might be a bit redundant but this article points to a worrying reality that we young programmers don't want to confront.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/04/
Many people just dismiss the issue by saying , "If you don't stay with the times then you deserve to be fired" but if MIT Grads , who are in the 99th percentile of ability and pedigree are in such a bad situation then one can only imagine how bad it is on the ground.
So , I'd like people who've been in this field for decades or those who are above 50 to share their advice and experiences.",,thewarrior,158,1430910116,2015-05-06 11:01:56+00:00,story,9497721,,133.0,, 1868,Why does Google put the query in the URL hash instead of query string?,,"Search for something on Google, and the URL will look something like this:
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=some_long_string&gws_rd=ssl#q=something
The search query is the `#q=something` part of the URL, whereas other parameters are stored in the URL via the query string (the part between `?` and `#`). Why is that? Why isn’t the search query stored in the query string? Why in the hash?",,SimeVidas,158,1483942094,2017-01-09 06:08:14+00:00,story,13354368,,66.0,, 1869,Which TypeScript codebase should I study to get better?,,I've been doing TypeScript professionally for the last 8 months or so and I would like to push further my knowledge of the language by reading well documented and high profile app or packages. Any suggestions ?,,nblavoie,158,1510236142,2017-11-09 14:02:22+00:00,story,15662394,,73.0,, 1870,How to get out of Tech and still make a decent living?,,"I've been working as software engineer for over 15 years. I feel burned out and have no interest left in this field where learning new things just keeps you at the same place in life. And no respect for experience, unless you demonstrate on a whiteboard with your implementation of a sorted bubble tree list.
My question is, how to successfully get out of tech and still make decent living ($100k+). Has anyone tried small business that worked out for you?",,byebyetech,158,1471153325,2016-08-14 05:42:05+00:00,story,12284410,,101.0,, 1871,Assistive Devices for recently quadriplegic dad,,"In a most unfortunate incident, my dad slipped in our house and received a severe spinal cord injury (c5 to c7). This has rendered him quadriplegic. He is currently stable and is in in-house rehab. He was very active and was a part time professor. He also had a one or two consulting assignments.
He would like to use his laptop/ipad/phone. After some research I found some companies like TeclaShield that sell switches/ bluetooth interfaces and such.
Does anyone have any experience in this area? Your help or advice will be really appreciated.",,throwawaysci,158,1498055276,2017-06-21 14:27:56+00:00,story,14604071,,35.0,, 1872,"What successful startups started as ""Show HN""?",,"I thought pulling together a list of startups who've done this would be interesting, to explore and perhaps better document the influence of HN on the startup community. We'll count both stand-alone startups who used Show HN in their launch / iterating strategy and side projects that have evolved into stand-alone startups, for the sake of discussion.
Also, if your startup has gone through this: how do you feel using Show HN as a means of launching / gathering feedback my have helped or hurt your product?",,sbisker,158,1327885891,2012-01-30 01:11:31+00:00,story,3526993,,39.0,, 1873,How are you building cross-platform (mobile and browser) apps?,,"I've been developing web apps for 5+ years and in my next project I've been tasked with building a mobile (iOS and Android) app that we can also run as a web app. I would obviously like to try keep a single code base for simplicity as we have limited resources. I've investigated writing a PWA but I'm put off by the arbritrary heuristics that Google are placing on whether or not the apps are presented as "installable".
After that, it seems the only options are Ionic, or React Native + separate web app.
What is your experience writing apps for both mobile and browser?",,aosaigh,158,1526896562,2018-05-21 09:56:02+00:00,story,17117243,,82.0,, 1874,How do you cope with loneliness?,,"Even in a CS class (in this part of the world anyway), not so many people might be as interested in coding as you are. It's therefore you and your laptop mostly, with the effect that you lag behind in developing social skills (I sometimes feel like an 8 year old among teenagers). The loneliness even saps my programming energy. Does anyone else experience the same, and how do you cope with it, including bringing yourself to interacting with members of the opposite sex?
EDIT: Not suicidal or anything like that. Just want to hear you opinions.",,krmboya,158,1292069005,2010-12-11 12:03:25+00:00,story,1994671,,77.0,, 1875,Why isn't the GitHub attack being covered by the news?,,Why is this not in the mainstream news? Even if it's not the Chinese government directly it's a group with significant power inside China -- so why isn't this being considered a foreign attack on a US company?,,blamarvt,158,1427634759,2015-03-29 13:12:39+00:00,story,9284688,,95.0,, 1876,Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?,,"Hi HN,
I've been thinking about starting a blog / news site covering topics like privacy, cryptography, robotics, software etc, with a critical view on their evolution and potential effects on society at large.
Ideally it would be made of long form, researched, in depth articles and interviews with experts in those fields.
I'd also like to feature regular "hackers" doing cool stuff (like the guy who traveled to shenzhen to build his own iPhone)
What do you think of this idea ? Would you be interested in reading such a site if it existed ?",,zabana,158,1493562347,2017-04-30 14:25:47+00:00,story,14231642,,76.0,, 1877,Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition),,"Please lead with the positions' locations.
--edit-- And make it clear if working remotely is a possibility! (thanks cperciva)",,bgentry,157,1288592236,2010-11-01 06:17:16+00:00,story,1855569,,127.0,, 1878,Starting over after business failure,,"I'm a little burnt out after my business failed after 4 years of hard graft. I'm looking for a new online opportunity but feel as if I've run out of ideas, problems and general creativity.
I'm not sure how to start again. Any advice?",,throes_death,157,1584336481,2020-03-16 05:28:01+00:00,story,22590265,,61.0,, 1879,Why is there no good open-source LMS?,,"I want to start a teaching business. I'm struggling to find good open-source software on which I can start building my platform. The state-of-the-art seems to be Moodle or Canvas which are designed for universities - they use archaic UI and features.
Is there something where I can host an online course, also have live classes and perhaps add on features like a community for students, assignments, etc? The only options I am seeing are things like Kajabi and Teachable which are very restrictive in their feature set, and not customizable.
Anyone running an edtech company here? What do you use? Or do you build everything custom?",,seestraw,157,1637315232,2021-11-19 09:47:12+00:00,story,29275470,,159.0,, 1880,How to raise a seed round for people with no elite connections?,,How can someone with a product but no elite connections or degree raise a seed round ?,,srameshc,157,1532639369,2018-07-26 21:09:29+00:00,story,17621152,,63.0,, 1881,How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?,,"This is a recurring theme on HN, so I think you all have very good opinions on this topic: why does modern software seem so unpolished, slow, bloated, unprofessional?
Let me provide a (frustrating) example: the last straw for me has been OneDrive. I am using it to select and share photos from my wedding. It is an app written by one of the largest and most ancient software companies in history, so they should know something about making apps. And still:
1) The directory list view keeps "losing" the position at which I am, so every time I share a photo, I have to scroll down to where I left (in a directory with 5000 pictures).
2) If I screenshare using the Google Cast functionality, after a few dozens photos it loses the signal and I have to wait a few minutes before reconnecting. The entire app becomes extremely slow in the meantime.
3) The app in general is inconceivably slow. What is taking so long? I am viewing the same directory for 2 hours, why is it still so slow to load?
So at this point I am struggling to understand: how comes such an app got released? Are the incentives given to developers so at odd with app quality?",,etamponi,157,1643707207,2022-02-01 09:20:07+00:00,story,30160282,,242.0,, 1882,What documentaries are worth watching?,,"I'd really like to know, which documentaries truly provide insight into what they are documenting, and what sort of documentaries other hackers out there watch.",,chunky1994,157,1309097924,2011-06-26 14:18:44+00:00,story,2698026,,151.0,, 1883,What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?,,,,networked,157,1443608780,2015-09-30 10:26:20+00:00,story,10302879,,207.0,, 1884,What API do you wish you had while building your product?,,,,afinemonkey,157,1499624384,2017-07-09 18:19:44+00:00,story,14730958,,141.0,, 1885,Alternatives to Yubikey?,,"I haven't had a good experiencing with Yubikey's support and sales team and I'm looking for an alternative.
What other keys are people actively using?
I'm interested in something with equivalent features to the Yubikey 4 (NFC not required, U2F mandatory).",,eekthecat,157,1497275122,2017-06-12 13:45:22+00:00,story,14537299,,86.0,, 1886,Who isn't in the software industry/not a hacker?,,"I work as an Associate in the commercial real estate industry and wonder how many others like me are out there on HN. Is there a community here like me who have an interest in technology and entrepreneurship but aren't hackers?
I love this site because: A) I get news on average 2-3 days before it makes it's way through the news cycle. B) Technology interests me and I can see what new tech could benefit my industry C) I am a wantrepreneur and like reading about startups, hopefully wanting to start one someday.
Why are you here and what do you get out of the community?",,graham1776,157,1407526346,2014-08-08 19:32:26+00:00,story,8154625,,190.0,, 1887,Learning multiple languages vs. mastering one,,"Hi All. I am struggling to find/understand the best path to improve my knowledge/skills. I have a decent knowledge/experience in Java and now I am facing the dilemma either mastering Java or looking to other options to extend my programming language tool set mainly looking at: Javascript/Python/Scala/Kotlin/Elixir/Haskell/Swift.
I am interested in distributed system/data engineering and also in finding easily new well payed job. I know it's not possible to learning and master them all in a short time so I would like to pick 2. What I am struggling the most is how well to evaluate the language and get the best from it. Each time I pick one I end up giving up after 2 weeks as I always go back to Java.
The way I evaluate is simply by going to project euler and go through the problems from 1 to 20 then I don't know the next step to take from there. I find myself going through the crazy articles comparing languages and lose focus and give up.
Would be appreciated if you can share how you manage to focus on learning a new language or if it's worth at all learning/moving to a new language.
Update: forgotten also to ask what language do you advice and in 1/2 sentences why. thank you",,trtobe,157,1527063637,2018-05-23 08:20:37+00:00,story,17132256,,131.0,, 1888,How Many of You Are Like Me?,,"I've ready every HN post for the past few years, but have only commented on less than 10. This is also my first submission. I've learned more from the community than I did during my $100,000 MBA from the University of Chicago.
So the question is? How many of you soak up all this knowledge like it's nicotine but don't comment much or post at all?
I suppose if you're really like me, you actually won't comment on this thread at all, LOL. It's a paradoxical enigma, or something like that...",,seanMeverett,156,1297633556,2011-02-13 21:45:56+00:00,story,2214051,,133.0,, 1889,Why are big companies so much less efficient?,,"I've worked on companies big and small (relativley; smallest was around 400 people, though engineering was closer to 160-200). One thing that has struck me is that, in my opinion, smaller companies seem to get much more done per engineer than bigger ones. I'm curious-- has everyone else has seen this too? In your opinion and experience, why do you think this is?
Is this the overhead of decision-making (one person or the engineer deciding vs a chain of command)? Is it that people are just more motivated when they're the underdog? Is it that the inherent size and complexity of a codebase grows exponentially as people grow linearly with time? Is it that some products seem to be "done", and changes are iterative and pedantic, not risky and exciting? All of the above? Maybe even some more?
I'd love to hear your stories and thoughts!",,aylmao,156,1525109233,2018-04-30 17:27:13+00:00,story,16960479,,108.0,, 1890,Is TDD/BDD hampering your startup's agility?,,"I'm a fairly big fan of agile software development, but at the risk of being deemed an agile heathen, I'm beginning to doubt the benefits of test-driven development (and BDD) for a lean startup. Developer friends drinking the agile kool-aid swear by BDD. In theory, it's great--saves you time by identifying bugs at lower-levels and guarantees that everything works.
In practice though, I find myself spending a disproportianate time writing and getting test cases to pass compared to just writing good code and testing in a browser.
- For functionality that I know works, I sometimes have a difficult time writing and passing tests especially when the functionality is unique (e.g. Facebook login?).
- When we pivot or iterate, it seems we always spend a lot of time finding and deleting test cases related to old functionality (disincentive on iterating/pivoting, software is less flexible).
- Test cases (namely Rspec) are just plain slow to run (seconds staring at a screen before getting positive or negative feedback).
- There always seems to be about 3-5x as much code for a feature's respective set of tests as the actual feature (just takes a lot of damn time to write that much code).
- Most of the code in a lean startup are hypotheses that will be tested by the market, and possibly thrown out (even harder to rewrite test cases with slightly different requirements over writing from the beginning).
- Refactoring breaks a lot of test cases (mostly with renaming variables).
I do think TDD is great for client work, but for lean startups, I'm not so sure.
For a startup that is iterating very frequently and trying to reach a product-market fit, I find TDD to be harmful and actually impede agility. Speed trumps reliability here.
Like security (budget vs security) are speed and reliability 2 points of a continuum? Where is your slider as a lean startup?",,bdclimber14,156,1298165171,2011-02-20 01:26:11+00:00,story,2240595,,122.0,, 1891,How do you handle long-running workflows at your company?,,"The canonical answer to this question apparently used to be ESBs, but the rise of the microservice paradigm eventually pushed them to decline and left a void I'm not sure how is currently filled.
HN, how do you handle your days-long sequences of business steps?
Some seed questions:
* Is your system more P2P or orchestrated?
* Do you leverage some existing tools or built your own?
* Are you confident in your monitoring of errored workflows?
* How do you retry errored workflows?
* If your system if more P2P, how do you keep a holistic view of what's happening? Can you be certain that you don't have any circular event chains?",,superzamp,156,1526299700,2018-05-14 12:08:20+00:00,story,17064730,,79.0,, 1892,Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019?,,What are your favorite nonfiction books of 2019 (Read in 2019),,koevet,156,1576356766,2019-12-14 20:52:46+00:00,story,21792158,,71.0,, 1893,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,156,1475506897,2016-10-03 15:01:37+00:00,story,12627853,,197.0,, 1894,Is HN slow today?,,"What's normally the snappiest site on the web has been consistently taking ~5 seconds for each page load today. Extra traffic due to Slack being down, perhaps?",,brundolf,156,1609782654,2021-01-04 17:50:54+00:00,story,25635115,,76.0,, 1895,I lost my job,,"About a week ago I was laid off. In 15+ years I am working as developer, I was never considered for a layoff. I am soul searching for a week now, and finally I got over my anger, disappointment and anxiety and ready to move on.
I believe it was nothing to do with my performance of skills as a developer. I believe I was expected to perform as a leader on top of solving problems, writing applications and my lack of leadership skills made me not worth my paycheck. In retrospect, higher ups did mention in passing about an year ago about how I need to speak up in meetings etc.
I think I don't know how to be a leader at a workplace.
So I come here being humbled. If you are a leader/team leader/c-suite people/managers please enlighten me. Or point me towards videos, books, ted talks, internet articles. I want to learn and be a better person and also don't want to repeat the mistakes in a new job.",,uvw,156,1585703363,2020-04-01 01:09:23+00:00,story,22744644,,126.0,, 1896,What websites do you visit every day?,,"I've only recently discovered HN and absolutely love the community. I stumbled across it from a comment over on Ars Technica and it got me thinking: what other sites may I be missing out on?
People on here and Ars resonate with me, so I figure ask and see if there are others that might interest to me or other members of the community.
I'll start. I religiously check these sites, in this order, maybe 4-5 times a day:
1. Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au)
2. news.com.au
3. Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
4. Hacker News (here)
5. Politico (politico.com)
6. Fox News (foxnews.com)",,global-citizen,156,1613740788,2021-02-19 13:19:48+00:00,story,26192817,,133.0,, 1897,My Startup is Going to Die Because I Messed Up,,"I'm 24. I started a company 7 months ago, planning to bootstrap it with $5,000 borrowed from family.
We started working hard at creating our brand. Logos, webdesign, website copy, flyers, and SEO. We divided our time equally between these tasks and selling the product. We were headed to profitability in short order.
I quickly learned my cofounder was over his head in personal debt, and could no longer work full time. Some of our borrowed money went to him to try to keep him around for a couple of extra months ($1,200). It didn't work and he had to get a job.
We've been floundering back and forth, spent the majority of our money, I invested another $1,000 to help us make one more sales surge to allow us to dedicate more time. We planned to see if this startup would work, setting a sales and spending goal in under 60 days. Success and we continue, failure and we cut our losses.
We planned to make it happen starting next week.
Friday afternoon I got a call from a business owner in another state, telling me that our business name infringes on his trademark for his business name. Our name would be mycompanyname to his companyname. We had only checked and seen that companyname.com didn't exist, we did not check the trademark database.
At this point, discouraged, unable to afford new marketing materials and a complete redo of everything we've done so far, we're left with little money and a threat of a lawsuit if we don't change everything.
Here are the mistakes that I made, and will learn from:
1) Learn about the financial position of any cofounder. A cofounder's personal situation will hugely impact his/her ability to grow the business.
2) Investigate any trademarks or copyrights on any of your branding or naming. Wasting time in a bootstrapped business will ruin you.
3) Have a plan. Not just a mental plan, but an actual written plan. Decide what is required of the cofounders, decide where money will go, decide your failure point.
4) Be prepared to drop the project, or go it alone. Putting all of your eggs in a basket carried by your cofounder can lead to disaster if you aren't prepared to run with the project yourself.
What other lessons can I learn from this? Where can I improve so that my next project doesn't fail in similar fashion?
tldr: My business failed because I made mistakes in timing, my cofounder, and business branding. What else can I learn from my experience?
EDIT: After a few comments, and an e-mail, I should clarify that this is not necessarily a web-startup or app. It's a business targeting seniors (hence the flyers, which were placed in senior centers and used at senior health conferences). My cofounder came into the picture as the one with more experience working with the senior market. We had suppliers for our product, so our main focus was to sell, sell, sell. So, to add another lesson:
5) Cash in a small bootstrapped company should be spent on client acquisition. Not on whiteboards, office refrigerators, business cards, or flyers.",,calebhicks,156,1307289716,2011-06-05 16:01:56+00:00,story,2622238,,90.0,, 1898,How are some people exceptionally productive?,,"Some people seem superhumanly productive. For example Hadley Wickham (ggplot2), Taylor Otwell (Laravel) etc. They are creators as opposed to managers (who have the luxury of delegating and managing). How can they produce so much consistently, at such a high quality?
If you are a highly productive person (and yet have a good work-life balance), could you share your methods?",,vijayr,156,1438797217,2015-08-05 17:53:37+00:00,story,10011531,,132.0,, 1899,How much do you make at Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google/Microsoft?,,"There was a proper discussion on it about two years ago. Recently a similar thread was posted, but not to many response.
I do not work at any of the above. I work at a fintech company and make 80k + Bonus (Europe) with no equity (12 years experience, senior dev).",,4k,156,1515072662,2018-01-04 13:31:02+00:00,story,16070177,,149.0,, 1900,What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups? ,,"Here are a couple of mine:
- Vinod Khosla talks about the importance of team building, the startup life, and what it takes to be an entrepreneur. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5J7bd7nzmw
- Marc Andreesen talks about venture capitalist and the future of startups. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLNQZegq7KA
- Eric Ries gives a talk on his Lean Startup theory at Google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEvKo90qBns
- Harley Finkelstein CPO of Spotify gives a talk on unique marketing tactics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDOq5B4nTo",,compass-seeker,156,1398620813,2014-04-27 17:46:53+00:00,story,7656003,,60.0,, 1901,Who wants to be hired? (April 2019),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Which books and/or online resources would HN recommend for a person with a non-technical background?",,dpapathanasiou,156,1454777035,2016-02-06 16:43:55+00:00,story,11048409,,65.0,, 1903,What can I do to accelerate scientific research?,,"I love science & tech and how these improve lives. As a software engineer/entrepreneur, in the last years I thought of starting/contributing to some projects which scientists would find useful. Now I'm ready to work full time on this.
Ideas revolve around
* indexing all open research with free unlimited access, similar to arxiv-sanity.com but better; Other projects exist though: Google Scholar; semanticscholar.org, academic.microsoft.com, https://www.chanzuckerberg.com/science/projects-meta
* generative design
* bioengineering (not sure exactly what, eg microbiota simulator)
* materials simulator (eg how can we get a material having a given set of properties)
I don't need immediate financial returns, but I do need the work to be used & have an impact in real life projects.
What ideas do you have on how one can accelerate scientific research?",,mariushn,156,1560601022,2019-06-15 12:17:02+00:00,story,20189664,,171.0,, 1904,Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?,,I'm a guest host @ Software Engineering Daily & I want to cover tech stories from places which don't always get a lot of coverage.,,carlmungz,156,1494579033,2017-05-12 08:50:33+00:00,story,14322377,,119.0,, 1905,How do you document and keep tabs on your infrastructure as a sysadmin?,,I am wondering how do experienced sysadmin document and manage their infra.,,redsec,156,1520428444,2018-03-07 13:14:04+00:00,story,16536105,,65.0,, 1906,Did you start a company whilst employed?,,"I'd like to learn about entrepreneurs who successfully started companies whilst employed.
- What type of company did you start? - How did your employer take it when you left? - Where is the company at now? - And any helpful advice you could offer someone trying to do the same thing?",,GFuller,155,1402305571,2014-06-09 09:19:31+00:00,story,7867603,,107.0,, 1907,How are you preparing yourself for a recession?,,"We know the recession is going to happen sooner or later. Are you concerned about this effecting your profession. How are you preparing yourself personally, professionally and financially.",,samrohn,155,1583774854,2020-03-09 17:27:34+00:00,story,22527383,,147.0,, 1908,What’s a big trend we should all be following?,,"Inspired by a similar Reddit question here: https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/hc7vqb/whats_a_big_trend_right_now_we_should_all_be/
Curious what ya'll think is a major trend right now that we should be following and tracking, that might be big in 3-5-10 years.",,cl42,155,1592603254,2020-06-19 21:47:34+00:00,story,23579184,,302.0,, 1909,"I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?",,"I collect records. I rarely buy anything blindly by name or label; I like to discover new stuff by listening to it first. I usually do this by spending hours in grimy bins with a record player but I also found that sometimes Ebay sellers post sound clips of their records. Specifically, what I noticed is that sellers are more inclined to make the effort of posting a sound clip if the record is rare -- i.e. you can't find a clip elsewhere -- and the record sounds really interesting. It helps them make a sale.
So I made an Ebay API spider that gets all the sound clips and record release data. It's been running like a dream since 2007 and I currently have 89,830 sound clips of rare records (probably some dupes in there). I used to watch the feed all the time but I kept finding really cool records and was spending a lot of money! I got busy. I had a good test suite so anytime there was a Unicode error or some bug I patched it pretty quick.
I steadily accumulated a pretty amazing collection of sound clips seeded by these search terms: soul, funk, reggae, ska, country, breaks, disco, psych, afrobeat, jazz, rocksteady, garage, indie, library (as in library music), new wave, electronic, brazilian, and boogie.
I made a frontend for listening to clips all Ajaxy-like and got it working on mobile phones and major browsers. I was sort of happy with it but ran into some database bottlenecks and got busy again so I never launched it. It was too slow to be usable.
What should I do? I don't really have time or money to finish it out but I'd like people to use it to discover music. Since the clips are short and will link to music for purchase, either MP3 (if it exists) or original vinyl on Ebay/Discogs, there shouldn't be any copyright problems. It's fair use to promote music for sale with a clip.
You can comment here or reach me by email: kumar.mcmillan@gmail.com",,kumar303,155,1386048772,2013-12-03 05:32:52+00:00,story,6838757,,57.0,, 1910,How do you deal with social media pressure on your GitHub project?,,"Lately a number of open source projects has faced tremendous pressure from people coming from Twitter and Reddit to have issues resolved a certain way. Even when you agree with the social media crowd it seems wrong to let it direct your project's decisions though the sheer volume of its comments, especially so if many of the people commenting aren't involved with the project even as users.
From what I have seen so far I can deduce that the technical side of the problem is essentially this:
* Limiting the issues to only the contributors excludes the actual users along with the strangers and encourages the more angry strangers to spam you with duplicate issues.
* Allowing everyone to comment drowns out thoughtful discussion with "plus ones" and "thumbs up" icons, as well as purposefully uncivil comments.
* GitHub's moderation tools are too weak to moderate the individual comments.
When your project faces this pressure how do you act to ensure that meaningful discussion happens and decisions are made that are the best for your actual users and contributors in the long run?",,proveanegative,155,1436699424,2015-07-12 11:10:24+00:00,story,9873125,,75.0,, 1911,What are your best life hacks?,,"What are some of your best life hacks? Not just limited to tech, although it is pretty ripe for hacking. I'm interested in social interaction-based hacks, too.",,vail130,155,1299995845,2011-03-13 05:57:25+00:00,story,2318492,,183.0,, 1912,Did YC accept anyone without an idea this round?,,,,cedricd,155,1355085165,2012-12-09 20:32:45+00:00,story,4896009,,17.0,, 1913,Banned from adsense for simply logging in to another account,,"I had a google adsense account that was producing a nice amount of income for years. I logged in to another google account that didn't have an adsense account and suddenly I got an email that my adsense account was flagged as a duplicate and I was banned. I tried their "appeal" but of course some robot made a decision to keep the ban. Looking for some help -- any help at all, to try and get my adsense account back. My email address is in my profile. I'm hoping some benevolent googler can help out.",,pwned1,155,1644078749,2022-02-05 16:32:29+00:00,story,30222722,,46.0,, 1914,How do you protect your parents from tech scammers?,,"My dad recently received a call from “Windows support”. He figured out it was a scam call and so luckily no further harm came from it. However, how do you protect your parents from similar tech scams - short of locking down their computers with parental controls?",,nilsb,155,1577966998,2020-01-02 12:09:58+00:00,story,21934736,,180.0,, 1915,Please help me recall a certain programmer horror story,,"I remember having read a story about a programmer that encountered a weird error - his program was spitting out racial slurs in its output. The issue turned out to be a malicious version of the compiler, but somehow after removing it it got back to the system, and what should take only a few minutes turned into days and days of trying to find the culprit.
I've been searching long and hard but cannot seem to find it. I hope that what little I remember from it is enough and some kind soul will help me find the original article online... :)",,kuba-orlik,155,1532345651,2018-07-23 11:34:11+00:00,story,17591968,,40.0,, 1916,"What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?",,"In the article, "Silicon Valley's Youth Problem" [1] the author mentions Meraki (now Cisco-Meraki) as an example of a startup working on advances in technology rather than the latest web app.
Do you know of other companies that fit the description?
Follow up: Are they (you?) hiring?
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/silicon-valleys-youth-problem.html",,mtae,155,1426928498,2015-03-21 09:01:38+00:00,story,9242217,,170.0,, 1917,Best place to learn GPU programing?,,,,hubatrix,155,1467182280,2016-06-29 06:38:00+00:00,story,11999892,,54.0,, 1918,Do you take nootropics?,,What do you think about them?
Which ones do you take?,,rayalez,155,1426934949,2015-03-21 10:49:09+00:00,story,9242379,,219.0,, 1919,Should I quit the field of software development?,,"I have been in the field for a few years, mostly doing backend development.
I'll preface this by saying this field has never been my passion, just a profession I like.
I have been having an extremely difficult time with getting and clearing interviews. Screening rounds have become at least 2-3 hour long algorithm solving sessions which can range from dumb (requiring me to know some syntax that I am not allowed to look up) to extremely demanding.
System design rounds require me to solve problems that the top engineers in the world spend months on. One question I was asked was "How do you make sure that a celebrity's tweet reaches all of her followers in less than 3 seconds?". I had no idea, I have never handled that kinda scale. In fact most of my work experience is kinda vanilla and boring, so I generally have nothing much to draw on or much to talk about.
Also, I'm not talking about FAANGs here. I never even applied to them. I apply to basic CRUD development roles, half of them entry level, and even there, the grilling has become intense, if I even get an interview.
I haven't even applied to jobs for weeks now, because in interviews I feel like I'm getting humiliated and I want to apologize and end them half-way.
I'm sorry if this is incoherent.
I'm sure the problem is me, since other people are doing fine. I need to draw a line and figure out some good indicators of when I should quit this industry, and anyone here who could give a few pointers on that, I would be thankful. I don't want to throw more time and resources into an industry where baseline expectations are something I can't/won't reach.",,sage76,155,1599998815,2020-09-13 12:06:55+00:00,story,24460286,,151.0,, 1920,What happened to Clubhouse?,,I've not been following its development. I do not hear about anymore. I guess the hype has died out. Is it still popular? Is it still gaining users? What went wrong? Have more viable competitors risen?,,shamoo,155,1648405643,2022-03-27 18:27:23+00:00,story,30822682,,158.0,, 1921,I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootcamp. Am I crazy?,,"I have an MBA from a top 3 school and have a high-paying job as a PM at a top 3 tech company. But I don't feel like I am building tangible skills as a PM, it is more about project management and coordinating. I think about the future and get excited about technology and the types of things you can build and contribute to if you know how to code (e.g. block chain, deep learning, etc.). I have a feeling tremendous opportunity will be available over the next 10 years to software developers while other disciplines such as management become less and less important. Am I crazy to make this career switch?",,tigertheory,155,1478966615,2016-11-12 16:03:35+00:00,story,12938484,,214.0,, 1922,What's the worst Oracle can do to OpenJDK?,,"I've recently started a project using Java. From a technical perspective and after careful analysis of alternative technologies, for what I am doing it currently is the right choice.
But with the Google-Oracle lawsuit, Oracle laying off the Sun team, and my professional experience, I really have to convince myself building anything on top of a technology stack where they are such a powerful player.
I understand that OpenJDK is GPLed with class path exception, but is that enough? Could Oracle somehow sabotage OpenJDK into oblivion? What's the most probable steps Google, IBM and RedHat could take if Oracle pulls the plug on Java, or worse, plays some dirty legal tricks?
I know my concerns are vague but I wonder if people who know better could share their thoughts?",,yaanoncoward,155,1504510419,2017-09-04 07:33:39+00:00,story,15166410,,82.0,, 1923,What is good business advice for independent mobile app developers?,,,,Nuance,154,1526957425,2018-05-22 02:50:25+00:00,story,17123412,,76.0,, 1924,Business Dying. Please Help.,,"Hi HackerNews,
TL;DR - Business is dying. Desperately need your help.
Full disclosure: My name is Feldo and I am new to this site. A friend recommended I post here. Apologies if this is not allowed.
My business is on the verge of death, literally. We are a local Bay Area food startup that caters to startups, specifically Asian Fusion & Satays. Most of our business has been through two catering agencies but due to a mistake that was all my fault, we were recently dropped from 1 yesterday, which was the majority of our business. We were already negative before this. We can't survive much longer like this and being completely honest, this is dragging me near to tears. I've worked hard for years trying to get to where we are and pivoted this food business at least twice already in 3 years. We are only 3 guys.
Admittedly all of this is entirely my fault as I haven't tried as hard as I could in the past to do more guerrilla marketing, becoming complacent with our stream of clients through the agencies.
I am trying to correct course as soon as possible now and fix all of this. I've made many mistakes along the way and I own up to that. But at this point, I might not even have a business if we don't do something fast.
Our website: http://www.sataysfied.com/
Our Yelp page: http://www.yelp.com/biz/sataysfied-catering-san-mateo
Most of the customers that have tried us, loves our food. All of our past business were through these 2 catering agencies. Moving forward, I will try to build direct clientele with startups more and hustle, starting immediately.
I'm not asking for a hand out but I am pretty much begging, if you are in the Bay Area, and have a startup, work for one, or know people, I ask that you give us a chance to cater to you and/or help spread the word. We can use all the business we can get. We cater to startups of all sizes. If you have any feedback or anything, please leave a note.
All the best,
Feldo",,Sataysfied,154,1362193628,2013-03-02 03:07:08+00:00,story,5308280,,119.0,, 1925,Planning to leave. How best to handle stock options?,,"(I'm sure this has been asked before, but I must be bad at search, because I couldn't find the advice I was looking for).
I'm planning to leave the company I joined about 7 years ago as one of the first dozen or so employees. I have some options that are worth $X,000,000 as of the last tender offer, and would cost $X0,000 to buy. Exercising them isn't a problem, but I doubt I could handle the taxes. The company itself was valued in the $500M-$1B range in the last funding round. I'd hate to leave the options behind, but even if I could afford them, that's a ton of money to put at risk.
Does anyone have any experience with ESOfund? I've also heard that there are other private groups who help fund employee option purchases and taxes, but I don't know much about them or even whether it'd work with my employer. Besides those, any other advice on what the best things to do are here?",,throwaway68080,154,1449556466,2015-12-08 06:34:26+00:00,story,10695125,,100.0,, 1926,How is your standing desk working for you?,,"Bodywise I love it, my back pain is much less and I alternate between sitting and standing in 1h intervals.
My problem is that I find it much harder to concentrate while I am standing and I am writing much more code while sitting.
Curious about other opinions?",,arisAlexis,154,1501071114,2017-07-26 12:11:54+00:00,story,14855473,,172.0,, 1927,Are available domain names still important when naming a company?,,"From your experience, do you check domain name availability before naming a company? It looks to me like this is becoming less important...
There's many companies that either use alternative TLD's like; example.app or example.shop
Or prepend "get" or append "app" to the name to obtain the dot com TLD.
I also think that SEO and search engines make the actual domain names less important now right?",,gitgud,154,1568555612,2019-09-15 13:53:32+00:00,story,20977199,,104.0,, 1928,What is the state of C++ vs. Rust?,,"I would love to hear the thoughts of people who have kept up with the developments in both these languages.
Some of the stuff I'm wondering along is features, safety, performance, simplifying the language and so on.
C++11/14 brought good things to the table, perhaps C++17 will bring more improvements?
I havent gone through the proposals for upcoming features in either language but seems like the pace of Rust development is really good.
But then there is the idea of ignoring legacy C++ and treating Modern C++ as a new language altogether.
Just curious to hear anyone's thoughts on the state of these two languages.",,manaskarekar,154,1476888843,2016-10-19 14:54:03+00:00,story,12744317,,154.0,, 1929,I'd like to practice coding GUI from scratch. Any recommendations?,,"Hi folks!
As the title says, I want to practice coding a GUI framework, probably in C++.
I read about a retained and an immediate modes, have a rough understanding how event loop works, and overall my goal is to practice architecture and optimization (especially cache-friendliness), and less so graphics and typography rendering, though I understand it's unavoidable to implement a rendering pipeline (I plan to start off with AGG or Skia graphics libraries).
The dummy app itself will be less about forms but more about data representation, e.g. an audio editor or a node-based system, where data should be updated and visualized in real time, and everything should feel responsive.
Could you please give some research directions? Maybe case studies, best practices, some interesting software, maybe to read more in detail about related architectures, etc.? Or maybe personal stories? I'm struggling to find related info which would not be focused on some framework, etc.",,scott01,154,1647806770,2022-03-20 20:06:10+00:00,story,30746110,,91.0,, 1930,Are you more likely to apply for a job that discloses salary upfront?,,I started to work on a job board to improve my Node.js / MongoDB skills and I'm thinking of actually launching it. But how do I make my board different from all others? I'm thinking of having a mandatory salary field so that each job would contain a salary range.
Stack Overflow data shows that job ads with salary receive 75% more clicks. https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/07/salary-transparency/#75. Other job sites are reporting 20% - 30% increase in job applications for ads with salaries.,,finspin,154,1481043604,2016-12-06 17:00:04+00:00,story,13116133,,136.0,, 1931,What's the big deal with startups anyways...,,"My father is a custom's officer. My mom's a manager in a bank. Government employees. Middle-class.
Dad focused on his mutual funds, mom on her promotions. And both, on everything in between. We now own three houses and close to a millions-worth.
I wasn't taught to be egotistic, brash and adventurous. I was taught to be hard-working, loyal and obedient.
I was told to maximize my intellectual, professional and social value for a company. Not for a client (the former offered better security and were easier to deal with anyways)
Math and Chemistry, not Psychology and Political Science.
Fixed deposits, not stocks.
I started a local website development business recently. My goal? Have something to show at interviews.
I want to know why this is so wrong today.
I want to know why we fixate so much on the millionaire's presentation about some bread-crumb concept like,“Love your job”. Was anyone was not aware of that?
What about an opinion by the 90k-salaried .NET developer. The one who probably couldn't be happier that he payed off his 3-bedroom condo last week. Or am I wrong here?
Why do we continue to preach the greatness, the undisputed manifesto of startups and entrepreneurship in general.
Why are there half-a-million blog posts by some 28-year old on how having your own startup will result in you losing weight and gaining muscle, eating better, dating supermodels with PhDs while the startup simultaneously mows the lawn and cooks breakfast every morning for you.
Why, even when we know that 9 in 10 of us are doomed.
I want to know: Why the hype?",,magnusdeus123,154,1284981920,2010-09-20 11:25:20+00:00,story,1708413,,155.0,, 1932,Who's hiring?,,"There have been a few ""who's hiring?"" threads in the past and I'm curious if those hiring would be interested in adding to another. I think the last one was up almost a month and a half ago, so I'm sure the job landscape has changed over that time.
On a completely self-plugging note, as of this past Monday, my company downsized so if anyone is need of a good web developer, drop me a line!",,mncaudill,154,1269438176,2010-03-24 13:42:56+00:00,story,1215633,,193.0,, 1933,Recommend books that give you insight into other professions,,"I want to read books that give me insights into other professions preferably something unrelated to and far from working in technology. For example, what is it like to work on a container ship or the life of a forest ranger. Memoirs with a bit of adventure are a bonus. Thanks!",,unklefolk,154,1607199889,2020-12-05 20:24:49+00:00,story,25317963,,74.0,, 1934,Who wants to be hired? (April 2016),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
- Algorithms/Data Structures
- Javascript
- Scala,,stillworks,154,1482691357,2016-12-25 18:42:37+00:00,story,13254983,,53.0,, 1938,Alternatives to Reddit?,,"Reddit is pushing the new redesign which seems half-baked attempt at competing with facebook. What sites/forums can be considered as alternative to reddit or its parts?",,FrozenVoid,154,1523535287,2018-04-12 12:14:47+00:00,story,16820036,,123.0,, 1939,How do develop a side project when you have a 40hr/week job?,,"I am a developer and I have a 40 hr/week job. It is a very good job and I put a lot of effort in it. But I have also my own ideas that I would love to develop, but I am struggling to organize time and material to develop something for me.
I read a lot and have a lot of ideas, about little porjects to test new technologies or new patterns, but never find the time.
I would love to learn the experience and techniques used by someone who have been able do to something like this",,ciaoben,153,1448796190,2015-11-29 11:23:10+00:00,story,10644373,,128.0,, 1940,Any “bootcamps” or courses for intermediate/advanced people?,,"Yesterday, I saw a HN job ad for One Month - a company that offers a 30-day "bootcamp". I looked at their courses[1] and noticed they're all aimed at beginners.
I'm past the stage where I need a course on Python syntax or HTML. Like many of you, I could teach myself these things. However, I would definitely pay $300 (the cost of the courses mentioned) for good hands-on intermediate or advanced coursework in both software engineering and computer science. Unfortunately I can't come up with any ideas at the moment, sorry :-)
[1] https://onemonth.com/#premium-course-schedule",,peruvian,153,1500046022,2017-07-14 15:27:02+00:00,story,14770521,,93.0,, 1941,Does Shareware still work in 2018?,,"I put a lot of thought into a software which solves a real problem and could be licenced on a per machine basis. (Small company pays less than a bigger one - i.e. pay per use).
To go for a startup selling licenced copies, I would need an investor but I don't really know how much the product will sell. The investors like to see hockey stick graphs which I can't claim.
I know there are companies that created open source projects on github and then have businesses doing custom work around it, but I don't know if this will work for me. I feel the product itself provides value and I would like to make some revenue off it.
Now I am thinking this is a good fit for shareware - i.e distribute freely - let anyone who feels it is worth pay for it. I can distribute with source so if someone wants to modify sections they can do so.
Please let me know your thoughts.",,dgarud,153,1542289671,2018-11-15 13:47:51+00:00,story,18459164,,125.0,, 1942, Overcomming a federal conviction (computer fraud) for decent job?,http://pastebin.ca/2339721,First time posting here. Had to use pastebin because I wrote beyond 2k char limit. Apologies for the annoyance of an extra-step. Please read and respond.
Thanks.,,0x00_,153,1364146776,2013-03-24 17:39:36+00:00,story,5432777,,175.0,, 1943,Discuss burnout with boss?,,"I am burnt out at work and not sure how to start the discussion with my boss. I've tried addressing the problem myself over the past year by means of exercise, diet, getting more sleep, more time spent on hobbies, socializing more, and pacing myself at work. It's not helping, it's just getting worse. I know quitting and finding a new job is an option but I would prefer not to. How can I have a productive discussion with my boss about burnout? How did you handle it?",,dummy_123,153,1445455967,2015-10-21 19:32:47+00:00,story,10428008,,96.0,, 1944,Is anyone working on an open hardware 3G/4G dongle?,,I just saw this one https://unsigned.io/openmodem/ and was wondering if someone was working on a open hardware 3g/4g usb dongle ?,,marto1,153,1628418256,2021-08-08 10:24:16+00:00,story,28105659,,39.0,, 1945,How are you taking care of you eyes?,,"Like anyone else these days, I am spending 8 hours for work, couple of hours for entertainment and social in front of the monitor. As I age I can see the stress and strain on my eyes. No issues as of now but I want to take care of them before anything happens.
Couple of things I am doing right now. During the day, moved to single monitor and immediately noticed less strain on the eyes and neck. During night started spending at least couple of minutes in a room(not bedroom) with out any major light source either meditating or chatting with partner, it provides major relief.
What tactics are you following and any resources which talks about practical eye health.",,zuj,153,1638787167,2021-12-06 10:39:27+00:00,story,29458125,,184.0,, 1946,how to become a morning person?,,"I feel like my body just can't accept a static bedtime on a 24 hour cycle. I remember many a summer where I would operate on something closer to a 27 hour day which is pretty awesome but messed up in terms of integrating with the rest of society, which I assume most of us need/want to do. Also, I've never been a morning person - the closest thing I've had to a regular sleep schedule is like 3:30am to around noon.
Anyone else experience similar issues and shift their schedules accordingly? What helped out, and what kept it sustainable long term?",,zxcvvcxz,153,1302928222,2011-04-16 04:30:22+00:00,story,2453178,,101.0,, 1947,To everybody who uses MapReduce: what problems do you solve?,,,,valevk,153,1384094628,2013-11-10 14:43:48+00:00,story,6706545,,120.0,, 1948,Non-tech books that have helped you grow professionally?,,"I've recently moved back to reading non-tech books (I have spent the last years reading on solely programming languages or frameworks) and it was a bit of an eye opener regarding getting a more general picture of startups and businesses. I have read the four hour work week, the daily entrepreneur, and the 22 immutable laws of marketing. I have a few others under consideration (like Peter Thiel's From zero to one) but I'm wondering which other books have you read that have had the most impact on you professionally or even personally?",,tsaprailis,152,1472844715,2016-09-02 19:31:55+00:00,story,12415621,,105.0,, 1949,Who needs contributors? (October 2016),,"Looking for contributors to your project? Feel free to post any project that may interest HN readers, with a strong preference towards open source. Please follow this general format:
Project name
Project description
What do you hope to build this month?
What kind of skills do you need?
Link to your GitHub or somewhere else you'd like to onboard new contributors, like your project management software or chat room.
Your license(s)
Consider tagging your project’s relevant issues with “ask hn”. To search these issues, go to https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=state%3Aopen+label%3A%22ask+hn%22&type=Issues&ref=searchresults
You can also support DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest by adding the label “hacktoberfest”. To search these issues, go to https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=state%3Aopen+label%3Ahacktoberfest&type=Issues&ref=searchresults",,joshdotsmith,152,1475506804,2016-10-03 15:00:04+00:00,story,12627838,,74.0,, 1950,Propaganda for creative salary manipulation?,,"Every once and a while (at least once a week) I stumble upon some essay heralding the euphoria of working in a good team, or on a good project, or of spending your life solving projects. They all seem to have the same underlying tone, that engineers don't care about money, they care about the work they do. Sometimes I wonder if these articles are some creative, subtle, under-handed manipulation to convince young engineers to feel guilty for demanding to get paid a fair wage for the value of their services.
Am I the only engineer out here that wants to scream, ""fuck you, pay me"" whenever somebody rambels on and on about how wonderful it is to drink the kool-aid at flickr, google, twitter, or zynga? (and for the record, all of my friends at these 4 companies feel very under-paid).",,dnsworks,152,1265177383,2010-02-03 06:09:43+00:00,story,1097188,,144.0,, 1951,"Bitcoin business unexpectedly taking off, help!",,"I launched a service to buy gift cards for bitcoin earlier this week (cardforcoin.com) and it's doing far better than I expected. Like, in a scary way.
I have a full-time job, and was hoping to carve out a small bit of passive income, not launch a full-blown startup.
I could really use some advice from anyone else who's run a bitcoin business, dealt with an unexpected success, or could get me in touch with a lawyer interested in the BTC world who might start pro-bono.
PS - Earlier discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144067
PPS - I want to leave the link for context, but if you'd actually like to use the service, please wait a bit / until the weekend.
EDIT - I'm not accepting cards until this gets on the road to straightened out, for obvious reasons. If anyone has any particular further insights please drop me an email.",,mhluongo,152,1391182799,2014-01-31 15:39:59+00:00,story,7157180,,142.0,, 1952,What Freelancer site do you recommend?,,"Having unsuccessfully attempted to use Freelancer.com to complete a relatively simple job (I could do it myself but don't have time at the moment), I was wondering if HN could suggest a good freelancer sourcing site for relatively straight-forward work? Unfortunately the freelancer marketplace sites seem to be dominated by weak PHP developers.",,10dpd,152,1369655661,2013-05-27 11:54:21+00:00,story,5774303,,132.0,, 1953,What's a Non-Programmer to do?,,"My two business partners and I have been running our startup for about 14 months, we're ramen profitable, we have a small user base and we're growing steadily. (We've posted to YC a few times before, you can check out our website at www.skritter.com.) By all accounts things are looking very good for us, but we have a somewhat persistant problem that is hurting morale: simply put, I feel underutilized and we all three decided we should ask YC what other startups do about this situation.
To give you a little background, Nick, Scott and I were all three best friends in college. Nick and Scott were CS majors (among other majors) and I was an economics major. When we first started the business we all three decided together that we didn't want to seek venture capital or anything big, we wanted to raise as little money as possible, get to market, and then live (or die) off of the profit. We raised two rounds of philanthropic funding, one for $30k and one for $25k, it was literally free money.
After that the problems started. We didn't yet have any revenue and our service wasn't going to have high margins, so a lot of traditional marketing just wasn't going to have positive ROI (I know, I ran a LOT of numbers). I focused on doing some menial labor, and I also did a lot of design work, but even that wasn't a lot of work. At the same time I was having trouble feeling productive at 40 hours a week, Nick and Scott were working 60 hour weeks consistently and were still behind. To their credit, they were extraordinarily graceful about the problem, always downplaying the inequality in work, trying to find me new productive tasks and the like.
So here's my question: do other small startups have this problem? And if so, what have you done to mitigate the workload inequality and give the businesser meaningful stuff to work on? Put another way, if you're a three person startup or you have a full time business person or designer, how do they spend their time?",,gsaines,152,1250954385,2009-08-22 15:19:45+00:00,story,779378,,78.0,, 1954,Sources of remote dev work with minimal human interaction?,,"Hi everyone,
I am in a situation that I feel some of you can relate to, so I wanted to pose this question in hopes of generating some resources for myself and similar people. I've had a few developer jobs so far in life and on balance, I haven't really liked any of them. When I ask myself why, the reason is always the corporate bullshit that I must endure. I find the actual job of being a developer quite fun and enjoy solving problems and building things with code. I also have no troubles with the interpersonal side of developing, as far as working in a team and being a decent coworker is concerned. What I cannot stand is the corporate environment and it's associated crap and rituals. I don't like being "obligated" to put in extra time with my colleagues on team events and retreats. I don't like daily stand-ups that are about talking about what you're up to so you look busy, rather than sharing (both ways) useful info with the team. I don't like a lot of the personalities I have to interact with at work (IMHO, certain departments/roles attract people who I feel are inherently dishonest or manipulative. These people creep me out and I wish I didn't have to be so close to them every workday). Many who read this will be able to add a lot to this list of complaints, as I can too.
What I want is a remote dev job where I close tickets. That is, one where the gig really is cash for functioning solution that meets spec, code standards, and QA. My ideal world would be where I log in somewhere, pull a respectably specified ticket with clear acceptance criteria, and then pull request myself to at least a modest quality of life. Does anyone know of any remote work where the hassle is just engineering related? I will specify that I am not interested in simply transitioning the interpersonal bullshit to a Skype-based model, so team-intensive remote work won't suit this requirement. My greatest thanks for any insightful thoughts or resources you guys can provide.",,the_grind_sucks,152,1556396600,2019-04-27 20:23:20+00:00,story,19767428,,107.0,, 1955,Ex-Founder. Should I take lowball buyout offer?,,"Anonymous for obvious reasons.
I am the ex-founder of a company that has had some moderate success, and I own a 5% equity stake. They're about to raise money at a $XX,000,000 valuation. I am skeptical of the company's future and want out. The hardball CEO offered $100k. What should I do?",,throwaway21121,152,1496071239,2017-05-29 15:20:39+00:00,story,14439517,,158.0,, 1956,Who wants to be hired? (June 2014),,"Note: This was posted last month [1], and received a lot of up votes and some positive feedback [2]. So re-posting again for June 2014. Also note that I will not be submitting my resume this time due to making a successful connection [3] with an awesome startup as the result of last month's run.
If you're looking to be hired by a company, please use this thread to let other HN members know.
If you're looking for talent, by all means, check out the candidates below and if you see a good fit, connect! Please no recruiters, unless specifically indicated (opt-in).
If you're not hiring/looking to be hired, take a look over the candidates below and connect with them if you're aware of a potential fit for them.
Up/Down Voting: I would propose that up/down voting be reserved to help promote high quality submissions, and push down those clearly not putting in much effort or are off-topic. Use sparingly.
I am loosely proposing the following format (obviously you're welcome to use any format you'd like):
[Location], [Remote | Relocation], [Full Time | Contract | Part Time]
Stack: [Comma delimited list of technologies]
Resume: [Link to resume]
Contact: [Email address or other means of contact]
[Brief overview, what you're looking for in a company, etc.]
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7698119
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833251",,jader201,152,1401714868,2014-06-02 13:14:28+00:00,story,7833250,,251.0,, 1957,What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?,,,,gtrevize,152,1488818434,2017-03-06 16:40:34+00:00,story,13803787,,214.0,, 1958,AdSense alternatives?,,"A friend and myself run a tutorial blog for a hobby that makes us a very minuscule amount of money via AdSense. It's a nice extra incentive to push and grow the blog farther and farther along though.
In light of the current drama surrounding AdSense (fabricated or not), and in complete seriousness, what are some alternatives in case we randomly get "shut off"? We have used and are currently using BuySellAds and their Unreserved Program - which depends on a buyer though.",,scotchio,152,1398869604,2014-04-30 14:53:24+00:00,story,7673680,,87.0,, 1959,How to stop download.cnet.com from hosting my app?,,"download.cnet.com is hosting an ancient version of my app and I never submitted it to them or contacted them in any way. They simply stole my installer and content from my website without asking or getting permission. I won't get into my reasons for not wanting any of these download sites to offer my software. They are of course entitled to provide a link to my website and some do that and only that which is OK.
there is a link in in old HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2910554) that no longer works: http://cnet-upload.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2064
anyone know if there is good contact form or email address for any of these download sites to ask that they not offer my app?
If I am not successful getting them to comply, would a DMCA be appropriate and would I be asking for legal troubles if I submit a DCMA?",,textman,152,1625326234,2021-07-03 15:30:34+00:00,story,27722254,,57.0,, 1960,How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?,,"What are you averaging per year, as a freelance app developer?",,cronjobma,152,1500311077,2017-07-17 17:04:37+00:00,story,14790406,,115.0,, 1961,What are your favorite active tech-related subreddits comparable to HN?,,,,qz_,151,1480243328,2016-11-27 10:42:08+00:00,story,13048604,,91.0,, 1962,Is Facebook Dying?,,"I'm not talking about Meta the company, but rather thier Facebook property. I've been on for about 13 years. My newsfeed lately is a graveyard only populated by ads and some groups I belong to. The only friends left are narcissists or people selling something. I'm not motivated to post anything because I get much less engagement in the form of likes or comments than I used to. Just curious if this is just me or everyone knows it's dying.",,labrador,151,1648674941,2022-03-30 21:15:41+00:00,story,30860859,,227.0,, 1963,What is it like to run a VPN as a business?,,"Hello,
I'm going to set up my own VPN on some cloud hosting provider, and I'm toying with the idea of turning it into a small business.
Is there anything I need to know beforehand? Is it really that easy, or are there legal issues I need to handle?
Cheers
EDIT:
I should note that I know this is an extremely saturated market - I'm not aiming to build a hyper successful business, but moreso to manage a small public VPN as an ideological side-project. Anything above breaking even I'd consider a bonus.",,hazz99,151,1538921488,2018-10-07 14:11:28+00:00,story,18160618,,92.0,, 1964,How do I learn how to become a good sysadmin?,,"Earlier today I read an article on the decline of proper sysadmins in the age of containers. I thought I was doing a decent job of being a sysadmin+developer at the place I work but looking at the problems containers can cause I couldn't help wonder how one should go about becoming a decent sysadmin.
Main scenario is the one where you as an individual might on your own (or with a couple of friends) start some tiny sass product, or build an open source product that you want to keep secure.
At the most basic level, when firing up a new server I follow the how to harden your server guides and install fail2ban, disable root login, enable ssh only login etc.
Things I don't fully understand, user permissions or rather, how to use permissions to ensure good security. I'm also unsure about logging. I'm essentially clueless about where to look to understand what goes into being a good sysadmin.
Any advice would be awesome. Thanks.",,nstart,151,1429705901,2015-04-22 12:31:41+00:00,story,9419877,,118.0,, 1965,Did your YC (or other incubator) startup fail? What are you doing now?,,"What year did it fail, how long after the program did things end and what are you doing these days?",,andrewhillman,151,1380690034,2013-10-02 05:00:34+00:00,story,6480720,,56.0,, 1966,Where to Register a Company When Being a Traveling Digital Nomad?,,"Do you have any recommendation on where in the world to register a company when being a traveling digital nomad and EU citizen in Asia?
I've been reading a bit about the Hong Kong and Singapore company structures, which both offer low tax and flexibility. I would like to hear more about it from experienced people.
Thanks.",,dnohr,151,1422111368,2015-01-24 14:56:08+00:00,story,8939714,,82.0,, 1967,How can i help my dad?,,"My father has been working as a networking engineer for almost 40 years. He is exceptional at what he does. The problem is we live in a country, where things like perfection, attention to detail mean nothing. Also he is old, which is a big problem for most employers. 3 years ago he quit his job, because the owner of the company hadn't payed him for 7 months. My father didn't care for 5 months, continued doing his job, as if he was getting payed twice as much. After 7 months passed he brought the project to an end and the firm maid a substantial amount of money because of his work. He then resigned. My Dad didn't care if he wasn't getting payed, his work matters most to him and he proved it. It pains me to see him today (3 years later), still searching for jobs and going crazy, because he can't do what he loves the most. He started developing projects on his own, yet no one want to invest, because of the situation in our country(riots). This has had quite the impact on our family in all the ways you can imagine. I tried talking to him, yet he has grown distant and bitter. I'm loosing my father. He is in dire need of a job and i feel helpless.",,eagerNewb,151,1402658575,2014-06-13 11:22:55+00:00,story,7888198,,58.0,, 1968,How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?,,"Hi HN,
I work with a company that has a few GPU-intensive ML models. Over the past few weeks, growth has accelerated, and with that costs have skyrocketed. AWS cost is about 80% of revenue, and the company is now almost out of runway.
There is likely a lot of low hanging cost-saving-fruit to be reaped, just not enough people to do it. We would love any pointers to anyone who specializes in the area of cost optimization. Blogs, individuals, consultants, or magicians are all welcome.
Thank you!",,danicgross,151,1594428381,2020-07-11 00:46:21+00:00,story,23798347,,131.0,, 1969,Is frugality underrated in startups?,,"I feel frugality is one of the most important points for startups and entrepreneur. I'm curious to hear more from you guys regarding this, as what's your take on frugality and any other need/must to have qualities to be a successful entrepreneur?",,malavwarke,151,1610882408,2021-01-17 11:20:08+00:00,story,25809852,,197.0,, 1970,How to effectively get feedback from users?,,"Getting feedback from customers is crucial but it seems really difficult to get people to answer a survey or get on a call.
I mainly use email to ask for feedback and the response rates are terrible, 2-3%.
Are there any effective ways of getting feedback from customers? Tools or templates?",,h99,151,1604296172,2020-11-02 05:49:32+00:00,story,24965115,,90.0,, 1971,Female hacker-founder AMA,,"Tired of all the gender banter lately? Me too. Especially when every press outlet says we (female tech founders) are as rare as a mythical creature. So how about getting them answers straight from the source (female tech founders). If you belong to this group do a quick intro about yourself before answering questions. If you don't and want to learn more about the HN female tech entrepreneurs, feel free to ask as a reply.
My turn:
Name: Diana
Startup: http://DoerHub.com (dogfooding: http://www.doerhub.com/for/doerhub )
Role: Founder, wrote every non-open-source line of code (Rails, JS, D3, Neo4j, Node.js, MongoDB) on the site in a grad school dorm room.
In tech since: 1998 (Age 13). Haven't stopped since.
How did you start?: Started in rural Bulgaria and parents couldn't afford a computer so I volunteered at internet cafes to learn HTML and JS online after hours, then did graphics in flash, then Action Script, evolved to writing data mashups, custom JS libraries, rich visualizations for CNN during elections, CMS front-end architecture, full-stack web products from there.
Why did I start: had a pen-pal girl from Sweden who was a year older than me and had built her own website. Once I realized I can learn for free and the world could see my work I was addicted (lived in a censored country for a while so that mattered).
Proof of cred: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dianazink and http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/3.0/search/SearchProcessor.js and http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/3.0/search/customSrchProcessor.js used by CNN, NBA, and some other sites.
Has your gender made any of this hard?: I'm not muscular, so building online stuff is actually easier on me than the "reputable" jobs my grandfather said I should do instead.
Ask away.",,dzink,151,1388646379,2014-01-02 07:06:19+00:00,story,6998559,,74.0,, 1972,"Oops, I just sold my startup to a piano company. Now what? ",,"So the last time I relied on you for advice was 1394 days ago, according to this: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=134685
Since then, I worked at a few startups, dropped out of school, started a successful Mac app business, and ended up spinning off a music publishing platform for the iPad that was doing very well until I ran into a legal issue.
So I exited earlier than I would have liked:
http://steinway.com/news/press-releases/steinway-sons-debuts-etude-20-ipad-app-for-learning-and-playing-piano/
The heart of the matter was that I signed a bad contract with someone who was supposed to get music deals for me. With the contract in place, it limited my options for continuing to bootstrap, taking funding, or getting acquired by a few of the companies I was talking with. Except for Steinway, which found a way to work with me.
So I moved from SF to New York, I brought in a team, we transitioned the app over, built one of the first sheet music stores for the iPad, and released a new version of the app I'm really happy with.
If you're curious, you can try it for free at: http://etudeapp.com
With the app transitioned and my legal matter finally settled, we've set a date for me to leave the company. I'm excited, but a little terrified.
Since the time I sold, I have many times the resources/runway I had before, and I'm a good deal more mature and in much better shape. The odds are waaay better, so I ought to just hang out and see what I come up with, right?
But for whatever reason, after spending about 2-3 years pursuing a single idea so passionately, I'm pretty burned out, and I'm not quite ready to start something new yet. I'm not excited about any of my other ideas to the degree I was with Etude, and I'm having trouble seeing what to do now. I feel like I've reached a local maximum, and I need to go work with other people and see what kind of ideas they're into.
I'd really like to do an incubator like YC, since having decent advisors would have prevented me from running into the trouble I did before. But it's not the right time, and I'm (so far) a single founder.
So I went and interviewed at a bunch of places in New York (since I'm stuck for at least a little while). People seemed to like what I'd done and I got a few offers from some good companies, traditional and startup.
I don't really need a gig, but I figured I'd see what I could get. But the thing that bugs me about this is that nobody seems to think that I'm anything more than a code monkey. They don't realize that, in addition to engineering, I actually started something new, managed the product, a whole team, did a fair bit of design, promotion/press, successfully exited, all sorts of stuff that doesn't really fall under ""Objective-C developer."" Not exactly covered in the Stanford course. I'm not usually so arrogant, but it's frustrating.
For some reason, the logic on the east coast, and even in a lot of SV is, ""If you can code, then you can only code. Forever.""
I'm returning to San Francisco for a week just to meet up with some old friends and escape the cold later this month. Hoping that will help me.
But what should a person who wants to take a break and get some broader experience but is tainted with an engineering background do? Is the only option for me to just suck it up, gather the courage, and commit to striking it on my own with another idea? Have any of you ever been at a similar crossroads after exiting something?",,dangrover,151,1325782590,2012-01-05 16:56:30+00:00,story,3429376,,72.0,, 1973,How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°?,,This question is related to the potential SWIFT block that might happen any time soon.
It sounds maybe naive but I was thinking that if we almost all turn down our heating system by ~3° Celsius (compared to our current settings) we could potentially save gas consumption that can be better used for other purposes. What do you think?,,ciccionamente,151,1645896791,2022-02-26 17:33:11+00:00,story,30479688,,240.0,, 1974,Would you pass an interview for your current position?,,"Hello fellow HN users.
Is it my idea or are interviews more harder nowadays? If you had to take a technical interview for your current position would you be able to pass it and get the job?
If you were the one doing the interview, would you be strict and request more things so as to filter out candidates? It’s understandable because somehow you need to find the best ones for a given position, but there are some soft skills that C/Java/Python interview problems can’t identify.
I’m asking because I’ve seen many interesting positions in which I could imagine myself into (having ~20 years experience in telecoms/soft engineering), but the entry requirements with regards to programming languages are set too high.
What are your experiences?",,NKosmatos,151,1641484283,2022-01-06 15:51:23+00:00,story,29825080,,238.0,, 1975,"Startup promised me a job, then backed out after the internship",,"TL;DR; Student from Europe, did an internship in a NYC startup, got promised to be hired. After having made all the plans for moving to US, the offer was retracted.
In August I began an internship at a New York startup. Since I’m European, I had no expectations that it would have led to a full-time job, given the hassle of getting an H1B visa (in fact, I was already surprised that the company sponsored my J-1 for the length of the internship).
After just a few weeks, the company was impressed with my performance (they told me I had already accomplished more than they expected from the whole three months) and they gave me a full-time offer. Compensation, option, benefits, visa paperwork, all there. I took some time to decide, as I was considering other opportunities, and eventually accepted.
My girlfriend is American (we met in the UK, where we both did our master’s), and this was the best opportunity to keep living with her, with a nice, well-payed job in a cool town in the US. She stopped arranging for a post-study work visa in the UK. I refused opportunities with Google, Bing, and two startups. I told all those people I wasn’t able to consider any offer, since I had already accepted one (so I thought).
The last day of my internship we made the last arrangements for my return. I had a conversation with the main engineer, who also mentioned that the company could request a green card for me after a few years on the H1B. I received greetings and “see you soon” from everyone, including the founder.
Yesterday I received a phone call from the founder, saying that they ""changed their mind"", and they are stopping the visa application. He mentioned that, for that position, they want someone more experienced with web development and UX. He added that they expected something more from the last part of my internship.
I’m shocked.
No one ever gave me a hint that I was doing something wrong. The founder himself had called me several times to show the prototype I was developing to investors.
I cannot stress how unfortunate this is for me. I was making plans to live in the US with my girlfriend. I left some of my stuff in the city. I even lost the opportunity to apply to the green card lottery, since it closed yesterday. If I didn’t know I had a job, I would have spent the past two months looking for one, preparing for interviews, moving forward with the other possibilities I had. My girlfriend would have applied for a visa in the UK, since I was more likely to get a job there.
I am now in the US for a couple of weeks, using the grace period included in my J-1 visa to travel with my girlfriend. At the end of November I will have to leave the country.
I’m a Mathematics graduate, with good programming skills, knowledge of CS, experience with machine learning and information retrieval. I need to find a job in the US. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a startup, I will go for a big corporation if that makes it easier to obtain a visa. I’m also interested in any subtleties regarding visas: is there a way I can come back as a tourist and apply for jobs? Can my girlfriend do the same in the UK (or even just move there with me until she can apply and obtain a work permit)?
Any advice? Similar experiences?",,throwaway87,151,1320600558,2011-11-06 17:29:18+00:00,story,3203228,,88.0,, 1976,Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?,,"Hello
I've always relied on the comfort of having Google handle my mails, properly configure a mail server and keep it safe from hackers. OTOH I always felt a little uncomfortable sharing such private information with them, and those news about people who have their accounts banned for no reason and can't get them back gives me nightmares. Recent news made me think about this problem yet again.
I even do have my own domain and an unused mail account for it on a certain popular hosting service (they manage the mail server, I pay shared web hosting), but I'm not sure if trusting them instead of google is actually a win here. The possibility of someone hacking this host is probably higher than hacking gmail. At least I have a human to talk to if they decide to simply ban me.
I also thought about upgrading to a private server instance so I would have my own mail server, but maintaining a mail server seems like a hassle that would eat even more of my free time, and I'd probably forget an update and be hacked anyway or have my domain accidentally registered in the spam lists.
What is your opinion about this? Is there some magical solution where I can just throw some money and feel safe and not worry about having my information being read by third parties or parsed for whatever reason, or getting my account unilaterally banned, or having phone apps reading all my email, etc?
Thanks a lot.",,livingpunchbag,151,1530601212,2018-07-03 07:00:12+00:00,story,17448108,,149.0,, 1977,Did some of you try the digital nomad lifestyle and not like it?,,,,maxencecornet,151,1471024410,2016-08-12 17:53:30+00:00,story,12277477,,86.0,, 1978,What is a better approach to interviewing?,,I want to make the interview experience better for applicants but have no control over the format or time. There is a lot of criticism of the algo centric approach and I'd like to change that within the confines given to me.,,awalsh128,150,1599939054,2020-09-12 19:30:54+00:00,story,24454866,,282.0,, 1979,"Underperforming, feeling stuck",,"What do you do if you feel you have all the advantages when it comes to programming -- intelligence, experience, passion, knowledge -- and yet they seem to desert you when you sit down to code?
One possibility is that I'm not as good as I think I am -- but I have had lots of validation. In the recent past (5 years) I've succeeded at some of the hardest interview processes in the world. I've written things that I'm proud of. I can speak as intelligently about code as any HNer.
Despite all this every time I sit down to code my brain turns to mush, somehow, and nothing gets done. I can always give my managers an intelligent explanation of why progress is so slow, but the thing is, progress is still slow. Lately I find myself making more and more beginner mistakes.
The weird thing is, I don't even feel burned out or depressed. I couldn't be happier with my current job. I'm just… stuck.
If something about this sounds familiar, feel free to offer advice. While psychological diagnoses may be right, at this point though I feel like there's something wrong in my practices.
I need some sort of professional help that doesn't exist. Someone to sit next to me all day and tell me what it is I'm doing that's burning up 8 hours a day without actually achieving anything.",,throwaway_stuck,150,1286343415,2010-10-06 05:36:55+00:00,story,1762856,,130.0,, 1980,How did you learn about stocks and the market?,,"I find it really hard/confusing to understand stocks and the market from the investing perspective. I'm a beginner in this domain. So, I keen to learn about it so that I can understand the technical details too. I did a search and found out that everybody is recommending "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham. I'm kind of person who likes to watch videos, so I also found couple of courses (paid) on Udemy but those aren't good and just wastage of money. I also found that Investopedia is an excellent resource. It contains a lot of good tutorials [0], guides [1] and videos [2].
You might have already learnt what I'm trying to. What's your story? It would be really nice if you can also share the resources that proved really useful to you.
[0] http://www.investopedia.com/university/stocks/ [1] http://www.investopedia.com/university/ [2] http://www.investopedia.com/video/",,n13,150,1461080572,2016-04-19 15:42:52+00:00,story,11527738,,156.0,, 1981,Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?,,"My niche language is Racket. I like it because I like Schemes more than Common Lisps and I think it is the most accessible Scheme. It improves on some of the issues I have with my main language, Python, mostly around creating an executable. If I'm being honest, I also get a dopamine hit from using a niche language, but maybe I'm not the only one who feels that way.",,Decabytes,150,1645910233,2022-02-26 21:17:13+00:00,story,30482060,,162.0,, 1982,Why can't I login to HN via Firefox?,,"I can login via Chrome or IE, just not Firefox. This behaviour started very recently - a matter of a few hours ago.
Also, for future reference, what is the best way to ask about this sort of problem?",,SeanDav,150,1367590865,2013-05-03 14:21:05+00:00,story,5650171,,101.0,, 1983,Why aren't one-time sign in links more popular for authentication?,,Tying a OTP to an email appears to be more secure than the cluster that is remembering and managing passwords.,,phenkdo,150,1609747007,2021-01-04 07:56:47+00:00,story,25628729,,192.0,, 1984,How do you find clients?,,"Hi, I'm thinking about doing some freelance web design and marketing for a bit of extra cash.
Aside from cold calls what are some good ways to obtain clients?",,leejw00t354,150,1346692082,2012-09-03 17:08:02+00:00,story,4471030,,81.0,, 1985,What's your most interesting life goal currently?,,"Bonus points: What's some roadblocks or bottlenecks you've identified in the process?
Even more bonus points: Try to help someone else in the thread with their goals, especially clearing out those roadblocks and bottlenecks.",,lionhearted,150,1278593744,2010-07-08 12:55:44+00:00,story,1497164,,415.0,, 1986,Good public speaking course/resources?,,"I was looking into improving my speech skills and also be more confident at public speaking, are there any good online course or resources that you know of?",,hubatrix,150,1488634996,2017-03-04 13:43:16+00:00,story,13790847,,39.0,, 1987,How do you stay productive after work?,,"Here is my little back story:
I work from 8-5(or 6), during work I will take a break and scan for a couple good articles on business, technology, etc. I put the web address in an email to myself to read for later (even if I want to read it all now). At the end of work I send myself the email in hopes that when I get home I continue my enthusiasm to read those articles. Sadly my trend hasn't been what I would like it to be, that of staying motivated, reading articles, and writing down my thoughts or ideas. I am productive in a sense that I go workout to stay in shape and cook dinner, but I would like to keep my head down and work on my own ideas.
So I ask, What do you do when you come back from work to keep being productive on personal improvement or projects?",,bking,150,1337866146,2012-05-24 13:29:06+00:00,story,4018274,,88.0,, 1988,How to develop a growth mindset?,,"I've always considered myself as someone who can do X or can't do Y. I've learned new things, I've been creative and daring - at times.
But often times, when someone challenges me to do something new, I respond that I don't know how and would not be able t do it.
How do I turn that around? How do I develop a growth mindset?",,sixaddyffe2481,150,1592856626,2020-06-22 20:10:26+00:00,story,23605790,,87.0,, 1989,Does your team use feature flags?,,"Particularly interested in how people use feature flags on the frontend.
Does your team use them? If not, why not?",,rozenmd,149,1643379547,2022-01-28 14:19:07+00:00,story,30114856,,140.0,, 1990,What was your best passive income in 2020?,,"Side projects, games, open source.
Previous threads:
2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18906094
2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18479588
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16815842",,imsky,149,1607192920,2020-12-05 18:28:40+00:00,story,25316912,,171.0,, 1991,Who wants to be hired? (June 2015),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:I’m Craig. I work at YC. We’re starting the podcast up again and want your input.
Who do you think we should interview?
We’re open to all suggestions but maybe these prompts will help:
- Who has shaped technology and hasn’t done many interviews?
- Who has an interesting take on the future and is building it?
- Who is just really interesting and you’d love to hear more from?
Thanks for your input. Can’t wait to see who this post surfaces :),,craigcannon,149,1479319297,2016-11-16 18:01:37+00:00,story,12969562,,180.0,, 1994,How do I become smarter?,,"my situation:
I'm 19 years old and I go to a not so great (according to Macleans university rankings) university in Canada. I would like to make a transfer to Waterloo and then go to graduate school at Stanford or MIT. These are just some of the goals that I'd like to achieve in my academic career. I would just like to prove to myself that I have what it takes and I would like to be in that academic environment (Sorry if I worded it poorly).
At the moment I know I definitely am not trying as hard as I should..I don't remember the last time I engaged myself with hard problems or where to start. I've been feeling pretty lost in what I've wanted to do with my life so I just decided to follow Paul Grahams advice and just go with what gives me the most options (http://paulgraham.com/hs.html).
When it comes to learning new things or building off old concepts, I feel like I have a poor foundation and I just don't know where to start. How can build a great foundation where I can understand the concepts intuitively?
In short, how can I become smarter?",,HiroshiSan,149,1276154951,2010-06-10 07:29:11+00:00,story,1419388,,88.0,, 1995,Why do so many startups claim machine learning is their long game?,,"I work with and speak to many startups. When I ask questions around the product value, especially in context of defensibility, they assert that their "long term play is using machine learning on our data". This has been pretty consistent in the last few years, regardless of the nature of the product or the market for which the product is targeted. This typically comes with assertions such as "data is the new oil" and "once we have our dataset and models the Big Tech shops will have no choice but to acquire us".
To me this feels a lot like the claims made by startups I've encountered in past tech-hype-cycles, such as IoT and blockchain. In both of these areas there seemed to be a pervasive sense of "if we build it, they will acquire".
The question I have for HN is in two parts:
1. Why is it that a lot of startups seem to be betting the farm, so to speak, on "machine learning" as their core value?
2. Is it reasonable to be highly skeptical of startups that make these claims, seeing it as a sign they have no real vision for their product?
[EDIT]: add missing pt2 of my question",,crtlaltdel,149,1573672604,2019-11-13 19:16:44+00:00,story,21528246,,74.0,, 1996,Is there room for another search engine?,,,,_6cj7,149,1490541387,2017-03-26 15:16:27+00:00,story,13961176,,193.0,, 1997,How do solo SaaS founders handle monitoring/PagerDuty?,,"Can you ever take a break? What if you go on vacation — or simply out for dinner with your friends — and the server goes down?
I guess for less complex apps this can be mitigated with something like Heroku, but still... do they hire freelancers to “watch the shop” when they want a break or are they chained to PagerDuty 24/7?",,exctaticraz,149,1613816037,2021-02-20 10:13:57+00:00,story,26203074,,113.0,, 1998,Resources for “Learning” Manufacturing?,,"I have been learning cad with fusion360, and have already designed, fabricated and built a number of small items for my own (personal) use around the farm. To date, this has meant prototyping with the 3d printer, outsourcing laser cutting of steel (up to 10mm thickness) and welding parts by hand. Its been mainly small tractor attachments/brackets/etc.
I am becoming a bit more adventurous with my designs, and have started designing some ideas that would need to be injection moulded to be of any real practical use. There are also some aspects of the design that I believe would need to be rotomoulded to reduce material usage and weight to acceptable levels.
How can I move to this "next level" of prototyping and small scale manufacture? Is this something I can achieve myself with (limited) investment in specific machinery (budget ~15k USD)? Im only looking at small runs - but a number of parts, which I would assume would make more commercial offerings expensive?",,supermatt,149,1641296491,2022-01-04 11:41:31+00:00,story,29793770,,72.0,, 1999,Which areas of math are practical to programming/algorithms and why?,,,,kevindeasis,149,1474425916,2016-09-21 02:45:16+00:00,story,12545035,,95.0,, 2000,Why isn't there a standard network audio protocol?,,"Having been frustrated again in using bluetooth from a computer to a smart speaker -- ugh! I swear connections only work half the time, and it isn't due to RF interference -- I'm wondering why there isn't a standard protocol for transmitting audio over the network. I think it would be so much easier to use.
[I'm talking about having my devices at home talk to each other. They are already on the same network.]
Edit/Addendum: Are there any streaming audio protocols that work from Mac/Windows/iOS to Amazon Echo Dots? I'm looking for a drop-in replacement for bluetooth audio streaming, where I can play sounds on my computer (ex. a youtube video) and hear it on a louder speaker.",,armagon,149,1649946601,2022-04-14 14:30:01+00:00,story,31027526,,147.0,, 2001,Has anyone managed to regain their attention span/ability to focus?,,"My attention span is absolutely terrible. I can spend maybe 30 minutes focused on Deep Work (as coined by Cal Newport).
Has anyone managed to regain their attention span to a point where they can engage in deep work for large blocks of time? If so, how did you do it?",,HiroshiSan,149,1541975462,2018-11-11 22:31:02+00:00,story,18429078,,45.0,, 2002,How do you make money from your side projects?,,"Sure enough, not all side projects are meant to make money. But among those that do, what is your business model?",,_6cj7,149,1490732319,2017-03-28 20:18:39+00:00,story,13980274,,106.0,, 2003,Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons,http://dabuttonfactory.com,,,palsecam,149,1236523189,2009-03-08 14:39:49+00:00,story,507212,,92.0,, 2004,How to be successful online without SEO bullshittery?,,"This is a hot topic near and dear to my heart.
I create a site 4 years ago that I've been writing on every since... there are probably near 2000 articles on it. Everything from fixing your MTU settings on your Q1000 modem to Java framework tips I find handy to years worth of game and movies reviews to hilarious cat pictures.
It's just anything and everything I've ever found interesting written in a slightly more professional manner than ""stream of thought"" with a small amount of attention paid to titles and internal links only when appropriate and valuable (I HATE how sites like Engadget inner-link every keyword for Google sake).
My understanding was always that ""If I wrote it, they will come"".
4 years later and that's not the case at all... I seem to be hitting a goddamn glass ceiling that I cannot figure out for the life of me why it exists or who is imposing it and I want to scream.
This topic on Reddit recently: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_game_digg_using_infographics_voting/
Got my ire up... then combined with typical junk search results I see on Google in any given day for a legit topic I'm searching for and I'm coming to the conclusion that you just can't win online unless you are an SEO-douchebag.
When was the last time you searched for something technical and found a CNET link and headed over only to notice it's a landing page that says ""We didn't review this BUT we reviewed..."" and has 97 links to other things on the site?
What the fuck.
Is this the only way to succeed now with this content diarrhea mill that is the web?",,rkalla,149,1283234678,2010-08-31 06:04:38+00:00,story,1648594,,61.0,, 2005,Why is there a black bar added on top?,,"Why has the black bar been added on top of the title bar ? http://i.imgur.com/O8FU6km.png",,t3ra,149,1458649117,2016-03-22 12:18:37+00:00,story,11335903,,103.0,, 2006,Have any of you moved back home to save money?,,"I still have my job, but I was thinking of not renewing my lease in NYC and just going back home to the parents to work remote in the fall/winter and save a TON of money. Kinda lame because I'm 28 but who cares, since a lockdown will stop most of the "fun" stuff anyway. Would rather run and bike every day.
Anybody else doing the same?",,throw51319,149,1593448699,2020-06-29 16:38:19+00:00,story,23679154,,220.0,, 2007,What ML platform are you using?,,"I am interested to know what ML platforms you use for personal/hobbyist projects... Do you rent GPU instances from the likes of Azure, GCP, AWS or do you use managed solutions like Paperspace Gradient, or Colab? why or not?
I am very much a beginner in the space of machine learning and have been overwhelmed by the choices available. Eventually I do want to simply want to build my own rig and just train models on that, but I don't have that kind of money right now, nor is it easy to find GPUs even if could afford them.
So I am basically stuck to cloud solutions for now, which is why I want to hear personal experiences of HN folks who have used any of the available ML platforms. Their benefits, short comings, which are more beginner friendly, cost effective, etc
I am also not opposed to configuring environments myself rather than using managed solutions (such as Gradient) if it is more cost effective to do so, or affords better reliability // better than average resource availability... because I read some complaints that Colab has poor GPU availability since shared among subscribers, and that the more you use it the less time is allocated to you... not sure how big of a problem it actually is though.
I am very motivated to delve into this space (it's been on my mind a while) and I want to do it right, which is why I am asking for personal experiences on this forum given that there is a very healthy mix of technology hobbyists as well as professionals on HN, of which the opinion of both is equally valuable to me for different reasons.
Also please feel free to include any unsolicited advice such as learning resources, anecdotes, etc,
Thanks for reading until the end.",,speedylight,149,1647149918,2022-03-13 05:38:38+00:00,story,30658324,,83.0,, 2008,How to start a startup that requires a high amount of initial capital?,,I want to start a payments bank in India but it requires a 13M+ USD initial capital just to get the licensing fee.
Wondering if people have any examples of how one might cross this barrier to entry.,,break_the_bank,149,1538626359,2018-10-04 04:12:39+00:00,story,18137132,,84.0,, 2009,Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars?,,Why do we even have status pages anymore.,,CodinM,148,1638954339,2021-12-08 09:05:39+00:00,story,29482573,,84.0,, 2010,Is it possible to live off technical writing?,,"I co-authored a book on Python last year and it was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun. Does anyone have experience with writing part time or full time on technical topics? How would one get started?",,mtrn,148,1456778695,2016-02-29 20:44:55+00:00,story,11198329,,64.0,, 2011,Any tips for a programmer wanting to switch into security?,,"I've got ~5 years experience as a business app developer with some networking / DevOps experience in there as well. The more I learn about the networking side the more interested I am in how to secure this, and I'm less interested in writing code.
Obviously security is becoming more and more important, and I'd like to focus my career toward this. In terms of talent, I'm an average Developer, and I know there are roles that focus toward knowing how to secure applications at the code level, which could be interesting, but I also would be interested in securing networks.
I've read that OSCP certification is very good for getting a role in Penetration Testing. Is PenTesting a good place to enter the field?
Any general advice would be much appreciated.",,Murgen_,148,1612716125,2021-02-07 16:42:05+00:00,story,26056136,,110.0,, 2012,Do you enjoy working in a coworking space?,,"Coworkings are still on the rise and people from startups, freelancers, and corporates are moving in.
To all my fellow coworkers - do you actually like working there? Why/ why not?",,optimmal,148,1548670158,2019-01-28 10:09:18+00:00,story,19016316,,158.0,, 2013,Just cashed out for 2M. What now?,,"I'm posting this from an anonymous account, for obvious reasons. I just sold my company and have 2 million dollars in the bank. What now? I basically have nobody to consult. It's a business I bought for 90k that just kind of swelled up really fast, and I'm really not set up to manage this kind of money. I'm canadian, the economy seems to be going to hell down south and I'm sure it's gonna hit here soon and I have no idea who to take advice from.
My bank is trying to get me to put all my money into money market mutual funds while I wait, my accountant tells me I should diversify, get some cashable GICs while I wait, and start looking into stocks, as well as investing in insurance companies since they usually guarantee your investment (so long as they don't go bankrupt). I used to just put all my money into a high interest savings account at ING and collect the 3% (which is good enough for me to live on at this point).
Any advice to offer? Any good reading (canadian-specific would be good)? Any good software for mac to manage all this? :)",,newseller,148,1235018939,2009-02-19 04:48:59+00:00,story,486755,,216.0,, 2014,Resources on how Google/Facebook etc. approach software design?,,"A friend once told me Google starts software design by designing data structures. I'm looking for information on how FAANG companies approach software design, are there any resources out there?",,tinktank,148,1559132320,2019-05-29 12:18:40+00:00,story,20039164,,39.0,, 2015,What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?,,I was going through my bookmarks and found this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4000394,,fromdoon,148,1390123047,2014-01-19 09:17:27+00:00,story,7083921,,58.0,, 2016,What's on your RSS reader?,,"I'm interested to hear what you think is good/important enough to warrant following, admittedly with the aim of expanding my list. I'd also be interested to hear what reader you use.
Here's my list (most of these are easily searchable so I won't link them):
Comics: Cube Drone, Dilbert daily, Garfield daily, Invisible Bread, lolnein, Poorly Drawn Lines, The Oatmeal, xkcd
Misc: xkcd what if?, John A De Goes' blog [1], Still Drinking [2], Krebs on Security
I use a Telegram bot [3] as a 'reader' of sorts (no affiliation).
[1] http://degoes.net/
[2] https://www.stilldrinking.org/
[3] https://telegram.me/TheFeedReaderBot",,Guyag,148,1469916646,2016-07-30 22:10:46+00:00,story,12194875,,72.0,, 2017,What newsletters do you read every day or week?,,"It seems like there's been a massive resurgence in email newsletters recently. Maybe it's because slack has helped clear our inbox of tasks freeing up our inboxes for the kind of emails we love to read again.
Whatever it is, there's not much curation around email newsletters and there are just too many publishers to dig through (Mailchimp alone has 7m+ customers).
So I thought we could all share the best newsletters we're reading here.",,shovel,148,1430547762,2015-05-02 06:22:42+00:00,story,9476097,,100.0,, 2018,How does a CPU communicate with a GPU?,,"I've been learning about computer architecture [1] and I've become comfortable with my understanding of how a processor communicates with main memory - be it directly, with the presence of caches or even virtual memory - and I/O peripherals.
But something that seems weirdly absent from the courses I took and what I have found online is how the CPU communicates with other processing units, such as GPUs - not only that, but an in-depth description of interconnecting different systems with buses (by in-depth I mean an RTL example/description).
I understand that as you add more hardware to a machine, complexity increases and software must intervene - so a generalistic answer won't exist and the answer will depend on the implementation being talked about. That's fine by me.
What I'm looking for is a description of how a CPU tells a GPU to start executing a program. Through what means do they communicate - a bus? How does such a communication instance look like?
I'd love get pointers to resources such as books and lectures that are more hands-on/implementation aware.
[1] Just so that my background knowledge is clear: I've concluded NAND2TETRIS, watched and concluded Berkeley's 2020 CS61C and have read a good chunk of H&P (both Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach and Computer Organization and Design: RISC-V edition), and now am moving on to Onur Mutlu's lectures on advanced computer architecture.",,pedrolins,148,1648671465,2022-03-30 20:17:45+00:00,story,30860259,,98.0,, 2019,What are your favorite tech podcasts?,,"I'm a big fan of podcasts, but I wonder if I miss some cool tech podcast.(I follow a16z, The Twenty Minute VC, Changelog, Developer Tea)
What are your favorite tech podcasts ? (anything related to startups, coding, vc, marketing in startups, design etc...)
Thanks",,podcastguy,148,1488226781,2017-02-27 20:19:41+00:00,story,13747563,,55.0,, 2020,Am I missing out by not being in sillicon valley?,,"I'm a serial bootstrapper/software engineer that has been consulting remotely for clients in between trying to start different lifestyle businesses.
I'm living in a small town away from any tech hubs, I feel like I have access to the best of whats happening in tech via the web but sometimes feel like my career is being hurt by not being in sillicon valley.
The lifestyle is laid back here, and things are cheap. I'm not in any kind of rat race. But am I just staying in my comfort zone and missing out?
I would be very interested to hear thoughts of devs who have lived in sillicon valley and whether or not they find it worth the high rents.",,fomophile,148,1432061824,2015-05-19 18:57:04+00:00,story,9572288,,167.0,, 2021,"Developer burnout – how to rediscover the passion, or new career?",,"I've been developing software for the last 15 years and I've stopped 3 months ago and just quit. It wasn't the job, it was one of the better companies I've worked for, the people were nice, the tech was cool and the money was great. Outside of work my life is pretty fulfilled, my first child was born last year, and although its been hard its also really awesome.
I've just lost the passion for developing software :(
I've taken 3 months off so far, but still can't bring myself to open up some code - I'm wondering now if I should think about changing career completely, what can an ex-developer retrain into?",,docflabby,148,1528569181,2018-06-09 18:33:01+00:00,story,17274320,,80.0,, 2022,Leaving my job to boostrap my projects. Advice?,,"Hello HN! I've decided to quit my job to boostrap my projects à la IndieHackers. I don't want to raise money and I only have a few $k. My plan is to build everything myself, using a stack such as Python/Django + HTML/CSS/JavaScript + eventually iOS, and the initial goal after validating my MVPs is to become "ramen profitable."
Levels has been greatly inspiring to me and I've read most of his blog and work about NomadList. https://twitter.com/levelsio
I'm going to go with the flow and figure out and learn things as I go, so my question is whether there are any advice you can think of (release on Tuesday?) that could possibly save me time, money, and mistakes.
Let me know if knowing what the projects are about, but they're basically simple services with niche userbases (e.g: Squarespace for photographers and Slack for gyms)
Thank you HN!",,welpwelp,148,1484907518,2017-01-20 10:18:38+00:00,story,13442738,,139.0,, 2023,Strange bug workarounds?,,"Software bugs are a fact of life and, sadly, many never see a (timely) fix. This can lead to some some unusual workarounds in order to continue using the software.
What are some unusual/quirky/bizarre workarounds to software bugs that have been encountered by the HN crowd?
A recent one I struck was with Google Earth desktop app on Linux. It has a tendency to crash on startup unless your mouse is contained within a small rectangle in the middle of the screen [1].
[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/642027/google-earth-crashes-when-opened#comment1071599_677717",,porjo,148,1473647996,2016-09-12 02:39:56+00:00,story,12476855,,106.0,, 2024,What's it like to work in the same company for decades?,,"The longest I've been at a place has been 2.5 years. I find that I'm usually itching to get out around after the 2 year mark due to various reasons like boredom from doing mostly the same thing over and over, lack of change in environment, no new challenges, people I know having mostly left/transferred to better places.",,SenHeng,147,1550020973,2019-02-13 01:22:53+00:00,story,19149509,,83.0,, 2025,Which self-hosted solutions are you using?,,"I came across Perkeep[1] project today. I know some other self-hosted solutions like Rocket chat[2](Slack alternative), Redmine[3](Project management) etc. Curious what other self-hosted are there and which one you are using?
[1]: https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep
[2]: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
[3]: http://www.redmine.org/",,mohitmun,147,1532585354,2018-07-26 06:09:14+00:00,story,17615376,,96.0,, 2026,Best books or videos to get better at sales?,,,,zabramow,147,1442498305,2015-09-17 13:58:25+00:00,story,10233339,,69.0,, 2027,"Please, help me understand what I am doing wrong.",,"There have been a lot of struggling anonymous posters asking for help lately. As I join those ranks, I hope that I am not straining the community's patience too much.
Here goes:
I'm not burnt out. But, from my vantage point, my problem--whatever it may be--is no less dangerous or frustrating.
Please bear with me as I try to describe what is wrong with me; it seems that clarity slips away more quickly to the extent that I grasp at it.
The problem is one of dissonance and stagnation.
I live an amazing, beautiful, privileged life, but I am unhappy, and my increasingly desperate flailing has not changed a thing. After graduating college at 22, I was hired by a Fortune 500 company as a developer, with a $60,000/year paycheck. I had high hopes for the next few years: Getting in shape, paying off student loans, and programming on the side to finally implement some of the many ideas (both technical and business) that I have collected over the years.
Now, three years later at 25, none of those things have changed. I poured much of my energy into a relationship that I ended near the beginning of the year, but even without that on my mind, I simply cannot seem to overcome inertia. I am still overweight; the fantasy of being debt-free is still a distant mirage, and I am still making the exact dollar amount as when I started; my ideas have languished, tinkered with at best, and utterly ignored at worst. In three years, I have learned a lot about myself, and about how to survive in a corporate job, but the goals I set out as a fresh college graduate have been brutally neglected.
The symptoms are all things you have heard before: I am often melancholy, having struggled with depression for most of my life. Focus is rare; I was recently diagnosed as having ADHD by a psychiatrist, who I saw at the urging of my therapist, despite my staunch refusal to acknowledge it as a real disease. I don't Get Enough Done, and I have to work extremely hard to avoid browbeating myself about every little failure, whether it is a failure of productivity or nutrition.
It's not enough for me to just exist. I feel a deep desire to build, to create, to learn, to teach, and as the weeks and months drag by with no discernible progress made on many of these fronts, my agitation grows.
I've tried many things. Therapy helped a little, but it's been over a half a year and it doesn't seem to have changed much. Prescription psychotropics, of which I have tried only two, had no effect. I picked up martial arts to get some physical activity, and while I am in marginally better shape, it has not ""solved"" anything. I do my best to eat better, but it's as easy to lose focus on planning my meals and learning to cook as it is to lose focus on coding my latest idea.
I have a difficult time relating attempted solutions because I'm still not sure what the problem is. I am not always sad. I am not always unproductive. I still talk and laugh with coworkers at lunch. I still see movies with friends. Once every couple of weeks, I'll have a few hours or maybe even an entire night where I crank out some code. I've learned to just barely squeeze by at work, excelling enough to win the approval of my peers and superiors. But, I know that I'm not even approaching my full potential. Sometimes I spend entire 8-hour days browsing the internet instead of working, even as I consciously berate myself for slacking off, or procrastinating, or whatever it is that I'm doing.
Sometimes I feel deeply ashamed when I read stories on HN, because there are stories of people who achieved absolutely incredible things in the face of adversity: People who created businesses while destitute; people who built families and careers simultaneously; people who got things done even when they didn't feel like it. Even when life got in the way.
Meanwhile; I'm an intelligent, healthy, gainfully employed bachelor, completely in control of his life, and I can't even put together the simplest of my hundreds of ideas in 3 years. 3 years, and I couldn't lose a couple of pounds. Life has been so good to me--I should be leaping out of bed with a giant grin on my face every single morning. And yet, I mope. And yet, I procrastinate.
It's as if I understand all of this in my head, but don't really believe it in my heart, and have no idea how to convince myself otherwise--as if the wrong ""me"" is in control 90% of the time. It doesn't feel right that so many things are such an uphill battle, and I don't understand why I'm squandering the incredible opportunities afforded by each day. I'm ashamed at how little gratitude I seem to have for my situation. My early twenties are over, and I haven't really done anything. The idea of looking back when I'm 30 and having these same thoughts makes me literally shake with terror.
What am I doing wrong?",,throwaway72010,147,1280237695,2010-07-27 13:34:55+00:00,story,1551121,,144.0,, 2028,Do you have the courage to abandon your high paying job?,,"I'm in my early 40s and live in a rental condo with my family in a West Coast city. I have a high paying job in one of the FANG companies, making close to 500K/year. At the same time, I have a decent amount of savings (600K 401k and 1.1M in cash in my bank account from a property sale).
The only problem is that I can't really stand my job. I had prestigious positions in other major companies but I pretty much hated them all.
Yes, I should be thankful to have a gig at a major tech company. But just because I'm okay at what I do and was able to profit from my skills, it doesn't mean that I like it...
I'm considering moving to a cheaper area of the country (also due to family reasons) to start my own company. I'm not ready to share what I'll do, but just for the sake of my question, it will be something I love with a risk profile similar to creating a mobile game company - high chance of failure, average to low chance of making some money and low, but not zero, chance of making a lot of money. I'm decent at this particular activity, but not world class (yet)! This company will need at least 2-3 years before actually having a chance to make good money. Due to my savings, I can wait this much and then some.
The reason I'm writing this is because I'm panicking at the prospect of throwing away my high income, high stress, low happiness career for a risky enterprise that will likely not work out. I'm particularly concerned about having to come back to the job market if my company fails, likely working on an even worse job outside the major tech centers (the bright side is that if the company fails, given its small costs, I'll still have ~500K in bank)
My question is: has anyone here, in a similar situation, done something like this? And if your company failed, have you been able to come back to the market in a good situation?",,tsetse,147,1523332795,2018-04-10 03:59:55+00:00,story,16798887,,166.0,, 2029,Practically accepting cryptocurrency for businesses without middlemen?,,What cryptocurrencies and payment processing software do you recommend for directly accepting payments from customers?
Is there an industry standard for this (or a de facto standard thereof)?
(These funds will be used to pay for business expenses that that can be settled with cryptocurrency. We do not intend to convert to traditional currency unless needed. We do not intend to hold cryptocurrency as an investment.),,hda2,147,1633659754,2021-10-08 02:22:34+00:00,story,28795005,,146.0,, 2030,Is Accidental Complexity Growing Faster Than Essential Complexity?,,"I've recently been involved with a few line-of-business projects recently that have been fairly successful. They all use well-honed agile principles, and they met the requirements that their Product Owners had of them, and by all measures were successful.
However, simultaneously, I'm seeing a great deal of technical complexity being introduced to systems: microservices and SPAs (with all the attendant web stack complexity) being the most common. A lot of it seems to be driven by a need for developers to keep their CVs shiny, or because smart developers want cool things to play with, or because of "Google envy". There seems to be very little engineering justification for these approaches in most cases, and technically simpler approaches would work better.
I've been thinking about Fred Brooke's Mythical Man Month, in which he described 2 forms of complexity: Accidental Complexity as being technical in nature, while Essential complexity relating to the problem domain, and being more intractable.
Although Essential complexity remains stubborn in business systems, I believe we are slowly getting to the point where it is being tamed through more responsive (agile) dev practices, leading to happier customers who get software that does what they expect. On the other hand, I feel that accidental complexity is exploding, and for the first time in my career, it is growing at a faster rate than essential complexity, and masking a lot of the gains we are getting from improved processes. Is this a fair observation, or am I just jaded?",,ern,147,1490582097,2017-03-27 02:34:57+00:00,story,13964720,,59.0,, 2031,How do you build your personal start page?,,"By personal start page, I mean a custom-made web page that you would set as the home page in your browser and use it as the starting point of doing things in the browser.
I'm considering building something with Next.js or Gatsby that I can self-host, but I'd love suggestions of the most customizable tools that would allow me to quickly integrate data "widgets" from diverse sources like Nextcloud, Fastmail, RSS readers (Inoreader, maybe), CalDAV, bank accounts, etc.",,yosito,147,1638443751,2021-12-02 11:15:51+00:00,story,29414763,,117.0,, 2032,"Why do you use Rust, when D is available?",,"D supports Ownership and Borrowing, just like Rust. DMD, D's reference compiler, can compile itself in less than 5 seconds, thanks to a fast frontend and fast backend. D is easy to metaprogram through traits and templates. You can make your own JIT in D with dynamicCompile.
I'd love to hear some reasons why so D and Rust can learn from each other.",,crazypython,147,1591919770,2020-06-11 23:56:10+00:00,story,23494490,,255.0,, 2033,Favorite live coding channels for intermediate/advanced topics?,,"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.
Most of the content I see is aimed towards beginners so I was looking for context for experienced developers.",,deilline,147,1624651644,2021-06-25 20:07:24+00:00,story,27635613,,35.0,, 2034,Recommendations for learning and improving UX/UI skills?,,"I'm a developer and writing code comes naturally to me. However, I feel that user interface design is a weak area for me and I want to improve. All my UI development is web based, HTML, CSS, and JS. Can you recommend any books or other resources that helped you improve you UI skills?",,pgambling,147,1343739470,2012-07-31 12:57:50+00:00,story,4316967,,50.0,, 2035,How would you make a site resistant to government takedown?,,"Which TLD would you use to make a site takedown resistant?
Where would you host it?
For categorization, let's say it's for a niche that is legal in 50% of the world. Which 50 doesn't matter with the exception of the fact that it's illegal in the United States.
(This is purely a thought experiment; I'd be screwed if I actually wanted to do something like this by merit of being an American citizen who still wants to live in the US.)",,icey,147,1302895164,2011-04-15 19:19:24+00:00,story,2451783,,57.0,, 2036,What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?,,"The language doesn't really matter. I'm trying to see examples of what people consider high quality code (clean, elegant, well-formatted, algorithmically beautiful, etc).",,baccheion,147,1462076735,2016-05-01 04:25:35+00:00,story,11604871,,106.0,, 2037,Early signs that a company is failing?,,,,_1tan,147,1472326266,2016-08-27 19:31:06+00:00,story,12373794,,93.0,, 2038,What is your “sales stack”?,,"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.
Although CRM suggestions would be OK, I am more interested in tools that help you do things such as:
- Create easily customizable email templates and their follow-up sequence.
- Automation software for LinkedIn outreach / email sending.
- 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.
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.
If someone asked me the same question for a software tech stack, I would answer for example:
- Bitbucket / Github for version control
- Travis CI for continuous integration deployment
- React JS for front-end, combined with parcel as a bundler, Mobx State Tree for state management, etc.
- Ruby on Rails for back-end, combined with PostgreSQL.
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!",,oliverx0,147,1623828165,2021-06-16 07:22:45+00:00,story,27525819,,61.0,, 2039,How do you validate demand for your side-project?,,"There is an awesome thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29673707
But reading between the lines it's obvious that the major problem in most cases was lack of demand or inability to market the product.
So I'd be interested hear what and how you do early demand validation for your side project or idea, if any?
Share your story.",,boris_v,147,1640521021,2021-12-26 12:17:01+00:00,story,29691811,,77.0,, 2040,Where is the Django community?,,"I'm debating whether to pick up Ruby on Rails in addition to my basic django knowledge, and as I explore the RoR community, I can't help but be amazed at how rich and active it is. For learning rails there are 3 very high quality books that talk about the latest version (Rails Way, Rails Tutorial, Agile Web Development with Rails). Compare this to the books available Django, none of which discuss the latest edition and many of which are outdated(e.g. Django book v2 (the latest ed.) covers Django 1.0!).
This doesn't touch on the huge number of blogs/sites that are dedicated to ruby news and tips (e.g. planetrubyonrails, railscasts, etc.).
Is there a reason for this discrepancy between the two ecosystems? Am I just not aware of where the Django community lives? Also, for those of you using Django or Rails, did the size of the community for your framework of choice influence your decision?",,ciniglio,147,1311018330,2011-07-18 19:45:30+00:00,story,2777883,,155.0,, 2041,How can a intermediate-beginner learn Unix/Linux and programming?,,"For a long time, I’ve been in an awkward position with my knowledge of computers. I know basic JavaScript (syntax and booleans and nothing more). I’ve learned the bare basics of Linux from setting up a Pi-hole. I understand the concept of secure hashes. I even know some regex.
The problem is, I know so little that I can’t actually do anything with this knowledge. I suppose I’m looking for a tutorial that will teach me to be comfortable with the command line and a Unix environment, while also teaching me to code a language. Where should I start?",,learnTemp229462,147,1584819565,2020-03-21 19:39:25+00:00,story,22649291,,109.0,, 2042,Hybrid/Remote software team rituals,,"Hi HN!
I'm curious what unexpected team rituals have been helpful for your software development teams as you've been working remotely.
Rituals that are expected:
- everyone on the team writing up weekly summaries.
- record every video conference
- have lots of 1:1 meetings to maintain relationships
Rituals that have been unexpected:
- Posting once a week about what I did for fun over the weekend, usually with photos.
- Setting up longer phone call 1:1s where both attendees are walking.
I think the future of our working relationships will be increasingly remote, but I'm struggling to see interesting creativity for tightly integrated dev teams.
If new ways of working aren't established, I struggle to see how remote teams will compete with teams that meet in person on a weekly/daily basis.",,codemac,147,1649307348,2022-04-07 04:55:48+00:00,story,30940747,,145.0,, 2043,Why aren't there many credible online bachelors programs?,,"There are swaths of masters programs out there that can be completed online, and are backed by legitimate, well respected institutions.
bachelor degrees, on the other hand, seem to be pretty desolate. There are a handful of well known, decent schools that offer online bachelor degrees, but majority seem to require existing credit or offer non-sense sounding degrees in favor of normal ones (i.e. I've seen schools offer degrees in Professional Studies, Organization studies or Interdisciplinary Studies vs. Computer Science or Physics). Occasionally, you can find a legitimate looking CS degree from a legitimate school, but the programs still seem be below what you would get in-person.
I imagine there has to be a number of uneducated, working people who want to achieve more, or who's career progression many be held back because they don't have that credential, but the only schools advertising to them are the for profits, who charge exorbitant amounts for what seem like below average programs.",,non-entity,147,1585495982,2020-03-29 15:33:02+00:00,story,22719797,,157.0,, 2044,What is your favorite YouTube channel to learn advanced programming?,,There are lots of channels that teach beginner level stuff. What about advanced programming concepts?,,akudha,147,1601720869,2020-10-03 10:27:49+00:00,story,24671019,,30.0,, 2045,How to get good at social media?,,"I feel absolutely shit when I am trying to be relevant by spamming the trending tags, repeating what is already there in the form of SEO spam, email spamming, asking people to subscribe to thing they probably don't even care about.
How do you handle this?
Trying to keep track of what's trending tires me out. Why is it always hate, hate and hate. Why is it always politics or some celebrity expressing their "concerns" or cute puppies.",,thrwaway69,146,1587459045,2020-04-21 08:50:45+00:00,story,22933182,,67.0,, 2046,Starting an Anonymous Blog in 2019?,,"Hey folks,
I'm asking because I'm curious how one would go about doing something like this in 2019. What are the things you need to think about, and what measures would one need to take to ensure continued anonymity over time. In particular, I'm curious about just information transfer, like a simple, not-for-profit blog.
Since the threat model can get pretty vague, I guess I'm thinking about two main scenarios:
1. Easier case: how to prevent being de-anonymized by curious individuals and specific corporations (e.g., multiple ISP's colluding together may be able to de-anonymize you, but for example a specific company like Google can't).
2. Harder case: ensuring anonymity even from state-level actors.
Thanks!",,mvanga,146,1573226089,2019-11-08 15:14:49+00:00,story,21482899,,86.0,, 2047,OCR framework for extracting formatted text?,,"I'm a serial information hoarder, and often use screenshots in order to store comments, passages and fragments of conversations I find useful or insightful. This works well if I want to reference something recent, but obviously doesn't scale well. I'd like to integrate these into my personal archive, but don't know any frameworks (preferably for Go, Node, or Python) which could automatically extract the text from the images while retaining its formatting. I'm not against doing some image preprocessing myself, but I don't feel comfortable passing the images to a 3rd party service, since a portion of the images contain private or sensitive information that I can't readily sort out of my collection.",,crocodiletears,146,1590147212,2020-05-22 11:33:32+00:00,story,23270970,,42.0,, 2048,Victim of an unfounded harrasement accusation. Your thoughts?,,"Seeing top HN link about sexual harassment in SV https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673777 and my recent experience facilitated this posting.
I will try my best to keep this post brief, so please ask in the comments about details I left out.
Swift action has been taken against me by management, due to an accusation by an anonymous female co-worker. All management could tell me is that I made this person "feel uncomfortable", I am guessing in a sexual way. My desk was moved across the building away from where my immediate co-workers sit, and I was told to be not talk to women at the office unless absolutely necessary regarding business matters.
The extent of my non-work-related conversation with female employees has been saying hello/goodbye and making small talk on occasion (How long have you been with the company? Do you have travel plans for this summer? Are you doing anything fun this weekend?) I realize some of these questions could be viewed as hitting on someone, but that was not my intention, and believe that question was cleared up once they responded to me that they were going to see their boyfriend/girlfriend.
I am a male in my mid-20s on an internship ending in a few months. (The company has told me they do not have the budget to hire me full-time or extend my internship.) In the grand scheme of things, I understand this is small potatoes. But what has kept me up at night is the worry that I could be accused of sexual harassment or rape in the future leading to job loss or criminal charges.
I am frankly quite scared of talking to or approaching any women in my office, even for a work-related purpose. This is not a good long-term strategy, and I am not sure how to proceed. I would love your thoughts or advice on this topic. Thanks in advance!",,fjfkdjfjfjd,146,1498898756,2017-07-01 08:45:56+00:00,story,14676115,,138.0,, 2049,Is Meteor.js still a thing?,,"Should I use Meteor for production apps? If not, which Framework should I use for reactive realtime apps?",,tiri,146,1509796224,2017-11-04 11:50:24+00:00,story,15624623,,102.0,, 2050,Where to look to learn UX/Design,,"I understand that this wont make me a web Picasso or anything, but I would love to be 'not horrible' when it comes to sites design and UX. What are some good places to look at, get inspiration from, and especially, learn from?",,d_mcgraw,146,1286468979,2010-10-07 16:29:39+00:00,story,1768358,,60.0,, 2051,What is your best advice for a developer to write better code?,,,,gdaz,146,1467211425,2016-06-29 14:43:45+00:00,story,12001925,,190.0,, 2052,Has anyone leveraged GDPR to overturn automated bans?,,"There are many headlines of people getting their <FAANG/Big Company> accounts banned and losing access to a lot of important documents or services. Often, trying to talk to support on any of these companies is akin to talking to a wall.
However, GDPR has a clause stating that "The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing". Which would mean that any EU/EEA citizen should have the right to have the decision reviewed by a human.
Has anyone successfully overturned a banned account using this method?",,ndmrs,146,1643561257,2022-01-30 16:47:37+00:00,story,30138669,,74.0,, 2053,I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed,,"I am a fourth year student in Eastern Europe, studying Math and Economics. This is the final year, and I have 3-4 months till graduation. At the same time, I've been working full time as a Data Scientist at a big telecom company for the last several months. And I think it's not for me
The project here is interesting, but I realize that I do not like any of the "real" DS tasks, e.g. anything that involves actually building a model from the statistical standpoint. Now, I write a lot of SQL: the company has hundreds of billions of calling records, so you have to really think about the queries you write, and even if they are quite optimized I still sit here for a long time waiting for the response. And even that is more exciting than any of the statistical tasks I face
Little background: I started coding when I was 16, back then I built an iOS app using Swift to help me learn English vocabulary. After that, I've been coding as a hobby on the side during my studies. I liked mathematics and statistics as a freshman, and during my second year found out about Data Science. Given my background, I thought it would be a perfect fit for me. I built a few pet-projects using ML during my third year, and started applying. They impressed one of the employers (big bank), so these projects basically landed me my first internship, which led me to the current job
The thing I like the most is actually building stuff with my hands, and I think SWE is a better fit here. I guess this is the reason I never liked Kaggle. Also, most of my internship I spent building a simple web interface for the existing model (mostly back, like connecting to DB, transforming data, deploying to Linux, etc), which was 100% SWE task and I liked it. So there were hints along the way...
How would you recommend me to switch to SWE the fastest way possible?
I'm quite depressed now because I've put enormous effort into switching to DS: I applied to 80 job postings before I got my first internship, and I feel this is for nothing now. Also, my university and faculty considered to be really difficult, so studying DS on the side was brutal.
Besides, I live in Russia and want to relocate (for obv reasons), and feel like it's easier with SWE skills (especially given that I know English and in the process of receiving EU passport). This puts an enormous time pressure on me given how the things are playing out now...
I would appreciate any opinion/advice!",,boa00,146,1646135609,2022-03-01 11:53:29+00:00,story,30513030,,140.0,, 2054,Anyone here make a 'comeback' from rock bottom? What is your story?,,,,rblion,146,1505144301,2017-09-11 15:38:21+00:00,story,15219311,,119.0,, 2055,What is wrong with Reserve Bank of India?,,"This is a bit of rant but I'm also wondering if there is anything we (the Indian tech community) can do about it?
If you're an Indian startup, I'm sure you must know that the Reserve Bank of India has the worst policies when it comes to charging a credit card.
1) In India, you cannot create recurring subscriptions as the RBI prohibits charging the credit card automatically. Not one Indian payment processor (I've talked to a many) gives you the option to create recurring subscriptions. Can you imagine where half the SaaS startups will be without recurring credit card subscriptions?
2) Add to that, Paypal to Paypal transfer within India is prohibited by RBI. Why? Because certain people used to evade tax by purchasing goods directly with their Paypal balance. So, instead of catching the tax evaders the RBI found it easier to ban the whole thing. They could have made it mandatory for Paypal to report every transaction (as they require a a PAN card) but banning it altogether was easier, I guess?
3) Even big companies like Uber had to recently discontinue Credit card purchases because of these inane credit card policies of RBI [1]
4) I really don't think it's about customer security (since the rest of the world seems fine with it) but rather some "Babu" type mentality which is to ban the whole thing rather than make the efforts to make it work securely.
Anyway, enough about the problem. Now what can we do about it?
I know Modi really wants us to "make in India" and wants to promote the IT industry. Who are the right people to contact who can do something about this?
[1] http://qz.com/296483/indias-credit-card-rules-just-took-the-ease-out-of-uber/",,superasn,145,1426410274,2015-03-15 09:04:34+00:00,story,9205892,,86.0,, 2056,When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?,,I'm writing a book about the role of software developers in the global economy.
One of the book's themes is that developers hold a strange kind of power: we get to make decisions in code that affect end-users but only other developers (and sometimes not even then) can really hold that code to account before it goes into production. Seemingly mundane decisions in code can have profound consequences.
I'm gathering stories from people who've had to take decisions like this and especially where it was in a domain for which they had no experience.
I'd love to hear from people on HN who have stories to share. I'm also interested in hearing from people who dispute that this is even a thing.,,mprev,145,1556881533,2019-05-03 11:05:33+00:00,story,19817264,,99.0,, 2057,“Git” for Microsoft Office?,,"I’ve recently changed job and now I am basically swamped in MSOffice documents. This makes collaboration very hard: people are fearful you’ll touch their precious files, there are manual procedures to produce “gold” documents, fixing a typo is an ordeal, and if the same slide is present in 15 Powerpoint decks any edit will require tons of mindless and error-prone copypasting... it made me realize how good developers have it with git, github, and the likes.
Is there anything out there, capable of working with MSOffice stuff in a granular and collaborative way? I can’t believe non-geeks have lived like this for 30 years.",,toyg,145,1589973614,2020-05-20 11:20:14+00:00,story,23245552,,139.0,, 2058,What is the best way to promote your startup?,,"I think that customers/users are the key for making a successful startup. But firstly, you have to provide a way to let them reach you and figure about it.
What are the solutions, tricks, and methods you are using to generate a high traffic to your startup?",,ahmedaly,145,1340719595,2012-06-26 14:06:35+00:00,story,4161813,,49.0,, 2059,How do you divide time between engaging with users and development?,,I am ideating on a project[0]. So I wrote a document explaining the rationale for the project. And then explained the proposed solution. This is at a very early stage and I wanted some feedback on whether my document and the idea is understandable by both technical and non-technical audience. I posted this question on social media and received valuable feedback.
But to get feedback and develop relationships one has to constantly engage with people on social media. And that takes a lot of time.
So how do you divide your time between engaging with your users and at the same time work on the project? What is the best way to achieve the balance.
[0] https://bsldld.neocities.org,,bsldld,145,1592389453,2020-06-17 10:24:13+00:00,story,23549804,,73.0,, 2060,What are you currently building?,,During my christmas break I started building an automatic investment system.
What did you start?,,_1tan,145,1451849820,2016-01-03 19:37:00+00:00,story,10831940,,234.0,, 2061,How do you work through large ideas?,,"I seem to constantly have 1-2 large ideas in my mind that I chew on in the background, which seem to arise (or give way to something bigger) from reading or a lengthy discussion with a coworker or friend. For example: "what is the best way to organize a liberal democracy of >100M citizens?"
I'm wondering if there is an approach people have that best helps to organize, prune, and work through large, fundamental ideas such as these that they'd be willing to share.",,samcgraw,145,1606372388,2020-11-26 06:33:08+00:00,story,25217436,,85.0,, 2062,How to start a career as a generalist?,,"Hi,
Once I'm in a company I can make myself very useful by analysing, abstracting problems and telling people what they want from each other when they are having discussions and filling any gaps in front-end development. But because I'm no specialist in anything I find it hard to get my foot in the door. I could specialize or qualify in programing more, but I prefer the management and product owner work.
I'm 28, close to finishing my studies in "media and fine art" where I focused on experimental informatics, more precisely news distribution in the internet, interfaces and haptic feedback.
Wherever I worked I joined for some rather low-skill work and quickly become the one to organize at least the conceptual or technical aspects of the project.¹
I freelance doing some custom wordpress sites (those where you do need to write a bit of php) or small web implementations and work in a 3-4 person startup (unfunded, but self-sustaining by side-gigs). At the startup there is not much pay and I do some communications with customers and concept, design and frontend of a cordova/angular app. If this startup succeeds, I will most likely float on top and have a nice job, but not much equity.
Now the question: Where to go from here? The launch date for the first project of the startup is immanent, so I'll see how that performs soon. There is of course a lot of reason for doubt as with any startup, so I plan to look for a better payed job.
Thanks so much for the help!
¹ This way I went from flash animations (a few years back) for our client BMW to writing the specifications for a new outsourced MVP in one company (they offered me to become CTO on paper for the new child-startup, but for laughable pay). In another gig I moved from assistance to technical supervision of a short-film festival sponsored by the german state television.",,thriveaway,145,1484562658,2017-01-16 10:30:58+00:00,story,13409239,,60.0,, 2063,How to ask companies about problems they are facing?,,"I have a hypothesis about broad problems companies are facing which I am planning to solve. In order to validate it, I need to ask many companies about if they are facing similar problems and if they are willing to discuss it. I have already reached out to my network and got responses. Apart from that, I am mostly cold emailing companies hiring for positions to solve these problems but haven't got significant responses to cold emails. What would be good way to ask about it?",,prats226,145,1476715592,2016-10-17 14:46:32+00:00,story,12725435,,39.0,, 2064,why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?,http://www.internettrafficreport.com/30day.htm?jan13,UPDATE: from the looks of it this appears like a measurement error on a single website.,True,yuvadam,145,1326447953,2012-01-13 09:45:53+00:00,story,3459878,,,, 2065,How to form deep friendships later in life?,,"About 7 years ago I arrived in Canada from Southeast Asia to pursue a degree in Computer Science. I graduated and landed a decent job right after in the US, and have been working here since.
I have made many efforts to go out and meet new people, but unfortunately at this age it gets harder and harder to form deep and meaningful connections or friendships. Everyone already has their own childhood friends, family, support group that they have built themselves around their whole lives and grew up with. To them, I am just another 'colleague' or 'fellow member of X and Y group', and I know our friendships will never go past a certain level.
I walk past bars and cafes on Friday nights and I see groups of young adults in merry conversation and laughter. They are most probably friends since childhood / high school and I know I will never be a part of a group like that, because it is just too hard to break into a clique that already has formed a common connection amongst themselves, and the 'making friends' phase is over.
How do I overcome this sense of loneliness and dismality?",,thepredestrian,145,1447749996,2015-11-17 08:46:36+00:00,story,10579893,,81.0,, 2066,What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?,,I'm looking in particular at sites that advertise consultancy services / personal branding etc. The more minimalist the better!,,orbOfOrthanc,145,1575831851,2019-12-08 19:04:11+00:00,story,21737529,,93.0,, 2067,Who wants to be hired? (January 2017),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Dilemna
Zillow wants to buy the domain that a website (optimized for iPhone which uses their API) I've created resides on for literally ""a couple hundred bucks"".
This seems like an easy way to take advantage of the work I've put in to building the domain/ranking.
Additionally, they've threatened to cut of API access if I do not comply with their wishes.
Data
It's located at http://izillow.net
Since launch the site has received ~50,000 visitors + links from techcrunch, apple, google (appengine) and numerous blogs + recognition in the New York Times.
(also ~90k pageviews)
It's in compliance with Zillow's TOS & they've threatened to cut of API access if I do not comply with their wishes.
History
Last year in May I created an iPhone interface for Zillow's ""zestimator"" - it was all fun and games, got a little bit of blog coverage/mentions & an overall good response. Zillow seemed to be all for it.
Then the New York Times included it in one of it's articles - and Zillow asked me to very simply put the words ""unofficial version"" and a link at the bottom of the app.
No problem. Done.
Now
Zillow has launched their own iPhone app (which rocks) - but wants me to take down mine and hand over the domain for ""a couple hundred bucks"".
I dont feel this is fair and they're trying to stiff me with a measely $250. What would you do? What do you suggest? What are your thoughts?",,auston,145,1241141111,2009-05-01 01:25:11+00:00,story,587881,,119.0,, 2069,How to contact Uber about a rider safety exploit being used in the wild?,,"I've tried every possible way to contact Uber I can find to only be met with canned answers by what I assume are bots. I was a victim of this so I know it's being exploited by drivers currently.
How to assault/rob your passengers and not get caught:
1. Accept the ride
2. Meet the passenger and lock then in your car.
3. Do not start the ride, but instead assault, extort, etc... Your passenger.
4. Decline the ride when they flee the car.
5. Ride is now routed to the next driver.
6. Profit!!! Because you car and name will never appear in the riders history. The rider safety hotline does not have the ability to see driver canceled rides. You cannot open a help case in the app because driver cancelled rides do not appear. Uber support (if you can get them to respond) do not have the ability to see driver canceled rides. There is no way to escalate this issue. There's no human to talk to about this issue. You are totally safe to do this with impunity as a driver.
For all the tech magic, anything that deviates outside what they have considered as possible leads to a black hole. How do we contact Uber about this massive exploit before it blows up and tanks their already floundering stock price?",,elmerfud,144,1637191026,2021-11-17 23:17:06+00:00,story,29260139,,70.0,, 2070,What was it like to use BBS?,,"I want to understand how the experience was
what was the cost involved
what were the entry barrier for an average person to join
How similar was it to current social media networks
How big the industry around it actually become
From a tech point of view what do you think were the major breakthroughs and what made it to the internet we see today.
I have watched the documentary www.bbsdocumentary.com , so I have some context but want some more anecdotes if I can :)",,ranuzz,144,1636298944,2021-11-07 15:29:04+00:00,story,29140217,,230.0,, 2071,"What is your goto resource for learning about big data, ML, AI etc?",,,,vijayr,144,1477670505,2016-10-28 16:01:45+00:00,story,12817426,,40.0,, 2072,How do we build the new remote education system,,"My kids are in lockdown homeschooling, and sitting in on some of the live lessons you can see the cracks - very slow, kids moving at different paces, and much much harder for teacher to see who is keeping up and not.
Yet my recently hired collegue insists he spent more time learning from Youtube than from lectures at "proper" university.
There is quality "content" out there - but how do we ensure "mastery" is achieved (ie the concepts understood). It seems quite feasible but who is working on it? What are the impacts when we go back to normal?
What as time constrained parent should I look at? (beside spending "quality" time with them. They don't like that :-)
PS There are seemingly complete areas like thenational.academy or khanacademy but I am not sure how they linknsubjects to syllabus (especially US/UK syllabuses)",,lifeisstillgood,144,1610539038,2021-01-13 11:57:18+00:00,story,25760960,,202.0,, 2073,Why is Docker so popular in comparison to other containerization tech?,,Has it only been the first mover effect or are there (decisive) features that other technologies don't have?,,justaj,144,1513997959,2017-12-23 02:59:19+00:00,story,15992664,,103.0,, 2074,"Please AWS team, make links work with control-click",,"Hey AWS team,
If you are reading this, please please make CTRL-click to open a new page. It's really frustrating to try to open a link in a new page just to see that the page navigated, and then if you click the back button, you end up nowhere near where you were before.
I really love the new UI, it's really good! and with this feature we could be more productive and use AWS even more!!",,eridal,144,1490393259,2017-03-24 22:07:39+00:00,story,13952626,,37.0,, 2075,How did you overcome perfectionism?,,"I am Struggling with this from a long time and it has made my life hell. Would like to know what strategies you used to overcome it?",,Anand_S,144,1646668941,2022-03-07 16:02:21+00:00,story,30589374,,128.0,, 2076,What are some good React tutorials?,,"I am beginner in this whole javascript/node ecosystem. Currently i am going through express.js framework, and would like add a client-side framework/library to my repertoire.Any suggestions would be welcome.",,Kaladin,144,1460275727,2016-04-10 08:08:47+00:00,story,11465377,,45.0,, 2077,Front-end “design patterns”?,,"Hello HN, Are there any treatments of the topic of web front-end software design? I'm looking for something similar to "Design Patterns" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns) but for web front-end HTML/CSS.
I've read Duckett's book (Amazon bestseller) and its just syntax. Also, I've read the Atomic CSS design and BEM methodologies, and while those come close to what I want, I'm looking for a more detailed treatment. To give an obvious example of what I'm looking for- I would say, use margins to separate multiple instances of same components (among other uses). I wonder if there are books that deal with similar, but non-obvious topics.",,blawa,144,1425745110,2015-03-07 16:18:30+00:00,story,9162139,,61.0,, 2078,Examples of tech worker cooperatives?,,"Cooperatives are an intriguing business model for reasons addressed in a recent New York Times article [1] as well as a recent documentary film called Shift Change [2]. The discussion sparked by Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century [3] provides further reasons for seeking out an alternative business model. Wikipedia has a good entry on the worker coop model [4].
I've come across Quilted [5] and Colab [6], two worker-owned and run cooperatives working in the tech space in the U.S. Both have a fairly impressive lineup of worker-owners and compelling portfolios, indicating that the model can really work.
Does anyone know of other examples of such coops, both in the U.S. and around the world?
1: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/magazine/who-needs-a-boss.html
2: http://shiftchange.org/about/
3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7618971
4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
5: http://quilted.coop/
6: http://www.colab.coop/about",,jboynyc,144,1398263536,2014-04-23 14:32:16+00:00,story,7634152,,97.0,, 2079,"As an experienced dev, how do you learn a language/framework quickly?",,"Background: I've been coding off and on for 2+ decades, starting from BASIC to C/C++ to Rails/Node. Languages and frameworks change quickly, and I'm still not thrilled with the resources available to learn as an experienced developer. For example, I'm confident that I should be able to do a fair bit of iOS development with a week or two of hard work given my knowledge of C/C++, Rails, Node.
My challenges with existing tools:
- Books are pretty verbose and don't do a great job covering popular libraries (e.g., the top NPM/CocoaPods/Gems that are part of so many startup products)
- A ton of articles + samples online are designed for novice programmers approaching a language
- Online videos are super slow moving (even when you speed up playback)
- Progressively more difficult sample code would be great - but it's hard to find the right progression and most are missing the annotation that explain the vagaries of the language or framework
- Perusing reference docs for the purposes of learning is too 'exhaustive search' (e.g., why isn't there a doc for say underscore.js that rank orders functions by incidence of use)
I'd love to hear what the HN community does - with a focus on learning a language + framework by experienced engineers for the purpose of building startup products (i.e., not simply for the purpose of becoming a language/framework expert but rather to build something as quickly as possible).",,nemild,144,1399908334,2014-05-12 15:25:34+00:00,story,7733249,,66.0,, 2080,Essential skill needed to be a programmer?,,"In the book Coders at Work by Peter Siebel, he asks peter norvig this question:
"So is there any essential skill needed to be a programmer? Different domains obviously have different requirements but ultimately is there some commonality to writing code regardless of domain?"
Peters answer to this _really_ resonated with me - his first two sentences were "You've got to be able to make progress and then improve on it. That's all you need to be able to do in life."
How would you answer this question?",,catwind7,144,1601994418,2020-10-06 14:26:58+00:00,story,24697965,,184.0,, 2081,Are there forgotten servers out there?,,"I was wondering if there are "forgotten" servers out there. No longer doing anything, but still up and running.
Is there any way to even know?",,forgottenacc56,144,1432982824,2015-05-30 10:47:04+00:00,story,9629714,,105.0,, 2082,What tools/methods do you use to focus your time well?,,I wrote a piece in my wiki about tools & methods I use to stay focused.
https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing
I found this system to work well for me. It's a Trello board of goals separated by time. Weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly. Where month goals are ideally based off my year goals and week goals are based on month goals. This kind of system gives me structure and focus and I allocate time with events based on the goals I have set. And more importantly it gives long term perspective to the things I do now & the things I want to achieve in life.
The link also goes over some nice tools I use to automate distraction as I have most 'news feed' like websites blocked (front pages of twitter/hn/lobsters/github/..). And only have few times I can actually visit those sites with goals of intentionally viewing them and not out of a habit.
I also try to systemize as much as I can to the point where I create some guidelines ([rules](https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/rules)) I wish to follow. It helps me keep things in order and I iterate on them as I gain more experience.
I am curious what systems & methods you guys found that work well for you to achieve this goal of being more mindful of your time and the things you truly want to be doing in life?,,nikivi,144,1558646224,2019-05-23 21:17:04+00:00,story,19996062,,58.0,, 2083,Is it normal to be ghosted for senior position job interviews?,,"I'm casually browsing for some engineer manager / principal engineering roles. I scheduled an interview with 3 different companies, and in all 3 cases nobody showed up for the interview.
In the first 2 cases, I emailed the recruiter about 5~10 minutes after the interview was supposed to start, to check if I had the right meeting link (I know I did, but wanted to frame it politely). After the meeting was supposed to end, I sent another email saying that unfortunately I was not able to reach them, but that I'm still interested and would like to reschedule. Again... crickets.
In the 3rd scenario I confirmed the proposed interview date/time, but never received the meeting invite. Only after the interview was supposed to take place, the recruiter proposed a new time.
The companies mentioned are Grafana (no reply at all, not even from the head of people who I reached out to after being ignored by the recruiter 3 times), Miro (the recruiter replied several days later with a very vague non-apologetic message, but never reacted to my proposal of rescheduling) and Microsoft.
Is this a normal experience or is something weird going on?
(and yes, I know shaming companies with their name is not nice, but ghosting candidates also isn't nice imho)",,Avalaxy,144,1647435983,2022-03-16 13:06:23+00:00,story,30698269,,103.0,, 2084,"Founders who sold their company, what do you do?",,,,PirxThePilot,143,1515574276,2018-01-10 08:51:16+00:00,story,16113429,,88.0,, 2085,Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?,,"This question was asked on both 2015 & 2016 in HN. I would like to ask it again today to know what are the newest options for this.
Q: What would you recommend as a reasonably priced (sub 150$) quad-copter/drone, that has a camera, the ability to be programmed (so that I can process video/write my own stability algorithms for it), good range, and reasonable flying time? In the event nothing fits that price point, any pointers on what the state of the art is?
Thanks!",,nanospeck,143,1493192641,2017-04-26 07:44:01+00:00,story,14201207,,52.0,, 2086,No formal software education – is there hope for me?,,"In 2015 at the age of 21 I got a Mechanical Engineering bachelor's degree. Afterwards I worked for two years at a place I didn't like very much and I learned some Python. Then, there was an opening at the school I graduated from for an assistant instructor and I took it. I then went on to teach in courses such as 3d modelling, FEA and transducers and electrical prototyping. I have great fun with it and learn a tonne as well as I get to interact with lots of smart and ambitious students.
So why leave a job like that?
It's mainly the pay but I also sort of fell in love with software this year. I started learning JavaScript last year, learned about databases, servers, React and Linux stuff. Loads of really exciting fun stuff!
So now I don't know how to transition to a software role. Many places I apply to want people who have experience in software development or they want to hire a junior for some super low pay. I can't put the words "software developer" on my resume but I have written a lot of programs for my classes and in hobby projects.
It feels like nobody looks at your GitHub profile though. I've got lots of projects I've done in the last year. But maybe that's just the grind? Just need to apply to enough places?",,polishdude20,143,1588534256,2020-05-03 19:30:56+00:00,story,23061236,,157.0,, 2087,Why do companies buy ads when they are the top result in search?,,"For example, go to google.com and type in: "Squarespace". Squarespace has an ad at the top and then they are the first result. On the surface, this seems counter-intuitive because a user searching 'squarespace' would likely choose the organic link anyway. This is very common. Why do companies do this? Is it a defense mechanism so other competitors do not win ad placements right above their organic search result?",,Man_On_the_Moon,143,1475382943,2016-10-02 04:35:43+00:00,story,12621053,,86.0,, 2088,What are the best resources to properly learn Scala?,,"Hello, I've started to work with scala and I think it's a beautiful language. that said, I'd like to be better at it. What are some good books to get thst teach about the nitty gritty details of the language and it's use in production?",,godmodus,143,1490591675,2017-03-27 05:14:35+00:00,story,13965344,,57.0,, 2089,"Please review my site ""Smoke Signal""",http://www.getsmokesignal.com,,,mtgentry,143,1319051768,2011-10-19 19:16:08+00:00,story,3131611,,80.0,, 2090,Please be more thoughtful when downvoting,,"Lately I've noticed far too many constructive comments that have been downvoted (usually without any explanation). Please stop this. It's okay to have comments that are not in support with the original post or your own thoughts. We don't have to shoot them down.
Downvoting is meant as a management tool to filter out comments that negatively impact the community, or ones that provide no substance or insight. Please do not downvote legitimate comments.
Thank you.",,guynamedloren,143,1333241821,2012-04-01 00:57:01+00:00,story,3782124,,76.0,, 2091,A spammer is spoofing my email address; what do I do?,,"About every 15 seconds all day, another Mail Delivery Subsystem Status Notification Failure pops in from random servers around the world for some email that supposedly I sent, but of course did not. Apparently someone is sending out thousands of emails as coming from my address, and there is nothing I can do about it, right? Here are my questions:
1) Or, is there something I can do about this? 2) Will this cause my email address to end up on blacklists and cause me significant problems? 3) Why in 2016 are Internet mechanisms not in place to prevent stuff like this?",,hellofunk,143,1459419560,2016-03-31 10:19:20+00:00,story,11396089,,50.0,, 2092,How do you monitor your websites?,,"What tools do you use to monitor uptime of your web apps and/or APIs? Also, how do you track SSL/domain name expiry?",,skies,143,1540396101,2018-10-24 15:48:21+00:00,story,18293434,,100.0,, 2093,New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?,,"I noticed on the youtube homepage that I cannot hover over a video thumbnail without it getting big and auto playing a portion. Does anyone else find this annoying as hell?
I understand the argument about how people don't like change (which will probably be the first counter to my complaining) but this is somewhat overstepping a line for me.
What say you, HN?",,37,143,1642387842,2022-01-17 02:50:42+00:00,story,29962846,,104.0,, 2094,Did Google turn off IMAP access for good over the weekend?,,"Google was going to turn off access for LSA apps soon, and this includes IMAP for Gmail. However, with the pandemic they delayed this indefinitely.
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/less-secure-app...
Since May 1st, using IMAP to access a G Suite account stopped working, though, with a message:
> IMAP command 'AUTHENTICATE PLAIN <authdata>' returned an error: NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)
I know the credentials are good because they work in the browser. Maybe an automated process somewhere kicked in?",,JetSpiegel,143,1588590067,2020-05-04 11:01:07+00:00,story,23066561,,81.0,, 2095,Why isn't VoIP better?,,"I'm very sensitive to bad call quality. I'm very easy going about most things, but poor sound quality or an intermittent connection on a call, make it completely impossible for me to maintain normal communication and also makes me extremely cross.
As a result I am very attuned to the general quality of different call services. I always know when I'm on a PSTN that terminates to another PSTN - yes maybe the voices are a bit trebly but the connection is so consistent and wonderful. I actually appreciate the quality of those calls.
Skype, Viber, our own corporate VOIP system (whatever the hell it is) all drive me completely nuts. I have 240MB/s at home, but still VOIP lets me down: about 1 in 3 calls is of a quality I am happy with.
I guess my question is: will this ever be solved to my satisfaction, or is it simply the nature of the beast and "good enough" for most people?",,scandox,143,1488369998,2017-03-01 12:06:38+00:00,story,13763066,,138.0,, 2096,"good, quick algorithms course to prepare for big tech interviews?",,"I'm going to be interviewing for a professional work experience year as a university student (engineering) at several big software tech companies. I studied mainly electrical engineering, and it's been a while since my computer science algorithms days. I've still coded pretty much every week, but I can't remember specific stuff like merge sort, binary heaps, etc (plus I don't know what I need to know).
I hear algorithms-type questions come up a lot, so I would like to prepare really well as quickly as I can. What good sources would HN recommend?
Thanks.",,zxcvvcxz,143,1316398936,2011-09-19 02:22:16+00:00,story,3011964,,27.0,, 2097,Why are there two Job Ads at the top?,,"I've noticed earlier today that a Job Ad posted on HN front-page started higher than usual and moved down much more slowly. Now, it's back at the top, along with another Job Ad. Is this the new normal or just a result of live development?
Also, I'd like to remind all the startups posting Job Ads to HN that this is an international website and that not all its visitors live in <your city> or come from <your country>. Quite often I read Job Ads that don't mention the location at all. For example, while the boostedboards.com Job Ad currently on the front-page prominently displays the location above the job description, the information is absent in the polleverywhere.com description and only visible in the sidebar below the link to the same Job Ad.",,tomp,143,1408544531,2014-08-20 14:22:11+00:00,story,8202376,,35.0,, 2098,Why do tutorial writers combine 10 technologies when 1 or 2 would do?,,"Suppose I want to learn graphQL - most of the tutorials are a combination of express, react and 20 other things, when most of these aren't going to help me learn what I originally came to learn. I saw a course on blockchain which explicitly stated it is for beginners ("no coding experience necessary") and they picked JS along with 5 other JS frameworks to build a simple toy blockchain when Python would have been a much simpler choice (most of the students were struggling to understand JS Promises and unable to complete the exercises).
Isn't this crazy? I can understand paid courses doing this - maybe they think they're providing more value for the money by tacking as many tech as possible, but free resources? Even they do the same!",,akudha,143,1547953165,2019-01-20 02:59:25+00:00,story,18950679,,78.0,, 2099,Can we add collapsing boxes to comments?,,The top of this thread devolved into an off-topic discussion of the Month Hall problem [1]. I'm often on my phone and don't have the ability to use the browser extension that adds collapsing boxes on a desktop. Plus I think this would be a feature that could allow everyone to more easily locate interesting discussion.
My favorite discussions on HN are the ones where comments are primarily on topic and substantive. How can we get more of this?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389370,,studentrob,143,1459385976,2016-03-31 00:59:36+00:00,story,11394258,,46.0,, 2100,My friend made it big. How to handle?,,"I knew that my friend's startup was doing well, but I didn't know it was doing that well. I just found out that his net worth is several hundred million $. I don't know how to handle it... I am very happy for him but since hearing about it I feel like I've been wasting my time in my job. How do you deal with this?",,throwaway_poor,143,1628936118,2021-08-14 10:15:18+00:00,story,28179542,,227.0,, 2101,Any Pebble Alternatives?,,"Are there any programmable Pebble alternatives nowadays? I've heard of Pebble Versa 2, but people are complaining that it's not possible to create an always-visible custom watch face.
My goal is to create a TODO/Pomodoro watch app (as I had on my good, old Pebble) that is always on.",,guzik,143,1577646037,2019-12-29 19:00:37+00:00,story,21907699,,80.0,, 2102,"Learning NoSQL, papers and books",,"In your opinion, which papers and books are mandatory to really understand NoSQL subject?",,wareotie,142,1507464995,2017-10-08 12:16:35+00:00,story,15427932,,43.0,, 2103,How best to break up with cofounder?,,"So the situation is, we both came up with the idea together. She got a loan from a friend for $10K, out of which $8K was spent on getting incorporated, getting insurance, organizing pilot events, building the website, buying software to plug into the website and some other menial tasks. Overall, we have had little traction on the platform and that is because the idea will result in a huge cultural change so it will take a lot of effort to mobilize customers to try it out. Also, since we are financially constrained we have been bootstrapping and both been working on this ourselves, alongside school and haven't been able to spend any money on hiring the right people to market this or to pay for any marketing. Recently, we have very misaligned interests and a lot of ugly arguments so I will like to move on and have informed the other cofounder about this. I however have spent the whole year working on this on the side and will not like to walk ork away with anything gained from it. I am trying to figure out how best to resolve things with the cofounder so we are both able to work away not feeling cheated. How do I go about this. Decide on an equity split arrangement given the effort which has been put in so far or work on dissolving the company assets where everything that has been worked on goes to the debt holder (including the technology, relationships etc). I prefer the later and of course she prefers the later. The third option is for her to only get the brand and the other assets are divided up between us. I will really appreciate is I can get some alternate views on this.",,noirette,142,1447827056,2015-11-18 06:10:56+00:00,story,10586258,,86.0,, 2104,I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?,,I lost my ability to focus. I check social media and youtube frequently while doing work. If I do not do that I feel some void and feeling of losing out(I do not know how to express this).
How to regain my focus and avoid this trap?,,codesternews,142,1555616071,2019-04-18 19:34:31+00:00,story,19694091,,122.0,, 2105,Where do you find software development freelance work?,,I wondered if there are other places besides Upwork that you would recommend when looking for software development freelance work? I would prefer smaller jobs but tips for any good platform would be welcome. Thanks you!,,advanderveer,142,1580633337,2020-02-02 08:48:57+00:00,story,22215941,,26.0,, 2106,Should I sell out the startup that misled me?,,"Summary: Startup not paying wages or tax on employees, to claim unemployment benefit I have to report them.
Hi guys, I'd appreciate some outside perspective here.
I've been working with a startup for about two months as their CTO. Small team, three/four developers depending how you count. Handshake deal said moderate salary until series A but with equity.
I've been pushing and pushing for a contract stating the terms, but there always seemed to be something else the CEO had to do. However, I met the rest of the team and it all seemed legitimate.
Around the two month mark, I dug my heels in and said contract or I walk. Next day I have a meeting with the CEO and it comes out that there's no salaries being paid, people are working for equity. I explain that this isn't appropriate for my situation, to which the CEO responds with more work for me to do.
Obviously, I should walk away at this point (or ideally weeks before), but there are some twists:
1) The work that I produced for them is still mine, as no copyright transfer has been signed. They'll almost certainly be trying to sell this / bring it to investors.
2) It's not legal to work only for equity in my country, there's a minimum wage, and each employee has to be registered and tax paid on them to the government. I went to apply for unemployment assistance and was told that regardless of whether I was paid, I was considered employed, and thus had no entitlements. Furthermore, as I wasn't registered the company was not meeting its tax obligations in hiring me.
This brings me to the crux of my problem: If I want to claim unemployment benefit while I look for a real job, I must torpedo the old company. This is bad as it not only can hurt my reputation, it will negatively affect the co-workers who have previously worked for low wage and equity.
My feeling is to walk away and cut my losses, but I thought the community may have other suggestions.
Thanks for looking.",,nocash,142,1465825856,2016-06-13 13:50:56+00:00,story,11893830,,97.0,, 2107,Who wants to be hired? (January 2019),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Animation brings a whole lot more to explanations, making simple explanations of how request coalescing works easy to understand, token simulations [0] through to helping explain concepts like Fresnel lenses [1]. Embedding them into GitHub READMEs, tweets and documentation would be awesome.
Google do it to illustrate posts (e.g. https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/a-safer-default-for-naviga...).
I found Excalidraw Claymate [2] but the stop motion approach with no tweening support makes it painful to create animations where circles move from place to place. There's also Manim [3] but I think this is more for maths.
Adobe Flash used to be the go-to; what do you reach for when you want to illustrate a concept with an animated diagram?
0. https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js-token-simulation
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30576688
2. https://github.com/dai-shi/excalidraw-claymate
3. https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim",,pbowyer,142,1646944080,2022-03-10 20:28:00+00:00,story,30631993,,62.0,, 2112,How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?,,"It's been three years since the last thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16166645), maybe there are more mature solutions now.
Interested to hear about current setups, and how it works for you.",,Kunix,142,1618915304,2021-04-20 10:41:44+00:00,story,26872904,,135.0,, 2113,"I'm going to have to lay people off, and want your advice",,"Throwaway for obvious reasons. I'm probably going to have to lay off several dozen people, which I've never done before. Needless to say I'm not looking forward to it. What advice do you have to make it as decent as possible both for those who will be laid off and those who will remain?
(Probably helpful if you note whether you are someone who has been laid off well or poorly, someone who has laid people off, or just have thoughts about it.)",,sadthrowaway,141,1436753919,2015-07-13 02:18:39+00:00,story,9876009,,140.0,, 2114,"If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?",,"I mean the protocols, networking, connectivity. I don't mean the content of the internet.
Is DNS really a perfect protocol? How can it be improved?",,flerovium,141,1635638133,2021-10-30 23:55:33+00:00,story,29053266,,320.0,, 2115,Best Lego Mindstorms alternative for fun programming projects?,,"What are the best Best LEGO Mindstorms alternatives out there? No upper age limit.",,crypto-jeronimo,141,1532340974,2018-07-23 10:16:14+00:00,story,17591715,,59.0,, 2116,Does anyone have a backup of Aaron Swartz' site: theinfo.org?,,"Hi HN folks,
I was browsing Aaron's blog [http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve] when I noticed the footer links out to http://theinfo.org/ (last updated March 2008). However, none of the links are still alive, and I couldn't find any pages that were backed up on Archive.org.
I figured this would be the best place to ask - does anyone have an archive of these pages?",,skoocda,141,1638859544,2021-12-07 06:45:44+00:00,story,29469671,,9.0,, 2117,Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?,,I noticed that I'm still clicking away the once proposed dialogue of Whatsapp to give all my data away to Facebook.
I have not accepted it and I keep clicking away. And you?,,timdaub,141,1639909391,2021-12-19 10:23:11+00:00,story,29612778,,188.0,, 2118,How do you feel about web scraping?,,"Most sites seem to have ToS saying that scraping is not allowed, but in lots of cases that shouldn't be the case. If you see that, does it change your opinion?
Does the purpose of your scraping make a difference, if one use is just a project but another would be selling the data?
Are comments on sites like this public data or private?
What about sports statistics that sometimes are "private" by the league, rather than just open for people to use and write interesting articles about it?
Overall thoughts?
I actually created a site (I edited and deleted the mention of the name here because apparently people don't believe that I don't care about people looking at the site.) that scrapes comments and posts from Reddit that link to Amazon products and shows that information. I'm thinking of adding Amazon links from HN and other sites, but just not sure about how people would feel about scraping from sites like this.",,jackschultz,141,1496784805,2017-06-06 21:33:25+00:00,story,14501564,,163.0,, 2119,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2014),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,141,1406904352,2014-08-01 14:45:52+00:00,story,8120079,,157.0,, 2120,How to create a service similar to Patreon?,,"I'd like to create a service similar to Patreon, I know how to do the technical side but not so sure about financial side: how do I charge users to send the funds to other type of users (creators), while subtracting a small percent? How does it need to be set up from the POV of financial compliance? Can it be reported as "payment to support Creator xyz" without a specific product? Does the company need to register as a bank or something similar to a bank? Financial services company? Where can I find some relevant resources, and how can I narrow down my research so that I don't have to read everything about all types of financial services but only more or less relevant info? (located in the US).",,rainydaybook,141,1551852976,2019-03-06 06:16:16+00:00,story,19316728,,93.0,, 2121,Do you regret taking investment?,,,,forgottenacc57,141,1493808625,2017-05-03 10:50:25+00:00,story,14254550,,65.0,, 2122,Is the “The Art of Computer Programming” Worth the Investment?,,Reading through and taking in "The Art of Computer Programming" seems to require massive amounts of time investment. In your opinion is the gems inside the text worth it?,,main_c,141,1558488998,2019-05-22 01:36:38+00:00,story,19976957,,69.0,, 2123,Who is seeking a cofounder?,,"For all HNers seeking a cofounder Pro tip: Leave contact info in profile, not everyone sees post the same day",,bruceb,141,1561399387,2019-06-24 18:03:07+00:00,story,20266463,,172.0,, 2124,Is 'search' a solved problem?,,"I remember the time (not so long ago) when 'search' seemed to be the hottest topic in the industry. We had the rise of Google and competitors. There were search startups. Open source projects like Lucene and Solr were in the news. There were books published, blogs, conferences..
And now it seems that the industry have moved on. There is a million papers/books/blogs/online courses/video lectures/meetups about ML/AI, but I can't seem to find anything current on search.
What are the good resources to learn the fundamentals of search and keep up with the current happenings in that space? Not SEO, but more from the computer science/engineering point of view?",,search_,141,1528869419,2018-06-13 05:56:59+00:00,story,17300599,,121.0,, 2125,How do you generally build a product?,,"Okay, so, you've got ideas in your to-do list probably if you're anything like me.
I want to know how do you find the time to build that idea out and even during that process of building, do some of the good ideas get left out? Is it partially because you don't have the right kind of developers to work with? If you had your developers friends working with you, would you get more products built?
How do you tackle this problem generally and ultimately, what does the process ends up looking like when you turn that to-do list idea into a product?",,tr1ll10nb1ll,141,1620263197,2021-05-06 01:06:37+00:00,story,27057978,,66.0,, 2126,What do you think will come after Kubernetes?,,"I mean, Kubernetes became a thing after Docker became a thing before(and so on, all the way down to VMs), so it's reasonable to assume that something new will eventually emerge and become the industry-standard.",,spIrr,141,1621007346,2021-05-14 15:49:06+00:00,story,27155526,,170.0,, 2127,How does your app deal with the death of one of your users?,,"My wife died recently. I had to close various accounts. From an IT perspective, the results were shameful. For example, I called her cell-phone provider and closed her account. The agent was very respectful. He offered condolences and closed the account, and said there would be a refund. The next day, there was an email, addressed to my wife, using her first name, asking her to rate her recent experience.
I had to use text messaging to close her NY Times subscription. I texted "I need to cancel a subscription" The bot asked me why
1. No time to read
2. Price concern
3. Service issue
And I was told I had to answer 1, 2, or 3! Really?
Then a human got involved, and he/she was good, but obviously the bot still has some control because at the end I got this:
"Thank for contacting the New York Times, I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day."
Come on.....this is terrible. The human realized this and immediately added
"And also before you go, I wanted to express my most sincere condolonces to you and your family"
There is more, but this may be enough. My question for those of you working on apps that have registered users or subscribers: how do you deal with notification that one of your clients has died? Did you even give this use case some thought?",,herodotus,141,1586053433,2020-04-05 02:23:53+00:00,story,22783235,,36.0,, 2128,Advice for passing a FAANG background check with a criminal history,,"Hey HN (using a throwaway account for obvious reasons, but I've been on HN for 10 years),
I was just recently offered a job at a FAANG company. I'm pretty excited about the company, but the only potential issue is that I have a criminal history and I'm not sure if I'll pass the background check.
For context, two years ago I was part of an animal rights group that would investigate factory farms and rescue sick, injured animals from them. The investigations were public, and I was indicted on felony burglary and theft charges in Utah for one rescue. I ended up pleading guilty "in abeyance" to misdemeanor attempted theft and misdemeanor riot. Because the pleas were "in abeyance", the pleas are sealed as long as I don't commit any other crimes.
I read up a bit about California employment law, and it seems like California companies aren't allowed to use arrest records (I technically wasn't arrested, but I did have an arrest warrant out for me and I turned myself in) and sealed court records against you. So I'm not sure if I should even bring it up. That said, I've asked a couple lawyer friends and they think I should bring it up early (though they're not specialists in employment law).
Any advice or lawyer recommendations would be appreciated.",,criminalhistory,141,1588269048,2020-04-30 17:50:48+00:00,story,23033762,,157.0,, 2129,"US government funds a lot of tech research, why don't startups use it?",,"Some people know about SBIRs (small business innovative research grants), through which federal government gives away more than $1B of R&D funding to small businesses. There are many more opportunities open for small businesses. For example, AirForce recently opened a $100M solicitation looking for machine learning technologies.
I know government grant process can be very cumbersome but so is trying to raise VC money (especially outside of SV). And government money is non-dilutive.
I am noticing more startups (e.g. Palantir, Anduril) starting off of government opportunities, but they seem very rare.
Why isn't gov funding a more common way of starting a startup? Is it mostly because people don't know about these and/or don't know how to navigate the process?",,notkid,141,1561433697,2019-06-25 03:34:57+00:00,story,20270969,,69.0,, 2130,How do I find meaningful work?,,"I look around and I feel like all the startups are either bullshit or making the world worse off. I've been a software engineer and data scientist. I've worked with machine learning. What should I do next?
I'm sick of working with advertising-based businesses because I believe advertising is convincing people to buy useless shit. I don't want to work in health, because the government and insurance have fucked up the healthcare system, and I don't want to be part of it. I kinda like fin-tech, but it seems at the end of the day about make rich people richer and/or getting poor people to pollute more. I've thought about heading more towards pure research, but I want to know I'm doing something for a good purpose.
I'm also totally sick of the ideological crap at lots of startups. I don't want to have to drink the kool-aid. Neither do I want to work for some large corporate machine.
I want there to be real values behind what I'm working on that I can believe in. Despite claims to contrary, I find the entire business culture rotten to the core. What should I do?",,throwawaybs,141,1508116120,2017-10-16 01:08:40+00:00,story,15480233,,72.0,, 2131,How can scam callers fake a mobile phone number?,,"I'm with T-Mobile and I just received a phone call on my mobile phone from another number where everything except for the last 3 digits was exactly matching my own number. I found that suspicious, but I was curious enough to pick up the call. The other person greeted me with "We are very important this is Interpol!" in seriously broken English, so I suspected a spam call and hung up to try to call them back. That didn't work because the phone number they were calling me from does not actually exist. Like I immediately get the T-Mobile announcement informing me that this is an invalid number.
Now I am wondering:
- How can a spam caller call me with a source phone number that does not exist?
- Shouldn't my mobile phone network verify that the caller - which was also inside their network - is a valid subscriber? Otherwise, how can they bill someone for this call?
- How does this kind of scam call work technically?",,fxtentacle,141,1647268996,2022-03-14 14:43:16+00:00,story,30673009,,150.0,, 2132,What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?,,What are the posts that have inspired you the most?,,ruswick,140,1337554636,2012-05-20 22:57:16+00:00,story,4000394,,51.0,, 2133,What good alteratives are there to Google News?,,,,cpncrunch,140,1499636260,2017-07-09 21:37:40+00:00,story,14731816,,112.0,, 2134,Why is there so little debate about the attack on Vodafone Portugal?,,Last week Vodafone Portugal saw a cyberattack bringing down its mobile network. It seems it took quite some effort to bring the network up again. There was next to no debate here on HN which is frankly quite surprising. Does anyone have more information what exactly happened? (https://www.vodafone.pt/press-releases/2022/2/vodafone-portugal-alvo-de-ciberataque.html),,oger,140,1645022503,2022-02-16 14:41:43+00:00,story,30360532,,37.0,, 2135,improving your design skills?,,"I regularly get negative comments about the looks of my sites, and I want to do something about it.
The problem is: most of them look just fine to me. It's not like code where I can see what looks bad and then work towards something that looks better. For that matter, it's not even like a drawing where I can tell whether it looks how I want it. I like the simple/spare/plain look. However... that doesn't seem to match what a lot of the rest of the world wants, so any advice from hackers who have made progress in that direction?",,davidw,140,1265379920,2010-02-05 14:25:20+00:00,story,1103578,,80.0,, 2136,Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy?,,"I primarily use Firefox, but occasionally I have to resort to Chrome for certain poorly-designed websites.
Now that Microsoft Edge is Chromium-based, is it any better as an alternative? Is the privacy any more respectable, or does it simply replace all the Google phone-homing with the same level of Microsoft phone-homing?",,StevePerkins,140,1593351660,2020-06-28 13:41:00+00:00,story,23668626,,121.0,, 2137,What does an electrical engineer actually do at work?,,"What's your daily work like? Do you spend all day at the keyboard working with CAD and sim tools, or do you work with actual hardware, too?
The reason I'm asking is that I'm a pure software engineer, and I sometimes wonder if I'd have been happier on the hardware side. But I've gotten some reports that these days the work isn't actually all that different.",,johan_larson,140,1472947248,2016-09-04 00:00:48+00:00,story,12421881,,110.0,, 2138,Why Blog at All?,,"Why bother at all with a blog and/or public presence at all? The last few days I have noticed quite a few HN posts about developer blogs.
I used to blog and maintain a decent open source presence online, but the last couple years I have completely withdrawn from the public. I deleted my Github profile, took my blog offline, removed all professional network accounts, etc.
It wasn't for the lack of success. I have no idea how many readers or followers I had, but some of my security related posts made it into more "serious" media and elsewhere.
I think it boiled down to a realization that no one really gave a damn about me, my writing/work/creations/etc. So then, what's the point? Is it entirely ego driven? Chasing dopamine hits when your post or your project is tweeted about?
The last few years I have been creating things entirely in the dark. It has been so freeing. Not creating to be talked about. Not creating something to hold it up and say look at what I did. I finally got the feeling back. The one you got when you first started programming. It's wonderful.",,pragmatic1,140,1649482323,2022-04-09 05:32:03+00:00,story,30965485,,119.0,, 2139,How do you do home surveillance?,,"In this age of IoT where devices are being taken over by strangers and (service) companies are storing clear-text passwords, how do you manage your home security? I'm talking less about motion sensors and door/window open/close sensors, and more about video surveillance. I want to add a couple of IP cameras but I'm completely petrified by the thought of someone getting access to a live feed from my house, due to the negligence of the service provider.
I've looked around and there are plenty of options for IP/Wi-Fi cameras with a tone of cool features, which can be accessed through a smartphone app, which, of course, is handled by the manufacturer (feed goes through its servers).
What I'd like is an IP camera that provides an API to which I can connect from my home server and let me see the feed only trough it. Motion sensing is also a cool, and useful feature, as it would allow me to send notifications.
How would you solve this or better yet, did you have this issue and already solved it?",,teniutza,140,1582620209,2020-02-25 08:43:29+00:00,story,22411717,,101.0,, 2140,What's your backup solution?,,"Do you keep work and personal separate? Do you use multiple providers like iCloud/OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive or do you stick to one? Do you do any type of auto-sync folders?
What's your process like? I'm curious on what people to find the most automatic and reliable solution for typical day to day with photos, documents, and their work backups. (Thinking more along the lines of your own side projects or things that you're more in control of, less on the corporate side that have imposed solutions and is managed by a team).",,SnowingXIV,140,1479662880,2016-11-20 17:28:00+00:00,story,12999934,,145.0,, 2141,How do small companies do recruitment?,,"I am based in the UK and find it hard to find good developers/designers/product people. Although we advertise on our web site, unless people are looking quite specifically, they are unlikely to find the adverts (unlike FANGs which would attract candidates directly).
Also, Recruiters tend to be a poor and expensive solution. It is hard to tell the good from those who just claim to be good and we get a lot of noise from them. Also, I'm not sure that the best candidates just call a random recruiter to find them a job.
What are others doing to both find jobs and to recruit?",,lbriner,140,1643279006,2022-01-27 10:23:26+00:00,story,30098607,,144.0,, 2142,How prevalent is non-cookie-based web tracking today?,,"I just started reading about things like Header Enhancement and SuperCookies and find them to be quite egregious. Does anyone know how much of this activity is being used by big known companies?
For example, I just found out that my account settings at Verizon Wireless were allowing them to use Header Enhancement (UIDH) adding a unique identifier on every http request I sent. So, if I log in to a site, they can associate the UIDH with my account so next time I’m in browser incognito mode, they already know who I am (or have a good guess).",,ryeguy_24,140,1572781192,2019-11-03 11:39:52+00:00,story,21433305,,63.0,, 2143,"How do you write great sentences, paragraphs, or articles?",,"Writing advice often reiterates the same general rules: active voice, economy of expression, favour the concrete over the abstract.
These broad suggestions come at the expense of advice on micro- and macrostructure. We're missing a trick here. In particular, I believe great non-fiction writing out-punches the good because it manages not only to articulate ideas succinctly and clearly, but to show how they overlap and interconnect.
In business, while a good product is essential, it is almost always not enough. The product has to be presented to the consumer in an intuitive and sensible way. Often a product will have more than one USP, and its success hinges on which USP you chose to emphasise.
The same might be said of ideas. An argument---or point---will be convincing only insofar as it is presented to the reader in a coherent way.
To that end, do people have any tips, book suggestions, or exercises that will help writers improve their articles' unity, coherent, flow, logical structure, etc?",,ekpyrotic,140,1353861850,2012-11-25 16:44:10+00:00,story,4828497,,78.0,, 2144, How do you deal with Rabbit Hole Syndrome?,,"I find myself striving for ideal and perfect solutions in parts of my work that might not matter much. Sometimes it's probably worth the time and detail, but admittedly, a lot of the time it isn't. It's just more fun and interesting to be ""thorough.""
This happens when working on something new and unfamiliar, often side projects. In the quest for a ""perfect"" solution, entire branches of mathematics or programming start to beckon me, and away I go... down a rabbit hole of Wikipedia articles, Stackoverflow questions, and Github projects. Even if I do find an adequate solution, it's not good enough until I can understand the class of problem and derive it for myself.
This also happens based on principle. When I encounter a problem that is actually solvable -- though it may not matter much, then I must conquer it entirely. As an example, for me it is unacceptable that something rated 5.0 with 1 review is ranked higher than a 4.9 with 10 reviews -- and I need to find the solution to this problem, even though it might only be a minor feature and won't matter if there are no reviews to begin with.
I call this ""conditional"" Rabbit Hole Syndrome. It also sounds an awful lot like the classic interview answer: ""My biggest flaw is that I work too hard."" Well it's true, damn it. These types of trivial things can easily become my ""top idea"" for days at time.
I am now able to admit it: I spend time working on things that probably won't matter that much, and I enjoy it. But how do I fix this? How do I learn to leave well enough alone? How do I learn the distinction between frivolous research and actually getting shit done?
A couple of edits: After more thought, this is really only an issue with work on my side projects. I also think it's due to lack of accountability -- I report to myself. As such, I tend to work on ""most interesting first"" and avoid schlep. So I'm wondering: how do you motivate yourself to schlep?",,photon_off,140,1360519336,2013-02-10 18:02:16+00:00,story,5197155,,82.0,, 2145,When has switching the language/framework made an important difference?,,"It's always fun to look at different (micro)benchmarks comparing language/frameworks/systems to each other.
I'm curious about real world examples where a change (preferably measurement/profiling driven) has lead to a significant positive outcome in performance, code quality/maintainability, etc.
Did changing from Python to Go make it so that you could avoid horizontal scaling for the size of your app, reducing operational complexity?
Did switching from Dart to Rails speed up development because of the wide range of libraries available, speeding up time to market?
While most bottlenecks exist outside of languages/frameworks, I find it interesting when the language/framework actually made a difference.
An example I'll use is switching an internal library from C# to F#: The module as designed mutated 3 large classes through a pipeline of operations to determine what further work was needed. I incrementally rewrote this module in type-driven F# with 63 types to model the data transformations and ensure that the correct outcome desired was compiler verified. In the process 3 bugs were fixed and 12 additional bugs were discovered that while edge cases, had a couple of old tickets with "unable to reproduce" as the last comment in the ticketing system. This could have been done in C# and because I did it in F# it is most likely slightly more difficult for the other team members to jump into. It probably also uses more memory to represent the types than the C# version. In this case however, the trade offs were worth it and I've been told the module has barely needed to be touched since.",,banashark,140,1500411361,2017-07-18 20:56:01+00:00,story,14799998,,146.0,, 2146,How do you read Academic Papers?,,"I have never really consciously taken the time to learn how to read academic papers, because it never occurred to me it's something I needed.
I replied to a tweet today suggesting people ought to take a course how to read them, and got a great reply from Glenn Vanderberg on a starting point:
https://twitter.com/glv/status/579411305347489792
Does anyone else have any thoughts or opinions about this? I have a hard time learning things. Maybe this insight is part of the reason why.",,milesf,140,1426995428,2015-03-22 03:37:08+00:00,story,9245467,,71.0,, 2147,I think My code isn't Good enough,,"I have been programming for the last 4-5 years but whenever I look at some good code written by some one else I always have this feeling that my code isnt good enough. By ""good enough"" I mean that my code isn't as beautiful(readable) and reusable. I always try to change the way i do things the next time but i keep getting this feeling. Do you guys ever fell like this and what you think I should do to improve on that ?",,mabid,140,1315066385,2011-09-03 16:13:05+00:00,story,2957522,,91.0,, 2148,"If I were your dream hire, would you hire me? I live in Somalia",,"I'm at a dead end career-wise and the job market I'm at does not offer any better alternatives than my current job. The pay is great but I find the work I do pretty depressing compared to the stuff I know I'm capable of. I've tried to demonstrate and explain the value I could be bring if we were to do things differently but I've lost hope that I'll ever get through to anyone.
HN has always been inspiring regarding starting your own business and although that is something I want to try, I'm more curious right now about the feasibility of finding a job outside the country. The question is, I don't know if that's even possible.
How would a company even determine if I'm worth hiring and going through all the work to get me a work visa if they can't even interview me in person? Would they tolerate my crappy internet if they try to interview me over Skype? What if the position was for something mid-to-entry level and not some key position. Would it still be worth the hassle to get me on board?
I actually got in touch with German company who had a job posting for JS developer and asked them this very question and their reply was encouraging[0] but I wondered if I could get more input from other sources.
I guess I ask cause I keep hearing complaints about the lack of talent and it makes me wonder if that's a possible opportunity for me.
So what are your thoughts?
[0] Sociomantic Labs response to my question[1] "For our team in Berlin we often hire outside of the EU and have lots of experience with this. We have 35 different nationalities in the office and always welcome a new team member outside of the EU."",,xtrumanx,139,1431274559,2015-05-10 16:15:59+00:00,story,9520328,,70.0,, 2149,Fun Tech Book Recommendations?,,"I'm currently reading Seven Databases in Seven Weeks [1] and finding it to be a really fun and interesting look at some tech I don't know much about. I'm wondering what other interesting books there are out there that focus less on teaching you all the technical details of a technology, and more on what makes it exciting and interesting.
What books do you suggest?
[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13130963-seven-databases-in-seven-weeks",,chrisshroba,139,1576090313,2019-12-11 18:51:53+00:00,story,21765528,,45.0,, 2150,Why do password managers have TOTP?,,"Doesn't this break the purpose of MFA, which is that the thing you know (password) is separate from the thing you have (MFA device)? If so, then why do all of the reputable password managers include TOTP functionality?",,daenz,139,1649566801,2022-04-10 05:00:01+00:00,story,30974585,,118.0,, 2151,Why Haven't GUI Front End Editors Caught On?,,"WYSIWYG/GUI frontend editors have been around for years now, but the standard development process for frontend developers is still to crack out an IDE or text editor and write HTML/CSS by hand. For such a technical industry this seems like a strange trend - why wouldn't we leverage tools and technology to make building HTML/CSS less of a boilerplate activity?
It makes sense that it could be related to the widgetisation of frontends, with chunks of HTML appearing in different locations or as embedded JSX, but I see no reason why editors couldn't provide integration by allowing single documents to be sliced up into smaller components and kept in sync.
So, HN, what's your take on the lack of adoption of GUIs for building frontends?",,beaconstudios,139,1486743988,2017-02-10 16:26:28+00:00,story,13616535,,133.0,, 2152,"Lost $400k USD in a deleted email, how contact a Gmail engineer?",,"On the 8th of June 2014 I purchased 1970 Ethereum from the Ethereum Foundation Presale and received an email to my Gmail account containing my wallet. As CS student overwhelmed by his thesis I managed to completely ignore the backup instructions and instead left my wallet in my Gmail account. At least the thesis was good :)
You can probably tell where this story is going. I promptly forgot about this whole event and in 2015 while cleaning out my email account I deleted most of my recently received emails and incidently taking out the wallet with it. Again I'd like to state that the loss of the wallet is completely my fault.
Recently, the price of Ethereum has skyrocketed to over 200 USD per coin, meaning the wallet is now worth ~400k USD. This means that I can now offer a nice bounty on its retrieval!
I'm publicly posting here in the hope that someone from the Gmail team can check and see if they have a copy of the email saved in Google's backups. Should its contents be retrieveable, I'd like to offer 20% of the wallet's contents (~80k USD) as a finder's fee, alternatively if you choose to forfit this, I'll donate 50% (~200k USD) to a charity of your choice.
I realise that this is a last ditch attempt and that wallet is most likely lost forever.
This brings us to the morale of the story - "make sure you have backups and they work!" The 2nd morale is - "no matter how badly you mess up, at least you aren't the guy that deleted an email worth 400k!"
If you work on Gmail and you can help or know someone that will lead to its retrevial please contact me [at] lostethpresale@doge.st
Best wishes!
If you want, you can encrypt your mail to me with my public key: (text too long for HN) https://pastebin.com/raw/zgZpSKJd",,lostethpresale,139,1496242391,2017-05-31 14:53:11+00:00,story,14452969,,79.0,, 2153,How to effectively communicate results of my work to non-engineers?,,"In the last job I have gotten a lot of autonomy. I have been the only full-time engineer in a small team. My task was to create a machine learning model ready for production and to design and start work on the product integrating the said model.
I have felt that the team trusts me to do the job and therefore I decided that my time will be used best by applying myself to the actual development. I neglected meetings that seemed unnecessary and reduced one-to-one communication.
I have set up tools to monitor my progress with the model (like tensorboard and sacred[1]), kept meticulous issue-tracking and a well-maintained repo on Gitlab. I also have been writing short semi-regular reports on the progress of the model (current issues, things to try and test, current metrics and suggestions for the development). It turned out, no one has ever reviewed any of the above and the team relied only on my summaries during short, semi-regular meetings. My ways of communicating turned out to be mostly inaccessible to people without engineering background!
As a result I was accused of slacking off and was deemed not worthy of any equity in the newly formed company [2]. I believe that my biggest mistake [3] was lack of proper communication of my progress and complexity I was dealing with. I was also unable to convey why some things take more time than expected during modelling or software development (like data processing, writing unit tests, etc.). Hence, my questions: How to effectively communicate the progress to non-engineer team members? How do I set reasonable expectations when the team expects development time to be closer to a hackathon project than a maintainable and certified product? How do you explain the complexity and gotchas of the work that needs to be done?
[1] https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred
[2] I resigned as a result (still working on the project until the end of the year). I am now transitioning to freelancing.
[3] There were other issues on both sides too of course, but not pertinent to my questions.",,jacek,139,1606130623,2020-11-23 11:23:43+00:00,story,25185619,,78.0,, 2154,Does this old horse have a few years of useful work left?,,"So, my most recent stint at Microsoft just didn't work out. The tech was cool, but the day-to-day workflow was tedious and torturous. I only held out for 4 months - my shortest gig ever, but it really was the most I could muster. I really wanted it to work, but ultimately couldn't strike that bargain with myself.
So... now I'm back to living on couches and wondering / researching where I might still be able to be useful and productive in the world. It's not an easy question. There are more technology stacks than ever, and I'm suffering very severe paradox of choice. I sure miss the "good old days" when you just focused on writing a single app in C that ran on a well-understood machine, or even a single well-understood OS API. But those days are mostly gone. Now it's all distributed, multi-level conglomerates of varied frameworks and languages sort-of working together. I can't decide whether I have any interest in that. I sort of envy the people who can simply state, "I am a Rails dev" or similar.
I feel a lot of pressure to pick a niche. Something. Anything. Because living on couches gets old, fast, and even more dire financial straits await after that. So I'm being driven by the stick, and not the carrot - which is an unpleasant position.
I found a great game (on Steam) called TIS-100, where you progress by writing small, well-defined programs in assembly language, for a strange, highly constrained imaginary processor. It's great for its pure distillation of machine-level programming. There was a time when people used to get payed for doing what you do in this game. In other words, I fear I'm getting old, and my career options have just begun to seem uncomfortable.",,andywood,139,1456129340,2016-02-22 08:22:20+00:00,story,11149361,,107.0,, 2155,The Internet is getting lame. What's next?,,"The internet used to be a really cool place full of wild ideas and weirdos. Now its like a tidy, tightly policed suburban shopping mall. Whats the next big thing?",,everyone,139,1438968832,2015-08-07 17:33:52+00:00,story,10023727,,154.0,, 2156,How did you escape your safe 9-5 job?,,"How did you escape your meaningless 9-5 job to work full time on what you wanted to work on[1]?
Did you have a strategy or was it a leap of faith?
Did you regret it later on?
Are you happy with the decision you made?
Where do you think you would be today if you had decided to stay in that job?
If you are currently in a job like that, then do you have any plans of escaping to work on your passion[1]? if yes, then please share your plan.
[1] Your passion may be a dream job, a special course (masters, software bootcamp, course in another field like marketing or airplane pilot etc.) or a startup. It just has to be something you love but are not doing because you think you're job is currently the safest option for you.",,amadk,139,1547467930,2019-01-14 12:12:10+00:00,story,18902436,,118.0,, 2157,How does an experienced freelancer get work?,,"Hello HN.
I am a highly experienced developer who has recently taken to freelancing. I looked at several freelancing websites only to be outbid by outsourcing companies with ridiculous rates. Are there other avenues, forums or resources that would help me get work?
Please do share any advice you've got, thanks a million.",,protoweek,139,1348839987,2012-09-28 13:46:27+00:00,story,4585435,,74.0,, 2158,Who wants to be hired? (August 2019),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
What code has stood out to you for being elegant and efficient? Why or why not?",,mc42,139,1454208547,2016-01-31 02:49:07+00:00,story,11005003,,88.0,, 2162,Is being an introvert okay?,,"My social skills are going down exponentially day by day. I am an undergraduate at a university. I tend to be communicative with people who share similar interests (physics, hacking, heavy metal etc.). Is this for the worst? I know that HN is not a social advice site. But I believe that there'd be a couple of guys having had experiences like me who could give me some advice :)",,finemann,138,1285542875,2010-09-26 23:14:35+00:00,story,1730202,,92.0,, 2163,Are blog comments a thing of the past?,,"So, someone built Blog Surf[0] and I spent my morning weaving through various blogs (since it has a directory), and first thing that caught my eye was that for every 5 blogs I checked, only 1 had comments open on article pages.
If I look at posts like this one[1] and this one also[2] - these are extremely detailed articles (very interesting too), but no comments? I am not pointing my finger towards the authors, either.
It's just weird that commenting is being pushed either to Twitter or email.
What do you think about this?
I fully understand that blog comments can be a pain in the butt to moderate when the average Joe just starts leaving "Thanks!" with a link to their website. But, it's perfectly normal to remove the ability for anyone to link back to their website.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844149
[1]: https://wattenberger.com/blog/css-cascade
[2]: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/understanding-layout-algorit...",,skilled,138,1648638071,2022-03-30 11:01:11+00:00,story,30853565,,138.0,, 2164,Who is looking for a co-founder? (July 2021),,"Building on the "Who is Hiring?" threads, here comes a monthly thread for folks who are in search of a co-founder. Let people know what you are building and what you are looking for in a co-founder.
Please state the location and include REMOTE if you are open to building a company remotely. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are the founder (or one of the co-founders) of the startup. No recruiting firms, venture builders, or job boards. Only one post per company (how many co-founders can one look for anyway). Please explain on a high level what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to these posts telling people why their idea won't work. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in committing yourself to a co-founder role. No "CTO for hire" companies!",,whoisbuilding,138,1625580132,2021-07-06 14:02:12+00:00,story,27748680,,96.0,, 2165,Coping with Loneliness,,"Given the like natures of the people frequenting this board, I would imagine that I'm not alone (hah) when dealing with loneliness.
I've, over the past few years, grown more and more lonely with very little outside contact. My job does not interact with others much, topping out at the same few co-workers day in and day out.
I've only ever had a small group of friends, which has grown even more thread-bare with age.
Besides "go meet people" (how?), how do the fine people of HN deal with loneliness? Especially in the case your quite introverted? I like being alone, just not all the time, and not to the point of despairing loneliness.
I reach out, for fear that it envelops me.",,muzuq,138,1500417270,2017-07-18 22:34:30+00:00,story,14800579,,121.0,, 2166,What habits made you a better programmer?,,"- How you think about a problem - Pushing past resistance
things like that",,bpourriahi,138,1283995334,2010-09-09 01:22:14+00:00,story,1674103,,98.0,, 2167,"As managers, how do you make sure your distributed team is aligned?",,"We use Slack for internal comms, but it's used mostly for chit-chat conversations and real-time issues. Is there a product for slow-thinking updates where I can share teams news and align my +40 people team? How can you be sure people don't actually miss things in the noise of Slack/Email?",,type12,138,1556308257,2019-04-26 19:50:57+00:00,story,19761183,,71.0,, 2168,Who wants to be hired? (January 2021),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Does anyone here have one of those certs? Do they hold any value? Is it worth paying for the cert when you can still do the full course for free?,,eecks,138,1460212331,2016-04-09 14:32:11+00:00,story,11461370,,110.0,, 2170,Other online communities like HN?,,"Interested in knowing if vibrant online communities exist where people talk shop similar to HN for other industries, e.g. construction workers, teachers, actuaries, doctors, etc.",,mpoon,138,1541442976,2018-11-05 18:36:16+00:00,story,18384680,,51.0,, 2171,How are credentials managed at your company?,,"Access to servers, SaaS apps, crucial infrastructure software. There are tons of things that need to be accessed by people in the organisation. Although, in many cases, there is an option to create new users but sometimes it's not and often, creating new users is more of a hassle every time someone needs access.
How does your company deal with giving and managing access?",,shubhamjain,138,1472633213,2016-08-31 08:46:53+00:00,story,12396883,,93.0,, 2172,Why TensorFlow instead of Theano for deep learning?,,"I am an average solo user / applied researcher using Windows locally with a GTX 1070 8GB and looking for speed and documentation first, so Theano is way ahead in these departments. That said, we are also told TensorFlow is the next big thing because of scalability (?). TensorFlow works under Windows with Anaconda and Python 3.5 through Keras as well, so I have it available indeed and can try the benchmarks. Where do we stand, really? Thanks.",,DrNuke,138,1497700299,2017-06-17 11:51:39+00:00,story,14575465,,49.0,, 2173,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,138,1367414253,2013-05-01 13:17:33+00:00,story,5637667,,207.0,, 2174,Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the next 10 years?,,"There has been hype around hydrogen fuel cells being a source of green power for decades, but the hype cycle is currently ramping up significantly. Hydrogen fuel cell stocks such as PLUG and FCEL have gone up 10x despite the lack of any significant new breakthrough technology and a history of loss making and value destruction.
Just today, Bank of America research released a 103 page "Hydrogen Primer" in which they predict that the hydrogen space will generate $2.5 trillion in direct revenues and $11 trillion of indirect infrastructure potential. They believe that a tipping point is coming soon because of the falling cost of renewable energy and electrolysers used to produce "green" hydrogen, as well as better efficiencies in fuel cells.
My question is for the experts in the crowd here, either based on engineering experience or on first principles and physics, does this seem likely to you? Why do we really need hydrogen? It seems we are getting to the point where wind power and particularly solar power are now cost effective. Once we have better batteries for storage, what problem do we have left that requires hydrogen to solve? Is this just a giant promotional bubble being pushed by Wall Street and unscrupulous companies trying to sell a dream? I may sound skeptical but I genuinely don't know and would like to hear from people with more expertise.",,eigenvalue,138,1600872402,2020-09-23 14:46:42+00:00,story,24567711,,211.0,, 2175,What coding challenge sites should I try next?,,"I'm learning PHP for a new position and tried using codewars and codefights. I'm not impressed by the UX with either of them, they're over gamified. The quality of Kata on codewars is not good (at least the easy stuff) and both are broken in random trivial places.
Can you offer suggestions on similar platforms that are less gamified, higher quality challenges, and more reliable?",,lakechfoma,138,1512158013,2017-12-01 19:53:33+00:00,story,15826781,,63.0,, 2176,Help I owe over 100k in taxes after signing up for Stripe Atlas,,"I signed up for Stripe Atlast in 2017, and pretty much just forgot about it.
In Canada, if your company don't make any money, you don't file anything, and the company dissolves.
So imagine my surprise at the Rocket Lawyer letter stating I owe 100k+ USD in taxes for a corporate registry that has not turned any revenue to speak of or expenses.
am I going to get extradited over this shit? God damn, I really wish they would've been clear that if you register through Stripe Atlas, you will somehow owe 100k+ in taxes. I thought taxes can only be collected if your company made the money, how can they expect me to pay this?
I'm absolutely freaking out right now. There's no way I can pay this. It's fucking ridiculous that I have to pay taxes just for registering a delware company.
edit: MODS, why did this get flagged? I'm trying to find fucking answers, this is not helping me.",,browsercoin,138,1541534473,2018-11-06 20:01:13+00:00,story,18394413,,58.0,, 2177,As an adult introvertish nerd what makes you happy?,,"Since I got out of college, I have been trying to hustle through for growth and am finally running a funded startup now as founder/CTO. But last 6-7 years have just gone by damn fast. Always loved learning new stuff, but don't have enough time to really be immersive in anything. Now when I see an interesting problem in math/physics I can hardly give it an actual shot and it makes me very very sad deep down. Developing a strong desire to go back to college if this unhappiness continues, but has that really worked for anyone here?
> PS: I tried the philosophy as per http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html:
[x] "Don't ignore your dreams" => Doing it. Makes some part of a day to feel good... |
[?] "Don't work too much" => difficult to achieve in combo with above :( |
[?] "Say what you think" => Not easy as an introvert INTP, but learning |
[?] "Cultivate friendships" => Damn difficult to meet genuine folks after college (Would love any suggestions on where to find them... Definitely not facebook :/ ) |
[ ] "Be happy" => Nope. This is just not working...",,starlord,138,1515837492,2018-01-13 09:58:12+00:00,story,16138969,,104.0,, 2178,Leave job right before app goes to production?,,"Throwaway account for obvious reasons.
Some background: A few months ago I was tossed into a dumpster fire of a project that has now grown to ~15 developers. Business dramatically added scope and was changing requirements and demanding devs work nights/weekends to accommodate. As a result I made the decision to leave.
I was set to leave right after the app went into production, however now the launch date for the app has been pushed back such that I will be leaving one week before it goes into production. I want to stay until it is complete and do not like the idea of leaving right before it goes to prod, however my new employer wants me to start ASAP and with my date having been pushed back one week I'm not sure they would be too keen on it being pushed back another week.
How would you feel if a fellow developer left in the circumstances described? If you were a dev manager or hired this developer, how would you feel about them leaving in the circumstances described?
Thanks for your feedback",,throwaway3579,138,1485349998,2017-01-25 13:13:18+00:00,story,13481109,,241.0,, 2179,Could you share your general purpose development contracts?,,"I'm a freelance web developer and I'm planning on putting together a general purpose web development contract for future projects. I was hoping to get a feeling of what I should be covering in the contract. I'd love to make a easy to read, non-legalese contract that covers the basics (payment, ownership, expectations, work hours etc.) which would give a client an introduction to my terms and be tweaked on a per-project basis.
I understand that I/WANAL & YMMV etc. but it would be nice to see what people are using themselves.",,microman,138,1422718006,2015-01-31 15:26:46+00:00,story,8976924,,51.0,, 2180,Where I can post my startup to get beta users?,,"There is betalist, HN, .., what else?",,matysanchez,138,1392573641,2014-02-16 18:00:41+00:00,story,7248460,,37.0,, 2181,How to handle 50GB of transaction data each day? (200GB during peak),,"Recently I switched jobs and joined some old employers and friends on a new endeavour, an advertisement platform. So far things have been very good, so good in fact that we're quickly growing out of our current infrastructure. Last christmas everything went crazy and the, then only developer, rewrote a bunch of things to make it scale better.
Currently we write away every single transaction to txt files and once every X minutes gather those and start inserting them into 2 Mysql shards. After that we run a bunch of group by queries to generate cross table reports. Currently our CMS is very limited by this, you can only view data relations in the predefined tables and we would like to have (a lot) more flexibility here.
Perhaps the biggest issue of all is that both I and the other developer do not have experience with handeling this much data. We both have worked on systems which handle a fair bit of data, but not nearly as much as this. We've been looking at MapReduce for MongoDB but already run into problems when we try to insert a weeks worth of data, which is about 350gb, because we only get so many IOPS at AWS. If we want more IOPS, it gets really expensive really fast. We're also not entirely sure yet if MongoDB and MapReduce is the way to go.
What I'm looking for is a few pointers to help us get headed in the right direction. Which databases should we be looking at? Should we be looking in an entirely different direction? Are there some (recent?) blog posts about this which can help us out?",,NietTim,137,1456222167,2016-02-23 10:09:27+00:00,story,11157829,,78.0,, 2182,Visual Design for Hackers,,"Take a look at the Rails Rumble 2010 entries: http://railsrumble.com/
There's a whole stack of apps there, developed within 48 hours by small groups of people. They're not all beautiful, but there is (to my eye) a pretty high standard of presentation for most of them.
I am sure I am not alone in feeling like there's this chunk of knowledge I'm missing - in terms of how, and when, to go about making something beautiful.
I'm fascinated by the concept of optimizing user experience - it certainly has the potential to make or break an application's popularity. If you can spend valuable time tweaking code to make it more appealing to the compiler, why can't it work in the other direction too? Though I don't think it's reasonable to expect myself to be incredible at both, I'd like to be able to put together a prototype that looks nice. After all, I wouldn't show people code that I knew was bad and ugly.
Part A - I would love to know - how does this aspect fit into the flow of the project? At what point do you start turning things from black-text-on-white-background into a beautiful and intelligent layout? I'm sure it's usually incremental, but is there a specific point at which you decide to shift focus over to implementing your UI? I know I usually go through many notebook pages of UI ideas even before I've written any code. Is it worthwhile doing mockups in photoshop at this stage? Showing different designs to people and asking for feedback? Or do you usually do this after your core functionality is built? And where do you draw the line, say 'this is ready enough for now!' and release the thing?
Part B - In terms of user interface and usability, there's a lot of information out there. Much of it, however, is from the early days of graphical computing and the web. There are still great things to learn from stuff like Joel on Software but I'd like some good information about user interactions and expectations in the AJAX era. There must have been some more wisdom accumulated in the last decade! I'm looking for some shoulders to stand on - 'our experience showed us that you should never do <xyz> because users find it confusing'.
Part C - I've always been curious about how small teams of people manage to cope with the graphical elements of web application building. Does a team of 2-3 people in an early days startup usually contain a designer/artist? Is that something you can reliably outsource? Is it ever a good idea to have your design done by someone else and then shoehorn your view code and javascript into it (for a prototype/beta), or should it always be a closely collaborative process?
Part D - Finally - I'm interested in any of you people who can see BOTH sides of the coin. If you started off as a programmer and then learned how to make stuff sexy and usable - what put you on that path? Where did you start learning? What were your major obstacles, and how did you overcome them?
Looking forward to hearing what everyone has to say.
Dan",,DanI-S,137,1288193621,2010-10-27 15:33:41+00:00,story,1839022,,31.0,, 2183,Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account,,"Hi friends,
I'm shopping a router and from what I read in the reviews, ALL mid-end family routers (those between $40 and $100) that I see need a cloud account to access the management page. I'm wondering if there is anything that does not need a cloud account? Thanks~~",,hnthrowaway0315,137,1640616225,2021-12-27 14:43:45+00:00,story,29702844,,198.0,, 2184,Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?,,"If you're in the fortunate position during this time to be both employed and able to move to another location--whether permanently or temporarily--I'm curious to learn where you may be planning to move and what factors are influencing this decision.
Stated more broadly to those who may not fall in this bucket: if location did not affect your career prospects and/or economic wellbeing, where would you move and why?",,temp_-_,137,1597368119,2020-08-14 01:21:59+00:00,story,24152096,,270.0,, 2185,Do you keep a personal journal?,,"Hey all,
I have been keeping a personal journal for a bit more than 2 years now. Mostly for the purpose of retrospective analysis, tracking my goals, challenges and general mood. For now I was just dropping my thoughts into a simple text file with timestamps. I'm looking to improve in this area through tracking things more systematically and developing a stronger habit. I have some general questions to the community here :
Do you keep a personal journal?
If yes, do you find it useful?
What tools would you recommend?
Is there any specific methodology that you follow?
When journaling, do you try to track any specific aspects of your life or just write about anything that is currently occupying your mind?
Any advice on how to get the most out of personal journaling?
Thanks for the answers!
tl;dr : I'm looking for your advice on journaling.",,pawelwentpawel,137,1485447016,2017-01-26 16:10:16+00:00,story,13492501,,106.0,, 2186,"Hourly freelancers, what do you do when you can't figure something out?",,"I'm stuck on a particularly irritating show-stopping bug (microchip's ADC functionality just giving 0 no matter what voltage is applied) and haven't been able to find a solution in days. I feel guilty continuing to charge for the many, many hours of investigation without producing anything....it's just making me feel incompetent and thieving.
Has this ever happened to you, and if so how did you handle it? Do you keep charging, or work for free, or just tell them "sorry, you have to hire someone else to complete this, I just don't know why this is happening" ?",,aerovistae,137,1488163004,2017-02-27 02:36:44+00:00,story,13741418,,70.0,, 2187,losing faith in the startup where I'm employee #1,,"I'm very new to the startup world. A year ago, I left academia to join a startup as the first engineer employee. The skies were bright, we were going to change the world and become rich and all be happy together.
Now a year later, things are way more gloom. We haven't raised any money, as of today we have effectively 0 active users, and our total revenue over the past year has been ~$100.
Out of 3 founders, none is technical (the CTO is a very, very well connected industry veteran though), and they are all very unfocused and out of touch with certain realities (for example, they filed a patent for a silly tech idea right after incorporation and keep trying to implement that technology in products although it doesn't really solve anything).
During meetings, I always feel like a killjoy by attempting to be realistic and focused and reserved about the brand new idea they come up with every other week and that I need to get started on right when the meeting ends.
I don't feel like it'll get better, and although it was a great opportunity I think it's time for me to move on to brighter horizons.
The main problem is that I've grown to really like the founders on a personal level, they are really well connected so I wouldn't want them to tarnish my reputation as a young engineer completely new to the valley/startup world, and if I leave, the company will probably die off as I'm the only one writing code and making products exist (they'd probably end up paying contractors/freelancers as they can't afford to be competitive on salary or benefits).
I think these last few points might be the result of my inexperience with startups and that I dug myself into that hole— but any insight or advice would be very, very much appreciated.<p>Thanks!",,tantrumpython,137,1336894892,2012-05-13 07:41:32+00:00,story,3966301,,103.0,, 2188,Best way to relearn basic math?,,"I'm considering going back to school, but upon further thought, the first major roadblock is that I seem to have forgotten most high school math and probably even some easier stuff! I'm sort of concerned about my ability to relearn 4 years of mathematics in a year or two and was wondering if anyone had and books / tips / etc. to make it easier",,non-entity,137,1563240523,2019-07-16 01:28:43+00:00,story,20446796,,29.0,, 2189,How do you secure your Mac?,,Apart from full disk encryption and a password manager:
Do you use antivirus? Which antivirus?
Do you use two-factor SSH?
Do you use IDS?
What else do you recommend?,,jorangreef,137,1555496487,2019-04-17 10:21:27+00:00,story,19681270,,69.0,, 2190,Did preparing for LeetCode type of interviews improve your skills?,,"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.
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.
Cheers!",,wreath,137,1622182422,2021-05-28 06:13:42+00:00,story,27312265,,186.0,, 2191,Effective methods to fight depression?,,,,humility,137,1524671638,2018-04-25 15:53:58+00:00,story,16922738,,110.0,, 2192,Ask HN Mods: Can you make submission URLs human-readable?,,"By now, I probably stumbled a dozen times upon the problem that HN links do not reveal at all what they are about. To solve this problem you could maybe simply add the title string to the item ID like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7535606-can_i_delete_my_skype_account
I am close to finishing my book and keen to get it published. I figured it would be easier to self publish (could be a wrong assertion), and wondered if anyone had any advice? Have you done it before? Anything to avoid? Anything I should definitely do? Any good sites to promote it on?
N.B. The book isn't a technical book. It is a comedy book set out in the style of a blog.
thanks!",,desouzt,137,1373985026,2013-07-16 14:30:26+00:00,story,6052075,,83.0,, 2195,I'm a solopreneur and I feel demoralised,,"Created a throwaway for a variety of reasons. I am currently running a profitable service business, making $10k+/mo. But I feel miserable and I don't understand why. The work I get to do is easy and enjoyable. The clients I get to work with are great. Once I get started working I get stuff done pretty quickly, but the problem is getting started every morning. ONCE I get started, everything is fine, but every day I feel demoralised to GET STARTED. The time period of waking up until getting started feels absolutely miserable. I have no idea how to solve it since, from my perspective, it isn't clear what the problem is. Like I said, the work + customers are fantastic. But why do I still feel so demoralised and horrible every single morning? How could I solve this?
Update: Additional info
* I work from home
* I only work 5 days a week, around 3/4h a day.
* Don't follow a specific diet and don't exercise regularly
I've been struggling with this feeling for a few months now and I can't seem to see why. My days are not long, the work itself is fun, but to get started in the morning is absolute hell. I keep postponing work until late in the afternoon sometimes.",,ministrator,137,1512649851,2017-12-07 12:30:51+00:00,story,15869467,,139.0,, 2196,Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?,,"I have this side project that has been stuck for quite some time, because I can't seem to make up my mind if I should go with a desktop or a web application. Is any single developer or small team making a living of desktop apps, and are they still relevant?
My side project is a kind-of productivity application, and my target users are not really technical people and will probably have one computer, but as I'm a "lonely" developer (working alone) I have to think about the future, and so I have to try to make the right choice on this..
It would be great to hear both successful and unsuccessful experiences made by single or small teams of developers..",,jventura,137,1462792174,2016-05-09 11:09:34+00:00,story,11658873,,198.0,, 2197,Best practices for log format?,,"We're currently going through a bikeshedding discussion about the log format that our microservices will generate.
Developers without Ops responsibilities want the logs to be as readable as possible to aid their development process (traditional timestamp, severity, component, action and a quick description in a single line and, depending on the type of event, maybe a JSON object in many lines with details about the request, possibly with blank lines and indentation to make everything very easy to read).
Ops people want the files to be easily parseable for injection into ElasticSearch. They want to avoid complex configuration and want more flexibility to generate reports. If logs were generated in a single line in JSON format, they would be happy.
It seems there is no way to please everybody. Are there any standard formats that microservices-oriented architectures are using these days? Is there a standard at all? How to approach this?",,user101010101,137,1493267338,2017-04-27 04:28:58+00:00,story,14209168,,61.0,, 2198,Ultrabook for programming?,,"I was considering buying an Ultrabook for a long trip. I don't want to make a big investment, so something like a Surface Pro is too expensive, but I would like to be able to use it both as a tablet and as a desktop while travelling, with a keyboard.
I have found 2 options with similar specs and prices, the Chiwi Hi10 (with variants, Plus, Pro), and the Teclast x98 (with variants Plus, Pro).
Both have a decent 4 core Cherry Trail Z8300 CPU, 4Gb of RAM, 64 Gb of ROM, a decent screen (1080p Hi10 and Retina-level the Teclast). Both dual-boot Android and Windows 10 (and probably you can install Linux on both).
The Hi10 has a dock for a keyboard, and 2 full size USB ports, and is 10.1", while the Teclast has a better battery life, better screen resolution and is 9.7".
They both seem to have specs that in my opinion would be capable for programming. My question is, would they be good enough for programming? Is it possible to install any desktop app on Windows 10 in a tablet, i.e. IntelliJ IDEA? Is it possible to enable WPS (Windows Subsystem for Linux, aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) on Windows 10 in a tablet?
Also there is a version of the Hi10, the Hi10 Plus, which is slightly bigger (10.8") has better battery and screen resolution and comes with RemixOS instead of Android. Can you install any Android application on RemixOS?",,drKarl,137,1484914720,2017-01-20 12:18:40+00:00,story,13443253,,162.0,, 2199,What RSS Reader do you use?,,"It's time for me to use an RSS reader again after 6 years of not using one. I used Feedly back in the day, but I wonder what I should use now.
What RSS reader do you use?",,mettamage,137,1601608416,2020-10-02 03:13:36+00:00,story,24658424,,259.0,, 2200,How do you all deal with lack of motivation?,,"I remember being an extremely motivated and driven individual until 1-2 years ago. Then came a string of personal issues that turned my world upside down(including my realization that my father was a terrible abuser). Now that things are settled, I have a very strong urge to get up and chase my dreams again , however, I find this invisible force just not letting me do anything. I do not feel motivated at all.I wonder if anyone here has been in a similar state and how did he/she got out of it?
PS: I am a Coder",,wintosh,137,1533542237,2018-08-06 07:57:17+00:00,story,17695868,,38.0,, 2201,"What things that tech recruiters do, annoy you the most as an engineer?",,"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".",,pejrich,137,1623562263,2021-06-13 05:31:03+00:00,story,27490018,,204.0,, 2202,Who wants to be hired? (June 2016),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
I'm still personally tasked with building out the architecture, writing code, training newhires, handling the HR-side of management (PTO, sick leave, etc), hiring plans, work estimates, gap analyses, bizdev relationships and so on. I've asked for training, but so far haven't actually received any. I don't have a college degree, learned everything I know about software engineering myself, and have no experience or training with the business-side of things.
How have those of you in similar situations dealt with the stress of it all? I find myself overwhelmed with responsibilities, and some of the political pressures from above are starting to take their toll.",,flashburn,137,1464957892,2016-06-03 12:44:52+00:00,story,11829978,,58.0,, 2205,What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?,,"Please recommend a boomer friendly photo sharing service that is also privacy conscious…if such thing even exists.
Looking for easier/better alternatives than doing Nextcloud, ownCloud, etc.",,privacyisntdead,136,1628733756,2021-08-12 02:02:36+00:00,story,28150772,,107.0,, 2206,Hackers who cook,,"While going through a ProductHunt post[1] I came across a fellow HNer[2] who was following NYT Cooking[3] and cooking with a plan on a regular basis. I was very curious to understand how he spaces time to cook and work. And the type of stuff he cooks.
Which kind of inspired me to start working on project to follow someone and get inspired by their – meal plans, shopping patterns, recipes, hacks, tips etc (Another inspiration [4])
I am trying to find hackers who cook at home on a regular basis (even if its only 2-3 times a week).
If you cook, some questions:
1. Why do you cook? Is it to save cash or is it recreation? Or something else?
2. Do you plan ahead? Like a weekly meal plan?
3. What kind of things do you cook usually?
4. Do you follow any diet? Atkins, Slow Carb etc.
5. Do you have any life hacks, tips to be more productive as a cook?
Disclosure: I run Cucumbertown (http://www.cucumbertown.com/), the Tumblr for cooks.
[1] http://www.producthunt.com/posts/new-york-times-apis
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cdavis565
[3] http://cooking.nytimes.com/
[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/comments/2gutuk/26_2021_1592_grocery_list_meal_plan_and_recipes/
Edit:
Seems like this was taken off the homepage for some reason. The comment rate’s coming down.
Thanks a lot for the encouraging comments. A short but exciting Q&A. If you can help me out more, please reach me on cherian@cucumbertown.com",,Cherian,136,1411492415,2014-09-23 17:13:35+00:00,story,8356489,,207.0,, 2207,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,136,1464793263,2016-06-01 15:01:03+00:00,story,11814829,,195.0,, 2208,POTUS Donald Trump; What this means to Silicon Valley,,,,larryfole,136,1478676626,2016-11-09 07:30:26+00:00,story,12907145,,160.0,, 2209,"I joined a big co, like the team, hate some policies, what should I do?",,"I recently joined a big tech company. The work is interesting and the team seems skilled and well run. But the larger company has done some really sketchy things where they mislead users in the name of growth. They also have policies that help entrench it beyond what is fair. They are in an industry where the leader has a big natural advantage, and they are in that lead by a large margin. They'd seem like they'd rather win a dirty fight than lose a fair one. Most days I feel a combination of frustration and shame working for them because of this. It seems that the policies follow from the leadership and company culture, and they have been doing similar things for awhile.
I am not sure what I should do.",,throwaway173205,136,1469244562,2016-07-23 03:29:22+00:00,story,12148212,,151.0,, 2210,Are We in a Bubble?,,"i'm getting an overwhelming feeling we're in a stock/crypto/dotcom/housing bubble as of now
companies with zero revenue raising billions, s&p returning ~30% last year, bitcoin going 10x, housing (in my area) up 2x
yet we are in the middle of pandemic, millions get sick every day, inflation 30yr high, supply shortages
is the economy is broken? should we be expecting a crash/crisis soon?
edit: i can't help but think there will be a counter reaction to the Fed printing dollars recklessly in 2020
and i'm even more scared Fed will go on a printing spree again to keep the current bubble from popping",,ushakov,136,1641667958,2022-01-08 18:52:38+00:00,story,29854832,,194.0,, 2211,How do you manage and structure a team?,,"Here's a question to managers and startup and founders out there, but first a bit of context on my situation:
We are a small team that has recently created. As such, we've been given a fair amount of control over how the team are structured. This involves everything from how we work, how we progress in our careers and how much we are paid. While this is a really nice position to be in, it raises a number of concerns.
In an ideal world, I believe that a flat structure would be best. We are all technical people, working on a series of short (months in length) projects that tend to be self contained. There is no immediate need of a hierarchy. But in this case, how do you define “progression”?, both how people are paid, and their “title” within the group.
To get around this, the obvious answer is a well defined “hierarchy”. Progression and pay are well defined ahead of time and everyone knows how it works. The problem is that we have only just been created, and as such the variance of the pay within the group is big. Initially this isn't an issue – we all agreed to be here for the amount we are paid, but over time it can become an issue: without well defined progression, this issue of separate pay will become an issue and half the group will leave.
Another problem (and a separate one, one that we will also need to address) is that judging the direct merit of each others work is hard. Mostly because the work is a spectrum between “core” work, that is required, and “new features” which can bring in a large profit (or fail), and disentangling the two is hard.
There has to be somewhere in between these two position. And we can't be the first to find ourselves in this position, and I'd like to here from others who have been here: - What worked well? - What worked badly? - What would you have done differently?",,losingcontrol,136,1442770039,2015-09-20 17:27:19+00:00,story,10248273,,62.0,, 2212,What credit card does your US startup use?,,"More context:
- very small team (< 5 people)
- mostly used for online services (e.g., servers, SaaS, api ...)
- rarely travel
- in San Francisco",,wenbin,136,1492021030,2017-04-12 18:17:10+00:00,story,14100281,,107.0,, 2213,"Advice for a young, self-taught programmer",,"[TL;DR I’m a 15 year old self taught programmer unsure of what to learn and how to learn it].
Hello, I’m a 15 year old self-taught programmer and I need some help. About a year ago, I made $21,000 making apps for webOS through their Hot Apps promotion. However, that was a onetime thing, and I’ve concluded that the size of their user base makes it a bad platform to sell apps on. But now I’m unsure of what to do.
As a self-taught programmer, it is difficult for me to pick up new technologies. Right now, I know Python, C/C++, Objective C, and some HTML/CSS/JS, and my most complex app was about a 1,500 line C++/OpenGL piano app. I know the syntax of these languages, but I feel like I don’t know how to apply them to make things. When trying to learn frameworks, two things generally happen: One: I find a tutorial, follow it halfway through religiously, and then quit because I’m not making anything useful. Then, I transition to the “just build something” phase, in which case I will spend hours googling relatively trivial issues that I run into. I eventually give up because it takes a ridiculous amount of time to do something that seems so easy. I then move onto the next technology and repeat.
One option is to continue doing phone apps, except for iOS and Android. I have never programmed for Android, but I have been learning cocos2d for iOS and also about normal iOS apps. However, I don’t feel that I can make an app that’s good enough to compete with what’s already out there. Resulting from this is a constant belief that my ideas suck, I would never be able to code my idea, the idea wouldn’t be good enough to be sold, etc.
Another option would be for me to learn about data structures and algorithms. I’ve been studying them a little and know some of the basics, big O, sorting, etc., and I’ve done the first 55 or so Project Euler problems without much trouble. This seems like it would help me the most in the future, but I find it hard to see the benefit in it now, and wonder if I should just wait until college to learn it. Everything else just feels like gluing together libraries that won’t help me at all in the future, while this feels as if it would actually be worth something. Additionally, I also want to get into Stanford, and knowing things like this would help me be ahead.
Another thing I could learn is web programming, which I now know next to nothing about. I mean sure, I know HTML, CSS, JS, Python, but I don’t know how that’s glued together to make a flashy web app. I mean with my skills now I could design something, but it would probably look like crap. The idea of doing a web start-up right now is very appealing to be, but I just don’t know where to begin. I feel like most material is way too basic (“this is a variable…”) or talks about stuff that I have no idea in what context its being used.
Anyways, thanks for reading, and any help that anyone can give would be much appreciated. Thanks!",,godarderik,136,1307910113,2011-06-12 20:21:53+00:00,story,2647301,,73.0,, 2214,Is discrimination to promote diversity okay?,,"I'm sorry that this is a controversial topic, but I've been feeling increasingly uncomfortable about things going on at my current and previous workplaces and I don't know where to turn for thoughts and advice. It's a subject that's hard to discuss with anyone for fear of being labelled, but I'm feeling increasingly stressed out and concerned about how far things have gone at times.
I work in software, and in the last 10 years or so the businesses I have worked for have been very keen to have more women and people from ethnic minorities in their engineering team. Over the last couple of years I've sensed a real change, where any concern about the ethics of discriminating based on gender or ethnicity have gone completely out of the window. Candidates that are doing well are literally being ejected from the hiring process because they don't help diversity stats. On more than one occasion I've seen a hiring manager with open roles tell a recruiter to not bother them with any applications from white males.
I really enjoy working with a diverse range of people. I've sensed a mono-culture sometimes in technical groups, often driven by a strict hiring process that only lets in people that think in a very specific way. I prefer to interact with all different kinds of people, although I admit that I'm not convinced that 'different kinds' has to be about race and gender (but it is a part of the picture).
Over the last decade I think there has often been an unspoken preference towards candidates that improve diversity, and I don't have a problem with this. It's always hard to find the right balance, to recognise bias and encourage and allow those applications to prosper. The nuance has gone in recent years, and it has become common for interviewers to think nothing of directly and openly identifying "white male" as a negative trait when discussing a candidate after an interview. I feel like we need a bit of a cultural reset, to re-establish the basic principal that truly discriminating against any candidate on the basis of race or gender is wrong.
To those that say, "Hey, it's just time for white males to find out what it has been like for women and ethnic minorities", I'm afraid this line of reasoning, that two wrongs make a right, doesn't hold water for me at all. It's unjust to discriminate against a young graduate today, and have them pay the price for bygone injustice.
I'm concerned that at some point I will inevitably have to either challenge something, and be labelled a bigot or misogynist, or live an increasingly bizarre existence with things happening around me that I consider to be clearly wrong.
So what's your experience? Are you comfortable with this phenomenon and is it a shift you remotely recognise? Should I just stop worrying and embrace this? Have folks that work in other industries seen a similar change?",,throwaway120398,136,1637960268,2021-11-26 20:57:48+00:00,story,29354049,,105.0,, 2215,How do you organize your knowledge?,,"Methods and systems for grasping, understanding, and making sense of any general knowledge or information.",,rxsel,136,1619379280,2021-04-25 19:34:40+00:00,story,26935838,,106.0,, 2216,Who Plays Go?,,"I play on http://www.gokgs.com/ sometimes, with the same name.
I'm not super incredible (maybe 2 dan). At my peak, when I was studying in Japan, I was close to 5 dan. A week before leaving Kyoto, I hooked up with a buddy (who was also visiting) to challenge the locals at a smoke-filled Go club. He was perhaps 2 dan at the time. We walked in and slaughtered the room. They could not match us. Ah, but they insisted we return the following evening.
We did.
Waiting for us were some of their strongest players. I was seated in front of Kyoto's most ruthless amateur player, who must have been a scrappy 7 dan. He was a squat old man with grizzly eyes and a staunch, ""I'm gonna' mess you up"" attitude. The desire for revenge in his gaze was unmistakable.
The knives came out, we threw down dragon after dragon, chase after chase, launching attack and counter-attack, the board was intense. Eyes of groups were abandoned, trades were made, and the shrewdness of his plays were like his gaze. In the end he won four out of five games, and I learned a lesson in humility. It was a great experience, would do it again in an eye-blink.
Go is such an amazing game, with a rich history, pervasive through Asia, and unsuspecting in its simplicity. It's also a great way to make friends around the world, and meet some truly remarkable people.
Any dan players care for a game?",,thangalin,136,1287908028,2010-10-24 08:13:48+00:00,story,1825619,,96.0,, 2217,Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?,,"And if so, which software do you use? I'm fascinated by storing things that I learn outside of my own brain. Ideally I'd love to create my own mini intranet of information, basically a personal wiki, that I can go to first before having to Google things, especially for my field of study.
I've looked into various Wiki packages but none quite seem to offer what I'm looking for (Mac, no need for a webserver, cross device functionality, math markup, searchability, tags)
If you do keep a personal knowledge repository, can you please describe your workflow for using and maintaining one for all the new knowledge you acquire?",,lethologica,136,1558759023,2019-05-25 04:37:03+00:00,story,20007108,,123.0,, 2218,Tips for Hackers having Kids?,,"In about 6 months I've got a lovely bundle of joy coming into the world, needless to say I'm extremely excited.
Like many Hackers I work fairly long hours, especially weekends (sometimes when I get my best work done).
I'd love to hear some tips from fellow hackers who have had kids & some tips on managing the transition to a more family focused life, without losing sight of goals & milestones that you have for your startup.",,thegyppo,136,1281585074,2010-08-12 03:51:14+00:00,story,1597144,,130.0,, 2219,How do I start with test driven development?,,"I'm a student developer, @pravj on GitHub. I try to follow the best possible development practice when I'm working like documentation, respecting language's style guide etc.
But one thing I don't like with me is that I never write tests.
Why I never followed that aspect is because I always felt that the thing that I'm writing, sounds totally OK.
One another negative point is that I don't actually get it that How to do/start this and what type of tests I should write for any given project. Maybe this is because I have never done this before.
For example recently I wrote a identicons library, Penticons[1]. It generates GitHub contribution flavored identicons. You can read the development story here[2].
Now, the thing that stopped me from writing tests was, I thought that ultimately it's a image generation library, why this thing needs any tests.
I don't want to lost my 1 point in the Joel score. Whenever I see a build passing label on a GitHub repository, It makes me crazy.
I'm asking here because I just love HN, I know people will suggest some awesome things here.
1. https://github.com/penticons/penticons.go
2. http://pravj.github.io/blog/penticons-the-hash-game/",,pravj,136,1424531818,2015-02-21 15:16:58+00:00,story,9085695,,64.0,, 2220,What are you working on?,,"I know this question has been asked before in one way or another, but in the mean time projects have been started and finished. People have changed jobs or even fields, etc...
What are you working on? And where? Start-up? Academia? Your favorite MegaCorp?",,Anon84,136,1247438269,2009-07-12 22:37:49+00:00,story,700662,,229.0,, 2221,Why do you keep a personal knowledge base?,,Why do you keep a personal knowledge base? What are you trying to accomplish by saving content? What insights do you want to discover? What tasks do you want to achieve?,,dynamic99,136,1531579049,2018-07-14 14:37:29+00:00,story,17530498,,96.0,, 2222,What data structure does our brain use?,,"Let's have an open discussion on this. We might be able to come up with something!
-- Aarvay",,Aarvay,135,1318072110,2011-10-08 11:08:30+00:00,story,3087659,,78.0,, 2223,Is Dell XPS Developer Edition a Good Replacement of Macbook Pro?,,"Hi, I've been waiting few months for yesterday's MacBook upgrade and I'm dissatisfied, as most of you. I read many comments about alternatives and one of recurring favorite is Dell XPS Developer Edition. Could I ask you about your experience with this model? I'm interested in high-end version (16gb and UltraSharp screen). Is it worth this money (less than Macbook, but still)? I actually want to buy "best machine money can buy", which is powerful (for JVM development, besides personal stuff like movies and web), but still easy to carry-on while traveling. Most of the machines are Windows-oriented, which doesn't fit my workflow and there's a limited choice of laptop fully compatible with Linux. Dell XPS 13 seems like one. Do you have positive experiences with this? Would you recommend it?
I just get rid of normal desktop and use mainly my office machine - heavy, powerful ThinkPad W541 with 32GB ram and i7, but it's plastic and the screen is so-so.
Thanks!",,kornakiewicz,135,1477689259,2016-10-28 21:14:19+00:00,story,12820778,,105.0,, 2224,When is it time to give up on a side project SaaS?,,"I started a SaaS business official in May 2019. (Although I spent about 8 months developing the application). I didn't officially acquire my first customer until May 2019. Fast forward to May 2020, and I've got about 8 paying customers. I'm really proud and impressed by this accomplishment.
Growth is, however, slow. I have a good understanding of who my target customer is now, 1 year later, after talking to them and noticing common patterns in terms of their needs.
This is my first real business. I would really love to hear from someone experienced in building a SaaS business from scratch. Your insight would be appreciated. What should I expect in terms of growth? How fast did businesses grow in the beginning (BaseCamp, for example, Digital Ocean, MailChimp)?
Thanks",,9967d2cad_askhn,135,1591160894,2020-06-03 05:08:14+00:00,story,23399979,,84.0,, 2225,"Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, etc – how do you deploy your products?",,"I use docker extensively with python backed ansible scripts to manage my product deployments (with a jenkins CI/CD pipeline). That has been a lot of fun, but I have also played with both Kubernetes and Openshift.
I love what Openshift Origin can do, but the learning curve is like a brick wall (See Dwarf Fortress Fun for an example) and the costs are far from minimal.
Kubernetes is easier to learn, but comes with its own gotchas.
What do you do to maintain stable deployments that allow for easy CI/CD? How do you minimize costs with your solution?",,BloodKnight9923,135,1485959510,2017-02-01 14:31:50+00:00,story,13540952,,114.0,, 2226,Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?,,"I've been using Vagrant for about 5-6 years now to automate the setup of development environments. It was a great tool for spinning up environments that were similar to production and easily shared across team resources that jump in and out of projects.
The number of issues we're dealing with daily with Vagrant is rising. The productivity boost it provided is entirely gone and the support is taking a substantial amount of time.
We love Hashicorp and, I don't mean this to be a slight against them, but I'm curious what alternatives people are using to:
- Automate building dev environments (Linux-based) with dependencies etc. - Ensure that your development environment is similar enough to production to reduce/eliminate potential issues moving to production.
I have done some googling around, but it still appears that Vagrant is the top dog in this space. Willing to accept that it's us and not the tool, but issues with NFS sharing, port collisions, support for Fusion, deprecations with legacy Chef setups and more is just more than we can handle right now.
Bonus points for tools that can be re-purposed for automating deployment as well (Terraform). Parity between development and other environments is important.",,purephase,135,1492915734,2017-04-23 02:48:54+00:00,story,14176191,,100.0,, 2227,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,135,1375362207,2013-08-01 13:03:27+00:00,story,6139937,,161.0,, 2228,Best monitoring system?,,"At my company I'm considering switching us from Nagios to another monitoring system and starting to do some research. What's the best monitoring solution out there today? I'm pretty impressed by Prometheus, but just like to get some more opinions.",,mspaulding06,135,1469214018,2016-07-22 19:00:18+00:00,story,12145879,,121.0,, 2229,"Parents, what are you doing for school this fall?",,"I'm a professional software engineer with two middle-school aged children and a working partner cramped into a small apartment. Since the shelter in place orders happened and my employer switched everyone to work from home, my apartment has seemed less and less suitable for productivity. It's also not the best environment for children to remain cooped up in their rooms on electronics all day, every day. My partner and I have experimented with some online camps and our local public schools have gone purely virtual, but I'm considering alternative schools this year as well as moving out of our cramped apartment.
Parents: What have you tried? What did you love? What did you hate?",,mbf1,135,1597683716,2020-08-17 17:01:56+00:00,story,24189147,,184.0,, 2230,2020 goals and resolutions?,,"Mine are to: • read at least a book off of my reading list per month. • AWS certs • Write a blog post per month • Save $X for a house per month
What are your goals/resolutions for 2020? or what have you learned in this past decade?",,lookingforsome,135,1577390309,2019-12-26 19:58:29+00:00,story,21886250,,145.0,, 2231,"Can build CRUD apps, what now?",,"I have been building good amount of CRUD apps for the past 10 years or so, but I feel stuck, like a massive wall in front of me.
I started coding in 2010 when I was in High school using JScript and Microsoft PageBuilder with the Help Manual(chm file) that it came with (I had no internet connection). Later I picked up PHP, JS, Java and a whole lot of other technologies which allowed me to be an amazing CRUD app developer, My resume is filled with the latest trendy words like Docker, Scala, Kafka, Spark, Hive, react, K8s or any new framework that seems to make a buzz. All this was amazing but I recently realized that I am not so smart and I can't seem to build anything other than CRUD apps and it is quite depressing.
There is a world out there about compilers, run-times, drivers, emulators, VMs and OSes that I can't seem to grasp, it is just too complicated for me. My Computer Science degree and the newer degrees do not focus on these, they have become 4 year long coding boot camps that focus on getting people job ready with AWS, React, Ruby or whatever trendy. This is true for the majority of the not so prestigious universities out there.
I see a pattern and I feel the older generation is way more capable and knowledgeable when it comes to Computer Science in general. I am pretty sure a lot of people are or were in the same boat as me. I don't really have the time(Have wife & kids) to take a compiler course or set out to build my own OS, what would be the easiest way to learn these lower level things?
Things I have tried so far,
1. Reading the Dragon book(I find this would be useful only once you have built a bad compiler) 2. Paying people older than 40-45 to teach me some C/C++ and some tricks of the trade (expensive but I gained a huge amount of knowledge in a short time)
any other tricks, or comments about your own journey would be helpful.",,evnix,135,1617576425,2021-04-04 22:47:05+00:00,story,26693494,,83.0,, 2232,What device do you use to read academic papers with?,,,,jingwen,135,1486452434,2017-02-07 07:27:14+00:00,story,13587767,,138.0,, 2233,"How do you get and stay in the ""zone""?",,"I have heard HN'ers describe being in the "zone", a mental state where you block out the entire rest of the world and are extremely productive.
I used to be able to get there regularly, but I went through a stage in my life where I had an enormous amount on my mind, and hence a lot of serious distractions. Life has since calmed down, but non-serious distractions have taken the place of the serious distractions.
I am fortunate to have blocks of hours at a time where I have nothing to attend to but my own work. What are your mental strategies for making the most use of them?
Thank you!",,impendia,135,1397569870,2014-04-15 13:51:10+00:00,story,7591771,,103.0,, 2234,What's the best textbook you've read?,,,,lainon,135,1515165035,2018-01-05 15:10:35+00:00,story,16079020,,69.0,, 2235,Best resources to learn SEO?,,I have stumbled across SEOMoz and SEOBook but the price point seems fairly steep for me (student/founder). Are these worth it or are there other better resources for learning the ropes of seo?,,msencenb,135,1284052906,2010-09-09 17:21:46+00:00,story,1676091,,46.0,, 2236,What steps do you take to protect yourself and your family online?,,"This week, I found out that someone opened a bank account in my name. I was able to block the account, but I am not receiving any help from the bank. They don't even have a phone number to let me talk to someone. Everything is done via email :(
What steps can I take, to protect myself online? By now, it is safe to assume that my SSN, address, employment info are in multiple databases somewhere. Given this scenario, any advice?",,akudha,135,1637939187,2021-11-26 15:06:27+00:00,story,29350826,,105.0,, 2237,Which are the best resources to learn software architecture?,,"I'm a software engineer with ~4 years of experience in the IT industry. Since I've always liked designing systems (of any kind), I'm thinking I'd love moving to a software architect role. Currently I'm working closely with some software architects and I guess this can count as practice. But what about theory? Which are the resources (courses, books, etc.) that helped you become a great software architect?",,labarilem,135,1580487070,2020-01-31 16:11:10+00:00,story,22202769,,34.0,, 2238,How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far?,,I know VMs don't work for it yet. How has been otherwise programming on a mac with arm chip?,,robotcookies,135,1610820935,2021-01-16 18:15:35+00:00,story,25804072,,130.0,, 2239,You cannot delete comments posts or your account on HN. Concerned?,,"Today I found out after 11 years on this platform there is no way to delete anything you create and post, including the account itself on Hacker News.
This seems strange and ironic considering a lot of our online comments revolve around data privacy, individual rights and the right to be forgotten.
I have deleted Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and reddit accounts my life has dramatically improved. However I am unable to delete my hacker news account... leaving me wondering what is the status of my online data and status on this network. Clearly it is meant to be permanent. I wonder if you knew nothing is deletable here, and if knowing at some point you might want to, you’d regret existing on and supporting a network that will profit or benefit from your content in perpetuity without input from you.
Meanwhile they reserve extravagant rights to flag censor and ban any content you post at their discretion indicating they’re fully willing to remove content that they disapprove of.
My opinion: you should be upset that this platform/network is benefiting off you and not allowing you the rights and benefits to delete and control your own content... Much less paying you for the content you provide.
I have emailed HN@ycombinator.com and they don’t respond.",,headShrinker,135,1592962180,2020-06-24 01:29:40+00:00,story,23622865,,147.0,, 2240,What are your favorite scholarly papers? Why?,,,,danielhughes,135,1417311548,2014-11-30 01:39:08+00:00,story,8675672,,86.0,, 2241,What was Usenet's ultimate demise?,,It seems that the past 6 years or so saw most big ISP's dropping USENET support claiming mostly piracy concerns. Was it piracy or the fact that it's tough for the government to control what people say on USENET?,,jebblue,135,1438447894,2015-08-01 16:51:34+00:00,story,9987679,,140.0,, 2242,When does it make sense to roll your own X?,,"Suppose you find a library that kinda does what you need, but not really. Do you adapt it to your needs or do you build a version from scratch that really suits your needs, but might take a bit of time to develop?",,li4ick,135,1562923958,2019-07-12 09:32:38+00:00,story,20419416,,142.0,, 2243,Which algorithms based on biological ideas do you know?,,Algorithms don't have to be state of the art.
One of my favorites is a prime number generator based on a predator-prey models of cicadas: http://www.j-npcs.org/online/vol2000/v3no2/v3no2p208.pdf,,labarilem,135,1649419051,2022-04-08 11:57:31+00:00,story,30955837,,84.0,, 2244,How to Speak Confidently?,,"How do I learn to speak confidently in a group setting ? Sometimes when I start speaking and if people are silent or if I can not read their expressions, I start loosing confidence. If someone interruptus and start asking questions or criticizing, I loose my train of thought and start second guessing my ideas and opinions. I start to avoid participating or stop presenting my ideas. This is stopping me from growing in to a good engineer. How do I get better ?",,curious_dev,135,1618408449,2021-04-14 13:54:09+00:00,story,26807085,,108.0,, 2245,Where do you host your webapp?,,Which web hosting provider do you use ?,,kr1,135,1280647124,2010-08-01 07:18:44+00:00,story,1564897,,135.0,, 2246,What makes an online course amazing?,,"For those of you who have taken online classes (MOOCs, at college, etc.), what have been the things that made the best classes stand out? (Or conversely, what made the bad ones bad?)
Why I'm asking: I teach a college data science 101 class with at least 1 section online every semester (and will now be switching to all online for at least the next month - thanks, coronavirus...). At the same time, I'm in the process of redesigning the course, and making new teaching materials and assignments.
I've taken completed several amazing MOOCs in the past (e.g. Princeton's Algorithms I & II, Stanford's Machine Learning), as well as abandoned many more that were simply terrible, so I am no stranger to the online student experience, and I know the things that made certain courses amazing for me personally (e.g. great videos, and well integrated assignments with automated feedback). However, every learner is different, and I would love to hear different perspectives so that I can better redesign my own course.
Was it something about the videos? The assignments? The structure? The instructor? Or something else? Thanks!",,dewy,134,1584237558,2020-03-15 01:59:18+00:00,story,22580520,,49.0,, 2247,How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?,,"I'm currently working on a side project and will be searching for early users / alpha testers in the near future. Our target demographic is established, but we want to keep an open mind as we iterate on the product. Anyone have any "dos" or "don't"s that you can share? Also, sharing a brief description of the product/service itself would be really helpful as well.
For context, I am working in the computer vision space.",,dwrodri,134,1627308267,2021-07-26 14:04:27+00:00,story,27959475,,61.0,, 2248,"What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?",,,,behnamoh,134,1491919799,2017-04-11 14:09:59+00:00,story,14087880,,51.0,, 2249,Typical Startup or Abuse?,,"Over the past year I have been working for a local startup, in the United States, as the Jack-of-all-trades. We offer a product specialized to a fairly niche industry that is doing fairly well. In the past year we haven gone from 2 to 75 clients, gaining around 3 clients per week in the past two months. The product typically nets $5,000/yr per client. The product itself is web-based running off of an opensource CMS.
For the first 10 months I was the only person in the office doing work ~9 hours a day. From client setup, to design, to code and deployment I did it all. Twice a week I would be joined by the other 3 part-time guys who would do what they could in their 4 hours they had. Besides myself and the other team members the founder would do sales two to three days a week part time. Now a year in we have eight full time team members (5 Dev, 1 Sales, 1 CS). My role in the company has now taken on the Jack-Of-All-Trades plus the management of these other team members. Which I consider to be a great accomplishment for myself and I am proud of. However one factor in all of this has not changed in the past twelve months: compensation.
I was never a fussy person about money, especially when it came to startups. (I was in two other startups prior to this one.) I understand that you must bootstrap and try to be as frugal and agile as possible in the start. However a year in, and I am still making around $500/week. Which, in the beginning was great. However over the past year I have moved out, bought a car (out of need, the other died), gotten married, and have had a child. (With a second one on the way.) The other two major factors are: no benefits, and the founder seems to refuse to officially employ me (or anyone else in the company.). He still gives all of us a 1099. Yet, he treats us like employees. We have required working times, usually 8AM - 6PM, we only get a half hour lunch with no other breaks, and are on-call 24-7. Honestly, those items don't even bother me that much. However what does is that if I am one minute late from my 30 minute lunch, the founder will immediately call me asking where I am. If I happen to arrive at work a minute or two late I get a lecture. If I don't answer a call, on a weekend, I get a talk about availability. And if I am sick, I am required to work from home for the day. (I was in the hospital and still required to work.) That is what really gets me upset about this situation. I am fairly sure what he is doing is illegal with the 1099 issue. But it really upsets me that for all of the work and dedication that I have put in, that I can't get cut a break once or twice.
I am unsure how many of you are in a similar situation or even care. I honestly am not looking for any sympathy on this however I am seeking advice. Two weeks ago a new-hire and I went out for lunch and he asked me about the 1099 situation and asked what he should do. I told him to take some of the money out of his check to save for taxes. He said something to the degree of ""But I only make $500/week!"". I am not exactly sure why that made me lose my cool. Ever since then I have felt that the founder has not only been using me, but also the rest of the team. And I am letting this issue get to me. I spend each day now hating what I am doing because I have this feeling. I know the easiest answer may be: Well why not just talk to the founder? And I have.
The response is always the same: ""We can't do that right now.""(Benefits/Employ) ""Remember I haven't even paid myself yet for any of this!""(Compensation) ""It's cheaper for you if we do it this way!"" (1099) And he won't budge.
I have been doing web work since I was nine. This is my passion in life. I spend all the time I can perfecting my craft and trying the best I can to stay current. I've never cared about money in the past, but the time has come where I have to. I hate myself for letting this job get to me to the point where it makes me burnt out on my passion.
This leaves me in the position of asking myself what to do now. My gut, and my wife, is telling me to begin looking for other jobs. Any advice? (And thank you for taking the time to read this over, I deeply appreciate it.)",,datawalke,134,1277016807,2010-06-20 06:53:27+00:00,story,1446034,,166.0,, 2250,"In a microservice architecture, how do you handle managing secrets?",,I'm evaluating solutions for secrets management in relation to a distributed microservice architecture and am curious to hear what everyone else out there does. Some options I've considered:
- Git-crypt and deploying secrets along with binaries
- Hashicorp Vault
- Square Keywhiz
- AWS KMS
- Lyft Confidant
- Roll your own
All seem to have pros and cons depending on use cases and how mission critical the service you are offering is.
So what do you do to solve this problem in your world?,,kkamperschroer,134,1453152021,2016-01-18 21:20:21+00:00,story,10927043,,57.0,, 2251,My side project is ramen-profitable. What do I do now?,,"For context: The project is a PC-hardware recommender (https://www.pc-kombo.de). It looks at benchmarks and tries to find the best combination for the budget, for the parts where there are no benchmarks (hdds, case, …) it relies on reviews and finally coded heuristics (=my judgement). It's a side-project, I have a job (salaried PhD-student, finishing this year).
The jump from 0 to some monthly income was a really big thing and took a long time. Then everything moved fast for a moment, but now it did not evolve much in a while, and I'm not sure what to do. I see some options, but they also seem blocked.
For example, I'd love to extend the version for the US by adding newegg as a vendor. But the Usage Terms of its referral program are batshit crazy. The consequence by signing it were for me to have to pay them $20k dollars whenever they want, they'd just have to claim a problem with following their terms. I'd have no defense, nor the money.
I could also expand to other EU-countries. But I think the monthly work required to keep the database up to date would go over the time budget I have for this project. Maybe if I built that in a very robust way – but my tries to do that for Germany all only improved the situation, there is naturally always still manual work to do… Maybe that should be done anyway, I'm leaning towards it.
Maybe I could just make it more known in Germany somehow? Or maybe the site just needs to be improved gradually and would then grow by itself? Maybe (probably) there are other options I miss?
I'd love to hear some advice.",,onli,134,1462265342,2016-05-03 08:49:02+00:00,story,11618937,,100.0,, 2252,Can you discuss CS in your native language?,,"Yesterday I needed to message my CS teacher about an exam question, and discovered that I was unable to formulate my question in Swedish, so I opted to write the whole message in English instead. I don't want to share the message, since it is related to an exam, but it was about Iacono's working set structure.
Have your native languages incorporated CS terms to any usable level, or do you have to switch to English, in part or wholly, when the topic is discussed?",,widforss,134,1591009666,2020-06-01 11:07:46+00:00,story,23377270,,168.0,, 2253,Screenshot Saturday,,Please post a screenshot and a few words of explanation about what you have been working on for the past week.,,screenshot,134,1398546914,2014-04-26 21:15:14+00:00,story,7652777,,213.0,, 2254,Why does no one talk about working or interviewing for Apple?,,"I find it interesting that people here talk about the interview process and working at companies such as Google and Microsoft, but I almost never hear about Apple.
Why is this? Is it the iPhone/Android debate? Or is it something else?",,mmatey,134,1290600733,2010-11-24 12:12:13+00:00,story,1937133,,91.0,, 2255,"There are 5 S-1 posts on the front page, what explains the rush?",,Is it just because the stock market is doing "well" right now or is there some other explanation?,,ladberg,134,1598302874,2020-08-24 21:01:14+00:00,story,24265456,,43.0,, 2256,What are you predictions for 2022?,,- Use lists instead of long paragraphs.
- One prediction per list item.
Historical:
2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068
2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802596
2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753859
2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007988
2017: none?
2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809767
2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723
2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370
2013: none?
2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201
2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970023
2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681,,csomar,134,1640941829,2021-12-31 09:10:29+00:00,story,29746236,,233.0,, 2257,Does Google have a way to report scam advertisements?,,"I got the linked ad [1] show up on a website I visited. It’s a scam for bitcoin trading, which is presented using the same website as our national broadcaster. I tried to report it, but the only option that fit was “inappropriate”
Does Google really have no way to report scams? I am afraid the reviewers will miss it, as inappropriate often refers to sexual decency
This type of scam involving celebrities and fake news articles using national media layouts have been going on for more than a year to my recollection
[1] https://retinasket.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-ZvVl5af6wIVXcq7CB...",,eisa01,134,1597562536,2020-08-16 07:22:16+00:00,story,24175924,,65.0,, 2258,What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?,,"What are the best non-fiction books you have read that expanded your views, hobbies, interests etc.",,StriverGuy,134,1536074989,2018-09-04 15:29:49+00:00,story,17909694,,86.0,, 2259,Where are the Beautiful clean HTML/CSS templates?,,Everytime I start a new project (i.e. weekly) I go looking for a clean and beautiful html template. It's always sooo hard to find some. What's your go-to for clean html template?,,magicseth,134,1606239092,2020-11-24 17:31:32+00:00,story,25200702,,49.0,, 2260,Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor?,,"Apart from network effect, and Google's Ad Monopoly, what does YT have that has made it a clear winner in this field? What would a competitor need to take on them?",,ash110,134,1638889815,2021-12-07 15:10:15+00:00,story,29473236,,221.0,, 2261,Who wants to be hired? (November 2019),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Bonsai (YC W16) (https://www.hellobonsai.com) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.",,whoishiring,133,1580745730,2020-02-03 16:02:10+00:00,story,22225313,,213.0,, 2264,How do you get over the initial fear of learning something hard or new?,,"Particularly with regard to new software projects, languages, concepts, etc.",,whitepoplar,133,1549629954,2019-02-08 12:45:54+00:00,story,19113628,,74.0,, 2265,Why do browsers still support pop up dialogs and other bad behavior?,,"There are still malware and advertising sites out there that allow browsers to use modal dialogs (ie, you can't interact with the page without answering the dialog). You can't even close the tab without getting rid of the dialog. There are also sites that will kill your page history by going through a bunch of redirects to prevent you from leaving with the back button. Why are these kinds of things allowed and supported by web browsers? Why do they even need the ability to have a pop up dialog with modern web sites being what they are?",,twshoopboop,133,1463846707,2016-05-21 16:05:07+00:00,story,11745127,,80.0,, 2266,for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?,,"I worked really hard on two side projects during the pandemic that I am quite proud of (here you can take a peek if you like): www.hopupon.com, www.audiobookmate.com
When I was younger I used to list side projects on my cv and employers used to take notice. I find now they don't seem to care, usually are only interested in employment history and tech tests.
I also wonder whether side projects speak to the fact that you're not concerned enough with your employer's bottom line. I remember when Ken Cosgrove, in Mad Men, had a side gig as an author and got published in a magazine. Roger Sterling told him, quite sternly, he had to choose between the job and the gig.
The thing is I would actually appreciate if a potential employer asked me about the above two projects. I think they demonstrate some of my skills and would be interesting to discuss.
What do you guys think: Do you guys still list your side projects? What about for jobs more senior than senior developer?",,jcroll,133,1626869929,2021-07-21 12:18:49+00:00,story,27905277,,152.0,, 2267,What’s your plan in 2019?,,"Learning, startup or anything.",,sunasra,133,1545800540,2018-12-26 05:02:20+00:00,story,18760636,,138.0,, 2268,How did you find your great side project idea?,,,,bobnarizes,133,1502216514,2017-08-08 18:21:54+00:00,story,14960881,,122.0,, 2269,Who wants to be hired? (November 2021),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Searchers: try https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/ or https://hirehackernews.com/.",,whoishiring,133,1635778892,2021-11-01 15:01:32+00:00,story,29067491,,250.0,, 2270,got any food hacks?,,"I'm having trouble finding a way of consuming food that has an optimal balance of being healthy, cheap, quick, and tasty. I don't want to eat ramen (or most processed foods), but I don't want to spend an hour every day preparing, cooking, and cleaning. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions to share (tips, recipes, whatever). I'm a single grad student, but advice for others is also appreciated.
For example, I remember an HN submission where the writer talked about paying someone who lived nearby and cooked well to drop off leftovers most evenings. Someone else talked about preparing a whole bunch of meals the first weekend of the month then freezing them (this probably requires a second fridge). From the body building community I picked up the idea to drink a lot of milk, because it's a great source of cheap good calories. I'm not necessarily looking for actions so drastic and perhaps ""gimmicky"", simpler ideas would work just as well (""making such-and-such is really quick and makes a bunch of leftovers that taste just as good as the first time"", etc.)",,johnswamps,133,1270256540,2010-04-03 01:02:20+00:00,story,1237939,,165.0,, 2271,What books to read on developing mental models and increasing cognition?,,"Books that might help in these areas:
1) Better Thinking techniques and Systems
2) Overcoming Cognitive Bias
3) Creativity/Innovation
4) Problem Solving/Decision Making
5) Any other similar area in business/life.
For example:
Peter Bevelin - Seeking Wisdom - From Darwin to Munger
The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman
Charlie Munger - The Psychology of Human Misjudgment
Predictably Irrational - by Dan Ariely
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life - Twyla Tharp
Michael Michalko - Creative Thinkering
Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella H. Meadows
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt",,technology,133,1322238968,2011-11-25 16:36:08+00:00,story,3277457,,41.0,, 2272,An SEO startup is impersonating a physician. What should I do?,,"Background: My wife works as an administrator at a Canadian cosmetic surgery clinic. The physician, Dr. C., is quite successful and is ranked #1 in our city on sites like RateMD.
Yesterday, she was cold-called by an SEO startup in an attempt to sell her a revamped website and SEO services. He said they had already designed a placeholder website, and that he would personalize it for them if the clinic would purchase their services. She politely refused.
Out of curiosity, her colleague, J, called the phone number on this fictional web site. J pretended to be a potential client and asked to schedule a consultation. The other party said "The doctor is currently busy; I'll check with him and call you back." J asked which physician she would be seeing. He gave her the name of Dr. C (the physician at J's clinic!) along with his background and credentials (gleaned from the bio on Dr. C's website). When pressed for the clinic's location, they gave J a (fake) address in Chinatown.
My wife then called the SEO company to complain that they seemed to be impersonating a legitimate clinic in order to sell SEO services (she did not mention J's call). The person she spoke to (listed as one of co-founders) became very rude. He denied that they were doing anything wrong and huffed that "If you don't want to grow your Web presence then we don't want your business!"
I believe that this is an attempted "growth hack" and not an outright scam, but they are taking it too far. Using a real physician's identity, even in a placeholder website, can damage his reputation, not to mention displacing him as #1 in Google search results for our city.
HN, do you have any thoughts on what action my wife can take to stop this behavior?
Update 1: Interestingly, the fake clinic domain name is VERY similar (one letter difference) to another, legitimate clinic in the city.
Update 2: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons is in contact with wife's clinic. Preparing to unleash the hounds, no doubt.",,iharris,133,1422636257,2015-01-30 16:44:17+00:00,story,8972822,,60.0,, 2273,What are the other websites you visit daily?,,"I'm curious over what others website, people regularly visit in addition to NewsYcombinator? As aggregator, I finds it great, especially for topic that are out of my area. But is there similar websites in your daily feed or blog you follow?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Cheers.",,flashyfaffe2,133,1588969265,2020-05-08 20:21:05+00:00,story,23118993,,39.0,, 2274,Why are supercomputers all running Linux and not BSD?,,,,dbosch,132,1510825741,2017-11-16 09:49:01+00:00,story,15711418,,77.0,, 2275,What's the best place in Europe to live and work cheaply?,,"Similar to the U.S. thread, but for people living in Europe.",,aristidesfl,132,1384029196,2013-11-09 20:33:16+00:00,story,6703058,,161.0,, 2276,I made $24k over the last month. Now what?,,"I sell apps on the app store. A lot of small cheap apps. Revenue is hitting $1000 per day on the weekends (Here is the graph: http://imgur.com/T0z5p.png).
But I'm facing another problem. I don't know what to do with the money, how to use this very large monthly income to actually make myself rich. The app store income is going to end soon enough - the ecosystem is pretty fragile. Now that I have this raw cash, no debts, have a job I enjoy, don't want or need a car, my apartment is perfectly comfortable, what can I do?
I do NOT want to invest in the stock market, or invest in anything long term like bonds or property. I want to somehow use the money to make more money quickly (within a 2 year time span). But I have no idea! What I know how to do best is the app store, but I want other type of things that do not require much time investment, but give as good returns as that.
What do I do with the money? How do I invest it in making more money quickly?",,maxklein,132,1263829243,2010-01-18 15:40:43+00:00,story,1060019,,199.0,, 2277,A Well Funded Competitor Has Launched Before Me What Should I do?,,"Hey Guys,
Obviously using a throwaway account but, I'm a well respected member on here with a few thousand karma (just to give you abit of info who I am).
Anyway, I'm in the process of creating a startup however, a well funded competitor has recently launched - a few million in VC funding with a strong team
I am just wondering what I should do knowing this competition is now around. I am aware of other similar competitors (although this is a new niche/spin on it so they aren't outright competitors) but this one was right out of the blue.
What should I do?",,sadasdad324,132,1314450193,2011-08-27 13:03:13+00:00,story,2931368,,75.0,, 2278,Neutral DNS servers?,,"Hi HN - Here’s a question that I hope will generate some useful comments, suggestions and links.
Background for question: I normally run an internal DNS resolver with an upstream pool of 10-15 providers. These are normally a mix of Global Anycast servers (Quad9 etc) with some OpenNIC, YandexDNS etc thrown in towards the end to cover the ‘chilling effects’ blackholes.
Currently Yandex DNS is pinging a timeout (either due to black-holing or DDOS’ing depending on where I connect To/From).
My question to HN is this – Given my ‘Information Wants To Be Free’ viewpoint, are there any DNS equivalents of Switzerland (WWII, Neutral to all parties) providers?",,NotAWorkNick,132,1647018280,2022-03-11 17:04:40+00:00,story,30642577,,96.0,, 2279,"Is it just me, or is the inbox is the worst place for newsletters?",,"Is it just me, or do you believe your inbox is the worst place for newsletters? Any other medium would be preferable.",,ahmd,132,1625226585,2021-07-02 11:49:45+00:00,story,27710270,,107.0,, 2280,More types of flagging? ,,"Right now to flag something is to recommend that it be killed. I'm thinking of adding additional types of flags that are more specific, and less draconian. The goal is to create things between a flag and a downvote, or maybe even to replace downvotes in some cases. The two most obvious options are to allow comments to be flagged as uncivil, and frivolous. The numbers of these flags (but not who issued them) would be displayed to whoever posted the comment in question. So this would be a way to tell someone to stop being a jerk, or posting dumb stuff, without having to write a comment to say so.
Any opinions about the types of flags there should be, and how they should work?",,pg,132,1261344335,2009-12-20 21:25:35+00:00,story,1006589,,166.0,, 2281,Anyone here use a Hackintosh as one of their main machines?,,"I'm not sure if this is allowed here as it's technically "not legal", but while I love my MacBook, nothing beats having a comfy desktop computer at home with a ton of storage. I know I'm in the minority, but I miss it.
Unfortunately I am very much used to OS X and highly productive in it and Apple's desktop offerings are pretty poor right now (correct me if I'm wrong), so unless I decide to go for Linux, I'll try a Hackintosh.
What I'm looking for are experiences with them for someone who just wants a computer to code, torrent, and watch movies from and doesn't care about iMessage working. I probably won't update my OS X much either.
I keep hearing widely different things about Hackintoshes so I thought I'd try HN.
Thanks!",,peruvian,132,1471008172,2016-08-12 13:22:52+00:00,story,12275385,,146.0,, 2282,What is a modern Java environment?,,"Hello,
I used Java a very long time ago, like 1.6, and I'm wondering what using Java at work in ~web backend looks like today.
What elements of your stack would you consider most important? Do most projects lean heavily on Spring Boot or something else? Which IDE? Pointers to refreshers or concise introductions you might give a new hire would be handy too.",,smorgusofborg,132,1648556684,2022-03-29 12:24:44+00:00,story,30841581,,152.0,, 2283,Is 2018 the end of Facebook?,,"Facebook is now getting so much negative press, is 2018 the year it will go the way of MySpace... a rapid fall off, a decline in minority?
Can Zukerberg turn things around?",,edf13,132,1521470214,2018-03-19 14:36:54+00:00,story,16618623,,103.0,, 2284,Lack of self-discipline driving me hopeless. Tips?,,"Dear Hacker News,
I am a longtime member here. I would never think I would be one of those writing this but here it goes.
I have a terrible problem with focus and discipline. I simply cannot manage to achieve both for any prolonged period of times. For the last five years, I have tried very conciously to become disciplined and no matter what, after a few days or weeks at best, the pattern breaks and I am back to my unproductive, terrible self.
I also cannot really enjoy or focus on anything or anyone for too long. This is the most scary part. I cannot be in a relationship for more than a week or two before becoming very ambivalent after the initial high. I cannot continue working on projects--all of them I would say I enjoy--for more than a few weeks at most.
I am 23 and finishing up school(took some time off to do failed startup). Much of this could be accepted during my teen years and 20s. People close to me respect me for my passion, for my entprenreurial spirit and all of those things. They barely know this miserable side of me and those that do don't know much else to help me.
I always thought I knew what I loved(startups). At this point though, anything I love seems to have become very irrelavant. I make new friends and before I know it, I am avoiding them. I want to socialize but before I know it, I'm avoiding it. I want to work on my startup but before I know it, my mind is just in a confused weird daze. I have no idea what is wrong with me. I have so many things to be greatful about. I am 100% confident that I am holding myself back. And yet, I don't know how to get out of this shitless pattern of life.
After a million self-help programs and motivation books that haven't been of much help, I thought I'd post this on HN.
More recently I have started reading up more on suicides. I am too weak to ever attempt it. But I also never thought I'd ever be so tired and hopeless in life to be googling something so sick.
Thanks!
-A dude",,Damnit,132,1278289044,2010-07-05 00:17:24+00:00,story,1486708,,106.0,, 2285,What are some skills you have that are worth learning?,,"I sometimes have the feeling, upon learning that someone hasn't yet learned to program or do mathematics, that they're missing out on a whole realm of opportunities.
What are other skills like this, that you have, that you expect many participants on Hacker News lack, and that have greatly expanded the possibilities available to you?",,DavidSJ,132,1594122488,2020-07-07 11:48:08+00:00,story,23758188,,170.0,, 2286,Is it just me or has YouTube gone fanatical on ads?,,"I never used to have a problem watching the first 5 seconds of a sponsored commercial on some of the more popular YouTube videos, but I've noticed a startling increase in the amount of ads being served to me. It is at the point where I would say 3 in every 4 videos plays an ad now. It's disgustingly frustrating.
Has anyone else noticed this?
If so, has there been an announcement regarding this that I've missed? Perhaps even something to do with Google+ IDs being used for user accounts?",,sarreph,132,1385689693,2013-11-29 01:48:13+00:00,story,6817450,,121.0,, 2287,How to get better in advanced SQL,,"How to get better at indexing? How to get better at joins? How to get better in SQL optimization?
Must to know things about SQL and maybe relational databases?",,dprophecyguy,132,1550034059,2019-02-13 05:00:59+00:00,story,19150561,,21.0,, 2288,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2017),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,132,1483372862,2017-01-02 16:01:02+00:00,story,13301833,,190.0,, 2289,I don't want to be a worker any more I want to be a professional,,I've been in the industry for a long while now long enough to be past the stage of proving myself and looking more towards creating something of lasting value for the world and society and even my own legacy
Everyone around me from management to the HR apparatus and even my peers seem geared towards me remaining a non client facing worker bot content with my perks and not harboring any ambitions beyond 'solving challenging problems' as a means to elicit that dopamine rush towards the collective ego
Growing up I chose computer science because it wasn't supposed to feel like work it was supposed to be a calling a duty but now the whole system is geared towards blind compliance and disengagement
My good people how can I break the endless cycle of mindless mechanical labour that has become the software business and become the consummate professional I've always wanted to be?,,artsyca,132,1579498590,2020-01-20 05:36:30+00:00,story,22096571,,73.0,, 2290,Tips for students before starting their first job,,"Hi, I'm 19 and currently in my second CS semester. I've got some projects on my portfolio, did some internships and will start an job as an research assistant at an institute next semester. However, I really have no clue how I can prepare myself enough before landing my first job after university. The only things I can find are: build a portfolio and contribute to open-source.
Which advice did/would have helped you landing your first job after university? And whats your best tip for life in general?",,oltdaniel,132,1591948075,2020-06-12 07:47:55+00:00,story,23497026,,175.0,, 2291,What are some open source projects that a beginner can work on?,,"Please link to the GitHub pages or the repo page, and also mention the prerequisites.",,thatsnotme,131,1427910277,2015-04-01 17:44:37+00:00,story,9305398,,77.0,, 2292,"Poor Job Posting? ""Our office is too big..""",,"Perhaps grumpiness has got the best of me this morning, but this is at least the second time that I've seen the ""Our office is too big -- we need some badass hackers to fill it up"", job posting on HN and something about it grates me the wrong way.
First, the formatting is brutal. It is possibly a markup language I simply don't recognize – but then, neither does HN. The different roles blend into each other, the spacing is all uniform removing any visual grouping.
Second, the content is childish. It screams (to me) of either unprofessionalism or fake-cool. What's ""TONS"" of experience? What does ""physically live at a ton of smb's"" mean? Are you saying the product is already in use by a lot of business that hire mostly fat employees? What's an ""extremely small core dev team""? 1? Scaling ""really big stuff""? Like a mountain? Finally, the salary description includes ""blah blah blah"".
Here's a writing tip, words that end in ""ly"" can normally (see what I did there?) be removed. Drop the ""ridiculously"", ""incredibly"", the two ""extremely""'s in the same phrase.
As a final thought, since you have posted this more than once, why not experiment with different formats/content and figure out what works best. Maybe I'm wrong and your format is attracting exactly who you are hoping it is. However, in my experience, people stick to a very specific employing process and never experiment/tweak – even though it's actually something where the impact of variations can be measured quite easily.",True,latch,131,1309227298,2011-06-28 02:14:58+00:00,story,2703771,,,, 2293,"I know how to reset any Nexmo.com account, but nobody cares",,"Nexmo.com provides messaging and voice solutions, such as SMS gateway functionality, and has prominent customers like Airbnb. On May I found a serious security vulnerability on their website that enables anyone to reset the password of any account on Nexmo.com by knowing the accounts email address and thus to take over an account and see what SMS messages were sent by the account, happily use credits of the account, et cetera.
I tried to figure out how to contact them about the security vulnerability, they don't have a dedicated site about security nor how security researchers can contact them, like Github and many others have (https://help.github.com/articles/github-security/). Which make me think about how important security is to that company, but anyway.
So I ended up writing to their general-purpose support email address describing that I've found a highly severe security vulnerability related to password resets and would like to get in touch with someone from their IT security department or similar. And here's what they replied:
"Thanks for your email - this challenge has finished already, but we appreciate you contacting us."
Wait ... this "challenge" has finished already? What the serious f*?!
So I replied and explained to them that my inquiry isn't about a "challenge" but a serious security hole on their site.
Finally, it seemed that they understood what I wanted and they replied with the following:
"Thanks for letting us know about this, as a result of your email we are investigating it internally. If we need any further information from you we will let you know."
The reply seemed a bit weird to me. Why don't just get in touch with me so I can explain the vulnerability? I respected their answer.
As of today, the security vulnerability is still present. How can you as a company just simply not even care about security and customer information?
So HN, what should I do? Just forget about it?",,sebiw,131,1437741132,2015-07-24 12:32:12+00:00,story,9941459,,56.0,, 2294,How to sell apps on Linux?,,"Hi HN, With the recent major advancements of Linux phones and tablets, convergence becoming a reality, I was wondering:
How to make a living creating apps for Linux, whether it be for the Desktop or the phones?
Do you have any experience or examples you want to share?
Are in-app subscriptions and enterprise support the only way to go? As the usual distribution channels (repositories and 'App Stores') don't seem to provide a straightforward way to sell software.",,sylvain_kerkour,131,1617444724,2021-04-03 10:12:04+00:00,story,26679749,,155.0,, 2295,Has anyone successfully renegotiated an AWS non-compete?,,I have an offer from AWS and as part of that they want me to sign a non-compete. I've signed non-competes in the past but reading through the AWS one is making me very nervous.
It basically limits me for working for a competitor of ALL of amazon for 18 months. Amazon does literally everything! I would pretty much be locked out of a job for 18 months if I left voluntarily or not.
All other non-competes I've signed have been scoped to just the areas of the business which I have confidential info about. This amazon non-compete make me worried I could be sued for even getting a job as a grocery bagger because it competes with their grocery chains?
Have any of you who work for AWS re-negotiated your non-competes? I would be ok signing a non-compete that is just limited to areas which I have confidential information about but I'm worried that asking the hiring manager about this might cause them to pull the offer.,,MeNotLawyer,131,1650038318,2022-04-15 15:58:38+00:00,story,31041711,,190.0,, 2296,Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?,,"Almost a year ago, a HN participant asked about the best affordable programmable drone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8989411
I'd like to ask the question again. Are there any new contenders for the best programmable drone, ideally for $100 or less? I have two daughters, nine and seven years old, who have just seen a demonstration of a drone by a friend of our family's, and they're hooked. Before we purchase one, I'd like to take the opportunity to buy a programmable one so I can mess around with it, too (and teach the kids to program it).
EDIT: Ideally, I'd like something like this, but programmable/hackable: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MNG37C2/ref=s9_simh_gw_g21_i1_r?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=01GMYMFRR2QNC3AT5DG0&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2079475242&pf_rd_i=desktop
Thanks!",,ph0rque,131,1452363757,2016-01-09 18:22:37+00:00,story,10872233,,44.0,, 2297,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2015),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,131,1425222351,2015-03-01 15:05:51+00:00,story,9127243,,155.0,, 2298,Is Google Search Dying?,,Context: Recently I've noticed that almost every search ends with ' reddit'. This is because msotly everything on google search shows either ads or content farm articles and listicles.
This is also slowly getting into more niche topics too.
Does anyone else feel the same?,,shash7,131,1620214351,2021-05-05 11:32:31+00:00,story,27048587,,108.0,, 2299,Production Prolog in 2020?,,Seeker of logic programmers!,,timxor,131,1589890826,2020-05-19 12:20:26+00:00,story,23234017,,70.0,, 2300, What advice messed up your life?,,"This could be advice from anyone including your parents, teachers/professors, friends, etc.",,amichail,131,1290810924,2010-11-26 22:35:24+00:00,story,1943547,,238.0,, 2301,Is there a project based book or course on Go for writing web APIs?,,I am in the process of learning go and i think something like Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial would fit nicely for me right now. I've looked at usegolang.com but i am not sure it has emphasis on API's. Any suggestions?,,lignux,131,1565875881,2019-08-15 13:31:21+00:00,story,20704993,,31.0,, 2302,Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file?,,"Are there any key bindings or modes that have been especially useful for you? If so, what are they?
Cheers.",,grizzydot,131,1283373122,2010-09-01 20:32:02+00:00,story,1654164,,61.0,, 2303,How do I get fit and healthy as a software engineer?,,"Looking for tips to live a healthier lifestyle. I am a software engineer that spends pretty much all day at my desk.
While I have normal weight, I have literally no stamina or endurance to exercise. I have tried both cardio and weights, but nothing ever seems to stick. I am battling burnout so that makes this even tougher
I mainly want become fit enough to run 5ks / half marathons by the end of this year and just feel healthy and fit in general for being able to do more outdoor stuff like hiking. (If it matters I gender identify as female.)
Also looking for tips on good diet plans or other tips for living a much healthier lifestyle.",,throwaway091721,131,1631853265,2021-09-17 04:34:25+00:00,story,28561238,,208.0,, 2304,Is all programming constantly changing or just front-end JavaScript?,,"I've been working on frontend dev for several years now, in the pre and post framework era. React and the other frameworks and ES6 in general, has meant a ton of change to the very basics of how we work.
The way I do basic things has changed fundamentally in the last 4-5 years. Some of that is because I'm no longer a "beginner", but much is because things have just changed a ton.
People who know the JS / frontend ecosystem AND backend stuff as well:
Is this rate of change unique to JS, or is it everywhere? Is Rails very, very different now than 4-5 years ago? Django?
I use PHP a bit and I've seen that change a bit, but it feels like mostly for the better, with namespaces in particular. Otherwise, I don't feel like PHP has had near the amt of change that JS has had.
tl;dr: is it crazy everywhere or just with JS/frontend?",,saltcod,131,1554135417,2019-04-01 16:16:57+00:00,story,19544920,,132.0,, 2305,Is Anyone Here a Professional Baker?,,Hoping someone can tell me about what it takes to become a professional baker.
Did you go to school for it or learn on the job?
What is the job market like?
Do you consider it a good career?,,idontwantthis,131,1634380888,2021-10-16 10:41:28+00:00,story,28886933,,90.0,, 2306,IT Directors and VP's – how do you manage your time and projects?,,"Over the course of my career I've been fortunate to have able to develop as an engineer and sysadmin, and did very well at tackling the projects and tasks that came with those roles. With success in those roles, I found pleasure in managing people and technology, and worked to get promoted to manager, and later director and VP roles in my organizations. The challenge I have faced the further up in the org I go is in changing my work style, tactics and approaches to be more effective. I often find myself overwhelmed with tasks, while projects also need attention. The question for HN is: How do senior level technology managers, directors and VP's manage their time, projects and tasks to be effective at those levels?",,stackdestroyer,131,1547740159,2019-01-17 15:49:19+00:00,story,18931641,,46.0,, 2307,Recommended guides for learning filesystems?,,"Hi, *nix newbie here. I'm struggling with understanding how my Ubuntu's filesystem works and what general practices various applications follow when they install to my Ubuntu instance. I'm currently reading the ldconfig man page and feeling pretty lost. Any good guides or resources for understanding how filesystems and links work?
Thanks!",,mgpela,131,1484931168,2017-01-20 16:52:48+00:00,story,13445063,,32.0,, 2308,What to do when a Chinese startup clones your website?,,"Dear HN, I'm CEO of a Germany-based eSports startup and we have a problem.
Today we were approached by a Chinese user of our website who told us that a China-based startup has launched a direct clone of our website aimed at the Chinese market.
Our website https://strivewire.com is a host of for-money eSports tournaments in the Hearthstone vertical, but we are working on expanding to other games as well.
The website in question is a very obvious clone of ours and has both .com and .cn domains: - www.haogegebisai.com - www.chosengamer.com
Basically they copied all the design and even our logo down to the actual URLs.
I've added their CEO on WeChat and inquired about this, and he said they are big fans of our startup. But he also mentioned that they already have investors. Their website launched two days ago and already has a bunch of activity.
We've talked about this internally and hope to be able to gain this startup as a Chinese subsidiary, but we are still unsure if this will actually work out.
From a legal standpoint we are very unsure how much you can actually do in such a case. Should we just wait it out? Our should we aim to litigate to put pressure on their investors? I have some experience in international litigation in cybercrime cases, but from a practical perspective it is very likely to bind a lot of resources and focus.
Another huge problem for us is that we are in talks with a very large Chinese IT company (triple-digit $Bn market cap), and if there is a clone growing in their backyard they might pass on us.
It'd be great if people with more experience in these things could give us some advice.
Thanks, Benjamin
TL;DR: Chinese startup is cloning our business, unsure what to do",,bflesch,131,1460130033,2016-04-08 15:40:33+00:00,story,11455449,,128.0,, 2309, Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (February 2011 Edition),,"Similar to the ""Who is Hiring"" thread but, please remote positions only.",,meadhikari,131,1296480915,2011-01-31 13:35:15+00:00,story,2161368,,42.0,, 2310,What's your startup's analytics setup?,,"Choosing analytics solutions for the startup I'm working at has proven to be more daunting than I imagined. There are many services to choose from and it's not immediately obvious how you should choose from the many offerings to get not only complete analytics coverage, but also do so in a way where you can integrate them all to get a complete picture without any mismatch. There is too much marketing speech copy on the sites of many analytics startups to properly evaluate them without wasting time and effort to signup, configure and use each one long enough to understand the value they provide.
Off the top of my head there are services like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, RJMetrics, Omniture, KISSMetrics, Hubspot, GinzaMetrics, Crowdbooster, GoodData, Totango, MailChimp's Analytics 360,Beevolve, SocialBlaze, CoTweet, etc. etc. etc.
Given all the options out there, what are considered the must have analytics solutions for startups? What are people doing about integrating the myriad solutions into something coherent and useful? What are the best tools for bringing in all the data from the different analytics tools you use and displaying them in one place so you can spot phenomena to investigate in more detail?
What are all the different things one should be measuring? Website analytics? Newsletter analytics? Facebook/Twitter/Google+ analytics? Site search analytics? etc.
Are there any specific analytics solutions for developer tools oriented startups (e.g. Meteor, 10Gen, Basho, etc.)
I'm especially interested in hearing from the YC startups, since I figure there maybe a set of analytics tools that are suggested to you guys by the YC partners based on the collective experience of past YC classes.
The more details you can provide the better.",,malandrew,131,1351389810,2012-10-28 02:03:30+00:00,story,4707903,,66.0,, 2311,Who wants to be hired? (November 2016),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Do you think in the current climate it would be doable to start freelancing / consulting? I've already got an LTD setup because I used to be a contractor, but would like to look at turnkey work, where I'm given a project for a fixed price.",,iraldir,130,1586858142,2020-04-14 09:55:42+00:00,story,22864188,,71.0,, 2313,Who Here Is Working to Fix the Environment?,,"So yesterday I posted this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20339865) and it seems that a lot of people are very pessimistic about the future state of the environment. And today I've learned that insects are dying at an alarming rate (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352002). It seems like every day there is a new piece of bad news.
Well...
Are there any people who are actively working on fixing the environment? It seems like if we don't do anything then in ten or twenty years (my lifetime!) there will be a "crunch" where something truly horrific may happen. In one sense, fixing the environment is the only issue we have because if we don't fix it then nothing else will matter in the face of how horrible the consequences will be.
How are you fixing it? What technologies are you using? How did you get into this? I'd like to know everything and anything people on HN are doing that's geeky to solve this thing.",,patientplatypus,130,1562242241,2019-07-04 12:10:41+00:00,story,20353814,,188.0,, 2314,What job did you leave IT for?,,"I've recently been diagnosed with an illness that has left me little to no concentration and a very low level of comprehension,as such I will most likely have to leave my job as a software engineer as it's becoming overwhelming. So my question is, if you have had to leave your IT job, what was/is your new job.",,JerryMouse,130,1496137905,2017-05-30 09:51:45+00:00,story,14444075,,105.0,, 2315,Germany vs. Canada for Tech Jobs?,,"I'm 25M from India and looking into settling in either Berlin or Toronto to build my career in tech. I'm not considering the US because of its visa issues.
Both Berlin and Toronto seem to have some tech scene going on. Cost of living in Toronto is quite high compared to Berlin. It seems it'll be easier to save money in Berlin to work towards financial independence.
On the other hand, tech companies in Canada pay peanuts and the high cost of living leaves quite a small amount to save each month. However, once a Canadian citizen, there is a possiblity to get transferred to a Silicon Valley arm of a US company from Canada (using the TN visa) and hence receive a higher compensation.
How would you compare between the two countries for building a career in tech for an immigrant?",,startuplife01,130,1569760481,2019-09-29 12:34:41+00:00,story,21106662,,185.0,, 2316,Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition),,"Similar to the ""Who is Hiring"" thread but, please remote positions only.",,charlesdm,130,1293899516,2011-01-01 16:31:56+00:00,story,2057799,,73.0,, 2317,How to become the first result of a Google search for a name?,,"A while ago, I decided to write a simple personal landing page. I went about it as any average HN reader would, I googled what the best free way to deploy static html was. I went with Github pages + Cloudflare, as using S3 + Cloudfront did not justify mulling around with paying AWS. The ssl certificate is shared between several site, but oh well, it'll do.
I reused an old domain (vv.mk), that I had previously used for a Blogger blog, spent some time playing with latencies, as my page loaded in a second and a half, and Cloudflare didn't seem to cache it. Lesson: Cloudflare does not edge-cache html, and you need a Page Rule to enable it via their interface.
I learnt a bit about webfonts, and finally decided to host the fonts myself (on Github pages), rather than do a roundtrip to google, as it added about 300ms on average to page load, using a setup that would work for most recent browsers (https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com).
I confirmed I had a blazingly fast site via http://www.webpagetest.org/ and https://tools.keycdn.com/, and then it was time to make Google return it when people searched for my full name.
To my chagrin, this does not seem to be easy. I added my name to the title and the description HTML meta tags. I added the domain to the Google Search Console in all its versions (www, no-www, http, https), asked the Google crawler to cralw it and update its index. I added links to it to my social networks profiles where they hadn't been already added.
A day after, the Google index is not updated, my site, along with the description of the content that it had up to a day ago, is buried well into the 4th Google results page. My google searches on SEO of personal websites have been completely unfruitful. The 1st Google results page is still populated with useful info (most of my social network profiles), but it seems logical that a personal website would be returned as the first result.
Any tips?
edit: Most of the comments suggest this is due to the lack of content. While I accept this might be a cause for the bad ranking, the lack of content is quite intentional, the page is meant to be a sort of a personal landing page with links to social networks profiles, workplaces, etc.",,vojnovski,130,1511722152,2017-11-26 18:49:12+00:00,story,15782327,,84.0,, 2318,Digital Nomads: How do you manage taxes?,,"There is a brewing possibility that I might come across a remote position. I wanted to take this opportunity and travel a few places around the globe. I am planning to start for a few months in my home country and then make the move. But I am not sure how the taxes and other financials work if I am moving around different countries every 2-3 months(or whatever time is ideal). Hence I wanted to start a discussion on the following:
- How do taxes work in this case? Am I supposed to be taxed based on my home country, the company's home country or the country I am currently residing in? Are there any services that do this for me?
- What kind of visas do you apply for? Business-tourist?
Thanks in advance.",,foobazzy,130,1486382709,2017-02-06 12:05:09+00:00,story,13578675,,87.0,, 2319,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,129,1398949186,2014-05-01 12:59:46+00:00,story,7679422,,159.0,, 2320,Technical Summer Reading List,,"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.
My recent favourites:
Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed, by Gelman et al
Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann
The Art of Electronics, by Horowitz & Hill",,grilledcheez,129,1624608838,2021-06-25 08:13:58+00:00,story,27628296,,65.0,, 2321,What info do you web scrape for?,,"I have been web scraping for several months and am starting to teach it at Meetups. I'm lucky enough to work for a company that has a few pre-crawled copies of the web that I can query against and a distributed processing platform to speed up any scraping I do.
I'm running out of ideas of what to build though. I build scrapers to produce content for the company based on the data and insights I find. They are usually marketing verticals though, such as finding all websites using feedback tools (I search based on their javascript widgets), and do analysis on that info.
So if you had these resources, what would you be looking for? I love building tools that help people so any feedback/ideas would be great!
I'm also open to hearing what you would scrape for on the live web. I find that if I'm doing broad analysis then the pre-crawled copies are best, and for specific sites/information I use the live web.",,cblock811,129,1407771813,2014-08-11 15:43:33+00:00,story,8163719,,110.0,, 2322,How can I restore my concentration when reading?,,Years of skimming text online and rapidly flicking between browser tabs has severely impaired my ability to just stop and read something in print or online with my full attention and concentration. I can't even enjoy a novel sometimes because my mind won't quieten down and instead will wonder off to another thought.
As soon as I attempt to devote my full attention to a text - not skimming but properly reading all the text and concentrating of the meaning of the text - my mind fires off a myriad other thoughts that dilutes any attempt to concentrate on just one thing: the text in front of me.
Have you ever been in a similar situation? How did you overcome it?,,vanilla-almond,129,1586779485,2020-04-13 12:04:45+00:00,story,22855070,,39.0,, 2323,Is Comcast having internet problems?,,"I believe others are having problems too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637299
Update: The issue seems to be around 50% packet loss.
I called Business Support and the person was unaware of the issue, so please also call in to report the issue so Comcast starts to realize how much of a problem this is.
I had the support person ping facebook.com from my modem which showed packet loss. I asked them to send me to the next tier of support which they did. (This ends up being a ticket where someone will call me back.)
The issue started for me around 12:50pm Eastern time.
Update 2:10pm eastern: There's another thread on the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637607 (update: 2:26pm the other thread was removed from the home page)
Update: I contacted Comcast Network Operations Center. They confirmed they're aware of the issue and working on fixing it, but didn't provide any more details.
Update 2:30pm eastern: The issue appears to be resolved.",,collinmanderson,129,1509991842,2017-11-06 18:10:42+00:00,story,15637412,,60.0,, 2324,What are the best developer conferences in 2016?,,"What are everyone's favorite conferences to attend?
I had a blast at WWDC15, although its the first conference I've been to so I don't have much to compare to. The talks were very informative and I'm an iOS nerd so I was in heaven :)
How is F8? Google I/O? Any other lesser known ones?",,jakemor,129,1451847276,2016-01-03 18:54:36+00:00,story,10831730,,65.0,, 2325,Do you plan your next day ahead?,,"If so, what tools do you use, apart from to-do lists?",,robschia,129,1497735763,2017-06-17 21:42:43+00:00,story,14577859,,76.0,, 2326,Who's Hiring?,,"It's been a while since there has been a ""who's hiring"" thread. What companies out are there looking for hackers?",,Coax,129,1265385387,2010-02-05 15:56:27+00:00,story,1103801,,179.0,, 2327,Why there are no Android mini phones?,,"Although there are countless Android phone makers, there isn't a single one of them that makes compact phones. Sony was in the business for a while but it seems to lower the supply of the new models and mark them with super high prices. That's very strange as there is clearly demand for smaller phones, shown by the iPhone mini. Apple offers an almost identical compact phone to it's regular model, but it seems that phone makers who usually copy Apple on everything, just skip this idea at all. If anyone has thoughts on it or a compact model to recommend I'll be glad to hear.",,JamesAdir,129,1637407851,2021-11-20 11:30:51+00:00,story,29287158,,176.0,, 2328,Who wants to be hired? (March 2020),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Personally speaking, I left my own job earlier this year due in part to deep disagreements about how my previous company was utilizing and marketing itself as AI-based, even changing its name to include "AI".
But when I left fintech to work in the healthcare industry (totally different role), people started coming to me to pitch their products/solutions. I started getting pitched AI products (harness the power of AI & predictive analytics!), and the use of buzzwords was pretty outrageous. I started wondering...do these companies have any real customers? Who are buying these products, and are they seeing a sufficient-enough ROI to justify these purchases?",,jihoon796,129,1535860084,2018-09-02 03:48:04+00:00,story,17895422,,56.0,, 2331,Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into Steam and Reddit?,,"I was watching the network logs as I logged into my credit union and saw that they attempt to request favicons from lots of third parties including dropbox, accounts.google.com, stackoverflow.com, squareup.com, instagram.com, skype.com, tumblr.com, expedia.de, pinterest.com, de.foursquare.com, eu.battle.net, store.steampowered.com, reddit.com.
The favicons are usually loaded from the login page of the service, so I'm guessing they are doing that old trick to see if the browser is logged into those services by requesting the favicon.
I emailed them about this and after two months all they said is that it's part of their security software checks and not from anything suspicious.
Do they do this to create a 'social media fingerprint' of me as an additional check? Even though a few of the services are the German versions (credit union is in the US) and a few have fixed this so that it doesn't work anymore. It just seems strange and excessive.",,fanseed,129,1508340484,2017-10-18 15:28:04+00:00,story,15499917,,64.0,, 2332,Making extra income with books,,"It seems a good source of extra revenue for many here is with books/ebooks. I am interested to know who has published what (links please!) AND how you went about publishing.
- Did you go with a traditional book (paper/hardback)? If traditional, did you sell online or within an actual store.
- Did you create an ebook? If so, which platform for distributing has worked out the best for you (3rd party, on your own, or a mix)
- Did you go with all text or do you have images or graphics? If you have done both, what can be noticed between the two?
It would also be helpful to know the income you generate, on average, from books (not necessary but I am curious to know). I have always talked about writing a book of sorts but have never fully carried through. I have started off and on and have written many tutorials for coworkers, I would like to take enhance those as well and maybe make some extra income from them. //Insert New Years Resolution Here//",,1986v,129,1388498889,2013-12-31 14:08:09+00:00,story,6990470,,49.0,, 2333,What streetsmarts have you learnt?,,"Hey guys,
I was listening to a podcast that made me realize how I'm surrounded by book smart people and am mostly book smart myself. I'm sure this describes a lot of people here on HN.
As an aspiring entrepreneur I'm striving to become more street smart and to be able to persuade people, not get screwed over, negotiate well, create and see opportunities, be able to make things happen that other people can't etc etc.
What stories do people have of experiences, lessons, things they have seen or read that they feel have taught them some more street smarts? Would love to hear them.
The irony of looking for books on how to become more street smart is not lost on me btw.
Thanks!",,Terry_B,129,1274410112,2010-05-21 02:48:32+00:00,story,1366217,,92.0,, 2334,"Parents of HN, what are your best sources for evidence-based parenting?",,"I am having my first child a few months from now, and am looking for all sorts of perspectives. I am told things will never be the way I picture it in my head anyway, so there's no use in preparing. But still, it'd be nice to have some clue about what we know and what we don't.",,kqr,129,1569179126,2019-09-22 19:05:26+00:00,story,21043214,,54.0,, 2335,Connect to the Internet the old way during next Ethiopian lockdown?,,"As the war is reaching Addis Ababa, the Internet will be shut down there, too, pretty soon.
We personally need to be connected to the internet (mainly just IMAP email) during lockdown: is it possible to use our mobile to call an internet provider somewhere (Kenya will be best) the old way?
(Normally in Ethiopia they shut down the Internet, but leave voice/TEXT mobiles and land phones working)",,oriettaxx,129,1636195733,2021-11-06 10:48:53+00:00,story,29129133,,96.0,, 2336,Who wants to be hired? (February 2022),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Searchers: try https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/ or https://hirehackernews.com/.",,whoishiring,129,1643731313,2022-02-01 16:01:53+00:00,story,30164269,,272.0,, 2337,How Would You or Did Convince Your Boss That You Can Work Remote?,,.. and be as productive as if you are in the office or even more productive.,,johngorse,129,1550839561,2019-02-22 12:46:01+00:00,story,19224830,,119.0,, 2338,How would you deal with DDoS?,,"In my recent memory - Posterous dealt with it once, the 4Chan and Tumblr fiasco and in the last few days, the Visa, MasterCard and PayPal mess.
What's a good way to deal with DDoS? Bonus points if you can elaborate more than ""buy a stinkin' Cisco firewall""
EDIT: Do tell us your war stories as well.",,samratjp,129,1291886172,2010-12-09 09:16:12+00:00,story,1986728,,65.0,, 2339,Who wants to be hired? (August 2021),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Searchers: try https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/.",,whoishiring,128,1627916481,2021-08-02 15:01:21+00:00,story,28037364,,223.0,, 2340,How can I become a proper Project Manager from a Programmer?,,"I was satisfied as a programmer, but sometime you have to manage some project, I want to be ready when I got a chance.
So, what should I do/learn ? Is there any roadmap/checklist for a programmer ?",,wener,128,1473665976,2016-09-12 07:39:36+00:00,story,12477850,,61.0,, 2341,Who wants to be hired? (May 2021),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
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.
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.
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.
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.",,awayfromhome1,128,1624447848,2021-06-23 11:30:48+00:00,story,27603235,,136.0,, 2343,What is a must read for a developer without a computer science degree?,,"Which book would you say is a gentle, yet highly foundational book for a programmer that would take their self-taught knowledge to the next level? Would it be a book about data structures, algorithms, or even operating systems? If so, which resources specifically?",,varrock,128,1586271390,2020-04-07 14:56:30+00:00,story,22803780,,43.0,, 2344,What's going on at IBM?,,Company seems to be doing poorly (14 straight quarters of declining revenue) and according to markets. Would be good if someone with a grasp of how the company works could explain what's going wrong,,Riod,128,1454885569,2016-02-07 22:52:49+00:00,story,11055365,,74.0,, 2345,Who else uses adblockers for safety?,,"I have been programming immersive ads. I could modify from an embedded iframe the content of information sites, suck data out of people, manipulate data (like navigation history). And I got really not confident in what unethical people could do and seen no way we could detect misbehaving code.
I feel like the potential of vulnerabilities dynamic ads (JS based) exposes the users to is under stated by the industry.
I use adblockers to just protect myself. Who else does it?
And who else think their may be an ad-gate of the ads companies not stating the risks clearly? I mean to any coder that actually coded ads, we know what it actually can do, right?",,julie1,128,1458222226,2016-03-17 13:43:46+00:00,story,11304255,,92.0,, 2346,What do you read for general knowledge?,,"I used to browse around Medium when it was free. Now I find myself gravitating towards tech oriented sites like HackerNews. I miss reading broader content, like self improvement, professional development, history, culture, etc. Any suggestions for a place where I can casually read stuff like that?",,leros,128,1639363342,2021-12-13 02:42:22+00:00,story,29535977,,115.0,, 2347,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,128,1391274770,2014-02-01 17:12:50+00:00,story,7162201,,162.0,, 2348,How do you decide what to learn next?,,Let's say you have very limited time to learn and that you are not doing much learning in your day job. How do you decide what to learn? What is your process for picking up topics to learn (other than "this is interesting")?,,vijayr,128,1461502521,2016-04-24 12:55:21+00:00,story,11559525,,98.0,, 2349,Uncommon but attainable programmer skillsets valued by employers?,,"Was having a discussion with a programmer when this popped up. He has applied to various (remote) positions without success. (I tried this as well earlier, but gave it up to found a startup) How can he stand out ?
Lets leave out AI and ML for now.",,Lordarminius,128,1524484158,2018-04-23 11:49:18+00:00,story,16902536,,98.0,, 2350,Techniques for surviving a job you loathe?,,"I would love to get some advise from people who have been in less than ideal situations and how they got through it. I would love to know techniques for dealing stress, mundane work environments, and not being challenged.
I was involved in a startup for a year that ended early last year because the person funding it got cold feet - it was his idea. As a result, I basically took the first job I could find, which is in the finance industry. My roles to date have largely been around management of people and architecture.
My home town is literally at the bottom end of Australia. Beautiful place but there are very few development jobs and no paying startups here.
I have a child with another on the way. My partners salary is insufficient for us to live on.
My job is a dev at a medium size company (around 300). The development in this company is appalling, non scoring on the Joel test and the work is boring. There is no challenge, people play games on their phone and sleep all day. The managers are micromanagers and the developers sit at the bottom of the org chart (this is a software company).
I'm building a cool product out of work, but I'm at it alone and I fear that someone will beat me to market (trying for bare minimum viable product). I also fear burn out (has happened before), the company attempting to invoke its IP clause of contract when they find out (legal advice has been that they have no ground).
I'm working 8h a day in my day job and 5-6h a night on the startup. I take weekends off to spend time with the family.
I have a deep understanding and portfolio of experience across mainframe development, enterprise Java, .NET, mobile apps & web development. I need something that challenges me - moving is off the cards due to baby #2 & I doubt selling remote work (if I can find a reliable income stream) to my partner.
For those who have been in similar situations: how did you manage and balance everything?",,trevaa,128,1421017125,2015-01-11 22:58:45+00:00,story,8871672,,80.0,, 2351,Best setups to avoid availability outages on AWS,,"Using only AWS services, what do you put in place to help prevent disruptions when a single availability zone goes down?
The most simple would be to set up your instances in a multiple AZ's and then configure the ELB to round robin requests until the health of one of the instances is poor.
Any other thoughts?",,richardv,128,1341054362,2012-06-30 11:06:02+00:00,story,4181348,,33.0,, 2352,What is this? 158268a350000000,,Found this twitter account https://twitter.com/googuns_prod posting these weird encrypted tweets. The locations are all over the globe. You can find them using this site http://onemilliontweetmap.com/. Anyone know what it is?,,DonnyV,128,1351169709,2012-10-25 12:55:09+00:00,story,4697400,,67.0,, 2353,"Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?",,"Hi HN,
I have a website for a piece of software I make, and Google search traffic accounts for a reasonably large portion of downloads. At the end of April, I moved the site to a new domain (using Google's "site move" tool), and everything appeared to be fine – Google indexed the new site within a few days, and traffic remained the same. However, in the past few weeks, I've noticed a drop in traffic to the site, and when I looked at the Search Console, I realized that all traffic from Google suddenly disappeared in the middle of June: https://i.imgur.com/S1CCl2f.png
Google has all the pages in the site indexed - when I search for "site:[my URL]", the pages show up as expected – but they seem to have been completely removed from any search results. If I search for the exact name of my app, where my site was previously the first result, the site appears nowhere in the 16 pages of results that are returned (I looked at all of them!). Similarly, if I copy a few sentences or an entire paragraph from the site and search for exact matches, Google will return irrelevant results or no results at all, and my site won't be included anywhere in the results.
At least from the search console, everything appears fine - there are no errors reported, and the "manual actions" and "security issues" sections are empty. The site content has barely changed in the last few months, so I can't see any reason for the change.
What can I do? There seems to be no way to contact an actual human, and since nothing on the site has changed, I can't think of anything to revert. I could try going back to my old domain, but I'm worried that would confuse Google even more, and I'm not sure that's even the source of the issue. Has anyone on HN ever faced this problem before?",,throwaway25239,128,1595005738,2020-07-17 17:08:58+00:00,story,23872811,,53.0,, 2354,Is it normal for VC to take a fee on exit?,,"Hi All,
Quick question for you all:
Have any of you been asked for a % fee from their VC on a term sheet being tabled for acquisition to help close the deal?
Is this normal?
What kind of fees are usual?
Any experiences would be much appreciated.",,3rdtry,128,1541511155,2018-11-06 13:32:35+00:00,story,18390786,,34.0,, 2355,Congress is Passing an Internet Sales Tax: Why Doesn't HN Care?,,"This seems like a pretty big deal for a lot of startups. The compliance requirements alone sound like a nightmare. I'm curious why none of the recent articles submitted to HN (from very legit sources like NYT and WSJ) are getting upvotes. Also, it's not like this is a hypothetical - it looks like it's going to be railroaded through very quickly.
EDIT: Here are some links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/technology/internet-sales-tax-gains-ground-in-senate.html
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324493704578432961601644942-lMyQjAxMTAzMDIwMTEyNDEyWj.html
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/295431-internet-sales-tax-advances-after-obama-endorsement-
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/22/carney_internet_sales_tax_is_simply_about_leveling_the_playing_field.html",,wikiburner,128,1366718760,2013-04-23 12:06:00+00:00,story,5594551,,113.0,, 2356,How are online communities established?,,"HN, Reddit, Stack Overflow, etc. are all established communities with users. How do you start a community when you don't have any users?",,jayshua,128,1599831097,2020-09-11 13:31:37+00:00,story,24442569,,92.0,, 2357,Is there a whole universe of Chinese software that we don't see?,,"China is obviously a major world player, but we rarely see articles/repos/posts/etc., that seem to originate from there, translated or not, or simply referred to. Are we missing out on lots of cool advancements from China? Or do Chinese engineers generally publish in English? Is there some massive Chinese GitHub with cool stuff we don't know about? Science is science and I can't shake the feeling that we're missing out on stuff, but I really have no idea. Would love to hear people's thoughts.",,thinkloop,127,1591750292,2020-06-10 00:51:32+00:00,story,23472692,,71.0,, 2358,What Vim Plugins do you use?,,I have switched to vim a little more than a week ago and would love to see what plugins/extensions others are using.
What plugins do you use and what is your favorite plugin and why?,,bitboxer,127,1281423704,2010-08-10 07:01:44+00:00,story,1590713,,48.0,, 2359,How do you integrate remote developers?,,"We are a team of 12 developers in our local office plus five to six remote guys. How do you integrate remote developers? On a technical level (video conferencing, IM), but also on a social/personal level (team spirit etc.).",,tnitsche,127,1458900263,2016-03-25 10:04:23+00:00,story,11359266,,90.0,, 2360,Why don't PCs have better entropy sources?,,"After reading the thread "Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random" (1) I was wondering why PCs don't have a bunch of sensors available to draw entropy from.
Is this assumption correct, that adding a magnetometer, accelerometer, simple GPS, etc to a motherboard would improve its entropy gathering? Or is there a mathematical/cryptographical rule that makes the addition of such sensors useless?
Do smartphones have better entropy gathering abilities? It seems like phones would be able to seed a RNG based on input from a variety of sensors that would all be very different between even phones in the same room. Looking at a GPS Android app like Satstat (2) it feels like there's a huge amount of variability to draw from.
If such sensors would add better entropy, would it really cost that much to add them to PC motherboards?
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(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30848973
(2) https://mvglasow.gitlab.io/satstat/ & https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.vonglasow.michael.satsta...",,bloopernova,127,1648814531,2022-04-01 12:02:11+00:00,story,30877296,,132.0,, 2361,Who wants to be hired? (November 2020),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
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Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
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Email:
Does this still hold true? Given that SSDs are now commonly used by many hosting providers - is database/disk access still a bottleneck for server-side web apps?",,vanilla-almond,127,1559908964,2019-06-07 12:02:44+00:00,story,20123659,,112.0,, 2363,Why are modern music players so bad at playing music in random order?,,"On my phone I have a micro SD card with thousands of Mp3s on it yet I catch both Google Play Music and VLC player playing the same progression of music over and over when I have the random button set to on... I thought this was because it was a tactic to get me to upgrade the music players I was using, but it also happens lately on all kinds of devices I use.
YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud provide revolutionary services yet it seems like a lot of the time I am listening to pre-arranged and designated music playlists rather than a truly honest music stream.
In the days of the 5 disk CD changer, people truly knew what random meant. no tune was played twice until all of the tunes were played...",,winternett,127,1562174577,2019-07-03 17:22:57+00:00,story,20346406,,143.0,, 2364,How do you do estimates in 2021?,,"For context, I am a manager at a medium sized enterprise software company, I worked as an engineer for 10+ years and took over managing the team. We have 80+ engineers in the entire org. broken down into smaller teams of 5-10. My team specifically has about 15 engineers broken down into teams of 3-5. We have a very challenging roadmap and often we end up delivering 20-30% of what's planned for the year. One thing that's often asked is how do we estimate, how do we predict when some feature will be done. We are close to 20+ years into the usage of Agile methods, there is the school of thought who prefer to use time based estimates, some try story points and then there is the No Estimates movement. I am trying to see what's considered as a best practice to start something for the team in 2021.",,buttonsmasher,127,1632678190,2021-09-26 17:43:10+00:00,story,28662856,,98.0,, 2365,What's your backup setup?,,I'm rethinking my backup workflow and I'm curious about other people setups - both hardware and software. How does your backup setup looks like guys and girls?,,iansowinski,127,1487663846,2017-02-21 07:57:26+00:00,story,13694079,,156.0,, 2366,Why do I lose interest in every project after 6 months?,,"It's like clockwork.
I'll get HYPER-interested in something, to the point that I can't stop talking about it or thinking about it nonstop. I go through 'buildout' if it's a project, 'level up' if it's a game, or even went down the road of DJing and playing in a band.
Each time, after roughly 6 months, I burn out and end up moving on to something new with little desire to pursue my last project.
I'm extremely worried about this as I've been working passionately on a new startup idea with some friends and we're nearing the 2 month mark.
How can I stay enthusiastic?",,bdickason,127,1274540771,2010-05-22 15:06:11+00:00,story,1370410,,103.0,, 2367,Who wants to be hired? (July 2014),,"Share your information if you are looking for work.
Please use this format
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Resume:
Email:I don't want to complete the book without knowing essential parts of the book. It would be great if you guys can point out which one are important concepts to grasp on and thereby i can put extra effort to learn and experiment these concepts.
Looking for advice from folks who have learned the NLP concepts or have some kind of experience in NLP.
Bonus: point out sample projects to work on.",,navyad,127,1487572384,2017-02-20 06:33:04+00:00,story,13684881,,28.0,, 2369,What are your heuristics for deciding which HN links to click on?,,"I've realised that I've built up a set of heuristics for deciding what to read on HN:
- don't click on anything with the word "quantum" in it — it's either too technical for me (physics or computing) or mainstream fluff with no substance
- don't click on very specific programming language links, unless they're about Python or frontend web stuff (just not interested in languages I don't use)
- will read anything from certain domains — danluu.com, stratechery.com, wikipedia.org, fermatslibrary.org
- won't click on the latest iteration of "ML tutorial for beginners" that makes it to the front page (not the right audience, but nice to see this stuff getting popular)
What are your heuristics?",,refrigerator,127,1531476988,2018-07-13 10:16:28+00:00,story,17521735,,83.0,, 2370,Where do you hang out virtually online?,,"In the past, the place to be to connect with like minded people was on IRC; in particular ##java Now with Slack and Discord, I haven't found a community of folks who are building products, ideas, sharing thoughts, talking tech, talking lessons learned about growing their company, virtually collaborating on problems by sharing ideas, etc.
This has created a bit of tension mentally for me. The feeling of being caged up with no physical cage.
There was a Slack group for startups by Jason a while back, but that looks to have died off.",,codemonkeysh,127,1643646557,2022-01-31 16:29:17+00:00,story,30149838,,174.0,, 2371,How to grow after 10 years in the industry?,,"Hey!
- I've been working for around 10 years
- half of that was as a software engineer and the other half as a VP of Engineering
- I am good with people and I really love my industry, I don't consider myself at work
- I make something like 65k after taxes
- 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
- I have a family, 2 kids and my wife is pregnant
I love my work, love my team. I really enjoy it
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
I feel that my career is steady and not growing fast enough at this time
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?
- should I stay and keep growing myself?
- am I underpaid? I mean, will I be able to get a better salary if I find a better fit?
- should I pursue a master's degree?
I appreciate your feedback and help!",,theory_of_10_1,127,1624887050,2021-06-28 13:30:50+00:00,story,27661713,,103.0,, 2372,Best curated newsletters?,,"Based on my experience, Google searches rarely surface high quality blog posts, articles, and insider analyses. Twitter + LinkedIn have an SNR problem. HN is great only for the (primarily US) tech/startup scene, and other similar sites often lack the community standard or size to maintain a consistent flow of worthwhile new content.
What hand-curated newsletters or websites do experts in any field find incredibly useful? A recent example I've found is Mattermark's daily email newsletter, which has a curated list of 5-10 articles and blogposts from investors and operators.
Open to lists that aren't career related too -- ie: a jazz playlist curated by professional jazz artists.",,neilsharma,127,1454722277,2016-02-06 01:31:17+00:00,story,11046053,,69.0,, 2373,After great HN feedback on my web page Amazon closed my account,,"Background: Two weeks ago, I submitted a Show HN which lead to a lot of valuable and positive feedback - thank you very much for that, HN!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30137984
A week later I received an email from Amazon that they have now closed my Amazon Associates account. The reason given was: "Your website/app does not meet our content standards. The content of your website is insufficient. Here you can find an example: https://fahrrad-tools.de/"
Do you have an idea what they might be missing? Or could it be an automated website analyzer (AI) that expects a blog-like website?
Thanks for your ideas.",,moasda,127,1644677197,2022-02-12 14:46:37+00:00,story,30313169,,69.0,, 2374,I'm an unemployed programmer in SF that will work for minimum wage,,"Live in San Francisco
B.S. Computer Science
Have used java, python, flex, html5 canvas, javascript, and css on various webapp projects
No 'real' job experience
Unemployed for 6 years trying to do a startup (yes 2005, when I just graduated and read my first PG essay)
Will work for minimum wage, or free if the work is interesting and may lead to a job
Will do any work, even if not programming related
Will accept any length term: internship, contract, contract to hire, full time, etc
Hey HN. After 6 years of trying to do a startup with no success, I'm close to giving up. I've been rejected from ycombinator (twice), various startup conferences (launch, etc), and even angellist. I have no connections to investors and have had no success trying to get introductions.
I've recently tried to apply for programming jobs in SF, but had trouble because of my complete lack of work experience. All my software engineer friends in SF are making $100k+ and telling me how hot the market is. I can't even get a minimum wage job flipping burgers at In N Out or bagging groceries at safeway because they have dozens of applications for each opening and my long period of unemployment looks bad.
Is there any possibility for me to make a fresh start? Will anyone take a chance on hiring me? Do you have any advice for me?
Your comments are appreciated!
edit: added email contact in HN profile
edit2: for all those asking for code samples, I implemented the reddit is hiring backend challenge in python (http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/fjgit/reddit_is_doubling_the_size_of_its_programming/). they said not to release the code publicly until after march, but if you send me an email I can show you privately.",,unemployedinSF,127,1299369946,2011-03-06 00:05:46+00:00,story,2292916,,135.0,, 2375,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2012),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,127,1346508325,2012-09-01 14:05:25+00:00,story,4463692,,118.0,, 2376,Recommend me a Podcast,,Hi HN.. I've been doing a bit more commuting than normal lately and have found I have more commute time than podcast time. What Podcasts do you listen to that you can recommend to others? (Basically I'm after the HN guidelines -- anything that satisfies my intellectual curiosity),,whatusername,127,1280662208,2010-08-01 11:30:08+00:00,story,1565140,,141.0,, 2377,Who is firing?,,,,user7878,127,1493741876,2017-05-02 16:17:56+00:00,story,14247701,,36.0,, 2378,How does having a baby change your life?,,Inspired by this comment:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448613/whats-happening-with-arc/586632#586632
So does having a baby give you inspiration and ability to do more?
Or maybe you change your life's priorities?
Or you are so exhausted that everything else seems uninteresting?
How does having a baby change your life?,,kia,127,1288170290,2010-10-27 09:04:50+00:00,story,1837843,,208.0,, 2379,How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such as Digital Ocean?,,I have a production site running on Digital Ocean. I'm looking for a cheap and reliable backup solution. What are your suggestions? Thanks.,,joeclef,127,1476040010,2016-10-09 19:06:50+00:00,story,12672797,,87.0,, 2380,Have you invested in self-development and done inner work?,,"Before realizing on what I should focus on and what my purpose was, I was in the agency world, and close from the infoproduct world.
I came to realize that there's a lot of programs that exist for this audience (agencies and coaches with a course). Most of these programs are steps by steps on how to do X (often sales related) or on how to improve their mindset to scale their business.
When I switched to focusing more on my craft of being an "optimizer" (problem solver) by focusing on being more a maker, I noticed that there's not much of these type of programs.
I am still new to this new "indie" and "maker" world, so maybe I simply have not been exposed to it enough, but I am curious, how many of you have been doing some inner work?
And what have been your experience so far as a creator regarding your personal growth?",,hugohamelcom,126,1649253366,2022-04-06 13:56:06+00:00,story,30931979,,94.0,, 2381,A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?,,"As a non-native English speaker I find that the best way to check grammar is to google whole parts of sentences (in apostrophes - exact match). It's because there are multiple exceptions to language rules and some wording just can feel "not right" despite being correct.
Is there a tool that does something like this automatically?
I thought about writing such tool by myself, but it seems there are no good-quality, free search engine APIs that allow many calls. Or, maybe there are some open APIs to book dumps or something similar?",,twa927,126,1476974738,2016-10-20 14:45:38+00:00,story,12752671,,48.0,, 2382,What are some hard-tech blogs that you follow?,,"Hey HN! I wanted to know what are some of the hard-tech (loosely defined ranging from climate tech, space exploration, autonomous systems, biotech, nuclear to name a few) blogs that you follow?
My understanding is that hard tech companies usually face a different gamut of obstacles while building their tech and scaling their business, namely, unproven technology, iteration rate, endless research, uncertain milestones, regulation etc.
Please post away!
PS: Reposting this because there were no comments last time but got some upvotes, indicating interest.",,sarthakjshetty,126,1589656111,2020-05-16 19:08:31+00:00,story,23206259,,13.0,, 2383,"6-figure freelancers of HN, what do you do?",,,,thr2178008,126,1504043543,2017-08-29 21:52:23+00:00,story,15127912,,102.0,, 2384,Are there any innovative startups in the porn/adult industry?,,"Just curious. I am, like many men, a fan of quality porn and wonder if anyone is trying to solve problems in that industry. Or is too taboo?",,rblion,126,1413722337,2014-10-19 12:38:57+00:00,story,8478079,,127.0,, 2385,Show me your Half Baked project,,"Release early, release often. Don't worry, be crappy. Fail fast. Iterate.
Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time projects, HN. Is it ugly but interesting? I'll start with mine: http://smsul8r.com - a SMS message scheduler. Ugly, buggy, but it works. Come on... let's see your worst work!",,dholowiski,126,1287798490,2010-10-23 01:48:10+00:00,story,1822253,,304.0,, 2386,Cost of living across the world (Ramen PPP Index for hackers),,"HN users,
Technology has made it possible for us to become truly mobile and I think that gives us a tremendous opportunity to travel, explore new places, and meet new people. Relevant data on purchasing power parity is very sketchy, however.
I think it would be interesting to compare the cost and quality of living as well as earning potential in various cities/countries for programmers/designers. Instead of the Big Mac index, we could have our own Ramen Purchasing Power Parity Index. :)
Reply with the following:
Place(City and Country)
Monthly expenses (details will help a lot)
Typical monthly wage for a programmer / designer",,nileshtrivedi,126,1286752424,2010-10-10 23:13:44+00:00,story,1778185,,176.0,, 2387,Am I the only one baffled by the long term usage of Twitter?,,"I am on and off Twitter for years now. I tried to build a following, went until around 2k followers, but than got sick of constantly thinking if "thing x" in daily live is worth tweeting.
I deleted my account, but then created a new one because some tweets and threads were more easily viewable with an account. This lead to build a more serious Twitter profile again.
However, I realised the actual ROI of using Twitter is so negative, it's shocking. Even interesting threads turn out to be half-wrong. I see takes from 10k+ follower accounts who are not well researched, one sided and all. Tech twitter things just because they are good at programming, they have a valid view on topic Y.
Now this is all common knowledge I believe. But Jesus, I stumbled across accounts which I used to follow, and these people post still every few hours or days the same take on public outcry and nothing changed. They do this for 8+ years now, you can scroll back by years and it's the same over and over again.
I wonder if someone has a take which changes my mind or what makes them do this stupid things? Imagine looking back on your life when you are 60 and seeing that you tweeted stuff with no effect WHAT SO EVER and you did this for 30 years of your life. Isn't this so depressing?",,recvonline,126,1645541741,2022-02-22 14:55:41+00:00,story,30428652,,105.0,, 2388,"Finally ready to share my personal work, how to manage expectations?",,"After several fruitful exchanges here on HN, I think I'm finally ready to start putting some of my personal work out there into the real-world!
My original "plan" (ie grand scheme) was to have everything figured out and perfected and then publish it all at once, fireworks and all. Needless to say I no longer think that's a good idea...
So with a slow start, I don't expect there to be any audience for probably quite some time, and I'm okay with that (it'll give me time to play around anyway). But then, what else does one do besides regularly posting content? Where does one get quality, honest feedback? With so little feedback, how does one know if the content's any good? And if one upholds to high standards (which I do), how can one present their work to reputable individuals without getting "sympathy" feedback? All of which then makes me wonder: What sets the successful "creators" apart from the rest? Quality? Timing? Luck? Network?
Sorry there's a lot of unknowns as I've never done anything like this before (in fact this was probably why I had avoided sharing personal work for so long).
So for those of you who have been on this path:
What's been your experience? What worked for you and what didn't? How did you manage to get good feedback?
Do you know of any good resources (books, articles, etc) that cover this topic?
Thanks so much in advance! :)",,samh748,126,1650012968,2022-04-15 08:56:08+00:00,story,31037947,,105.0,, 2389,How much do you make in London?,,"There's recently been a lot of discussion about how much people are making in different areas of the US, but the threads about London are either outdated or not too comprehensive.
Please include your company (be it BigCo, startup, finance) / contractor status, level / years of experience and compensation breakdown in GBP.
I'll start: Investment bank front-office, 3 years experience: £59k, ~10% annual bonus, no stock.
Links to previous somehow related discussions on HN:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7672167
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11317897
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804134",,ldneng,126,1474976191,2016-09-27 11:36:31+00:00,story,12588771,,170.0,, 2390,Will HN allow account and comment deletions?,,"Ask HN: With the GDPR coming, the 'right to be forgotten', and the FB privacy flare-up, will HN ever allow comment and account deletions?",,_hyn3,126,1522253515,2018-03-28 16:11:55+00:00,story,16698937,,95.0,, 2391,What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?,,"For those of us without something to compare this stage of our life to, I was hoping to get some insight on how people handled/are handling their lives at around 25. At least for me, only being 2 years into my job I still feel like I'm thrown into a pit (a consequence of the job offer I took, I suppose, and complacency).
As for the second question, what advice would you give a 25 year old you?",,gravy,126,1532376495,2018-07-23 20:08:15+00:00,story,17595545,,168.0,, 2392,How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?,,"I used to have a bash script I would run to install everything (libs/tools) you're average web developer would need (node, sublime, google chrome, , python libs etc etc). Unfortunately I lost it after some time. Does anyone use anything similar?",,fratlas,126,1466430830,2016-06-20 13:53:50+00:00,story,11938009,,124.0,, 2393,Guild/Studio structure for Software Engineers?,,"Hi HN,
I am looking for examples of companies that consist of an ensemble of mainly software engineers (could be mixed skills with hardware, graphic, architecture), that work in a guild like fashion.
- They work mostly on internal products, mostly on a project-basis
- Are relatively small (<15-20 people) and are primarily a flat, partnership structure
Do you have any good examples?",,szemy2,126,1600159107,2020-09-15 08:38:27+00:00,story,24479097,,71.0,, 2394,What DB to use for huge time series?,,"Hi HN, I wanted to know if anyone had good recommendations for a database for massive timeseries. I took a look at InfluxDB and Druid, both of which look promising but they're young projects and I don't want to strand myself with a deprecated component at the core of the system I'm working on. Does anyone have any suggestions/advice/experience they can share to provide some guidance here?
thanks in advance!",,BWStearns,126,1411667623,2014-09-25 17:53:43+00:00,story,8368509,,130.0,, 2395,What is your story of immigrating to another country?,,"What is your story of immigrating to another country? I am interested to know what path you followed, what plans you made, how you executed them and how long it took to achieve your plans and begin a life in a different country. How easy or difficult was it to find a new job? How do you like living in a different country now?
If you don't mind, please share your home country name and where did you move to.",,litchi,126,1633774285,2021-10-09 10:11:25+00:00,story,28808468,,171.0,, 2396,What are your 2022 predictions?,,"Just curious what kind of predictions you have for the upcoming years 2022, 2023, 2024.
I think the obvious one would be the EV wars. Also the delayed shipping dates for those vehicles. IE: If you order an EV truck now you wont get it until 2024.
Hopefully staying remote and rent not going up, but one can only hope...",,zerotosixty,125,1637352694,2021-11-19 20:11:34+00:00,story,29281732,,259.0,, 2397,Questions to ask a company to know you don't want to work there?,,"I'm looking for all around stuff, tech questions, process, business etc.
I'll go first: When interviewing perspective employees, does the entire team participate in the interview process and make a hire / no hire decision as a team?",,JoshuaRowe,125,1611757755,2021-01-27 14:29:15+00:00,story,25928641,,94.0,, 2398,How to get started with paying side projects?,,I am full time software developer with 15 years of industry experience. At this point in my career it seems like I can do more than what I do at my day job. What are some of the ways to get started on software side projects to have fun and for an additional income stream?,,zorba,125,1420906924,2015-01-10 16:22:04+00:00,story,8867035,,39.0,, 2399,What is the emerging state of the art in fuzzing techniques?,,"I'm fairly familiar with the popular tools such as afl and Codenomicon Defensics. But I find the academic literature very opaque and don't really know where to start.
If I want to understand the cutting edge of fuzzing techniques, and what will be the emerging state of the art in the next few years - where should I look? Any good papers or books (with at least some for novices to understand), or research projects that are leading towards a new excellence?",,hwhatwhatwhat,125,1468323812,2016-07-12 11:43:32+00:00,story,12078243,,53.0,, 2400,How to learn Backbone,,"Backbone Tutorials isn't up to date, a simple ""Backbone tutorial"" search brings up results from 2011, early 2012. I need to learn 0.9.2 Backbone, not an older version.
Can someone provide me a single resource or multiple great resources to learn Backbone, start to finish (preferably quickly but not mandatory)",,robbiet480,125,1345964699,2012-08-26 07:04:59+00:00,story,4434553,,33.0,, 2401,"Mathematicians, what textbooks are best for learning these math topics?",,"So I have just decide to self-learn mathematics up to undergraduate level, and after researching I decided that learning these topics will do the trick for learning to the undergraduate level, but sadly I don't know the best resources(textbooks) to use for easily self-learning them.
Pure Mathematics
1).Group Theory(rubics cube,e.t.c)
2).Order Theory
3).Combinatorics(trees,graphs,e.t.c)
4).Fractal Geometry
5).Topology(cup = donut)
6).Measure Theory
7).Differential Geometry
8).Vector Calculus
9).Dynamical Systems(Fliud flow,ecosysytems,Control Theory)
10).Chaos Theory(Butterfly effect)
11).Complex Analysis(Functions with complex numbers)
Applied Mathematics
1). Numerical Analysis
2). Game Theory
3). Probability
4). Statistics
5). Optimization
6). Cryptography
7). Computer Science
Foundations
1).Mathematical Logic
2).Set Theory
3).Category Theory
4).Godel Incompleteness Theorems
P.s: I have a diploma in Marine Engineering and so I am not a total noob to math in general.",,smithmayowa,125,1554794937,2019-04-09 07:28:57+00:00,story,19612528,,33.0,, 2402,What was your favorite comment in 2020?,,"Comments on Hacker News can be very well thought, I'm often impressed with the quality of discussion, although I don't participate much. I'm curious, what do you think was the most insightful comment of 2020?",,gftsantana,125,1609521959,2021-01-01 17:25:59+00:00,story,25604828,,41.0,, 2403,Do you need angel funding?,https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGtnQ2NtVE5WcS1jdHVMWGN6OVNWV2c6MA,,,epi0Bauqu,125,1265382584,2010-02-05 15:09:44+00:00,story,1103669,,50.0,, 2404,As a developer what are your aha moments?,,To me the aha moments where as follows:
1. When I was introduced to QBasic
2. When I got to know how simple and amazing Lisp is
3. When I was able to code at the speed of my thoughts with VIM
4. When I got to know Express.js (after learning Django)
5. When I knew that everything in Smalltalk is a message including if else statements,,greenleaf3,125,1599462780,2020-09-07 07:13:00+00:00,story,24397272,,184.0,, 2405,Is the ISO 27001 certification worth it?,,"ISO 27001 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_27001) certifies that information security is properly managed at a company or organisation. But the process of obtaining it is costly and time-consuming so I wanted to ask people who have experience with it: is it worth it?
If you're a company doing B2B sales, how often do prospective customers ask about the certificate? Does it ever make or break a deal? When did you decide that it's time to get it done?
Thanks!",,piotrgrudzien,125,1635948923,2021-11-03 14:15:23+00:00,story,29094889,,103.0,, 2406,Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp?,,I see like 2-3 posts a day about Lisp. What's so good about it?,,Bootwizard,125,1565802137,2019-08-14 17:02:17+00:00,story,20697493,,103.0,, 2407,What kind of personal financial investment do you do?,,"I realize the general consensus around here may be that the best investment would be in yourself (have 25k? start a business!), but surely some people have ""normal"" investments, too. How do you hack it?
I don't think it'd be very beneficial to discuss specific stocks, funds, etc; but other than that it's a very open ended question.
Some thoughts (but post whatever),
* Do you have a 401k? IRA? Roth or not? Do you max them? Why or why not?
* Do you have an investment account that isn't a retirement account? Why or why not?
* Do you pick individual stocks? Do you have someone else? Do you use a managed mutual fund or ETF? Why or why not?
* Do you use passive index mutual funds? Bonds? CDs? Why or why not?
* And whatever else comes to mind...",,shelvy,125,1297264780,2011-02-09 15:19:40+00:00,story,2197649,,168.0,, 2408,Great books you read in 2009?,,"I got a Kindle halfway through 2009 and I've been reading a lot more but I'm always on the lookout for great books. I'd love to hear about what books others in the HN community enjoyed during the last year and would recommend. I'm primarily looking for non-programming books, but if anything really blew you away, I'd love to hear about it.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Note: I'm not trying to start a flamewar, as I didn't agree with all the books below, just that I found them interesting and they inspired further research and exploration on my part.
The Family, by Jeff Sharlet - Fascinating overview of the intersection between American fundamentalist Christianity and conservative ideology and how they gave birth to the ""Religious Right"".
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand - Philosophical novel that uses architecture as a metaphor to introduce the tenants of Objectivism.
His Majesty's Dragon, by Naomi Novik - Alternate-history fantasy set in the Napoleanic Wars. The entire series was very enjoyable, and I don't usually enjoy fantasy.
The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollen - Overview of our food, how it is grown, and the things we should know about it. I found it very persuasive without being preachy and it completely revolutionized the way I eat and view food in general.",,ryanwaggoner,125,1262382416,2010-01-01 21:46:56+00:00,story,1026296,,138.0,, 2409,What are some example of low tech improving your life?,,I saw the same questions asked on the Bogleheads forums and I'm curious to see what the HN crowd says.,,_ylmx,125,1580998539,2020-02-06 14:15:39+00:00,story,22256055,,163.0,, 2410,"How have you made ""quick"" money before?",,"I find myself in a unique (not so unique?) situation today: While I am very competent in two valuable areas (web and mobile development), I find myself in a short term and temporary shortage of money, due to the usual hiccups that can happen while providing for a family. While my career is solid, I find myself in deep need for a way to make $1-2k over the next month to pay some bills.
I am pursuing doing some client work on the side, as that's the easiest way to make that kind of money, but projects take time to get started/completed/invoiced/paid. So my question to the very inventive audience on HN is this:
How have you made 'quick' money, through non-traditional means?
My goal is to find work and live in a European country before age 30, ideally with a possible path to stay. If you have information on non-euro countries, I'd be very curious about that as well.
Part of the confusing bit is that some countries have working holiday visas with no highly skilled restrictions, Germany has the blue card and specific restrictions, all have separate skilled worker (with qualification) permits, and the list goes on. I feel like the job market is good, but I have no idea where I stand.",,brailsafe,125,1523229018,2018-04-08 23:10:18+00:00,story,16789039,,86.0,, 2412,Best IRC channels?,,"What are the best IRC channels for developers, security, networks, programming, general tech discussion, data science, etc. Just looking for some recco's.",,dakrisht,125,1391245688,2014-02-01 09:08:08+00:00,story,7161236,,91.0,, 2413,What source code is worth studying?,,"I realized recently that it's been a long time since I looked at anyone else's code outside of the context of debugging or working on it for hire. In your opinion, what are some examples of particularly well-designed or implemented software projects worth looking at to broaden one's own horizons as a programmer?",,idlewords,125,1255443615,2009-10-13 14:20:15+00:00,story,879101,,114.0,, 2414,What is the cheapest way to make a website?,,"Must haves: Be able to display a message on the landing page Nice to haves: A Folder to keep articles
I know Strikingly has a cheap ($12?) website building tool, but. It just seems wrong that I can't just buy a domain and get some random content on it without having Go Daddy charge me $5/month to host it? I apologize in advance for the noobness, but this is a serious question ;). Hope everyone is well.",,protabot,125,1591101408,2020-06-02 12:36:48+00:00,story,23390308,,92.0,, 2415,What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?,,,,cioc,124,1328520657,2012-02-06 09:30:57+00:00,story,3556796,,70.0,, 2416,How to be found as a technology co-founder?,,"There are tons of articles on the internet about how to find a technology co-founder. I believe, there is another problem that also exists. If you have strong technology skills, but no business connections or experience, it's virtually impossible to be found as a technology co-founder, even if you've got a desire and ambitions. Can anyone suggest an approach, what should one do in such situation? Perhaps there is some matching service (read specialty social network), which helps to address this issue.",,dmitryame,124,1531531145,2018-07-14 01:19:05+00:00,story,17528195,,62.0,, 2417,Any C programming Postgres wizards willing to port 460 lines of code?,,"I'd really like to use Postgres as a backing store for libgit2 https://libgit2.github.com/
I wonder if there are any kind C programming wizards who know Postgres and might consider doing the open source port? It's beyond my Python programming skills and I dare not write crappy C code for fear of creating something nasty and insecure.
I can repay either by reciprocating with Python/web development/Linux/AWS knowledge, or if I have nothing of value to offer then I can offer thanks and praise.
The existing MySQL implementation is 460 lines of code.
There's a MySQL implementation here: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2-backends/blob/master/mysql/mysql.c
There's a sqlite implementation too: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2-backends/blob/master/sqlite/sqlite.c
Some relevant links: http://blog.deveo.com/your-git-repository-in-a-database-pluggable-backends-in-libgit2/",,andrewstuart,124,1436104411,2015-07-05 13:53:31+00:00,story,9833548,,81.0,, 2418,What SaaS customer service tools does your startup use?,,,,sedzia,124,1489142636,2017-03-10 10:43:56+00:00,story,13837664,,82.0,, 2419,Open Source alternatives to Disqus?,,Are there any alternatives to commenting services like Disqus and IntenseDebate? I am looking for open source software that can be installed locally.,,pvorb,124,1385713612,2013-11-29 08:26:52+00:00,story,6818416,,71.0,, 2420,"Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternatives do we have?",,"I've been very happy with my 2012 Macbook Pro Retina and was looking forward to a worthy successor. However the unveiling of the new Macbook was a big letdown for me. Everything that made the Macbook "Pro" seems to be removed. Enough has been said about the topic already what I want to do here is look at what alternatives there are.
So my question for you is; Which laptops, around the price point of your average Macbook Pro, come close to the build quality of the Macbook and use hardware that's greatly supported in Linux.
Extra kudos if somebody can recommend me a terminal on-par with iTerm. Out of all my apps I think I would miss iTerm the most.",,Maran,124,1477903778,2016-10-31 08:49:38+00:00,story,12835094,,140.0,, 2421,Making a mobile app as a back-end developer?,," My main area of expertise has been backend java development for years. I have a few mobile app ideas I have been designing the backend for a while. But since I have no frontend experience, I don't know how to proceed. Should I start learning, which will take large amount of time since there are plenty of platforms you need to publish, or should I outsource it somehow ? If outsourcing is the right answer, where to find people I can work with ? Please forgive my English.",,dogukanzengin,124,1577533542,2019-12-28 11:45:42+00:00,story,21898432,,108.0,, 2422,"As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your company evil?",,"Amid the severe backlash that tech companies currently face (Google and FB amongst others), how do you consider your own company from a moral POV? Do you think the current backlash is justified?
No judgement, just curious.",,fdeage,124,1587292405,2020-04-19 10:33:25+00:00,story,22914828,,127.0,, 2423,Is anyone using Watson in their business?,,"Analytics, or language, or anything Watson",,WorksOfBarry,124,1507710255,2017-10-11 08:24:15+00:00,story,15448145,,50.0,, 2424,"$8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?",,"for reasons too long to write here I have around $8k of credit on AWS from my last failed venture that will expire end of this august. Id hate to let those credits go in thin air and I don't have the time to build the stuff I imagined myself building to use them, so I thought Id give it to the HN community if they come up with a really cool 'demanding' computational task to use this kind of server power.
Comment on how you'd like to use it and if you impress us they're yours.
p.s id be super happy if somehow the computational power is used to build/crawl some kind of data that would directly/indirectly help anyone for free. Second to that would be if hackers in the comments come up with an idea and do it together.",,adhambadr,124,1438620676,2015-08-03 16:51:16+00:00,story,9997643,,87.0,, 2425,What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?,,,,tomdell,124,1473212841,2016-09-07 01:47:21+00:00,story,12440509,,35.0,, 2426,Will front end development ever move away from JavaScript?,,"Developers have done some amazing things with JS, but I think everyone can agree its not the most elegant language.
I understand we are where we are because the its the only language supported by browsers. But will we ever move away from it?
Could Google or Mozilla build support for another language into their browsers while developers gradually move away from JS?
Will developers be open to alternatives? Will we finally standardize on a simpler set of tools and frameworks?
Does WebAssembly solve this? Is TypeScript good enough?",,js-fiend,124,1489294346,2017-03-12 04:52:26+00:00,story,13849051,,237.0,, 2427,Gmail alternatives?,,Where do you go? Any experiences?,,Maro,124,1265999226,2010-02-12 18:27:06+00:00,story,1121269,,137.0,, 2428,"Companies of one, what is your tech stack?",,"This question has most likely been asked before, but since our industry moves fast I want to ask it still. You guys that roll your own operation, what is your business (no need to out yourselves) and what tech stack did you choose to complete it?
Also, if you don't mind, do you think the tech you chose had any effects on your success? If it did, why?",,ecmascript,123,1568964410,2019-09-20 07:26:50+00:00,story,21024041,,112.0,, 2429,What keeps you from exercising?,,"We all know that exercise is good for us, yet many of us fail to either start or continue. Why?
Like many of you, I sit in front of a computer far too much during my days. I blame my inactivity on everything: not enough time, family obligations, an I'll do it tomorrow attitude, it won't work for me because of my genetics, I don't know what I should do so better not do anything and get injured etc.
Do you do the same? What keeps you from exercising or what made you start exercising in the first place? How do you keep it up?",,orangewin,123,1471007647,2016-08-12 13:14:07+00:00,story,12275315,,238.0,, 2430,What would you do with unmetered 10gig?,,"In the next 3ish months I will have unmetered, symmetric 10gig fiber Internet available at my house. I recently exchanged messages with the first person in town to get the 10gig service, and his reasoning for getting the 10gig service was "it's cool", which I understand...
I'd like to actually be able to justify 10gig service. Ideally, running something on it that appeals to other potential customers of the municipal broadband, to attract new customers to it.
The easy one is to set up a Linux mirror server. In the past I've run a mirror server for ~a decade, so that shouldn't be a huge deal. I like the idea of running a Tor exit node, but worry about the liability of that. Some sort of a block storage for backup service came to mind while reading that Cloudflare Utah post yesterday.
I run production Linux boxes and networks as my day job. But I don't have machine space at my house, so I'm limited in the number of servers I can put in place.
Clever ideas to attract other locals to the Municipal Broadband service?",,linsomniac,123,1591801473,2020-06-10 15:04:33+00:00,story,23477814,,176.0,, 2431,What's in your .vimrc file?,,"Other than the default stuff of course. As you can see, my additions are quite pathetic so far (only been into vim for a few months):
set expandtab
set sts=2
if v:progname =~? ""gvim""
colorscheme twilight
endifAre there any good alternatives? Or do I have to use Kaspersy's password store?,,vasachi,123,1647157412,2022-03-13 07:43:32+00:00,story,30658936,,176.0,, 2435,Which plants can be planted indoors and easily maintained?,,,,gymshoes,123,1539254554,2018-10-11 10:42:34+00:00,story,18192328,,75.0,, 2436,What jobs can I have knowing Python?,,"I have known python for a long time but have never done a proper project or earned money through writing Python code.
I like the core Python but I'm not interested (don't like them personally) in any frameworks. I have used python to write small scripts to do small things like automation and stuff but honestly writing (or even working on) big projects seems terrifyingly arduous to me.
As far as I have seen almost all jobs related to Python are either back-end development using Django or something related to data.
Considering I like neither of those, is there any other careers I can pursue? Especially if it involves writing many short script! I know there must be other jobs out there related to Python but the number of those seem to be really low and hard to find.",,mahdi7d1,123,1649657615,2022-04-11 06:13:35+00:00,story,30985277,,83.0,, 2437,Who wants to be hired? (March 2019),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
I'm really frustrated by this state of affairs. I don't come to a hackathon to pitch my latest startup app ... I come to code. In some instances, I've decided not to present at all the end of the hackathon cause most of the other teams are presenting an extremely polished piece of work (again, I have BIG doubts that some of these are done during the event).
Anyways ... vent complete. It would be nice to know I'm not alone.",,iqster,123,1298157225,2011-02-19 23:13:45+00:00,story,2240226,,77.0,, 2439,State of PHP at Facebook?,,Does Facebook continue to use Hack with HipHop Virtual Machine?
Have there been considerations of using some open source langauge instead of internal built one?,,emadehsan,123,1635350738,2021-10-27 16:05:38+00:00,story,29015130,,82.0,, 2440,What are some of your recent successes?,,"For a break from some of the more negative content recently, let's hear what you have succeeded at.",,foxes,123,1568389655,2019-09-13 15:47:35+00:00,story,20963149,,117.0,, 2441,Coping when your client is an asshole?,,"I'm a project manager for a ~60 person software dev firm. One project I'm on is with a large American enterprise, and the product owner and his direct manager are absolute assholes.
I've got 8 developers that I try to shield from accusatory questions and extremely aggressive and borderline abusive behaviour. In the beginning we we all agreed not to take anything personally and to let it just roll off the back. We agreed to tighten up our processes and try to avoid confrontations by being super proactive with all our work, but we're coming close to the launch date, and it's getting worse as more pressure mounts.
Ordinarily, we would have dropped the client by now and refused to put up with the end-justifies-the-means tactics, but unfortunately our company could not survive without this and a handful of other projects we have with this client.
My company is actively looking for new clients so we are not beholden to this one, and my manager is apologetic and tries to run interference when she can, but I'm largely left to my own devices. This is a very high profile project that stands to disrupt its market. It's exciting for them and us. I have to maintain this relationship somehow.
How do you manage your clients who are completely unreasonable, rude, and treat you and your staff extremely poorly?",,codinginhell,123,1559023245,2019-05-28 06:00:45+00:00,story,20027581,,65.0,, 2442,Where do you find interesting papers to read?,,"I'd like to start reading a couple of [academic] papers a week, but I'm not sure where to look for interesting ones. What are your sources?",,frigg,123,1383486852,2013-11-03 13:54:12+00:00,story,6663174,,56.0,, 2443,JavaScript Dev Tools,,"I'm an experienced developer who is really interested in JavaScript frameworks such as Node.js, Backbone, and client side stuff such as Sencha.
However, I'm struggling with them, which I think is because I haven't found the right tooling or a setup that suits my workflow.
On my Java, Rails and C++ projects, I'm equally as happy in emacs as I am in a richer IDE, but this combination of loosely typed JavaScript and poorly documented framework APIs based around massively nested maps means I can barely get a page of moderately complexity to even parse.
When I get past that, my debugger consists of alert().
What am I missing in order to be able to effectively work with JavaScript? Would you recommend any particular APIs, Frameworks, Articles etc to get started?",,benjaminwootton,123,1328362366,2012-02-04 13:32:46+00:00,story,3550998,,77.0,, 2444,How does your organisation train programmers?,,"In High Output Management, Andy Grove stresses the importance of training staff in their duties. In fact, he lists it as one of only two methods of improving performance (the other pertaining motivation).
Of course, any time we do anything we "train" ourselves in it and get better at it, but if this was the only training one had, it would be what Grove discourages and refers to as "the customer paying the tuition."
So, clearly, Grove refers to actual, explicit training that is not simply learning on the job. He never goes into detail about how to do this; I assume because it's such an obvious, in-grained thing in all other disciplines that it needs no details.
Yet I've never seen it done in software engineering. So how does your organisation do it? Why do you think it works? What have you tried that didn't work?
Have you decided not to do it? Why?",,kqr,123,1596948717,2020-08-09 04:51:57+00:00,story,24097348,,64.0,, 2445,What is your favorite TED talk?,,"I really like Hans Rosling, Clay Shirky, Richard Dawkins, and Nick Bostrom's talks. I've found TED talks to be pretty hit-or-miss, so I'm reaching out to HN.
I'm also aware of this thread: http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=16384 but I'm more interested in what you guys think.",,derwiki,123,1232476249,2009-01-20 18:30:49+00:00,story,442022,,80.0,, 2446,Where to find someone to review my code?,,Exists some place like this? A place where experienced people help a young padawan to evolve his crafts? Just by providong feedback and direction.
How i find one?,,bbuccianti,123,1541867189,2018-11-10 16:26:29+00:00,story,18422000,,26.0,, 2447,Why do I always waste time on the weekends?,,"There's a way for me to make some money, but it requires that I setup a fairly complicated spreadsheet to monitor several variables. All through last week, I've been printing Excel tutorials and ebooks, telling myself that I'll do the spreadsheet over the weekend, so I can start earning immediately. I want to put the money towards a startup.
How did I spend my weekend?
Friday Night:
Listening to rap and channel surfing. I've got all weekend, right?
Saturday:
Spend half the day browsing, the other half watching about 4 movies. Still got all day Sunday, right?
Sunday:
Wake up @ 10. Watch a few World Cup matches, while surfing YouTube. I can do it later right?
Now I just got to work, and I'm disgusted with myself. I want to leave this job as soon as possible (one's soul can only be sucked so much), but my constant procrastination isn't helping things.
The worst part? This isn't the first time something like this has happened. I'll spend the weekday fantasizing about how productive I'm gonna be over the weekend, then spend the weekend watching movies. Then on Sunday night, while ironing my clothes for Monday, the self-flagellation begins.
Oddly, while I'm wasting time, I know that I'm wasting time. I'll spend 5 minutes doing the task, and as soon as I encounter any difficulty, I take a break to 'clear my head'. This ends up taking the rest of the day. This has happened several times.
I want to be rich. Filthy rich, even. I'm sick of working for others. I'm sick of getting up in the morning knowing my life is ticking away. But I know I'll never get there if I continue like this.
I'm 23, above-average intelligence (Dunning-Kruger FTW), and I don't want to waste my life, waking up @ 30 wondering where the years have gone.
I've been on HN long enough to know this is something quite a few of us struggle with.
Help. Please.",,oz,123,1276522968,2010-06-14 13:42:48+00:00,story,1429634,,141.0,, 2448,Which YC companies failed badly?,,There are lot of stories about success but I wanted to know about any failure stories.,,symbolepro,123,1521874257,2018-03-24 06:50:57+00:00,story,16665233,,26.0,, 2449,Are We in a Mega Bubble?,,"I don't know why but I cant help but feel that domino pieces are in place and whole thing is about to crumble.
Stock prices feel weirdly high, when thousands of people were dying they were rising fastest.
Crypto/NFT/Coins feel like graph of a chaotic equation that starts going crazy the longer it goes on.
The housing market seems to be on steroids too, house prices have doubled in last few years.
I feel either very bad inflation is about to happen to or huge correction, or both
Am I just imaging it?",,techsin101,123,1623209762,2021-06-09 03:36:02+00:00,story,27443944,,68.0,, 2450,How would you bootstrap a space company?,,I am trying to find the ideal way to start a space business without immediately needing substantial financial resources.
Create a space industry giant from scratch with little external funding.,,markovian,123,1574638527,2019-11-24 23:35:27+00:00,story,21624284,,149.0,, 2451,How should I back up data on devices if I'm not smart?,,"If someone is a less able, cognitively impaired, or perhaps very young - It would be good to see what advice HN would give them for protecting their data from ransomware, theft, or disaster.",,bloqs,123,1633436682,2021-10-05 12:24:42+00:00,story,28758415,,133.0,, 2452,"What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?",,"When we speak of online tools, one can think of converters, calculators or even auxiliary functionalities.
What kind of tools are you currently using, missing or think can be improved?
Some examples:
- timestamp to date converter (e.g. https://magictools.dev)
- input tools (e.g. https://www.google.com/inputtools/)
- text comparison tools (e.g. https://text-compare.com/)",,s-xyz,123,1641137702,2022-01-02 15:35:02+00:00,story,29769493,,115.0,, 2453,Is Ruby on Rails still worth learning?,,"I'm looking to learn more about web software. I like the all in one approach of the Rails framework, but fear it may be losing popularity. Any thoughts? If you were to advise someone today what the best approach to learning web development would be, what direction/resource/book would you recommend?",,bizkitgto,123,1539636476,2018-10-15 20:47:56+00:00,story,18223575,,85.0,, 2454,Why do companies outside the US pay so much less?,,"As a developer, I've found that it's just not worth it to respond to tech companies / recruiters seeking engineers, unless they're based in the USA. Companies based anywhere else, in my experience, expect to pay less than half the rate that US companies will pay.
Why is this? There are possible causes having to do with tax rates and culture, but has anyone really looked into it? How big a contributor is this (rather than, say, immigrants as percent of total population, or university quality) to the fact that the US has Google and Apple and Facebook and Twitter, and the rest of the world has… JustEat and Spotify?",,cwcwcw,122,1486412025,2017-02-06 20:13:45+00:00,story,13583393,,217.0,, 2455,Idea Sunday,,Fresh start for the last week of April.,,livestyle,122,1398599665,2014-04-27 11:54:25+00:00,story,7654771,,172.0,, 2456,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,122,1372682649,2013-07-01 12:44:09+00:00,story,5970190,,167.0,, 2457,How do I improve my command of mathematical language?,,"First of all, sorry if my English sounds off, maybe weird; it's not my first language but I'm striving to improve.
Short story short: I went back to high school in my late 20s and next year I'll graduate. Over the years I went from hating math to really enjoying it, especially calculus, but there's still one thing that keeps bugging me, and that's my command of its language. I have no problem solving most of algebra or calculus problems, but if you asked me to explain what I'm doing I wouldn't be able to tell you, at least not using mathematical constructs/words. It doesn't help that I can't find any resources like you could for any natural language.
When I asked my teacher she said to practice over and over, but that's all I've been doing these years and it didn't do much to improve my oral presentation. So, I'm asking here in the hope that someone who went through the same struggle or understands the mental process very well and knows what it takes to "fix the computation-presentation bridge", could help me or guide me in the right direction, to overcome this obstacle.
Thank y'all for your time.",,deboniscognitio,122,1603436513,2020-10-23 07:01:53+00:00,story,24866734,,46.0,, 2458,Working part-time in tech?,,"I would like to drastically reduce my amount of work hours per week.
My dream is to come down to about 15-25 working hours per week.
I don’t mean to work part-time for all of my career. But I would like to have such an arrangement for the coming five years or so.
Has anyone tried this? If so, how did you manage to achieve your goal?",,jazz_from_hell,122,1599501662,2020-09-07 18:01:02+00:00,story,24401206,,117.0,, 2459,What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?,,"I feel that I've been procrastinating a lot in my free time and it's time to learn something new.
I see the hype around Go and Rust and I believe I'm missing a lot in my professional development. I'm involved with my start-up and I am facing a lot of challenging data analytics and software development problems during the day. I am using Java/JavaScript/R on a daily basis, but these are mature languages that have been around for a while and I have a hard time learning new frameworks that are beyond my work scope.
So what (hot) languages/frameworks are you learnin/using now, that give you the warm feeling that you get a lot of useful knowledge out of them, that's widely applicable?",,toddkazakov,122,1419600845,2014-12-26 13:34:05+00:00,story,8798799,,135.0,, 2460,"Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?",,"If you're a location-independent entrepreneur, please share where you choose to live and why.",,dave1619,122,1470023230,2016-08-01 03:47:10+00:00,story,12200084,,116.0,, 2461,Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects,,"Hello all,
I have a few side projects (all web apps) that would require sizable amounts of storage space (but not much of other resources) once I bring them live, so I've been searching for cheap dedicated hosting options.
If huge space requirement was not a constraint, I'd say Digital Ocean (or other low-cost cloud services like Linode, Vultr etc.) would provide great bang for the buck, but I'm talking hundreds rather than tens of gigs of storage here at which levels, DO etc. would be way beyond my reach, and out of the question.
After some research, I have found what I believe to be the cheapest dedicated box provider and before signing up there, I thought I'd run it by HN, for other opinions, suggestions etc. What do you all think?
https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml",,webtechgal,122,1467819052,2016-07-06 15:30:52+00:00,story,12043712,,117.0,, 2462,How to get Bill Gates's attention?,,"I have what is possibly a very simple, cheap and quick solution to solving the COVID-19 pandemic. The problem is I am in Australia and only someone like with clout in the USA or Europe like Bill Gates can put it into practice. Any ideas how I can get their attention?",,danieltillett,122,1586329167,2020-04-08 06:59:27+00:00,story,22810639,,87.0,, 2463,I am doing $2M annually as a solopreneur and need your help,,"I work as a sole founder with little work outsourced and an employee to help with chores. My technical background coupled with marketing exposure I am able to enjoy awesome profit margins in my eLearning business. I now plan to expand my offerings and hence team but have no clue where to start. I don't want a co-founder as such. Right from the smallest of technicalities like giving control of my domains, server, sites to employees scares me. Then whom should I hire first, a core employee or a HR person? I have never dealt with such stuff and no clue how to proceed. How do small companies deals with such issues? Is there any exhaustive resource/course/book/video/case-study which lays down a process to take a 1 man company to a 'n' person organization? Sorry for my naivety. Would love to get answers from the super awesome HN community.",,techcorner,122,1472336959,2016-08-27 22:29:19+00:00,story,12374445,,88.0,, 2464,What do people use to prevent crawlers?,,What people use to prevent robots and crawlers from websites?,,jongi_ct,122,1500806468,2017-07-23 10:41:08+00:00,story,14831676,,118.0,, 2465, Do Americans stand a chance on freelance sites?,,"I've recently started bidding projects on freelance sites, mostly for web design/programming. I'm bidding against people who will work for $10/hour or less and do really good work. Can Americans get freelance jobs on these sites at a decent wage? Say $20/hour or better?",,lss456,122,1307192338,2011-06-04 12:58:58+00:00,story,2619423,,50.0,, 2466,Should I quit Uber?,,I'm a software engineer at Uber. I've been there for under a year. I left my previous job because an Uber recruiter offered a large pay increase. I had been there for under a year as well.
Is it worse to have the job hopping on my resume or a very unpopular company on there?
Staying for a while wouldn't be hard on me. My team and the ones around me aren't toxic (yet). I'm strictly concerned with the impact on my career.,,engatuber,122,1489593713,2017-03-15 16:01:53+00:00,story,13877037,,150.0,, 2467,What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchain (not currencies)?,,I am sometimes overwhelmed by people's enthusiasm when it comes to blockchain. I have seen a project using Hyperledger [https://www.hyperledger.org/] as a plug-in alternative for an RDBMS but one party controlled the one node the system ran on.
Do some of you have non-confidential (useful!) use cases for blockchain databases to share?,,laurensr,122,1603565353,2020-10-24 18:49:13+00:00,story,24881140,,285.0,, 2468,Who wants to be hired? (July 2016),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Can anyone here who feels truly happy tell me otherwise.. What is the source of your happiness? How about people making $1m+, did that increase your happiness?",,Crazyontap,122,1500249730,2017-07-17 00:02:10+00:00,story,14784755,,104.0,, 2470,How was this ad targeted to me?,,"Apropos of the current discussion about dropping Google advertising [1], I'd appreciate HN's thoughts on how a very particular product was targeted at me yesterday: a semi-obscure muscial instrument (which I won't name, my paranoia is already piqued).
Yesterday morning at home I Googled the instrument, the name of which I didn't actually know but Google came to the rescue. I browsed Google Shopping [2] but didn't purchase one.
Later I went into work where Facebook displayed an ad for the instrument in its "sponsored" section and an inline "suggested post" for a manufacturer.
My home and work computers and networks are completely different. I typically use incognito mode and "do not track" in Firefox or Chrome. I sign out of all social media and Gmail. Yesterday I was working in a large building with tens of people all using wifi used by hundreds of people across several buildings.
I assume no outright nefarious activity, such as an illicit pipe of potential customer IDs between Fb and Google.
The best I can theorise is that I had an open Fb window at home, and one of the instrument manufacturers' websites had an embedded Facebook like button or similar tracker, and they are running targeted ads on Fb. But is this direct-to-an-individual targetting even possible on Fb? Perhaps the obscurity of the instrument meant that I was very likely to see an ad, and very likely to notice it.
I typically close Fb when I'm not using it, so this doesn't immediately feel like what happened. I'll be doubly-sure to close and log-out Fb now.
I can't think of other ways that my Google activity could get to Fb. Browser fingerprinting, cellphone location etc would allow Fb to understand my location, but I can't see how they'd match this against Google activity.
I'd be very interested to read how this is, or could be, achieved.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14094083
[2] https://www.google.com/shopping",,austinjp,122,1492002278,2017-04-12 13:04:38+00:00,story,14097220,,87.0,, 2471,Resumes that look good but professional too,,"Share the format you use for your resume so that it looks good, but still professional. All of my "creative" friends (graphic designers, marketing people) have cool resumes, but mine is boring. What did you use to make yours look good?",,kreeWall,122,1519781474,2018-02-28 01:31:14+00:00,story,16479922,,84.0,, 2472,Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player?,,,,pier25,122,1482037598,2016-12-18 05:06:38+00:00,story,13204437,,139.0,, 2473,The most useful Mac keyboard shortcuts?,,"Ones that most people don't know about, that you actually regularly use. Thank you!
Edit: "Not a shortcut exactly..." tips are most welcome too.",,yesenadam,122,1565055368,2019-08-06 01:36:08+00:00,story,20621224,,135.0,, 2474,Who wants to be hired? (March 2021),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Thanks in advance!
Just so you know, I currently work on a project at my company that uses AWS, Codeship and BitBucket for development and production. AWS and Elasticbeanstalk host our application, Codeship runs tests on changes to branches in BitBucket and then pushes the code that passes on certain branches to different AWS environments for Development or Production.",,dmarg,122,1435671388,2015-06-30 13:36:28+00:00,story,9805056,,131.0,, 2479,What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for?,,"Also, what integrations do you wish you could use?",,thewarpaint,122,1581882146,2020-02-16 19:42:26+00:00,story,22343370,,54.0,, 2480,What is the most mind blowing book you've ever read?,,"I want to find the absolutely crazy-to-grasp book of all times.
Most articles related to this topic suggest something like the Fight Club. Even though, there are some good twists to the story, I feel like my mind could be blown away way more than that.
Needless to say that we are talking about a book for the HN audience.",,Danilka,122,1433672861,2015-06-07 10:27:41+00:00,story,9674080,,145.0,, 2481,Programs that wasted you 100 hours?,,"In the spirit of "Programs that saved you 100 hours?" ¹, - I'm curious to hear of experiences with software systems, languages, apps, or services that led you down an unproductive rabbit hole, only to come out at the other end (if ever) with not much to show for the effort.
¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208",,lioeters,121,1586775488,2020-04-13 10:58:08+00:00,story,22854693,,255.0,, 2482,Have you ever regretted taking an investment?,,,,maxsavin,121,1427683772,2015-03-30 02:49:32+00:00,story,9287415,,68.0,, 2483,Are there any purely keyword-based search engines with no NLP?,,"I want to query the web based on specific criteria (ie keywords), no what Google or Bing thinks I really meant.
Ideally I'd love an interface to a large database including the text in each webpage that has been crawled. But something like Google the way it was 10 years ago will still work. Are there any such search engines left? Even ddg is switching to semantic/NLP results.",,John_KZ,121,1521987208,2018-03-25 14:13:28+00:00,story,16672242,,80.0,, 2484,Anyone else scratching their heads about coin offerings?,,"* Where did the architecture and ideas and accepted rules around ICO's come from? Where were the discussions taking place? I would expect something of this magnitude to have a mailing list at least as active as LKML.
* 0xproject on their blog landed 24M in coin funding from 13,000 investors at $1800 each. Where are the online equivalents of roadshows and pitches taking place? Again, where are the free and open discussions around this taking place online? Show me a historic record. Its like these things popped up overnight.
* Assume, from above, that at a 3% acquisition rate, to acquire ~15k gross number (as claimed by them) of investors they need to reach an audience of 500,000 potential coin investors. Where are these 500k investors with 1800 to throw away hanging around online? Are they all actively looking at the listings? Talk to anyone who works in private wealth management.. trying to convince someone to invest is hard.
* Given the number of ICOs, either the same groups of investors is investing in multiple ICOs or the number of investors is massive. Lets say the latter, we would expect at least 10x the number of 0xproject target audience = 5 Million active ICO investors. Again, where is this happening? It should be possible to confirm/track this on bitcoin at least. Has anyone done the analytics on this?
* If these discussions are occurring offline, what group of people are driving this, and why? Are they preparing for an event where fiat currency becomes worthless? Should we be worried?
* Why is it that the teams associated with these things come from elite institutions like ivy league unis and investment banks? Look at the teams for coinbase and 0xproject for example, and compare it to the team of an elite deep tech startup for example. You need brains and hard work to create an hard tech startup. You need what to create an ICO funded startup? Looks like elite institution connections.)
Thank you.",,curtkobain,121,1503153588,2017-08-19 14:39:48+00:00,story,15053615,,65.0,, 2485,Anyone Using CockroachDB in Production?,,What do you like about it's killer features?
How interchangeable with Postgres was it?
How is performance?,,sergiotapia,121,1563474466,2019-07-18 18:27:46+00:00,story,20472640,,47.0,, 2486,How do I find a mentor?,,"Hey,
I have read in various answers by highly influential programmers is to find a mentor. I wanna know how to find a mentor? I'm interested in mostly developing web applications (both front-end and back-end).
A little background, I will be finishing my Bachelors in Computer Science in a month and currently based in India. I have been programming in Python, Java and C# mostly.
Thanks!",,rashoodkhan,121,1429378859,2015-04-18 17:40:59+00:00,story,9400288,,80.0,, 2487,My free app has gone slighty viral – looking for ideas to monetize it,,"A bit of background, I built the app because I was running an old Nexus One and the Facebook app was too large to install alongside my other "essential" apps (15mb at the time, its now 38mb!). So I spend about an hour or so and cobbled together the app.
For almost a year and a half it had less than 1000 installs and then in Feb this year it started to rapidly gain installs. It is currently sitting at 241,000 installs (with 55,000 active users).
I figure I should take advantage of this and figure out some way to monetize the app.
Unfortunately the app is all about size and trust (as it sandboxes the FB web app) so most of the ideas I've come up with don't seem to be in the spirit of the app.
Some of the ideas I've had:
* Put in ads and add an in-app purchase to turn them off * Put in a "donation" in-app purchase * Add support for other social networks but only enable them after an in-app purchase
The app also has some pretty interesting demographics. Most users are from non-English speaking countries: Turkey 18.14%, Philippines 8.38%, Mexico 7.46%, Morocco 6.52%, India 5.27%, Indonesia 4.10%, Brazil 4.04%, Thailand 2.72%, United States 2.59%, Colombia 2.44%, Others 38.33%
The app is called "Social Lite" see here for more info https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rabidgremlin.sociallite
My current go-forward plan is put a survey in place and poll the users on what they want and what they would pay for",,Rabidgremlin,121,1433211299,2015-06-02 02:14:59+00:00,story,9643436,,136.0,, 2488,What are the pros / cons of using monorepos?,,"Or in other words, when would you recommend using them, and when would you avoid them?",,factorialboy,121,1602168362,2020-10-08 14:46:02+00:00,story,24719525,,95.0,, 2489,Idea Sunday,,"I think we should resume this Idea Sunday threads. And this first edition of March, 2015.
A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.",,avinassh,121,1425814424,2015-03-08 11:33:44+00:00,story,9165278,,133.0,, 2490,When is federation a better solution than decentralization?,,"The past couple years have been dominated by the hype cycle of cryptocurrencies as an incentive mechanism for decentralization. Hundreds of “N sided marketplace” problems have been reframed to fit within decentralized solutions. And yet, none of them have really succeeded. There is no “killer app” representing the decentralized marketplace du-jour.
I can’t help but wonder if many of these projects are approaching the solution the wrong way. The fundamental problem underpinning decentralization is one of governance and direction. Too many cooks in the kitchen means solutions can become diluted with unnecessarily indirect incentive mechanisms.
Decentralization is a spectrum. There is a middle ground between a decentralized solution and a centralized solution. That middle ground is federation.
To me, federation has always seemed a better solution for decentralized marketplaces than full decentralization, because it decouples economic incentives from those of technology suppliers. As long as we live in a world where fiat currency and nation states dominate transactional and regulatory environments, it is unavoidable that any large enterprise pursuing legitimacy will need to interact within the bounds of laws and regulations. Given that, it seems that federation offers a better solution than decentralization because it allows service operators to define their own economic processes according to their own jurisdictions and regulations, whereas decentralization is more of a free-for-all that can meet only the lowest common denominator of regulatory and economic restrictions.
What does HN think? Is decentralization overhyped? Would many projects be better suited to a hybrid model of decentralized infrastructure and federated transactions?",,chatmasta,121,1527509381,2018-05-28 12:09:41+00:00,story,17171985,,77.0,, 2491,Anything we can do for those impacted by the US immigration ban?,,"Just posted this on my FB wall, figured someone around here might have ideas.
r.e. recent immigration policy changes, practically speaking: Anybody here, or know someone, who's stuck in an airport/country they expected to leave today, and needs a sandwich/a ride/a place to stay/a friendly ear? Seems like we're going to need a network of care to look after the stranded.",,pjmorris,121,1485653014,2017-01-29 01:23:34+00:00,story,13511062,,78.0,, 2492,What's in your .emacs file?,,"I recently accidentally lost my .emacs file which I'd tweaked and put together over the last 5 years. I though this would be a good chance to ask you, what's in your .emacs file?",,procrastinatus,121,1254435304,2009-10-01 22:15:04+00:00,story,855963,,52.0,, 2493,30 years old with no career,,"I've been out of high school for almost 12 years. And I've never had a job I really loved.
I've worked in about 20 different industries from the oilfield to construction to food service, to debt collection, to transportation, to everything in between. Nothing in tech though.
Some were possible "good" jobs, but often they're very dangerous. I was an apprentice in a trade that has the potential to earn a lot 5 years in.
It's like I work for a bit and I'll get to a point where I just want to quit and be done with it. Or there are conditions I just don't want to put up with anymore so I just walk.
I've never felt content or joy at work, which I think is normal, but I also think some other people enjoy their work.
It's also part laziness, I can be slothful without a routine.
But I just feel so lost. I almost feel too old to keep constantly moving on to something else.
Has anybody else been in this situation and come out the other side with meaningful work that they like? And they're able to support themselves?
Just feel lost, I guess. Thank you.",,holycrapguys,121,1625533280,2021-07-06 01:01:20+00:00,story,27743303,,95.0,, 2494,Consider banning paywalled articles like those from wsj.com please,,"I can't read the paywalled articles on wsj.com anymore. So it's breaking my web experience of reading HN.
The first post on the page is mostly a TLDR or a link to an alternative article instead of a real comment. For example the current #1 post : Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone (wsj.com) - https://gyazo.com/440858bfcc2f94d912a087ca2ef7ce26
There will always be a discussion about paywalled articles and or alternative sources, which takes the discussion away from the topic and there is a high chance that this will be a top comment ( because of upvotes).
The current #1 link and #7 link are currently unusable to me : https://gyazo.com/578b105ce67f9b6d14cefe0dfeb43efb
The trick with bypassing it through the web doesn't work for me anymore ( and multiple others). This was good in the past, but not anymore.
An alternative like automaticly hiding articles from wsj.com would be nice, but i think it's more effectively to just ban the domain? Because it has no use for many HN-readers.
Suggested alternative: Add (paywall) automaticly to the link
Please discuss or give your opinion?",,NicoJuicy,121,1476182054,2016-10-11 10:34:14+00:00,story,12683017,,63.0,, 2495,"If you don't permit telecommuting, why?",,"I'm writing a feature story tentatively titled, "Why the Company You Want to Work For Won’t Hire Telecommuters." I'd like your input.
Plenty of businesses are interested in hiring only onsite staff. I want to explain the viewpoints behind such policies – and then, ideally, address what it would take for those organizations to hire telecommuters or remote workers.
So I’d like to hear from two types of respondents:
* Someone who has been in a hiring role at an organization where the job requisitions typically say, “Local candidates only, please.” (Whether or not you’re in agreement with the policy.)
* Someone who’s applied to a job that says, “on site only” and gotten a remote job despite that requirement.
If you applied to an “on-site only” job ad and got the gig anyway, there’s just one question: How’d you make that happen?
My questions are primarily for the people on the hiring side:
* Why does the person who does this job need to be on-site? Please be specific. Give me examples of things that can only be done if she were in the office.
* Have you been in a position where you personally would be okay with an employee being a telecommuter, but a decision-maker deemed otherwise? How did you handle it?
* How has the policy affected your company’s ability to attract candidates?
* Have you hired someone for an in-the-office job, and later given permission for the individual to work from home? What happened to make the change okay?
* What would it take for the company to change the no-telecommuters policy, even if only for one specific position? For example, “If a rock star in my field applied for the job, we’d do anything to get him to say Yes – including letting him work remotely.” But there can be many other answers, and I’d very much like to hear yours.",,ohjeez,121,1469206331,2016-07-22 16:52:11+00:00,story,12144790,,137.0,, 2496,Should I find a job or try to build a profitable project?,,"A little about me. I'm close to 30. I recently left my job, I was burnt out. I want to take 1-2 months for myself to reflect and figure out my next steps. I'm a software developer and I have been working with various small to medium software companies for the past 4-5 years. I currently live in a small city in the south (gf and I want to move to NYC or another big city). I can build CRUD apps from the ground up. I have around $60,000 saved and with my current bills, I have a runway of 1.5-2 years. My life goal is to build a successful business and entrepreneurship has been something I have always been interested in. However, I have never successfully built anything that gained traction, so I consider myself more of a wantrepreneur.
Options:
#1 Spend my time studying and finding a new job in NYC. I'm pretty confident that if I spend my time on leetCode and networking I will land a good job. I feel like this is the safe route.
#2 Spend my time pursuing a couple ideas I have. It's nothing new or innovating, a productivity app and a yelp like service working with small businesses. Reading all the content here is super motivating and inspiring, I feel like I could make these ideas work, but it's also super risky. I don't want to spend 1-2 years working on these ideas only to look up and realized I wasted my time and money.
#3 Some combination of both? I was thinking that I can pursue my side projects and look for a new job at the same time. However, I feel like having a clear focus on one thing is important.",,driven20,121,1560122338,2019-06-09 23:18:58+00:00,story,20142545,,120.0,, 2497,"Can we do a ""Who's looking for work?""",,"I was wondering if HN has considered running a monthly "Who's looking for work", similar to the "Who's hiring" posts that are run every month.
Seems like this would be handy for small startups and talent to find each other, or maybe even would allow fellow HNers to help each other find a good fit via networking.
Or maybe this was already attempted with bad results?",,jader201,121,1398972781,2014-05-01 19:33:01+00:00,story,7682189,,61.0,, 2498,Building a game for AI Research,,"I'm working on a PC game as a personal project. I am primarily a game designer and developer, but I'm interested in working towards making my game friendly towards AI research. I tried reading TF/PyTorch docs but couldn't find a guide on how to make my game a friendly environment that exposes the necessary surface area for AI research.
I would love advice from anyone who has experience building API layers for video games for AI (BWAPI, OpenAI's DOTA team, deepmind SC2 AI, etc) for pointers.",,keerthiko,121,1525398232,2018-05-04 01:43:52+00:00,story,16991591,,36.0,, 2499,Are you an information addict?,,Do you check your phone too much? HN? Digg? Your email?
Are there things you really need to do rather than sit here and read HN?
What are you doing to deal with this?,,ghotli,121,1272221926,2010-04-25 18:58:46+00:00,story,1293262,,59.0,, 2500,How do you manage your financials?,,"Hey, Im wondering how do people go about managing their financials, between paying off loans, saving money and investing. Do people feel like they are making the best decisions when it comes to money?",,maith1,121,1581441911,2020-02-11 17:25:11+00:00,story,22300314,,109.0,, 2501,Is there a “ground-up” explanation of PGP/GnuPG?,,"Understanding how git works internally "from the ground up" has been incredibly helpful in my everyday work; things like blobs, commit objects, hashes and how they connect to form the git experience as I know it. Where I had been cargo-culting along previously, it all became clear once I understood the fundamental model of what was going on underneath the interface.
I feel like the same thing could apply to PGP/GnuPG. I am cargo culting my way along but I feel like I would feel much, much, much more comfortable if I knew how it worked from the ground up.
I have loose ideas of asymmetric cryptography and trust circles and such, but nothing concrete to hinge my actions upon, so I mostly try different permutations of command line arguments until GPG appears to do what I want it to do.
Is there a "from the ground up" good guide to PGP that allows me to break out of this pattern?",,kqr,121,1480510199,2016-11-30 12:49:59+00:00,story,13070261,,29.0,, 2502,How can I volunteer my software skills online?,,What the projects/ NGOs that I can help online using my software engineering/data analytics skills? Perhaps you can share personal projects that you were able to use to help people and community around you,,Srishti101,121,1487497755,2017-02-19 09:49:15+00:00,story,13678952,,58.0,, 2503,How to remove voice from a music file?,,"I've seen some methods (e.g. inverting one stereo channel and cancelling it out with the others) but I was wondering if someone has achieved how to do this relatively well.
I was looking online for some AI solutions, but I couldn't find anything, would the collective knowledge of HN have an answer to this question?",,mettamage,121,1572454563,2019-10-30 16:56:03+00:00,story,21399838,,46.0,, 2504,Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (December 2010 Edition) ,,"Similar to the ""Who is Hiring"" thread but, please remote positions only.",,pdelgallego,121,1291196252,2010-12-01 09:37:32+00:00,story,1957364,,41.0,, 2505,Moving from tiny websites to serious tech skills?,,"I’m a self-taught web coder and have made some small CRUD systems for very targeted tiny clients during my professional life. I have also made a few hobby sites for fun just for myself.
I’d like to expand my skill set but I have trouble visualizing all the moving parts of a “big” web app and all the tools that go into it—when people talk about containers, or testing, or deploying such-and-such, I don’t have a clue. With HTML/CSS/JS, I can spin up a little demo to play around and learn on another personal/toy project, but how do I, as a solo person, learn about larger-scale technologies?
I’m a visual artist and print-based technician so front-end would probably be the place to focus. Is there a recommended path for going from hobby projects & small sites to larger-scale best practices in React/another important platform?",,neonnoodle,121,1640524635,2021-12-26 13:17:15+00:00,story,29692160,,84.0,, 2506,Was data science just hype?,,"I don't hear a lot about "data science" anymore. And judging from the shrinking number of job postings, I suspect it was a bit overhyped a few years ago. What do you think?",,curiousk,121,1558892158,2019-05-26 17:35:58+00:00,story,20016181,,76.0,, 2507,What book impacted your life the most and how?,,,,curiousgal,120,1470610057,2016-08-07 22:47:37+00:00,story,12244168,,75.0,, 2508,How bad is freelancing?,,My working life changed recently after leaving my last role just before Christmas. I’ve done freelancing on and off for a few years and I just feel like the whole process of freelancing is fragmented and broken.
I’ve started digging into the issues others are facing too.
I’d be keen to hear what problems others have in this area? I put together a little survey here: https://adamfarah.typeform.com/to/abznqs,,aframe,120,1549887614,2019-02-11 12:20:14+00:00,story,19133864,,71.0,, 2509,After almost 30 years the romance is over - What now?,,"For the first time since graduating, I've recently had the possibility to escape the constant mental treadmill that comes with working in most IT departments, and had a look at what life and the world have become in the past 10 or so years. And I've discovered that the main focus of pretty much all of my life fails to excite me anymore - my honeymoon with computers and IT seems to be over. And I'm left asking myself: What now?
Let me explain where I'm coming from: Probably like most of you, I've been exposed to computers at an early age. My first conscious memory of using a computer is playing the original Pong on a black and white TV at a friends house when I was 6 or 7. Since then I've been hooked. When my father got an Amstrad CPC when I was 10 or so I could spend hours on end playing on it, playing with it, reading up on how it worked, later on copying code listings from magazines and finally deciding to learn to program it myself. There were to many things and concepts to explore, learn and figure out. From there I moved on to PCs, fiddling with hardware, learning about IRQs, IO Ports, memory management. Moving on the programming side from BASIC to Pascal, C and Assembler.
And then discovering Linux and Open Source in the mid 90s. Ever more concepts to explore: How does networking work, what is this crazy web thing and what can be done with it, getting into DNS and mail servers. And at the same time being exposed to new programming languages and paradigms seemingly at every turn: Prolog, Java, Scheme/Lisp, Perl and PHP. And on the system side it seemed like there was a new minor revolution every other week, introducing ever more possibilities: A new kernel, a new samba version, the advent of P2P. And on the cultural side of open source there were lots of competent people freely sharing their ideas, teaching, showing, comparing notes. It was a high energy environment, constantly pushing forward.
My main source of fascination came from the exploring of new concepts, and understanding how everything worked and fit together. I stuck to one topic until I understood it, consequently losing interest and moving on to the next bit to explore (pardon the pun).
I graduated shortly after 9/11 and the dot com bubble bursting. Just narrowly avoiding personal bankrupcy on my first stunt as a freelancer which I ventured into with my youthful optimism/arrogance, I consciously started shutting out everything distracting me from financial recovery and keeping my respective job.
Welcome to the treadmill.
Now, nearly 10 years later I'm having my first real look around in a long time and I'm not terribly happy about what I'm seeing. The Open Source revolution seems to be over; very few new things have happened there in these past years. It's all about maturity and stability now, no longer aggressively pushing forward.
And it seems that the children of the revolution turned the gold to chrome, scrambling to squeeze a buck out of anything a buck can be squeezed out of. Instead of the free sharing of ideas I grew up with, I'm encountering more and more the attitude of a guarded sharing of general topics, but the real knowledge and experience seems to be held back because it has to be regarded as a personal asset that might be used to turn a profit somewhere.
Todays big topics leave me pretty much unenthused. As a not particularly social person I fail to be fascinated by the social web. Mobile internet will be the big thing for the next few years, but for whatever reason I fail to be fascinated by gadgets that are the offspring of cell phones and my pentium from way back, reliving the DOS shareware scene through a centralized distributor. Server side scaling is all about variations on few well known themes: Add another cache/key-value store/nosql store, insert another abstraction layer, data and workload decentralization.
So I'm in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. And they all seem familiar. Is this how deep the rabbit hole goes? Did I really reach the end? Or did I just fall out of the loop at some point in the past few years and need a pointer in the right direction? Did I just get old and not notice it until now?
I'm sure some of you have experienced something similar. How did you move on? Did you manage to rekindle the flame somehow? What are your suggestions as to where I should go to from here and to ideally find new worlds to discover and explore?",,what_happened,120,1285406450,2010-09-25 09:20:50+00:00,story,1726641,,114.0,, 2510,What was your best passive income in 2015?,,previous posts:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661536
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588,,ca98am79,120,1450019061,2015-12-13 15:04:21+00:00,story,10726489,,118.0,, 2511,Are there any studies about book reading retention rates vs. audiobooks?,,"I commute a lot now and find it much more convenient to listen to a book sometimes. However if it's something non-fiction or technical I understand the value of having a physical copy to be able to grab, or even an ebook to access on screen. Thoughts?",,kspy,120,1521216416,2018-03-16 16:06:56+00:00,story,16601545,,61.0,, 2512,How to move away from Gmail,,"I'm currently attempting to move away from Gmail to a email provider that respects my privacy.
Can anyone on HN suggest a online service that protects my privacy, has IMAP support and is preferably free?
In addition is it possible to delete most of the data Google currently ties to my profile?",,AmazingWill,120,1329048275,2012-02-12 12:04:35+00:00,story,3581613,,141.0,, 2513,Does Java need a modern Java UI toolkit for desktop/web?,,"If Java had a modern UI toolkit to create & run apps natively on the desktop and in the browser, could it rescue Java Client development?
I've been working on SnapKit for several years (+) to rescue my apps from obscurity by deploying in the browser and it's gone reasonably well, so I'm wondering whether it could be more:
GitHub: https://github.com/reportmill/SnapKit
Demos: https://www.reportmill.com/snaptea/
jeff",,jeffreportmill1,120,1648127972,2022-03-24 13:19:32+00:00,story,30789337,,175.0,, 2514,How are you using unikernels?,,"The HN conversations around unikernels suggest that they're not ready for production yet [0] but feel free to set that record straight.
In the meantime, a handful of organisations/individuals seem to be working on becoming "Docker for unikernels". That's probably an unfair description, but they're aiming to produce tools for building and managing unikernels: Unikraft [1], NanoVMs/Nanos [2], Unik [3]. Other orgs are producing unikernel-based OSs and VMs [4].
What is your toolset for building and managing unikernels? What have you learned?
Bonus question: is Unik dead? [5]
[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
[2] https://github.com/nanovms/nanos
[3] https://github.com/solo-io/unik/
[4] http://unikernel.org/projects/
[5] https://github.com/solo-io/unik/issues/172",,austinjp,120,1622111269,2021-05-27 10:27:49+00:00,story,27301210,,34.0,, 2515,Best service to remove you from data brokers?,,"Has anyone used a service to clean up your online presence/remove you and your family from data brokers (such as people finders, white pages, etc)?",,aigoochamna,120,1603201544,2020-10-20 13:45:44+00:00,story,24837200,,50.0,, 2516,How do you get a job as a software engineer if you've been cancelled?,,"I don't want to go too much in to things, as it makes me sick to re-hash it and type things up again. Long story short, I was "cancelled". Someone who has hated me for years convincingly mis-attributed decade old chat posts that contain vulgar, unsavory things to me, and convinced my last employer that it was me. Defamation would be one thing, but it has spread beyond it to social media and now my name is forever ruined. I admit, the evidence is convincing to the onlooker. This took place about 6 months ago and I am unable to get a new job since. (They never say the reason for not moving forward, but I know why) Until this, I had no problem switching jobs. Am I going to have to do odd jobs forever, or is there any hope of me returning as as the skilled software engineer I know I am? Would appreciate any and all help.",,cancelled,120,1634009584,2021-10-12 03:33:04+00:00,story,28835775,,83.0,, 2517,What are some nice electronics courses that blend theory and practice?,,"I am looking for an electronics course that is a good blend of theory and practice. I studied electronics in college and remember Kirchoff's laws and the like, but nothing else. The ideal course would probably start off from there and would include lot of practical circuits to build while explaining the theory of each circuit would work.",,thro1237,120,1420178725,2015-01-02 06:05:25+00:00,story,8825728,,50.0,, 2518,How do you build applications that require zero maintenance?,,"Is it even possible? How do you as a developer, not become a lifetime maintaimer?",,totalperspectiv,119,1570546041,2019-10-08 14:47:21+00:00,story,21192885,,95.0,, 2519,What tools have most helped your day-to-day productivity?,,"I'm looking to find out what tools people use (software, apps, or otherwise) to increase productivity. It could be things like task management systems or more specific development tools (like a certain CI provider).",,cadeljwatson,119,1520726390,2018-03-10 23:59:50+00:00,story,16560812,,105.0,, 2520,I feel like an 'expert beginner' and I don't know how to get better,,"I really want to improve at programming but I feel I'm kinda of stuck in this 'expert beginner' phase. I'm familiar with basic data structures and their complexity (linked lists, arrays, hash tables, queues, trees), some basic theory (DFA, NFA, CFGs, TMs, lambda calculus etc), and elementary math (calc I, II, III, linear algebra, ODEs, discrete).
I don't feel particularly confident in any of these areas of study, knowing the minimum amount to get me by. Sure I know what a NFA is, but ask me convert it to a DFA and I'm lost. I lack 'deep', real knowledge and am desperate to acquire this mythical stuff before it's too late.
In terms of areas of interest, I am interested in type theory, FP, compilers, machine learning, expert systems and AI.
So knowing this, how would I best use say 8-12 hours a day, every day, to learn this stuff? Should I be reading papers all day? Should I be writing code? Should I be doing exercises in books? There's just so much material I need to get through that I am lost on how to actually spend my time getting better.",,aoeuaue,119,1400362100,2014-05-17 21:28:20+00:00,story,7761134,,52.0,, 2521,"Graduating CS soon, how do I find a job?",,"Like the title says I am graduating with a CS degree soon. As I am in my final year, I am getting a bit worried that my resume is kind of uninteresting.
I've applied at probably 3-4 dozen places through my school's job board over the past month and have received zero responses. These are applications for entry level and internship positions. I'm worried my resume just doesn't standout. I only have a couple projects under my belt and no other professional experience.
How can I stand out to recruiters and employers? What can I do to improve my resume? I've worked with many different technologies but I'm afraid because I haven't bothered to work on mastering any of them that an employer wouldn't wanna take the risk on me being able to learn their stack.",,throwawayjobs,119,1631416253,2021-09-12 03:10:53+00:00,story,28498305,,137.0,, 2522,What extensions/packs of VS Code are must for web/developers to install?,,They may increase productivity tremendously
They may only be common among experienced developers
They may be used at innovative startups
They may even be used at FAANGs
They need not cater to web developers only
They may help amazingly to learn coding
They may useful for a new programmer
The criteria is anything that has helped you from all diverse sectors of the industry.,,philonoist,119,1637336899,2021-11-19 15:48:19+00:00,story,29278370,,116.0,, 2523,How can I become a self-taught software engineer?,,"I don't know where to exactly start. I was thinking of first learning Python by studying from the book "Automate the Boring Stuff." Then for the actual CS stuff, maybe taking the online course CS50 offered by Harvard, then moving on from there.
But after learning Python then what? I'm not exactly sure where my interest lies or what I actually feel like building. Thus, I'm not sure if I want to go the web route, which seems common to many, or going some different area?
I looked at the Google Software Engineer minimum qualifications, just to get an idea of areas to pursue. It reads: "Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, networking, developing large software systems, and/or security software development."
I'm not so fond of mobile development, and web I'm unsure of. From those areas which are most accessible to a non-CS/Math/Engineering degree holder (bachelors in biology)? I believe Machine learning and NLP are more suited to Masters/PhDs? So maybe they are out of the question.
Any advice on how to tackle my journey in becoming a Software Engineer? Maybe an outline on how to approach my learning in steps?",,examcoffee,119,1513525245,2017-12-17 15:40:45+00:00,story,15946136,,94.0,, 2524,How do you find time to code/build your business in the evening?,,"After the kids get to bed, I'm either burned out for the day or doing something else that must be done (laundry, etc.).
How do you make/find time to spend the time you want to in order to help with the family, run your part-time (or full-time) business into the evening (etc.), and still be able to have some downtime each day? How do you get focused?",,devmonk,119,1285120455,2010-09-22 01:54:15+00:00,story,1714899,,73.0,, 2525,"As a single bootstrapper, how do you deal with the pressure?",,"A few years ago, I wanted to make a product, but I wasn't very technical. So I decided to change that--I got technical. My problem is that I'm embarrassed of what I make. Intellectually, I know that I shouldn't be bothered by this. I don't have a huge team of VC-backed employees burning money to make a perfect thing. It's just me. But I'm tired of being shit on by my friends and family. According to my family, programmers are just "coder monkeys," people you hire to make your grand idea and that's how it's done. Friends look at me like I'm a lesser person because I'm not out to work for the most prestigious company like they are. I want to make a tool for small businesses, I want to do it profitably, and I want to be proud of it.
How do you deal with people saying, "That's it? Anybody could have done that in a couple weeks!" Maybe that's true! Maybe I'm not a very good product maker! But I want to be, and you've gotta start somewhere, right? Combine all of the above with a case of worsening depression and it's hard for me to stay motivated and it's hard to keep defending myself. I also worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work. Does anyone have any advice? How do you do it?",,throw9322,119,1481042488,2016-12-06 16:41:28+00:00,story,13115952,,96.0,, 2526,How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?,,"It looks like PostgreSQL is more feature-rich and reliable, though it's written in only 1491985 LOC vs 4466967 LOC for MySQL. How is that?",,mcsoft,119,1602967763,2020-10-17 20:49:23+00:00,story,24813239,,36.0,, 2527,Why are all the submissions about Bill/Melinda Gates being killed?,,"It looks like about half of the submissions on /newest are about Bill and Melinda Gates divorcing. All of the submissions are flagged/dead. Why is this? I'm not looking to discuss the substance of the articles in this post — just trying to understand how the divorce of one of the biggest names in tech is not allowed on HN.
By contrast, there are many non-flagged/dead articles about Jeff Bezos' divorce.",,gnicholas,119,1620077464,2021-05-03 21:31:04+00:00,story,27030972,,67.0,, 2528,Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?,,"I have to use Discord and Element on a regular basis (which both use Electron). They both use an unreasonable amount of RAM, and I feel this even more as my laptop is quite old and has 4GB of RAM.
I keep looking for alternatives to Electron, which wouldn't require such heavy resources to run, but my searches always seem to come up short. There are a number of solutions that are either dead or are not ready for production yet, such as React NodeGUI[0], Proton Native[1] or react-native-desktop-qt[2].
There's react-native-windows, but I'm not running Windows, and even if that did gain Linux compatibility it seems that they're quite focused on Microsoft-owned platforms.
Is "just stick Chromium into all your apps" seriously the best we can do as an industry? It's resource-inefficient to high heaven, not to mention that it's slow and doesn't integrate with the native platform styles at all. As a JavaScript developer, I'm quite surprised this is the best there is for cross-platform JavaScript development.
[0]: https://github.com/nodegui/react-nodegui [1]: https://proton-native.js.org/ [2]: https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop-qt",,tentacleuno,119,1648291461,2022-03-26 10:44:21+00:00,story,30810724,,228.0,, 2529,What language/framework do you plan to use in your next project?,,"Whether it is a side project or a professional one, what programming language and/or framework (web, gui, &c) do you plan to use for your next project, and why?",,gkya,119,1501156567,2017-07-27 11:56:07+00:00,story,14864389,,257.0,, 2530,Any web startups using Java?,,"Based on my observation, most of the web startups are using either PHP or RoR or some other platform, but not Java. I haven't come across a single startup which is using Java for web app development.
1) Is it because of the lack of hosting support for Java based web applications?
2) Or, are there any serious performance issues when Java is used to develop web2.0 apps?
3) Any startups that already successfully using Java?",,Veera,119,1290494620,2010-11-23 06:43:40+00:00,story,1932821,,160.0,, 2531,What does your home office look like?,,Please share some ideas regarding style and design and maybe post some pics.,,vsergiu,119,1398507449,2014-04-26 10:17:29+00:00,story,7650916,,157.0,, 2532,How did you find your passion?,,,,waltonizer,119,1531060651,2018-07-08 14:37:31+00:00,story,17483977,,86.0,, 2533,How to negotiate stock options?,,"A start up is very keen to hire me and are planning on making an offer. I am not being grandiose in saying I would be a good catch for them (they know it and I know it).
My position at present is that I very much enjoy my current job, they are very good at rewarding me and give a good level of autonomy to run my engineering team that I acquired and grew myself. I don't have anything to lose here, only (potentially) gain.
However the start up is pretty exciting and I know I could achieve a lot there. I would really enjoy the challenge.
However, the real aspect that would make the difference for me is company stock, to the point that if they sell the company I won't have to worry about paying off the mortgage on my house and get a decent slice for retirement and my kids education.
Now to my question, I am don't know jack about working out what would be a good amount of stock to shoot for. How would I go about establishing this? I figure I need to work out what the company could be worth and then consider what a percentage of options would provide.
Anyone have any experience they could share?",,playcache,119,1630656972,2021-09-03 08:16:12+00:00,story,28401655,,85.0,, 2534,What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker to defend my country?,,"The Ukrainians have called on the "hacker underground" to defend against Russia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30462219
Everyone of us here has above average computer skills, but most of us don't have offensive or defensive cyber warfare skills.
We have all seen how quickly war can break out.
What does one need to know to be of value to one's military, should the need ever arise?
What skills would they be looking for?
How can I acquire those skills?",,axiosgunnar,119,1645819088,2022-02-25 19:58:08+00:00,story,30471631,,52.0,, 2535,"Hey Drew, why is Dropbox becoming so bad?",,"When you visit the Dropbox iOS app's PDF viewer there's a bright blue Open button. It shows "Open with... Adobe Acrobat Reader, Add Text or Signature" - it's an affiliate revenue scheme dark pattern that sends you down a totally bad path. It caught my mom today, a Pro subscriber and a doctor, and she was just trying to look at health articles with her patients. Not "sign up for an Adobe account?" as she worriedly said on the phone today.
It's rough. The app is full of crap like this, it's not the first time it's caught my mom - an educated person! There was smart sync (different than "selective sync") being toggled on by default on new installs, which was horrible. Files that don't open! Bad engineering, bad product design. There are the blocking notifications and prompts. The defaulting to show the Dropbox app instead of Finder. That's just in the last two months.
I asked Dropbox CS people to "disable product management." I joked in that thread that they were aspiring to be "anti-mom."
I liked Dropbox, it was basically perfect in 2012, it's why I pay for it so consistently, why I've gifted subs to people, why they keep paying, etc.
Drew, why are you ruining your product?
That aside, remember when Steve Jobs personally replied to people's emails? There is no process for a normal person to connect with a real decision maker at giant tech companies anymore. It's the most foreboding development in the tech industry. Delegating stuff like this to social media is bad management, and Paul Graham should be apoplectic that despite all of these dark patterns, Dropbox shares are still not trading above their IPO price. It's bad business sense, it's bad product. It's just bad.",,an_opabinia,119,1604515703,2020-11-04 18:48:23+00:00,story,24991820,,45.0,, 2536,What to do after the workday?,,"I mostly enjoy my day at work. There are people to talk to and somewhat interesting projects to work on. However, when I go back home, all I see is the home computer and the television. Yes.. I could go on with those, but I feel there's more. What is that? Please help!",,fuzzymind,119,1572618856,2019-11-01 14:34:16+00:00,story,21419258,,109.0,, 2537,Obtaining initial users for a startup,,"This may seem like a very basic question, but basic is where I need the most assistance. For tech start ups and social applications, or anything for that matter. How do most companies usually get their initial set of users?
An example to clarify my question: say you start a dating site for a specific niche. How do you get a good amount of users registered on your site, so that when you launch, you don't have people that register, see no activity, and then leave immediately?
I apologize if this is common knowledge ahead of time.",,havoc2005,119,1298132984,2011-02-19 16:29:44+00:00,story,2239281,,24.0,, 2538,How do I stop myself being toxic?,,"At my last performance review I was told that I engage in toxic discussion too much and I should halt.
The problem is, I don't know what constitutes toxic behaviour and how to prevent it. I do have a lot of issues (very bureaucratic and slow central organisation whom I am forced to deal with) and I do bring them to light as the reason for things taking too long- If I'm blocked by the central IT body then I have no qualms telling people I'm blocked. I also take passion in my job, so I might seem complainy.
But, How can I make sure I don't engage in toxic discussions? Are there any people here who have overcome toxic behaviours?",,dijit,119,1467196736,2016-06-29 10:38:56+00:00,story,12000694,,138.0,, 2539,"Making a living selling software components, not SaaS?",,"There have been countless discussions about SaaS with tons of examples and success stories. It seems like a good way to structure new software businesses.
However, I wonder if there's anyone here who makes decent money selling software components or code "the old way".
Please share your stories.
(I'm also interested in hearing the buyer's side, so please mention useful code/software that you had bought).",,bonf,119,1382193993,2013-10-19 14:46:33+00:00,story,6576560,,48.0,, 2540,How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?,,I guess the reason to start an open source project is to scratch your own itch (or because you love doing it). But finding users who will try it or collaborate with you may require some type of marketing? So did you create time to do that or is working on the project reward enough for you?
If you have a popular open source project can you tell me a few things like 1) why did you start it? 2) how did people find it? 3) did you post it somewhere to get traction? 4) do you think it's unfair to just work on something you like but never take the time to get the word out?,,superasn,119,1510152277,2017-11-08 14:44:37+00:00,story,15652852,,66.0,, 2541,Do you get paid to contribute to a open source project?,,"I've been considering putting in the effort to get up to speed with a major project like Chromium or Firefox.
Ideally, if I am going to put in the massive amount of effort, I'd like to at least have the potential to get paid for the effort. Let me stress, getting paid is not the primary reason. I learn code bases and write code because I love the art.
Any advice from serious open source contributors?",,alistproducer2,119,1477594742,2016-10-27 18:59:02+00:00,story,12808429,,83.0,, 2542,How to start working as a contractor?,,"I was offered a job as a contractor by a big company in Canada. The pay is good, around $100,000 CAD ($55/h). But so far I have only worked as permenant employees. What are your experiences working as contractor? What are to be expected?",,aliencat,119,1529524625,2018-06-20 19:57:05+00:00,story,17359145,,77.0,, 2543,Can we have a conversation on startup swag waste?,,"Yesterday I made a Jokr order and was handed a swag bag. It had a rag thin bandana, a tote bag, and a plastic bag dog waste holder. The tote bag has a use, but the bandana was so thin it was a waste of fabric. The dog waste holder is another problem, but also uanessacry when I don't have a dog.
I think swag is great to get, when it has a use. I they probably made a lot of bandana's and plastic bag holders that were probably thrown away. I also know there are a ton of conferences where this is also happening. This is leading to so much waste that is not controllable, but companies continue to waste money in this area. They will also shift blame to consumers on recycling when the companies are constantly producing it.
Questions:
- Why do companies continue to waste money on useless swag?
- What can be done to have companies think about the waste they are producing from swag?
Edit 1: I'm not talking about t-shirts or sweatshirts",,jimkri,118,1647550137,2022-03-17 20:48:57+00:00,story,30715727,,78.0,, 2544,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2014),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,118,1417443585,2014-12-01 14:19:45+00:00,story,8681039,,140.0,, 2545,How do you apply for a tech job?,,I am interested in learning what are the best practices when it comes to applying for a job. The goal is for this post to serve as a collection of ideas that members of this community (including me) can use. If possible break down your answer into the high level steps that cover your entire process - from search to acceptance or rejecting of a offer. Thanks for participating.
EDIT: Also indicate how you find jobs/listing in the first place. Would like to hear form people who have a big network and people who don't. This will help people who don't have networks tremendously.,,quietthrow,118,1374146477,2013-07-18 11:21:17+00:00,story,6062835,,82.0,, 2546,Why is there no activity indicator when an iPhone's camera is on?,,"I never understood this. They indicate when your mic, location and even mobile hotspot is on, but there is no indication of whether your camera is on. Apps with permission to use the camera can use it without you knowing!",,jakemor,118,1551027444,2019-02-24 16:57:24+00:00,story,19239317,,60.0,, 2547,Anyone making a living from just 1 app?,,"If you have a desktop/mobile/web application that is sustainable and you can be able to live on its profit, list them here. Thanks!",,SomeoneAtHN,118,1286555477,2010-10-08 16:31:17+00:00,story,1772199,,80.0,, 2548,If my company bills me out at $165/hr what should my salary be?,,"I work as a client-facing software consultant for a medium-sized firm. They bill me out at $165/hr. What would a fair salary given that number be or how should I think about my salary relative to that number?
SKILLSET UPDATE: - I work across both mobile and front-end projects writing major features on multi-month projects in iOS/Java/Typescript/React/Angular. - I am the only mobile person in the entire company and am one of two that has a Mac (the only real way to dev iOS). - I've also contributed to mid-tier areas in C#. - I've always delivered.",,isthispermanent,118,1548787064,2019-01-29 18:37:44+00:00,story,19028764,,107.0,, 2549,Should I report my main competitor for PCI Violations?,,"It has recently come to my attention that my largest competitor (B2B SaaS in a niche market) has blatantly disregarded all PCI regulations for close to a decade.
He uses a multi-tenant database, stores CC numbers in plain-text (full 16 digits, CVV and Expiration Date), and shows that data to the user, in plain-text, at the time of payment.
I discovered this in the process of helping a new customer export their data from the old system.
I've spent days debating the ethics of reporting or making this public. On the one hand, I'd be putting him out of business (and I'm well poised to scoop up those new prospects). On the other hand, he's putting people's finances at risk and I feel obligated to say something that the public may not be able to discern.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.",,altron,118,1420138085,2015-01-01 18:48:05+00:00,story,8823760,,126.0,, 2550,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,118,1393683016,2014-03-01 14:10:16+00:00,story,7324231,,208.0,, 2551,"Just got $200k from an angel, where do I stick it? Savings? CDs? ",,"Hi, HN,
An angel investor just cut me a check for $200k (convertible note, solid terms). My questions is, what do I do with the money? I have a business banking account that has about $3k in it right now. Do I just deposit the 200k in the savings account there? Do I stick 150k of it in a savings account so it can generate some interest?
I realize this is a super elementary question, but I've never seen it addressed here or anywhere else. What does a startup do with its cash when it gets a bunch of it like this?
FWIW: Our burn rate is about $5k on 9k monthly in revenues at the moment.",,moneymoron,118,1296427216,2011-01-30 22:40:16+00:00,story,2159405,,80.0,, 2552,What do middle-level managers do?,,"I'm an individual contributor at one of the big software companies (FANG). I'm curious about what middle level managers do in these companies. Specifically, my manager's manager, the ones between the CEO and first level management. They seem busy all the time (they are usually not at their desks). But they are never in any meetings. They never send any emails. And they don't seem to affect the direction of projects in any way. And I'm just too scared to talk to them. So asking here: what do they do everyday?",,vagab0nd,118,1561816733,2019-06-29 13:58:53+00:00,story,20312607,,85.0,, 2553,Interesting (Non software) books?,,I was wondering what books people could recommend that would be relevant to the HN community and aren't related to software?,,froo,118,1269877921,2010-03-29 15:52:01+00:00,story,1226736,,182.0,, 2554,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,118,1383311821,2013-11-01 13:17:01+00:00,story,6653426,,176.0,, 2555,Is it too late to find a mentor after 30 for a software developer?,,"I got into software development without any education or prior experience at the age of 25 and learned iOS development. I work as an iOS developer & consultant and I feel I'm doing dead-end freelance gigs, which doesn't feel like they will get me very far. I want to be involved in backend development as well but I don't have a clear path as to how I can make that happen. A mentor might have been very good to have here to at least offer second opinions, but I am unable to find one, since the people good enough to be a valuable mentor usually don't stay in this country(I'm in Turkey). Even if there was, I feel like age might be an issue. Where and how does one find a mentor? Is it too late to find a mentor after 30?",,akaralar,118,1514037983,2017-12-23 14:06:23+00:00,story,15994193,,61.0,, 2556,What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?,,"Not trying to start a flame war. I am finally switching away from my trusty Nokia Lumia 920 because the browser wouldn't load m.uber.com and WhatsApp says app will be gone at the end of the year. I like the snappiness of Windows Phone and iPhone UI. Haven't checked Android phones recently but years ago the UI was laggy and no one except I seem to notice.
Also know that sideloading apps, blocking ads in apps etc. is much easier on Android so I am hard pressed to decide between the two.",,belltaco,118,1561940025,2019-07-01 00:13:45+00:00,story,20321455,,226.0,, 2557,How do I find a meaningful software engineering job?,,"Currently I'm working as a Software Engineer in a consulting company whose primary expertise is AWS. My day of work is mainly composed of integrating with AWS REST APIs and "designing" scalable distributed systems. I'm quoting designing, because it's really just a matter of composing AWS Services to fit customers needs (provided clients are willing to throw money at cloud services - and most of the times they are).
I just feel that's not something I would like to double down on. I have always enjoyed digging into lowish level libraries like MapReduce or LevelDB and figuring out how it works with layers of abstraction peeled off. I would love to contribute to such a project and I always envy and look up to Jeff Dean and his opportunity to build such a beautiful low-level software and libraries.
Anyway, are there companies which have interesting technical problems to solve and not consider outsourcing them to other vendors? Maybe I should get a job in a company which has a well established product (preferably something used by developers) and has some room for creativity? What are those companies?",,gregorygoc,118,1529249888,2018-06-17 15:38:08+00:00,story,17332796,,84.0,, 2558,"What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?",,"I am the Ubuntu desktop manager at Canonical. The Ubuntu community is getting ready to start planning for the next UDS in May.
I know there are quite a few Ubuntu users here and I wanted to reach out and see what people would like to have fixed, changed, improved, removed, added or anything else in the upcoming release. I'm also quite interested in those who DON'T use Ubuntu and what their thoughts are on why they don't use it (might be related).
Things to consider:
* Applications and default app selection
* Configuration & Settings
* Usability and ease of use
* Accessibility
It would be helpful for me if you could give a brief rundown of what you use Ubuntu for as well.
Cheers,
-Jason
PS. If you have used Unity in the 11.04 beta, now would be a good time to give feedback on that as it could shape the 11.10 release as well.",,jasoncwarner,118,1300094375,2011-03-14 09:19:35+00:00,story,2321838,,170.0,, 2559,Do you make more than $200K? What did you have to do?,,"Having been writing software for over 10 years, I recently learnt that a friend has been making more than $220K for the past several years (similar background). I'm at $170K and always thought I'm getting paid really well (I'm an engg manager + programmer in bay area, Java expertise).
Curious if people here make more than $200K - what your role/salary/experience is.
How did you get your high salary? How have you been raising it? Do you plan for it, or does the company reward you automatically? Do you switch jobs a lot?
Side curiosity: how much do execs (such has CTO or VPE make?)",,amagicalsunday,117,1488140286,2017-02-26 20:18:06+00:00,story,13739572,,94.0,, 2560,What’s it like working at Facebook as a Software Engineer?,,"Also, does anyone know of any better companies or how Facebook compares to other companies (as far as interesting projects, culture, work/life balance, etc)?",,baccheion,117,1487816406,2017-02-23 02:20:06+00:00,story,13711117,,95.0,, 2561,"I died 2 times, coma, learned how to walk again, code, now I need advice",,"I went through 2 aneurysms (I know unlucky), went through 2 brain surgeries, then got hit with mitral valve regurgitation which steamed from having endocarditis (rare virus that sits on the heart). Then was in a coma because of the aneurysm, when I woke up I needed to learn how to walk again. Before that I went through physical abuse, poverty, lived on my own (boarding schools, houses I rented etc) since I am 13, hustled, did drugs, and all kinds of other stupid things. Why am I telling you this on HN? Because this is part of the journey of an entrepreneur, I've been starting businesses since I am 16 as an escape to a poor reality and a bad environment, I am not from the US (from Israel) but came here (live in Palo Alto because of the amazing freedoms and opportunity that this country provides and of course to leave my junk behind. After failing many times and teaching my self how to code/design software, I am finally on a path to something that works.
I have a product with traction, revenue (I had to find a business model early on since I know no one I can raise money from). Now I am at a point where my startup is growing but I need to scale it way faster before someone comes in, its a wide open market for something that has huge revenue potential (we are making already 15K a month without trying because of our limited team of 2).
I came here because I wanted to ask for your help, how does one raise money when he knows no one, I realized that the tech industry raises money purely or mostly based on connections/introductions, I don't have that at all what should I do to get in that door?
Thank you in advance and sorry if the spelling is not perfect :)
<p>btw I am 25 yo if you are curious because usually the above sicknesses come to older people.",,michaelabe,117,1299829481,2011-03-11 07:44:41+00:00,story,2312566,,27.0,, 2562,What is your daily reading list?,,Besides HN can you list one website that you go to the moment you get connected.,,nns,117,1366964755,2013-04-26 08:25:55+00:00,story,5611973,,74.0,, 2563,Why are we accepting ageism in tech as something immutable?,,"This week alone I had 2 interviews with 2 different companies where in the first one of the interviewers asked me my age, directly followed by "why hire you over a younger graduate?" (which isn't the same as "why hire you over someone smarter than you?" because why even ask this). In the second one I was also asked for my age, followed by whether I plan to get married anytime soon.
I'm under the impression that the industry needs to learn to treat amateurs as amateurs regardless of their age. It feels like I'm not allowed to be an amateur professional simply because I'm over 30 years old. Instead of seeing people as "a guy with 2 years of experience" or "a woman with 4 years of experience" we see "a 40 year old guy with 2 years of experience" or "a 34 year old woman with 4 years of experience".
It feels like there's an implicit expectation of expertise in doing something that comes with my age. It's almost as if I'm not allowed to learn and get good in something that I want, simply because I was late into "the party", where party can be whatever but since I'm a web developer that's what "the party" is.
I've had multiple people telling me that "we saw people with fewer and less polished projects get jobs". I've been seeking for 8 months, I'm almost at the point where I might as well freelance to bypass the discrimination. I get barely any calls back, and the one interview that felt somewhat fair was because I had my former manager from a completely unrelated field introduce me to someone looking for web developers, and that didn't worked out because they wanted me to learn their stack and build an assignment within a week, which failed gloriously.
Is there something that we can do so that people can just be amateurs regardless of age? I'm sure since we're making SOME progress against sexism and racism we could somehow do something for ageism too, because I can't blame Zuckerberg's opinion anymore.",,Arisaka1,117,1642094194,2022-01-13 17:16:34+00:00,story,29923466,,120.0,, 2564,What's the best way to secure your workstation?,,"Here's a very plausible threat: Some developer with a left-pad package, some dependency-of-a-dependency, injects malware into their library. A developer (who is broadly trustworthy) updates their package's dependencies without auditing them properly, and the malware ends up in a VSCode plugin that you use. You open VSCode, your system is infected.
We know this sort of malware is making its way onto package repositories [1]. We know people are falling for these attacks. How do we protect ourselves against this family of threats?
[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/21/npm_malware_password/
We could trust nothing beyond our base system and our browser, and refuse to use any code we don't fully audit, but this would be an impossibly austere way to live. I expect most of us, when pressed, would admit that we're trusting much more code than we would like to.
The alternative is sandboxing, using a lightweight option like firejail (which I use) or a totalizing system like QubesOS. But these systems are awkward to use, and have their own drawbacks.
What's the bar for reasonable security, in your opinion? How do you secure your workstation without living like a monk?",,bccdee,117,1638122104,2021-11-28 17:55:04+00:00,story,29371088,,88.0,, 2565,"All of you working with Big Data, what is your Data?",,"Big data is a trending topic these days and I'd like to get my hands dirty both out of curiosity and to make myself more relevant on the marketplace. That being said, I'm not sure which data sets are both interesting to play with and easily accessible. My question is:
For those of you already working with big data, what kind of data do you work with?",,sysk,117,1422096649,2015-01-24 10:50:49+00:00,story,8939328,,94.0,, 2566,How to learn design as a hacker?,,"I'm a full stack web dev and hacker by heart. However, all my front-end designs just can't compete with anything delivered by a (semi-)professional designer. Are there any CodeAcademy-like resources that provide actionable advice on how to do better UI design? I'm getting tired of hiring freelancers.
I tried hackdesign.org, but figured it was way too high-level and since it's only a blob of links to blog-posts it didn't create any continious learning experience for me. I'm looking for resources that help me with practical problems like whitespace/margins, color schemes, font-sizes etc...",,dkyc,117,1408110361,2014-08-15 13:46:01+00:00,story,8182084,,49.0,, 2567,"Why is the ""Google, what were you thinking?"" link getting killed",,"""New"" is currently rammed with dead links to http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-thinking/ -- but it doesn't look like a dupe, since there are no live threads on it, and it doesn't strike me as spam. What's wrong with it?",,bonaldi,117,1326450224,2012-01-13 10:23:44+00:00,story,3459966,,30.0,, 2568,"How do sites like Reddit, HackerNews, etc get initial user content?",,"If they need user generated content to function, how do they get started? Do they just get their friends to start using the service?",,moretai,117,1510158142,2017-11-08 16:22:22+00:00,story,15653903,,63.0,, 2569,"EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?",,For however you choose to define "worth".,,Winterflow3r,117,1638121113,2021-11-28 17:38:33+00:00,story,29370922,,206.0,, 2570,What methods and tools can I use to decrease my app churn?,,"About three weeks ago I launched my app as a solo dev and without any marketing or buzz I've been able to convert paid subscribers and sell products. I know its an app with a viable market, and has potential. However I have a high churn rate (install/uninstall ratio) of about 70-80% that I know I could improve. Just to put into perspective I am getting an average of 150 installs/day and about 115 uninstalls. So I gain about 20-30 users/day and of those I am getting 3-5 free 3 day trial signups.
Currently my app has a couple of issues with a few crashes a day which I am working to resolve but I don't think that is the culprit. My design is decent, it performs decently and its not too convoluted. I use google analytics to track events but they are more of a way to report how much activity my app gets rather than reports on how people feel about my app.
I have about 500 active users and about 1,300 accounts. I used mail chimp to retrieve feedback about two weeks ago when I had about 200 active users and 400 accounts and I received only a couple of responses from people saying they really liked it, with just a few minor suggestions but nothing really enlightening. Just today I used to the new search keyword feature in the play console that allows you to see by which terms your users found the app. I have two keywords which I am targeting and have a very nice 50% conversion rate but mostly all of my installs come from keywords that are not listed and get placed in the "other" category. So I am a bit lost since I feel like the app could be optimized right now as its still very new before I try scaling out and just churn through more potential customers.
I am looking for advice in general since I work alone but more specifically are there any tools/methods that could aid me? I came across https://www.appsee.com/ which looks great to be able to see how users interact with my app but I was unable to get a response? (maybe they don't like the little guys)",,alanz1223,117,1536095981,2018-09-04 21:19:41+00:00,story,17912910,,62.0,, 2571,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2015),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,117,1446476477,2015-11-02 15:01:17+00:00,story,10492087,,156.0,, 2572,Who wants to be hired? (September 2014),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Resume:
Email:How much of a jerk is your boss? (0-10)
How chaotic is your environment? (0-10)
What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you?
What are you currently doing?
What would you like to do instead?
Readers: Please only fire people that are direct reports of yours.,,rubiquity,117,1459525963,2016-04-01 15:52:43+00:00,story,11405728,,10.0,, 2574,What is a problem you face at work?,,"Hi guys,
I'm Cory. I run http://oppsdaily.com, a daily email for software devs who want to solve the problems people face at work.
The email consists of a super brief interview about a problem you have at work, and the software you wished you had (that you would buy), that could solve the problem.
Each day I receive a handful responses from developers who want to learn more, and I connect them to the interviewee.
I really want to source some of those interviews from this amazing community.
If you are facing a problem that you'd like to share, please contact me! - cory@oppsdaily.com
I'd love to feature you in one of my interviews.
EDIT:
If you're not comfortable being featured in an email, but you would like to share in this thread for the benefit of the HN community, please do! :)",,cdiamand,117,1487430911,2017-02-18 15:15:11+00:00,story,13675038,,122.0,, 2575,What happened to server-side rendering?,,"A few years ago, there was a lot of talk about Isomorphic rendering of JavaScript, but seems to have died down recently.
Are any products still using it? What happened?",,knasmai,117,1553271321,2019-03-22 16:15:21+00:00,story,19463989,,71.0,, 2576,What did you build in March?,,"I've enjoyed reading these in the past, and I think some folks who have recently built or launched something have enjoyed the brief publicity and chance to get some early feedback.
So, If you built or launched something in March, let us know, and maybe even show it off with a link.",,amoore,117,1333308434,2012-04-01 19:27:14+00:00,story,3784634,,140.0,, 2577,Tell me about your failed startup.,,"Inspired by this post - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2086218 - which mentions the fact people only focus on success stories which are actually the minority.
I think it would be good to hear some personal stories of startup failure so we can all learn from them.
What went wrong? What did you learn for next time and can pass on?
How did you recover and what are you doing now? Having failed once, would you try again?",,SimonPStevens,117,1294665101,2011-01-10 13:11:41+00:00,story,2088330,,55.0,, 2578,STEM toy for a 3 years old?,,Hello! Can the HN community recommend me a STEM toy (or similar that would educate and entertain him) for my 3 yo boy? He's highly curious but I can't find many things to play with him :( The things that I like bore him and the things that he likes bore me (or are way too messy and dangerous to let him do them)...,,spapas82,117,1583235418,2020-03-03 11:36:58+00:00,story,22473578,,140.0,, 2579,Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2019?,,"Inspired by the 2018 version here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286939
I'm curious if there have been any new developments or changes in thinking since the sentiments expressed in that thread about a year ago.
Have the Pros and Cons changed much? Any new considerations? (e.g. Softbank, M&A patterns, potentially looming economic slowdown)
In general, what do you think in 2019 HN?",,askafriend,116,1550970767,2019-02-24 01:12:47+00:00,story,19236487,,80.0,, 2580,Best language to share code between an Android and iOS app?,,"Hello app developers of HN!
My team owns an Android (Kotlin) and iOS (Swift) app. The app is responsible for processing data, submitting to ML models, and then displaying results in a UI. We chose to do a lot of that processing in a shared Rust component. What we have found is a high overhead of bridging Kotlin/Swift to Rust. Some core logic has also seeped into our bridging code resulting in some duplication (exactly what we were trying to avoid).
With that, those of you who have found yourselves in similar situations, which language would you choose to be shared between your Android and iOS app (if any)?",,mevorah,116,1572018773,2019-10-25 15:52:53+00:00,story,21356203,,117.0,, 2581,"Founders, what's your lifestyle like?",,,,dereking,116,1424545684,2015-02-21 19:08:04+00:00,story,9086475,,94.0,, 2582,Who wants to be hired? (September 2021),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Searchers: try https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/.",,whoishiring,116,1630508445,2021-09-01 15:00:45+00:00,story,28380659,,219.0,, 2583,What kind of index is Google using here?,http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%5Cd%5Cw%7B2%7D%5CW%7B3%7D%5C%28%5Cw%7B2%7D%5C.&sbtn=Search,,,pc,116,1247003735,2009-07-07 21:55:35+00:00,story,692643,,45.0,, 2584,Best Python web framework,,"I know this question gets asked every now and again, but the most recent informed thread I found was two years old and, as we all know, things move on.
Last time, the answer could be summarized as ""Django but ..."", with Pylons and Flask getting a good mention. Have these now ""overtaken"" the incumbent? What about Web2Py?",,benohear,116,1332933016,2012-03-28 11:10:16+00:00,story,3765610,,105.0,, 2585,Google Drive/Office 365 alternatives,,"My partner runs a small charity in the UK whose office infrastructure is based on Google Drive. (Sheets, spreadsheets, email, etc). Her trustees are advising that since Google cannot guarantee that her data is being stored in the UK (apparently?), they need to migrate. Like seemingly every organisation these days, they're looking at MS Office 365. But having a partner with GNU and emacs stickers all over their laptop, she's wondering what alternatives are out there. It'd need to be low (or better no) maintenance, comparable in cost to Office 365 and quality too. It could be web-hosted or based on Next/OwnCloud or something, as long as it works without a load of pain points. Oh and UK-hosted too. I assume others here must have thought this through already, so thought I'd ask the hivemind!",,nanna,116,1599474407,2020-09-07 10:26:47+00:00,story,24398343,,119.0,, 2586,Do you have a side project that you would like to sell?,,"Many HNers have side projects that make small amount of money or have a userbase. If you would like to sell your webapp/mobile app, please specify. Don't forget to add contact information
Note to moderators: Can we please make this a recurring question like whoishiring thread?",,skdjksjdksjdk,116,1501339143,2017-07-29 14:39:03+00:00,story,14881425,,102.0,, 2587,Cover letter techniques for software development positions.,,"I am a senior in college and am applying for many positions that interest me so that I can get a job when I graduate. Now, I know there are plenty of resources online about how to write a cover letter, but I was wondering if the community here at Hacker News could give me insight on things that recruiters/companies look for in a cover letter when they are hiring software developers. Thanks!",,Nemisis7654,116,1286900657,2010-10-12 16:24:17+00:00,story,1783915,,64.0,, 2588,Buffer got hacked - does anyone know details?,,It seems like @buffer got hacked.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40buffer&src=typd&f=realtime
The guys seem to be on it.
Last information: They confirmed they got hacked turned of publishing and they are investigating the issue.,,andreasklinger,116,1382813635,2013-10-26 18:53:55+00:00,story,6618689,,80.0,, 2589,What methods do you use to gain early customers for your startup?,,"There are many ways that new tech startups can try to acquire early adopters AKA early customers for their product.
Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, tells about their original strategies, and their path through the customer development jungle. (http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510)
You as a new startup, whether you're a founder, hustler, hacker, or even early adopter:
How have you been able to gain visibility to early adopters, get them to evangelize for you, and ultimately convert them to early customers?",,nickfrost,116,1303173748,2011-04-19 00:42:28+00:00,story,2461271,,38.0,, 2590,"Self-taught developers, what repo helped land your first job?",,"If you're willing to share, which portfolio project do you think contributed most to you landing your first FT dev job, and what kind of job did you land?",,simplicitea,116,1502868286,2017-08-16 07:24:46+00:00,story,15025578,,114.0,, 2591,What do you use?,,"Inspired by the usesthis.com link, I thought it would be fun to see what hardware/software/etc. HN uses.",,jesusabdullah,116,1289174463,2010-11-08 00:01:03+00:00,story,1880797,,124.0,, 2592,Hacker News like forums for other niches?,,Forums that are actually like HN that have a minimal interface and promote actual discussion with tree like threads unlike other forums where you can barely see 4 people's response and can hardly tell who's replying to who.,,harshthedev,116,1626021009,2021-07-11 16:30:09+00:00,story,27802233,,107.0,, 2593,Can we help the police sort through the photos of the Boston Marathon?,,"The police are going to need to sort through and catalog thousands of photos and videos. They may not be prepared or have the infrastructure to do this efficiently. Maybe we can build something to help.
Some ideas:
- A central place for people to upload photos and videos from the event
- A system to sort by time and location of the media
- Duplicate detection of photos and videos
- A forum to discuss the photos
- A way to crowdsource tedious tasks. For example: See if person X or item Y is in any of the photos of videos.
I'd love feedback on this idea. Would this be helpful? Does it already exist?
Edit: Getting lots of great feedback. If you're interested in helping, e-mail jon@jonb.org.",,jbaudanza,116,1366140374,2013-04-16 19:26:14+00:00,story,5560247,,80.0,, 2594,Anyone else here struggle with the alcohol?,,"Gents,
I thought it might be worthwhile and somewhat cathartic to ask this question here. I'm a long time, accomplished techie and a bit of a serial entrepreneur. I also wonder if I might be a bit of a functioning alcoholic.
I've been drinking regularly since my early teens. In the area of the country where I grew up it was about the only thing to do. I drank too much in high school, college, and grad school, and the initial stages of my PhD, all the while still managing to ace most of my coursework.
Fortunately, I married a very stubborn woman, and she's cut down my drinking substantially. However, I still drink at least 4 times a week, and each night on average 3-6 high alcohol beers.
Even still, I'm not a violent drunk or really a drunk in general. I have developed a pretty high tolerance, so the drinks I have just place me into a comfortable mood, not a stupor. I'm a loving, affectionate husband and father; I just find that alcohol takes the edge off my life. I've quit at times for periods of a month with no sort of withdrawal symptoms, so I don't believe I'm physically addicted. I've always had a bit of an addictive personality, so I think my dependence is largely psychological.
The problem is, my drinking is impulsive. I'm in a senior leadership role by day and I work on my entrepreneurial endeavors by night. I wake up most mornings telling myself it's going to be all work on my ideas when I get home that evening, but by 7 pm the stress of the day makes that beer (and couch time with the wife) so much more appealing.
I'm worried on too fronts: a., the things I'm not able to accomplish because I procrastinate through alcohol, and b., health problems.
Regaring a., how much could I have accomplished if I didn't impusively give in and drink a beer or six? I've had at least one project that's dragged on now for 3 months and I attribute at least some of that drag to beer. If I'm honest with myself, a number of my other projects have suffered because of this same drag on productivity. Hangovers and the general malaise the day after make it very difficult to keep up and focused at times.
Regarding b., my blood pressure has become borderline high over the last two years (I'm in my late 30s), and I am guessing that alcohol has a lot to do with it. If marijuana were to become legal, I'd definitely be open to switching to that, but as it is my wife is totally against it because of its legal status. I've used it in the past and found it to be a wonderful alternative to alcohol. Again, I'm not addicted to the feeling alcohol gives you, but to the edge it takes off my life.
Anyway, I'd love to hear from other HNers regarding insights or tips. I've read that substance abuse in general tends to be common in those with higher IQs, so I imagine there are at least a few of you who have been, or are here, with me.",,iamanonymous,116,1288881743,2010-11-04 14:42:23+00:00,story,1869046,,122.0,, 2595,Is it ok to reject a job because I don’t like their software?,,"Short of it: I’m not talking about the software I would write or produce, I’m talking about communication software.
I recently did some phone screens with another company in my industry, my industry is dominated by Microsoft products (mostly windows based software) but I have always had a seriously hard time digesting Teams.
It makes me bitterly angry when I work with it, the way pop ups work, the way things are (dis)organised, even the way copy/paste doesn’t seem to work the majority of the time.
I said on hacker news recently that I don’t think I can work with that software again, but a potential job offer that appears otherwise interesting had an interview conducted by teams.
Is it ok to send feedback that I don’t really want to work with that software? Is that extremely petty and spoiled?",,dijit,116,1644353868,2022-02-08 20:57:48+00:00,story,30264591,,214.0,, 2596,How do you deal with atomicity in microservice environments?,,"We run a small SaaS where users are able to create accounts, submit billing information and upload/call ML artefacts.
In order to not reinvent the wheel we use external services where possible: Auth0 for authentication, Stripe for handling billing, etc. For this question, I am considering this a 'microservices' architecture. I am aware that this definition will spark its own discussion, but I believe that the problem generalises to a lot of the other (better, more complete, etc.) microservice definitions. So please, bear with me.
Now, in the lifecycle of a customer (createAccount, addBilling, deleteAccount, ...) at various points we expect operations to occur atomically. By which I mean (simplified) that upon creating a new account, I also need to ensure a customer is created in Stripe as well as register the user in Auth0 - but if either of these subtasks fail, the operation (createAccount) should fail completely and in fact 'undo' any state changes already performed. If not, I risk high-impact bugs such as double charging customers.
Now, in a 'conventional' setup (without external services), I would resolve a lot of this by ensuring transactional operations on a single source-of-truth database. I understand that 'idempotency' comes up a lot here, but whichever way I try to apply that here - it always seems to explode in a (fragile/brittle) spaghetti of calls, error handling and subsequent calls.
Surely this has been resolved by now, but I'm having a hard time finding any good resources on how to approach this in an elegant manner. Concretely:
Do you recognise the problem of atomicity in microservices architecture?
And,
How do you deal with guaranteeing this atomicity in your microservices?",,c89X,116,1574945320,2019-11-28 12:48:40+00:00,story,21656891,,40.0,, 2597,"Are freelancer sites (e.g. Odesk, Elance) useless?",,"So I submitted a few gigs to freelance sites like Odesk, freelancer.com, elance etc. I used the handy guide provided by Derek Sivers on how to write up a good ""help wanted"" ad.
I was looking for a skilled designer to produce a simple UI.
After about 2 minutes, I received around 8 applications on odesk and freelancer.com. By the end of the day, I had around 40 applications in total.
Problem is: almost all of them sucked. Very disappointing indeed.
Has anyone out there actually found a good designer / developer on one of these freelance sites? Care to share tips?",,fatpanda,116,1305191082,2011-05-12 09:04:42+00:00,story,2539892,,67.0,, 2598,What is your trick to do deep work or study?,,"The topic is very important to me, and I believe it should be important for any learner. I read Deep Work and loved it, but I think it is just one step in the right direction. We need to think more about it. How to lose yourself with the book or in your work. That skill that became very rare. I am assuming that there is knowledge out there somewhere that could help. So do you have any tricks for that other than the usual (like quitting social media)?",,mrwnmonm,115,1601768010,2020-10-03 23:33:30+00:00,story,24675467,,82.0,, 2599,What are some examples of successful companies rejected by YC?,,"Naturally, YC cannot accept everyone that applies. We know that many YC alumni have gone on to be successful, but we don't hear too much about the companies that were rejected and have now gone on to become going concerns. YCombinator is not the only way to launch a startup. How many that are turned away actually continue working on their startups, and successfully?",,daniel-levin,115,1466072842,2016-06-16 10:27:22+00:00,story,11915188,,58.0,, 2600,How’d you go from a noodler to writing large well structured programs?,,"I do a lot of coding for work (Quant Analysis) mostly in Matlab, but also VBA, and occasionally python. My team has come to write something like 15k lines of code for our overnight process.
How do you learn to structure a large program? We basically have one Matlab file that calls tons of other routines in different files in a straight order. All are in the same folder. The whole thing is out of hand. We also do not have any form of source control or testing. Wen things break, we fix them on the fly.
Do you have a good book recommendation on project structuring?",,hodder,115,1509566133,2017-11-01 19:55:33+00:00,story,15604893,,72.0,, 2601,How common is it to work on projects with no testing?,,"I have been working in an investment bank for the past months(my first job), and I was surprised to find out out that my team doesn't write any tests at all.
There is also no code reviews, you are responsible for your own code. There seems to exist a "hustle" mentality, where you need to ship at all costs, the engineers frequently work from 9am-9pm and then some weekends. Is this common practice in the industry?",,reese_john,115,1557087064,2019-05-05 20:11:04+00:00,story,19834777,,111.0,, 2602,Are we overreacting to coronavirus?,,"Source [1]. Note that I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories so I will focus only on non-political information. I hope someone one the field can fact-check the information presented and correct any interpretation mistakes on my part:
- The test that is currently used was not extensively validated and quickly accepted by WHO due to urgency. This raises the following questions: - Is it possible that we are seeing false positives, where people with flu-like symptoms are wrongly identified as having SARS-CoV-2? - Are we certain that the test is implemented correctly everywhere?
- To find infection/death rates, are we doing tests on the whole population, or only on certain groups, such as people that went to hospitals feeling cold symptoms?
- Is it possible that infection rates are higher than normal because more people are going to hospitals (due to widespread panic), and thus get infected more easily than if they had treated common cold symptoms at home?
- Are the flu deaths increasing because of the coronavirus? Consider this: - In Germany, between 20000 and 30000 people die yearly from flu, mostly on winter. - Assume that in previous years we tested all seriously ill patients for coronavirus (which didn't happen). In this scenario, where we tested everyone, it is expected that between 2000 and 3000 of the dead would also have a coronavirus (which doesn't imply they died because of coronavirus). - Due to panic, more people are filling the hospital beds, possibly leaving the really sick without proper care, thus increasing deaths. - In Germany, there are currently 33 deaths attributed to coronavirus, nowhere near the expected number. Note that Germany has considerably more hospital beds than Italy [2].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_AyuhbnPOI
[2] https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/flattening-the-coronavirus-curve-is-not-enough/",,tarruda,115,1584627144,2020-03-19 14:12:24+00:00,story,22627636,,135.0,, 2603,How do you teach you kids about computers and coding?,,"Please share what tools & approaches you use - it may Scratch, Python, any kids specific like Linux distros, Raspberry Pi or recent products like Lego Boost... Or your experiences with them.. thanks.",,lazydon,115,1519649581,2018-02-26 12:53:01+00:00,story,16464909,,67.0,, 2604,How did you transition from FTE to self-employed/sole proprietor?,,"I would like to transition from my FTE position to a specialized consulting/contracting business that I have been operating for the past several years with annual revenues of $10-12k. Revenues are low because there is not enough time in the day to maintain both FTE and consulting. If you made a transition, how did you do it? I believe I could simply quit and then hold my nose and jump in feet first, expecting a ramp-up time where I draw from savings and hope for a reasonably quick recovery of income. But I suspect there are more strategic options.",,psim1,115,1619801257,2021-04-30 16:47:37+00:00,story,26995874,,72.0,, 2605,What is your most impressive hackathon project?,,,,Windson,115,1495715657,2017-05-25 12:34:17+00:00,story,14416878,,86.0,, 2606,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,115,1312199573,2011-08-01 11:52:53+00:00,story,2831651,,128.0,, 2607,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,115,1385911236,2013-12-01 15:20:36+00:00,story,6827545,,170.0,, 2608,How does one go about bringing a hardware product to market?,,"How does one go from an idea to a sellable product?
I have various ideas, not especially "high tech" more assembling of off the shelf components to create novel products that I think may be useful (I have a need for these myself). So I could build a prototype myself (despite being a software person). After that what? How do you find out about manufacturing costs and options? Marketing is another side, but I have an idea about that.
Are there any good guides out there?",,collyw,115,1646649361,2022-03-07 10:36:01+00:00,story,30586175,,83.0,, 2609,Why isn't there a modern MS Access clone?,,"HN, this is something that I've always been interested in: Why isn't there a modern piece of software akin to Microsoft’s Access? I know there are plenty of issues in scaling these kind of systems, and that these kind of platforms can feel clunky and unwieldy but I still find it surprising that there isn’t a simple platform for creating CRUD apps. It doesn’t seem like an unachievable goal to me: you need the ability to create forms, design database tables, manage user permissions, manage data workflow (ie: send an sms if <condition>, seek approval from <user role> for <action>), and view/search data. I’m certain these features would be useful for all kinds of business scenarios where building, maintaining, and hosting a custom solution isn’t worthwhile, or would be unideal compared to using a standardised tool. Are there tools in this space that I’m missing? If not, why isn’t this being pursued? Eagerly looking forward to your thoughts.",,Norther,115,1505379029,2017-09-14 08:50:29+00:00,story,15246061,,111.0,, 2610,How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?,,"This is a general question, but I didn't want to ask specific one because I'm still trying to understand the bigger picture.
We "collect" data all the time, and sometimes it helps us learn something. On one hand we have things that were created by others: funny images, movies, articles on the web, books. On the other we have things creted by us: personal insights, thoughts, snippets of code. How do you manage/organize all of this? Do you have apps/tools for organizing specific type of information and if so, why this particular one? Do you have ideas how to organize/manage this efficiently?
But we're not only collecting information [0], we also learn from it. Most people store all this knowledge in their heads for their whole life, but I think it's not efficient (memory loss, can't search, not always reliable etc.), some people create some kind of personal knowledge bases (e.g. personal dokuwiki/mediawiki on localhost). How do you manage/organize things you learn?
It may seem that I should create 2 different topics, but for me both concepts are connected[1]. What I'm trying to find is an efficient solution to managing (almost) all the information that enters (and already is in) my life. I don't think that there exist a good app for that, I know that there are some that solve parts of this problem (evernote, wikis etc.), but I'm more interested in your ideas on the whole topic, how to approach this problem, where to look, how to think about this etc.
I'm curious about your solutions, ideas and "setups" for this problem(s). If you have any resources (books, research papers etc.) about the topic, I'd love to learn from them. Thank you for your time.
[0] as in bits on the disk, learning can be viewed as collecting new information, I guess
[1] I liked quote from a book, some code from LLVM gave me an insight into a compiler design etc.",,ay1n,115,1419792197,2014-12-28 18:43:17+00:00,story,8806950,,84.0,, 2611,Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?,,"Background: technical founder wondering what reading to recommend to a business focused founder for them to grok the hacker mindset. I've thought perhaps Mythical Man Month and How To Become A Hacker (Eric Raymond essay) but not sure they're quite right.
Any suggestions?
(In case it helps an analogue in the mathematical world might be A Mathematician's Apology or Gödel, Escher, Bach.)",,jamiecollinson,115,1589538343,2020-05-15 10:25:43+00:00,story,23190617,,105.0,, 2612,Why and how is Gartner Inc. still relevant?,,"I just came across one of Gartner's most recent publications (predictions, trends, ...).
I'm finding it hard to distill through the fluff to find meaningful insights. Their trends are dated and it feels as if someone has spilled the buzzword paint on a slide deck.
I'm experiencing first-hand the mess they have caused by suggesting an operational/outsourcing model that makes it extremely hard to get anything done other than planning.
How are they still relevant?",,tamersalama,115,1542754780,2018-11-20 22:59:40+00:00,story,18498657,,64.0,, 2613,What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?,,E.g. http://www.mobiusmotors.com,,refrigerator,115,1419521392,2014-12-25 15:29:52+00:00,story,8796409,,67.0,, 2614,How do you keep a good posture when you spend most of your type sitting?,,,,zerotosixty,115,1520346771,2018-03-06 14:32:51+00:00,story,16529054,,82.0,, 2615,What metrics do you pay attention to?,,"People love their metrics. Whether it's how many steps they made in a day, or their karma score on Hackernews, etc
But social media metrics aside: what other metrics do you pay attention to in your daily life?
One obvious one for many people would be their bottom line / profit margin. But that aside, what numbers do you pay attention to each day?",,DerekBickerton,115,1636636548,2021-11-11 13:15:48+00:00,story,29187506,,78.0,, 2616,What kind of projects should I build for a front-end portfolio?,,"I have no professional experience, so I'll be applying to junior positions. What kind of projects should I build to showcase my skills?
I'm thinking of doing re-designs of a few popular websites (2-3 pages mobile & desktop, wireframes) that I think can be improved. And then coding them into life.
Would that make a good front-end portfolio or are there better projects that I can be doing? Also, I'm new to github-- What could I contribute to on there?",,Calist0,115,1472427974,2016-08-28 23:46:14+00:00,story,12379111,,57.0,, 2617,Am I making too much?,,"Hi HN, posting this anonymously as my regular account contains my name.
I have been working as a developer for well over 10 years, have worked in both small companies as well as large agencies. I keep up to date with various technologies and attempt to learn best practices and methodologies. I do not have a college degree and so far that hasn't been much of an issue with jobs in NYC.
I am currently making $110k, and have consistently increased in salary year after year as well as from job to job - but I am concerned I am slowly starting to reach my upper limit on how much I will be able to earn as simply a developer - am I wrong in assuming this? Are my possible salary expectations for future positions (I am currently employed, however open to new opportunities and have recently had a few interviews that I am waiting to hear back on) too high?
Any feedback would be appreciated.",,notimportant,115,1286153966,2010-10-04 00:59:26+00:00,story,1754154,,103.0,, 2618,Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022),," This thread is similar to the monthly "Who is hiring?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads.
But this one is for people who don't want to work for money and are not looking for people who want to work for money. But for people who want to work together on cool projects.
For free to make the world better or to start a startup.
If you do, please post your project or your skills!
(Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30162767 )",,cloudsec9,115,1648875789,2022-04-02 05:03:09+00:00,story,30885956,,121.0,, 2619,What are your other favorite communities other than Hacker News?,,"Curious what other sites you use to get your news and daily geek fix from.
More interested in communities where everyone can participate. Forums, etc.
Not necessarily news sites.
For me I get most of the value from HN from what you guys have to say.",,burtonator,115,1558974014,2019-05-27 16:20:14+00:00,story,20023209,,99.0,, 2620,How do you memorize things you read?,,"— especially if they're technical you don't use them regularly at work?
For example, I don't work in finance (got the degree but my grades were abysmal), but I have a great deal of interest in the field, so I bought the CFA and CAIA curriculum. As I read it I grasp it and answer provided problems with no difficulty. But when I return to the material a few months later, I may as well re-read the whole thing for the amount of detail I've retained.",,boppo1,115,1634046360,2021-10-12 13:46:00+00:00,story,28839573,,94.0,, 2621,What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?,,,,somid3,115,1468948317,2016-07-19 17:11:57+00:00,story,12123055,,117.0,, 2622,What's your learning strategy?,,"What's your strategy for retaining knowledge from lectures, papers, textbooks, talks, etc?
Specifically, 1) Do you take notes? 2) Do you compile/rewrite notes? 3) Does spaced repetition work for you? 4) Do you have a methodology for extracting common themes/patterns across topics?
Thanks!",,iamlucaswolf,115,1644759060,2022-02-13 13:31:00+00:00,story,30321632,,90.0,, 2623,Why are ISO standards so expensive?,,"Or, why are they not free?
Many times during my professional career I've wanted to read the underlying standard for a product or a system, and I can't ever be bothered to cough up the ~100 CHF they seem to demand. As a result I've never actually read a standard.",,spiffistan,115,1560434107,2019-06-13 13:55:07+00:00,story,20174847,,86.0,, 2624,Any high frequency trading hackers,,"What are the current challenges in high frequency trading?
Can anyone suggest me few tasks [like implement foo algorithm], so that I can directly jump into those tasks during my free time",,astroguy,114,1290902421,2010-11-28 00:00:21+00:00,story,1946217,,58.0,, 2625,"I'm just a programmer worried about climate change, how can I help?",,"Hello everyone.
Since I was a teenager I've been worried about climate change, this led me to reduce my CO2 emissions, consumerism, and waste as much as possible; I do the best I can to not use my car, plastic bags, straws or bottles, re-use water and many other actions that I think can help.
However, every couple months I still read a new article stating that we are even closer than we thought to the point of no-return, even a few say we are already past it.
As a father I'm really worried about my children's future, and cannot avoid feeling overwhelmed by the fact that even if I do my best I just cannot fight against huge corporations that does not want to do the best they can to help climate change.
A couple days ago I read this http://carbon.ycombinator.com/ in HN's frontpage and got amazed about such creative and smart solutions, and cannot stop wondering what can I do to proactively help any of those, or any other idea, become true and help to repair the damage.
Sadly I'm just a Software Engineer and I feel that I cannot help as, for example, a Genetic Engineer to make those ideas become true. I'm not a genius, nor a millionaire philanthropist, neither a clever startup founder.
Is there anything I, a normal person, can do to actually help?
Thank you for reading me.",,y3k,114,1540850838,2018-10-29 22:07:18+00:00,story,18332012,,94.0,, 2626,How to stay focused and motivated working from home?,,"Any tips on how to stay focused and motivated while working at home?
I'm having a hard time finding motivation when working remotely. There are days when it is hard staying motivated working remotely or just spending so many hours of your day at home. Does anyone here feels the same?",,SwEEpCollidE,114,1614873269,2021-03-04 15:54:29+00:00,story,26343950,,80.0,, 2627,What are some other general link aggregators aside from HN?,,"I know of lobsters, reddit, and metafilter.",,hidden-spyder,114,1632416859,2021-09-23 17:07:39+00:00,story,28632002,,62.0,, 2628,How do you keep your programming motivation up?,,"When I graduated Uni few years back i was very interested and excited about programming and would constantly work on side projects. Now after having worked for a few companies, it almost completely killed my motivation and interest in programming. Working on boring, crappy projects for a living is just killing me, and you never know until you get on the job. How do you deal with this?",,shetill,114,1568135011,2019-09-10 17:03:31+00:00,story,20930439,,130.0,, 2629,What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?,,"I'm familiar with the rfs page, but I'm curious what HN thinks about trends/opportunities for solving problems. Could be massive problems or just low hanging fruit.
Maybe this thread could be a lifting off point for a startup - in which case I'd consider it a success :)",,Beefin,114,1566917653,2019-08-27 14:54:13+00:00,story,20810184,,142.0,, 2630,What happened to Facebook graph search?,,I recall a few years ago being able to create really meanifull and helpfull queries on facebook like:
Friends of friends who like mountain biking and live in New Zealand
However it seems that facebook's search has been dumbed down. Were the searches too computationally intensive or abused in some form?
Any FB employees care to chime in as to what happened?,,_kyran,114,1473339496,2016-09-08 12:58:16+00:00,story,12452499,,35.0,, 2631,"Going to lead a struggling dev team in a different culture, now what?",,"I'm flying in a few days to a developing country to lead a team of software developers. They are struggling with a project and the deadline is close. I accepted this contract because I like the country, the CEO and want to push myself to a first experience software lead.
One reason to bring me in is to implement good software development practices to the team. They are seriously lacking on this aspect: no test, a single staging dev server (no local dev env), no doc, inconsistent function and variable naming, the list goes on.
On the cultural aspect, the team is certainly stressed and I wouldn't be surprised if a few members will be defiant about seeing a Westerner joining the team that late in the project. Depending on how the CEO will introduce me to the team, I'm either the boss, am respected by default or another team member with no authority at all and can't rely on status to move things forward. Hierarchy is extremely important to this culture.
I can't just impose things: I need to sell good practices to the team so it becomes the natural next step to implement them.
It's going to be hard to implement a full software dev pipeline in such a small timeframe but I'd want them reach the point where:
- the project is shipped
- they understand why naming is important
- they modularize their code
- they do stuff for a reason (no meaningless SO paste)
- refactoring becomes a reflex
- mandatory code reviews, especially my own code. It seems to me like a good way to show the team how you refactor code properly, will make me meet and talk closely to the devs and will, hopefully, inject a sense of collective code ownership.
- making it very clear from the very beginning that *I* will be the one to make efforts to make myself understood: I know that some of them have a below average English level and are not comfortable to speak to foreigners
I am curious and I'm sure a lot of others are as to the experiences to a company merging into google's current work force vs joining as a single employee.,,chuhnk,114,1288375019,2010-10-29 17:56:59+00:00,story,1848227,,29.0,, 2634,What awesome stuff have you come across lately?,,"Digital, physical,.... metaphysical? Whatever it is, feel free to share it here.",,siruncledrew,114,1543963329,2018-12-04 22:42:09+00:00,story,18604211,,42.0,, 2635,Is there any open source tool for creating simple CRUD Apps?,,"Is there any tools that can make making CRUD apps easier ?
It should allow creating forms for data input and updates and it should be preferably open-source.
I am thinking more like metabase for creating dashboards, does any such tool exists ?
I am using Rails currently",,aswinmohanme,114,1590093482,2020-05-21 20:38:02+00:00,story,23264850,,51.0,, 2636,How do you currently solve authentication?,,There are a lot of different ways to do authentication these days. How do you currently solve for it?
Any tools you swear by? Anything you recommend? Anything you hate? Do you recommend writing it from scratch or using a framework or service?,,scottmotte,114,1580105172,2020-01-27 06:06:12+00:00,story,22157166,,99.0,, 2637,Did I make a mistake jumping on the homestead bandwagon?,,"I made the jump from the "big city" with a good tech job to the homestead a few years ago and have found as much as YouTube and Amazon have provided an incredible amount of information and resources, I find myself questioning my decision.
I am beginning to feel that regardless of modern innovations when push comes to shove...the truth is homesteading requires an almost soul crushing amount of hard work and fortitude for very small gains.
I can't help feel frustrated when I watch my friends in the city enjoy all of the comforts it offers and seemingly pull away from me both financially and socially.
So I am looking for either some hard truths or encouragement regarding this matter.
Please be honest and refrain from judging those who are! I am a big boy and can handle the truth.
Thank You",,sigmaprimus,114,1643718372,2022-02-01 12:26:12+00:00,story,30161578,,182.0,, 2638,What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?,,"Questions:
1: Which technologies are popular and what do people like about them? (To help someone deciding between). Seems like React frontend, or perhaps Vue? and Node being the popular backend?
2: Is there a site that keeps track of the various options for frontend and backend frameworks and how their popularity progresses?",,arikr,114,1477245960,2016-10-23 18:06:00+00:00,story,12774616,,82.0,, 2639,Has anyone ever got contacted from the “Who Wants to be Hired?” posts?,,"I got a minor in CS, MS in genetics and have been looking for an industry job for about a year now. I got an interview for a minimum wage Jr. Dev but didn't get the job. Post every time to the Who Wants to be Hired but never heard anything.",,kylebenzle,114,1583182843,2020-03-02 21:00:43+00:00,story,22468924,,91.0,, 2640,How do you have fun without alcohol?,,"I'm 23, me and all my friends are alcoholic. I just can't have fun without alcohol. Been looking for solutions to replace alcohol to have fun but I couldn't. How do you have fun without alcohol? Thanks",,viginti_tres,114,1641481588,2022-01-06 15:06:28+00:00,story,29824395,,194.0,, 2641,"With such fast changes in technology, how do you update your skillset?",,AI/VR and slowly lot more. I am getting quite anxious if my skillset might go obsolete.,,ak93,114,1484643898,2017-01-17 09:04:58+00:00,story,13416033,,88.0,, 2642,What are you working on?,,"This question comes from a great thread from a while back that I really enjoyed (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700662), so I thought with the new year here, it'd be a good time to ask again.
I'm still developing readthekanji.com, a site for helping Japanese students learn to figure out how to read kanji. It's been one of the best learning experiences, and I'm loving every minute of it.
So what projects are you currently working on, or planning for the new year? Is it a startup, or research perhaps? And how's it going?",,jellisjapan,114,1262711065,2010-01-05 17:04:25+00:00,story,1032699,,249.0,, 2643,Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell,,"It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.",,folli,114,1567803772,2019-09-06 21:02:52+00:00,story,20899863,,61.0,, 2644,What are some niche or alternative news aggregators worth checking out?,,"I know this question has been asked before, in one form or the next. But I'd like to make a push to expand my media diet. Are there any domain specific aggregators you use, or are there any promising new plays in the news aggregation space?",,crocodiletears,114,1565989214,2019-08-16 21:00:14+00:00,story,20719651,,60.0,, 2645,Are there any substantial examples of blockchain solving a real problem?,,"There are many startups and companies involved in blockchain technology.
I’m wondering what kind of ‘significant’ problems they solve and by this is not possible with regular technology.
I have a strong sense that blockchain technology is a solution that has yet to find a relevant problem to solve.
I think the same is true for cryptocurrencies but I would like to keep those out of the discussion, if possible.",,louwrentius,114,1587285377,2020-04-19 08:36:17+00:00,story,22914430,,182.0,, 2646,What Happened to Svbtle?,,I use https://svbtle.com as a blogging platform about once a month. The past couple of days it has returned a 503 [1]. Nothing came up on Twitter or Google about them having an outage. I don't know how to figure out what's going on. I've never considered backing any of my content up because of the svbtle Promise [2]. I'm hoping it comes back up so I can at least backup/migrate my content.
[1] https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/svbtle.com
[2] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LXB7R6sD2i4J:https://svbtle.com/promise+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-d,,tppiotrowski,114,1647709706,2022-03-19 17:08:26+00:00,story,30735505,,44.0,, 2647,Has anyone else gotten the 'Turning Red' ad after Firefox update?,,"A few days ago I updated Firefox to be greeted with a full page ad for 'Turning Red.' I don't understand how they think this is acceptable.
Beside the moral issues, this undermines all the reason I would update altogether. Now every time there is a update I have to wonder if I will have Disney shit shoved down my throat?",,pmalynin,114,1647204137,2022-03-13 20:42:17+00:00,story,30665493,,152.0,, 2648,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,114,1349091981,2012-10-01 11:46:21+00:00,story,4596379,,154.0,, 2649,Meeting overload – how many do you have daily/weekly?,,"Hi HN - curious to understand how much time engineering leaders spend in meetings. Thinking engineering managers, directors and VP's...
Extra credit: What's the longest duration meeting you regularly have? (For OP, it's a twice monthly 4 hour meeting with ALL product and engineering sr. mgrs and directors - FML)",,stackdestroyer,114,1583770961,2020-03-09 16:22:41+00:00,story,22526645,,108.0,, 2650,How do you version your data?,,"Superficially, It ought to be possible to use SemVer major.minor.patch (patch can change data and alter the schema but not extend the schema, minor can extend the schema in backward compatible ways like adding a column, and major version numbers are used for backward-incompatible changes), but in practice I don't see this being applied consistently, especially if data dumps are only occasional.
Is your data versioned? How?",,webmaven,114,1487554552,2017-02-20 01:35:52+00:00,story,13683539,,55.0,, 2651,"What feature would you want the web to “force” next, after HTTPS?",,"We've seen the push for HTTPS in recent years accelerate and become more and more aggressive (in a good way).
Browsers have arguably led this drive by notifying users that the pages they are viewing are "NOT SECURE", through the use of pad-lock icons in the URL bar or even notifications under textboxes (e.g. Firefox) [0]. Chrome, too, is driving this trend. And with users fearful of sending data over a "non secure connection", they'll be vocal enough to push website owners to fix this issue.
---
So, if you could decide: what feature or measure would you want to see adopted as quickly as the push to make all sites use HTTPS?
[EDIT: kudos if you describe how your new standard could be "forced", e.g. through a URL-bar icon, notifying users somehow, etc. How would you convince other developers and maintainers of large code-bases, websites, browser vendors, etc. that they should throw their support behind your initiative?]
Think ambitiously too -- imagine your proposed feature would have the same backing and urgency as we have with HTTPS, with browsers (for better or for worse) authoritatively "dictating" the new way of doing things.
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[0] http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/firefox-52.0-warning-insecure-login.png
[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/life-is-about-to-get-harder-for-websites-without-https/",,chiefofgxbxl,114,1499878409,2017-07-12 16:53:29+00:00,story,14754167,,269.0,, 2652,What are successful projects that started as prototyped hypotheses?,,"As I see it, there are 2 main ends of a spectrum when it comes to releasing projects that aim to solve problems:
- top-down approach: you state your problem, think it through, consider all related work in this problem space, think very hard, come up with multiple possible solutions, evaluate their trade-offs and implement the best one (a-la Hammock-Driven Design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc&t=1816s)
- rapid prototyping: you state your problem, come up with the easiest possible solution, test it, repeat (a-la Lean Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development)
I know some great examples of the first approach (Clojure, Datomic, maybe Git?), but I don't know that many successes of the second approach. Furthermore, my personal work experience leads me to believe that the second approach, at least in practice, leads to a lot of wasted effort, so I'm interested to know whether it is so or not.",,vlaaad,114,1575323959,2019-12-02 21:59:19+00:00,story,21687488,,43.0,, 2653,What tools do you use for data munging and merging?,,"Hello,
what tools do you use or know about, e.g. something like Talend DataPreparation (https://www.talend.com/products/data-preparation) ?
I found OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org), which is browser based like Talend DataPreparation.
It would be nice to have a "true" desktop application :)",,hellectronic,114,1578921023,2020-01-13 13:10:23+00:00,story,22034101,,72.0,, 2654,Which developer laptop should I buy?,,"Hey HN,
I am looking to buy a new laptop. My primary OS will be ubuntu. Which laptop would you guys recommend? My main criteria is that it should be light and work without any hiccups with ubuntu.
I've been looking around and it seems a lot of developers prefer Lenovo X220. The new carbon X1 looks good too. Does anyone have any experience with them?
Has anyone tried running Ubuntu (dual boot or otherwise) on a Macbook Air? Does it work without any issues?
Any of the new touchscreen laptops worth checking out?
My budget is around a 1000$ but I wouldn't mind spending some more if it means getting the best machine.
Thanks for your suggestions!",,tapan_pandita,114,1358716425,2013-01-20 21:13:45+00:00,story,5088260,,112.0,, 2655,Who has the best personal website/blog?,,"This thread on Twitter took off (https://twitter.com/pjrvs/status/1176945769598705664), so I'm curious to ask the same question on HN.",,pauljarvis,114,1569680026,2019-09-28 14:13:46+00:00,story,21100377,,32.0,, 2656,Best Stripe Alternatives?,,"Recently, we've been having a lot of problems with stripe (transactions are falling because some issue when passing the token/customer to stripe). We are considering moving to another provider. I've used stripe in all my previous companies.
Any recommendations on which payment gateway to use? We want to own the entire checkout experience.
I am interested in hearing your experiences :)
[Edit] We are trying to find the root cause of the issue, a processor that allows us to talk to an engineer would be great.
[Edit] Checkout works correctly on test mode, but fails when running payments live. Customers have used their cards on other websites using stripe and transactions went smoothly.",,ceffio,114,1584384756,2020-03-16 18:52:36+00:00,story,22596082,,50.0,, 2657,Can we write a programming language for biology?,,"I’m specifically talking about an abstracted language that compiles down to nucleic acids. I know projects like Cello exist to generate plasmids and genetic circuits, but do we need ML? Do we know any determiistic rules?",,hsikka,113,1546881496,2019-01-07 17:18:16+00:00,story,18847253,,51.0,, 2658,What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application?,,"I was wondering, as a soon to be startup founder, what opinions do all the hackers out there ;) have on the best ways to promote a brand new web application. Thank you all.",,nocivus,113,1224768846,2008-10-23 13:34:06+00:00,story,341138,,25.0,, 2659,Tool for self-hosting your own Facebook profile after downloading it?,,"I was playing with the idea of a Facebook profile cemetery. It would be a tool to structure your profile data after you download it from Facebook, in order to self-host it on a space you own. The idea would be to keep alive your profile history, but on your own website, for friends and family to still browse it, or just as a way to claim and still show data that's fundamentally yours to show around.
Before I try to figure out a way to do that and start building something, do you know any tool useful for this purpose?",,camillomiller,113,1545997491,2018-12-28 11:44:51+00:00,story,18776224,,42.0,, 2660,Any advice for someone getting out of prison after 18 years?,,"I met this person when I was in high school. He made a huge mistake in his early twenties and has almost finished paying for it (bank robber). He gets out of prison next week. I've kept in touch with him through letters and have been telling him that his only chance of financial independence is through writing code.
He's very familiar with business logic, as he was the MS Access dba for the prison factory. And about six months ago I sent him a few conceptual programming books that you all suggested he read. He paid for his own master's degree (distance learning program in organizational dynamics), and even started a phd--though prison officials would not let him conduct the necessary research to complete it (and he ran out of money).
He's about 40, has no family, and virtually no friends (outside of prison). Army veteran, so he has health insurance covered. I think he has about $1000 saved. I'll be giving him a laptop, smartphone, and mobile hotspot. He won't be able to leave Indiana for a few years (terms of supervised release).
Would really appreciate everyone's thoughts and advice. I'll compile all of it and make a list for him. Thanks.",,syedkarim,113,1359051119,2013-01-24 18:11:59+00:00,story,5111073,,147.0,, 2661,"Academics who switched to industry, what's your experience been like?",,"Academics: junior academic researchers including phd students, postdocs and early career profs.",,onuralp,113,1546309012,2019-01-01 02:16:52+00:00,story,18798498,,72.0,, 2662,How do I prepare for an interview for AMZ/GOOG/APL/FB?,,"Hi there,
I have a CS degree and I've been working as a software dev for about 2 years now for a smaller company doing backend stuff. I want to make the switch and get a job at one of the BIG 4 tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Google or FB).
Before I start applying I want to make sure I'm ready for the technical interview since I've heard the interviews are intense and I need several months to prepare for it. I'm up for the challenge and I want to do it, but I'm not sure where to start.
Where and how should I start getting ready for a technical interview? How much time would I need to be sufficiently prepared for one?
Thanks!
EDIT: Feel free to share links to Github repos, checklists and study plans, they are very helpful too!",,creek567,113,1515694131,2018-01-11 18:08:51+00:00,story,16126132,,65.0,, 2663,Do you do any mentoring outside of work?,,"Do you do any mentoring outside of work? If so, how did you get started?",,johnpython,113,1504266718,2017-09-01 11:51:58+00:00,story,15147606,,133.0,, 2664,Living overseas with a profitable online business,,I am a UK citizen with a profitable online business. I have no real responsibilities other than that and I would like to try living in a few different countries for a while before I have to settle in one place. My web business means I can work from anywhere as long as I have an Internet connection. Has anyone here in a similar situation tried this? What sort of hurdles did you face with visas? How was tax handled? Did earning your money online make things easier or complicate matters?,,SteveC,113,1286120141,2010-10-03 15:35:41+00:00,story,1752868,,95.0,, 2665,Does anyone use an alternative to a password manager?,,"As time goes on I find myself, both in my professional and my personal life, adding more and more usernames and passwords I need to remember. I have over a 100 accounts I need to keep track of and access typically access at a whim.
Since it's insecure to both use the same password over and over or to modify a single password per service (e.g. appending "fb" or "tw" etc to a password when using a different service) I have found that a password manager is literally the only thing working for me.
However, as break-ins become more and more frequent, I am concerned that my single point of failure, my password manager, could become compromised. I mean it seems almost inevitable, right? An attacker wouldn't even need to compromise the service or app you're using but your phone instead to gather the same data.
So I'm curious to those of you who use something other than a typically password manager: what do you use and has it been successful or a pain?",,BinaryIdiot,113,1514874799,2018-01-02 06:33:19+00:00,story,16050294,,241.0,, 2666,Paypal alternatives for vendors outside the US?,,"As a digital vendor who lives outside the US, I don't want to be at the mercy of PayPal's psychotic mood swings. What alternatives are out there to process payments and accept payouts from gumroad, paddle, Leanpub etc?",,aboutus,113,1425118680,2015-02-28 10:18:00+00:00,story,9123336,,63.0,, 2667,Who wants to be hired? (June 2021),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Searchers: try https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/.",,whoishiring,113,1622559684,2021-06-01 15:01:24+00:00,story,27355390,,219.0,, 2668,How do you stay sharp?,,"I feel like I've stopped rapidly learning after university and plateaued in my career in the last 1-1.5 years. How do you stay sharp and continue to climb in your career?
I'm a product manager at a tech company. I read. I work on side projects. I learn new programs like Sketch, take classes on Udemy and Coursera, but do not feel like I'm learning as much as I'd like. I'm not learning that much on the job anymore, just adding value to the company.
Update: wow, thanks for all the advice. I'll definitely read through all of it. But beyond advice, I'm also curious what do smart people (like you) do to continue growing in terms of activities.",,taigeair,113,1436803789,2015-07-13 16:09:49+00:00,story,9878991,,83.0,, 2669,Is it better to be good at many things or great at one thing?,,"Talking about the digital world of course. Young man here, should I learn one thing really good (like back-end programming) or go all out and learn as many things(front-end, 3d, photoshop, back-end etc..) as possible and be okay in all of them.",,matonias,113,1477553651,2016-10-27 07:34:11+00:00,story,12803450,,107.0,, 2670,What will become possible by 2025 in your field of expertise?,,"In your field of expertise, what's not possible now, but will become possible in 3-5 years? What about 10 years?",,vagab0nd,113,1574020388,2019-11-17 19:53:08+00:00,story,21559680,,125.0,, 2671,Schedule of a solo founder?,,If you are a solo founder would you share what your week looks like e.g. spend an afternoon on x?
I have productive days and days when I feel like I am scratching around for scraps of leads and SEO. I am currently doing 1k ARR so money is tight and I want to make the best use of my time.,,p0d,113,1581776850,2020-02-15 14:27:30+00:00,story,22335478,,38.0,, 2672,Looking for interns / entry level?,,"Is your company looking for interns for the summer?
Do you care more about talent than years of work experience?
Are you an inexperienced but ambitious hacker/designer/<anything which may be useful to a real company> looking for something more stimulating than mowing lawns?
This is your thread.
As always, if your position is location specific, please say so in the post.",,dschobel,113,1264905206,2010-01-31 02:33:26+00:00,story,1089829,,102.0,, 2673,Are there any software jobs in nature/animal conservation?,,"Hi HN. Lately I have been thinking about what I really want to do in life; what really brings meaning and joy to my life. I am currently finishing up my solo "start-up" project, and we will see where it goes, but in the mean time I have been doing some introspection and thinking about the future.
I am a software developer (mostly backend, some frontend and some data analytics). I personally don't really have any desire to work at FAANG. I also don't really have any desire to write CRUD for some generic company that pays well either.
I want to explore more meaningful avenues of work. Preserving nature, animals and their habitats, is one cause I have been thinking about. I know that most projects are very hands-on, requiring mostly hard labour or specialised research efforts. However, I've been wondering if there is a demand for software in these projects? Particularly in terms of specialised tooling and/or data analytics?
I suspect that most research projects don't have the funding to afford anything beyond the bare requirements. The same probably goes for government sponsored programmes; again, this is all speculation.
Does anyone have experience as a software dev in these fields? Where might one start looking ?
--
Because I am sure some people will mention it, yes, volunteering is an option. But money is an unfortunate living requirement in today's society (unless you plan on going off-grid entirely).",,petargyurov,113,1595593555,2020-07-24 12:25:55+00:00,story,23938635,,101.0,, 2674,Intermediate Python learning resources?,,"So I've completed Codecademy's course on Python, I have some experience fiddling with Flask and putting together random Python scripts. Generally, when I want to build something that I've never built before, I look up how to do it on Stackoverflow and manage to understand most of the things.
How can I take my knowledge to the next level?
Free learning resources are preferred. Hopefully ones you have used yourself when in my position.
Thanks!",,jesusx,113,1373115562,2013-07-06 12:59:22+00:00,story,5998750,,41.0,, 2675,I could use a few more Erlang/Lisp/Scala/Node.js/Haskell articles please,,"I just need a break from the daily startup froth.
I'm not asking for an Erlang Bomb of the front page, I'm just asking for more geeky articles to be posted on a more regular basis. :)",,iamelgringo,112,1272045896,2010-04-23 18:04:56+00:00,story,1288942,,15.0,, 2676,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2013),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,112,1370091567,2013-06-01 12:59:27+00:00,story,5803767,,154.0,, 2677,Where do you live?,,"I live in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I'd like to know where you live? :)",,hajrice,112,1249895172,2009-08-10 09:06:12+00:00,story,752262,,554.0,, 2678,Where are all the Rails jobs?,,"Hi Hacker News,
Rails programmer here -- I've been working with Rails since 2008 and I've been doing remote jobs for a living since then.
Lately I can't find any work at all with Rails, what's going on? What happened? Where did all the Rails jobs went?
I remember during 2008 doing multiples jobs at the same time, I used to get lots of offers, lots of interviews and gigs, etc, things have been really nice. Nowdays I barely get any interviews, and if I'm lucky to talk to someone, they ask for Node.js/Ember experience as well, etc.
Did all the jobs went to Node.js and other languages? Or I'm just doing something wrong?
It's really depressing accumulating all the knowledge and skills I got since then and not being able to use it or find more work. Even more depressing that I can't find work and my income depends on this.
Any suggestions or recommendations welcome. I'm only looking for remote work.
Sigh, please help. :-(",,grover_hartmann,112,1416633230,2014-11-22 05:13:50+00:00,story,8644822,,96.0,, 2679,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2012),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,112,1325419824,2012-01-01 12:10:24+00:00,story,3412901,,111.0,, 2680,Who is currently broke due to being in a startup?,,I am broke and in debt due to taking in 1/3 of my previous salary and having big delays to our v 1.0. I am married with 1 kid. My wife is footing some of the bill and I am on my fourth debt renewal. Wondering how people in the same situation are coping or getting by.,,twidlit,112,1281491077,2010-08-11 01:44:37+00:00,story,1593533,,84.0,, 2681,Know of a hacker in Cambridge or Boston who wants a bookstore?,,"I started Lorem Ipsum Books 9 years ago with the belief that bookstores were an important part of our community--and that they needed to innovate in order to survive.
Freshly out of graduate school at MIT the bookstore was started with the notion that integrating Internet-sales into a traditional brick-and-mortar bookstore was the way forward for small retailers. Rather than run from technology, we were going to embrace it to provide a new sales channel. With a group of friends I built this new way forward, creating Lorem Ipsum Books in Inman Square, Cambridge.
Lorem Ipsum benefited from a custom-coded inventory system that automatically listed our inventory for sale at other online partners like Amazon.com. It was fun to use, efficient, and worked. For awhile there, it looked like this dual-listing was the answer to bookstore's problems. Then supply-ballooned, demand remained the same, and prices dropped.
We tried many things, but were unable to get the store from red to black.
They just deleted our Wikipedia page, citing progress as being 'unremarkable'. Clearly something has to be done...
It's time to innovate again.
The bookstore needs fresh ideas, a radical change in thinking, and a reimagining of the role of the bookstore in the future. I don't want to shut the store down, but may be forced to. Instead, I'm looking to pass the store to other keepers--other innovators--hands.
I write to Hacker News to ask if anyone knows anyone in the Cambridge or Boston area that would be interested in this project?",,mankins,112,1353813314,2012-11-25 03:15:14+00:00,story,4827146,,104.0,, 2682,Good Career Alternatives for 50+,,"I'm in my 30's doing marketing and am starting to feel like the old man of the teams I work with. I look around and there is hardly anyone over 40 and no-one 50+ unless they hit executive level. The industry is about new technology and working long hours. While there are exceptions, generally it doesn't seem a good career to age in and I figure I have ~10 years...
..so as someone that likes to plan ahead. What do you think are good career options for the 50+? I've been trying to think of jobs were age is an advantage. The best I can think of is financial planning. Most people visit their planner when retirement is on their mind, so you'll likely be meeting people of a similar group and mindset. Whereas in this industry being 21 and enthusiastic wont go far with many older people.
What does HN think are good options?",,Gustomaximus,112,1485875233,2017-01-31 15:07:13+00:00,story,13531096,,75.0,, 2683,Why is PayPal's password length limit still a thing?,,With over 227 million active paypal accounts why is there seemingly no pressure on them to stop enforcing a password length limit?,,_drew_,112,1521478482,2018-03-19 16:54:42+00:00,story,16620016,,85.0,, 2684,Getting paid to work on open source full-time?,,"For those of you in the HN community that get paid to work on open source full-time or almost full-time, while still making a decent income, how do you do it?",,malandrew,112,1383428235,2013-11-02 21:37:15+00:00,story,6660923,,67.0,, 2685,What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?,,My favorite tool is a tool within an app called SuperMemo know as plan. [1]. It’s pretty great but lacks mobile support and syncing so I’m interested in knowing what other people use.
[1] https://help.supermemo.org/wiki/Plan,,rajlego,112,1635094061,2021-10-24 16:47:41+00:00,story,28979602,,125.0,, 2686,How do I 3x my performance?,,"Generally, I'm not doing everything I want to do in my life, and I'm wondering how other people manage to do all the things.
After a conversation here with another HN user[0], I'd like to ask high-performers how it is they do what they do.
First, what do I mean by "high-performer": someone who is doing what seems like two or more full-time tasks during their everyday life. In the case of [0] the user in question is a dad, full time at school, and has a full time job.
Second, by "how you do what you do" I mean: when it comes down to the point of action how do you move into an action? When does the choice happen? Did you offload that to a list a week prior? How do you handle feeling overwhelmed? Do you even have a sense of overwhelm when moving in to an arbitatrary task? Do you feel exhausted or mentally non-functional with any frequency? What does your sleep, food, and exercise routine look like? Do you meditate?
I just want to know if I'm lacking something fundamental: something physical (chemical imbalance? gut microbiome?), some lack of character development (do I lack "grit"? am I undisciplined?), or something else entirely.
In the case of the conversation in [0], the user has some external motivation; having faced death by cancer, he now wants to live his best life possible. Is this something I can apply to myself? I ponder death on a regular basis (2 to 4 nights a week, not in a sense of suicide, but considering my own mortality), and that doesn't seem to have the same sort of effect.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357028",,all2,112,1552339190,2019-03-11 21:19:50+00:00,story,19362928,,62.0,, 2687,How can I prevent myself from being doxxed?,,"I imagine my practices are similar to many other HN readers. I follow some privacy best practices but don't generally seek anonymity online. You can google me and find my social media accounts, some articles I've written or for which I was interviewed, and figure out what city I live in. That is to say, my online persona is not entirely locked down.
Let's say I wanted to prevent myself from being doxxed. What steps could I take to make it more difficult?",,cardamomo,112,1599358225,2020-09-06 02:10:25+00:00,story,24388442,,115.0,, 2688,Does anyone know of the whereabouts of the source code of FlexOS/386?,,"My goal is to get FlexOS open sourced. - Does anyone know of a copy of the source code? I contacted the designer and author of much of FlexOS and he does not know where the source code is.I think it would be fun to see if FlexOS/386 can be brought back to life.
FlexOS was a powerful and innovative operating system from Digital Research, the early 1990's.
Here is a Byte Magazine review of it from back then: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bootrino/vintage_software/master/1991_01_BYTE_FLEXOSS_MUSCLE.pdf
Here's the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexOS
Maybe someone at WindRiver knows where the source code of FlexOS is? The wikipedia article above says:
>>>>When Novell decided to abandon further development of the various Digital Research operating systems such as Multiuser DOS (a successor to Concurrent DOS) and Novell DOS (a successor to DR DOS), they sold FlexOS off to the Santa Clara, California-based Integrated Systems, Inc. (ISI) for US$3 million in July 1994.[22] The deal comprised a direct payment of half this sum as well as shares representing 2% of the company. The company already had pSOS+, another modular real-time multitasking operating system for embedded systems, but they continued to maintain FlexOS as well.[22] FlexOS version 2.33 was current as of May 1998 and with FlexOS 2.34 to be released soon after with added support for faster CPUs, 64 MB of memory, EIDE and ATAPI CDROM drives.
>>>>Integrated Systems was bought by their competitor Wind River Systems in February 2000.",,andrewstuart,112,1642531182,2022-01-18 18:39:42+00:00,story,29983702,,34.0,, 2689,do you feel Google search result quality has gone down?,,"Yesterday I was surprised to find myself trying Yahoo search because I couldn't get satisfactory search results in Google. It was the first time in years. I started thinking about this, and I realized that in the past few months I haven't been getting particularly good results from Google. I don't get spam or anything, but a lot of times I don't get useful results.
The thing is, I'm not sure if it's because I do a lot of very specialized stuff these days, or because the search quality really has gone down. Consider these two examples:
Search for ""Linux asynchronous IO"". You'll get a lot of articles, but most are four years old (which is an eternity in the Linux world). These results aren't very good - posix AIO is implemented in userspace threads, and io_submit and friends don't work in many cases. Which cases? Hard to tell - I couldn't find any information in the results no matter how long I searched. I couldn't find any benchmarks either.
Perhaps it's because there is no good info on this on the web (hard to believe). So let's try something else - search for ""concurrent hashmap in C"". After hours of searching and playing with keywords, I got almost no useful results (other than Intel's libs, but not too much info on that either). It's difficult to believe that there are no good implementations out there.
So, is it the specialized nature of my searches, or is it Google? What do you think?",,coffeemug,112,1256558813,2009-10-26 12:06:53+00:00,story,902999,,109.0,, 2690,Good countries for American expats,,"Looking to move a family to a different country for a few years, that may lead to permanent residence in that country.
What has your experience been?
What is your particular career?
What were your moving expenses?
How much is your rent or did you buy?
Where did you move to/from?
How are the schools?
Have you become fluent in the native language and was the language barrier difficult to overcome?
How long have you lived in this country? Are you a permanent resident or do you plan on moving back to the US?
What was the process like to become a permanent resident?
Did you have to already have a job when you moved to that country?
What's the cost of living compared to where you moved from? Has your quality of life improved or not? How and why?",,gregd,112,1405693054,2014-07-18 14:17:34+00:00,story,8053134,,121.0,, 2691,What startups were refused from YC but became successful?,,"Alternatively, what startups did the YC partners failed to see become successful, but did so?",,mw67,112,1429613581,2015-04-21 10:53:01+00:00,story,9413204,,71.0,, 2692,What's preventing us from achieving seamless video communication?,,"Better video compression? faster network speeds? alternative network protocols?
With all due respect to all the amazing folks working in the domain, as a person working outside the field, the quality of even 1:1 video communication still seems far from ideal.
Wanted to understand a bit what the main underlying hurdles are. Folks say there's less room for improvements with compression after H.264. I'm not sure how much network speeds are a factor given things can get botchy even with wired high bandwidth connections. The audio artifacts definitely impacts the perceived quality so not sure if there's room for improvement here technically.",,orangep,112,1557638394,2019-05-12 05:19:54+00:00,story,19890301,,62.0,, 2693,"People who did coding boot camps, what did you think?",,"What were some of the positives or negatives? Why did you initially enter, and did you feel like it gave you whatever tools you felt were necessary?",,anthony-j-c,112,1483725832,2017-01-06 18:03:52+00:00,story,13338539,,89.0,, 2694,"Has the ""Who's Hiring"" thing worked out for anyone?",,,,theboywho,112,1370171504,2013-06-02 11:11:44+00:00,story,5808063,,92.0,, 2695,any of the HNers have kids & work from home?,,"This is probably irrelevant to 98% of HN so apologies in advance. I'm looking to speak with any female hackers/programmers etc who have kids and work from home. (I figure HNers are more likely to beat there own path, so might find what I'm looking for here...)
I am currently working 9-5, 4 days a week. My 18 month old is in nursery (daycare). I am increasingly feeling that I am doing the wrong thing. Little tales of things going on at nursery, little snippets of an 'upbringing' I don't want her to have.
I am considering ditching the job, but cannot afford to NOT work because my partner doesn't earn a fat lot, thus need to work from home/freelance. I am a competent PHP developer with 10 years experience (5 hobby plus 5 professional). Can I make this work for me?
Any guidance or advice most welcome....
ETA: just to add - what complicates matters slightly is that we're in the process of buying our own house. Everything should be in place by the end of May. This will reduce our monthly outgoings though (currently paying much more for an old rental cottage, v. expensive to heat). I have about £7k in savings.
ETA2: removed 'female' from the title - thinking about it, I'm sure anyone working from home with kids will have useful input!",,Jem,112,1305118327,2011-05-11 12:52:07+00:00,story,2536213,,97.0,, 2696,Who wants to be hired? (September 2015),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
I always thought this was a bold idea and yet I never heard anything about it after was this one comment from Sam Altman's AMA:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2hwr02/i_am_sam_altman_lead_investor_in_reddits_new/ckwqv8x/
Did it not pass regulation or did they just abandon the idea?
Gigster also made similar claims and I have not heard anything since: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/01/gigster-fund/",,jimhi,112,1590388825,2020-05-25 06:40:25+00:00,story,23298611,,51.0,, 2698,"Laid off today for the first time, anything to be wary of? Advice?",,"Hello HN, posting under a throwaway since I've been around for quite a while.
Long story short, I got laid off this morning for the first time ever (without cause). The reason for the termination was cited as an internal re-org. Truth be told I was planning on quitting at 3pm during my bi-weekly one-on-one with the CTO, so I'm taking it in stride/happy.
I've worked here just under a year. The company is paying me 4 weeks salary as severance, with medical benefits ending 1 week after pay ends. This is contigent upon my signing a release which essentially ensures I maintain confidentiality and prevents me about the company publicly, due one week today.
Just posting to ask if there's anything I should be wary of, and if there's any advice from people who've been through a similar situation, thanks!",,layoffthrowaway,112,1484288816,2017-01-13 06:26:56+00:00,story,13388865,,93.0,, 2699,How come so many of you know about stocks/finance ?,,"Do a lot of you work in the field or have degrees in business??
Whenever there is a discussion on stocks, HFT, economy, a lot of seem to know about it (more then just a wikipedia search or passing interest...which I would say I have)",,Maven911,112,1276220757,2010-06-11 01:45:57+00:00,story,1422453,,106.0,, 2700,Best Developer Linux Laptop?,,"What's a good laptop to install Linux (Ubuntu) on? I'm looking to buy a new machine for work. System76 seems to make good laptops. Does anyone have experience with them? Is there anything else you would recommend?
People seem to rave about their MacBook Pros. Is it easy to make the switch from Ubuntu? Do I easily get all the software I'll need (svn, git, django, python, vim)?
Essentially I think, my question is, is the experience on a MBP so much better, that it's worth having to learn the MacOS platform?",,khandelwal,111,1286975130,2010-10-13 13:05:30+00:00,story,1786930,,272.0,, 2701,Why do I have to struggle with everything?,,"I am 29.5 yrs old and was born in poor family. First it was education , paying college fees. I had to work since 16 part-time for paying fees. Then landed a job. Worst professional environment one could imagine. Changed job last year. After marathon search ,apply, reject,re-apply landed a opportunity after 3 months. In personal life also I am yet to find girlfriend. Never had one. When I look at my colleagues, friends I feel like many of them have it quite easy. College, job, personal life but its me who has to try ( or repeat process 1000 times) for simple things. Why this is so? Its just makes me frustrated.",,jcrknow,111,1428262500,2015-04-05 19:35:00+00:00,story,9325068,,84.0,, 2702,How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?,,"I recently signed up for Comcast Xfinity internet (only one available in my area), and ever since I signed up I receive marketing emails almost daily that do not have an unsubscribe link because they are marked as "service related emails".
I've unsubscribed from every single email preference in my account, and even went so far to confirm with their support agents that I did it correctly.
However, almost daily I receive emails about "See what your wifi can do" or "Don't forget about these new features" etc, that are clearly marketing and not service related. Browsing forums online it seems there are countless others who have the same complaints as me.
So, my main question is, how can a company get away with this when it is blatantly in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act? Is it truly just too difficult for any individual to hire a lawyer and go up against Goliath? Does the CAN-SPAM act have any loopholes I'm not aware of that would allow this? I'm genuinely curious to this, and do not want to come off as just an angry customer ranting.",,jc_811,111,1619047227,2021-04-21 23:20:27+00:00,story,26896611,,44.0,, 2703,"Feedback on Mixest, my HTML5 ironic indie Pandora",http://mixest.com,,,DTrejo,111,1278120023,2010-07-03 01:20:23+00:00,story,1482928,,107.0,, 2704,"Software development after 40, how do you keep the fire?",,"Experience is a nice thing, most of the time. We can see through the BS and concentrate on important things to make up for a slower brain, less stamina and decreasing memory, to a point where I think I am as productive, maybe even more, than I was 20 years ago.
The negative consequence of experience though, in my case, is I'm less excited about new ideas, more skeptic in general, which makes it more difficult to find the motivation that is needed to build something really significant.
And I mean, it's not very surprising, if you haven't made it big at 40+, that means you worked on a lot of failed projects, that makes it harder to believe you can change that.
Maybe some older folks here on HN, but younger people comments welcome too of course, could share their point of view on that question?",,m3mpp,111,1534776361,2018-08-20 14:46:01+00:00,story,17800321,,100.0,, 2705,Who's making $300k to $1m as a cloud engineer?,,"This article touts a pay range of $300k and up for "cloud computing engineers." Are you making this much consistently (not just from one-time stock pops), and doing what?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/technology/tech-companies-new-and-old-clamor-to-entice-cloud-computing-experts.html
"Many of them are the kind of jobs that now pay $300,000 to $1 million a year."
"With five years of experience, $300,000 along with a range of stock or job opportunities..."
"LinkedIn or Facebook can offer an engineer with a few years’ experience a package close to $1 million"",,sgustard,111,1457361958,2016-03-07 14:45:58+00:00,story,11239132,,94.0,, 2706,Who's Hiring? (Summer Edition),,There hasn't been a jobs thread in a little while. What are you looking for and where are you?
Edit: Only one entry so far from outside the US. Any others?,,SandB0x,111,1280418737,2010-07-29 15:52:17+00:00,story,1557972,,134.0,, 2707,What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?,,"Elaborating, what are some problems that were being experienced by one industry or domain but were solved elsewhere and were adopted by the industry plagued by the problem? Even better if the answer was really obvious for the people who solved it or solving it involved cross-domain knowledge.
For context, I recently heard having a breadth of knowledge (along with depth in chosen areas) is really helpful in problem solving and I'm looking for concrete examples for the same.",,themantri,111,1603106248,2020-10-19 11:17:28+00:00,story,24825248,,90.0,, 2708,Is there VC appetite for defense related startups?,,"I was wondering if there is VC appetite for defense based tech companies.
We are in advanced talks (hence the throw away) with M&A teams of various of the top defense contractors for our startup, but me as CTO can't help but wonder if a VC model for us going forward wouldn't also be a good fit. Traditionally VC's shied away from hardware and defense startups but with the funding round of Anduril perhaps this is changing.
Katherine Boyle of A16Z also had something to say about how VC investment and Defense in the past didn't make sense, but that things could be changing [1].
The second problem with VC's is it is notoriously difficult to get in contact with the correct person, thus the proposal below. Dang let me know if this is not allowed please.
If there are any VC's perhaps interested you can contact me here
throwawaydefence at gmail dot com
and I can send you our prospectus / NDA agreement.
[1] - https://www.defensenews.com/smr/cultural-clash/2020/01/30/the-math-doesnt-make-sense-why-venture-capital-firms-are-wary-of-defense-focused-investments/
Edit - To address some of the comments below, this is a well established team (~50), with a proven track record, many years in the industry and a well developed sales pipeline, relationships and technology base.
So not just an idea or proposal thing, startup was maybe the wrong characterization but since this is HN...
The deal is (I believe) well above the typical SBIR grants threshold.",,throwawaydef,111,1645191257,2022-02-18 13:34:17+00:00,story,30385479,,47.0,, 2709,How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing bug?,,"Why do we need to search source-code?
1. Quickly learn the domain and context of the application
2. After adding a feature, we should aware if we broke anything (assume you work with code that doesn't have test-case), it helps even to search testcases
3. Find similar code and ensure you are improving quality of the overall similar code (not just fixing current bug)
4. Understand how application behaves when there are production issues.
You as a developer, what are all the ways you search source-code before working/fixing feature or bug? Do you use any CLI tools other than grep. I have used OpenGrok, But few times it is not maintained by me or other developers.
Below is my steps.
1. Read the relevant code, and know certain domain keyword, variable names (inclusive class/method/function)
2. Use the bitbucket/GitHub/git search
3. Use the grep
4. Use the git-grep
Seems like this is (Especially CLI based search) very valuable skill to have. Do you have any tips/tools for other developers?",,mohanmca,111,1648382384,2022-03-27 11:59:44+00:00,story,30819579,,82.0,, 2710,Which skills are essential for a developer to join a blockchain startup?,,"I don't know if there is any future for blockchain or not, but there might be and I am currently a bit bored of what I've been working with so far, so I thought it might be interesting to work with something as new and undeveloped as blockchain just to get that "hacker" feeling back, which I had when I started with web programming back then.
UPD: could you keep your sarcasm to yourself, please? It's not a place to discuss how much of a bubble everything blockchain-related is.",,poushkar,111,1512658666,2017-12-07 14:57:46+00:00,story,15870468,,57.0,, 2711,good math books,,"Dear HN, I need some insight from you.
While I have very solid foundation when it comes to algorithms, unfortunately my math skills are kind of rusty and lacking. I have big holes in my math education, partly because of bad luck with teachers in high-school/college. And the math I learned, I'm starting to forget because of lack of practice.
My domains of interest are data-mining, NLP and AI. These are domains where knowledge of mathematics is required to understand the underlying phenomenons. I mean, I got to some level of knowledge, but it is based on experimentation, empiric conclusions and cargo-culting.
Going to a local college for lectures is not an option.
I want some recommendations on good math books on: calculus, discrete math, probabilities, statistics
I'd also like to start from a comfortable level, so I prefer books that at least start with an introduction of the prerequisites.",,bad_user,111,1245416391,2009-06-19 12:59:51+00:00,story,665029,,46.0,, 2712,Are you contracting on the side (while working full time)?,,I'd like a secondary source of income. I like the idea of not having all my eggs in one basket. But I'm not sure there are any side jobs I could get that wouldn't require full days. Have any of you done this. If so how and what was it like?,,xupybd,111,1578368716,2020-01-07 03:45:16+00:00,story,21976630,,59.0,, 2713,Plant a Trillion Trees Campaign?,,"It seems one of the few opportunities to meaningfully help the planet and avoid the worst of climate change is to plant trees (1).
After learning this, I googled "donate a tree" and "plant a tree" and was met with dozens of results for nonprofits, many of which I had never heard of.
Which of the nonprofits was the best run? Which was the most efficient at converting donations into trees? Where were the trees being planted to ensure the planting was protected and sustainable?
My idea is to create a simple campaign website, trilliontrees.org, that serves as a rallying call to plant trees and that compares and provides guidance on the myriad of nonprofits involved in planting trees.
Anyone interested to partner on this?
(1) https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/04/world/forests-capture-two-t...",,mjfern,111,1562325943,2019-07-05 11:25:43+00:00,story,20361651,,70.0,, 2714,who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?,,,,sylvinus,111,1339330524,2012-06-10 12:15:24+00:00,story,4090845,,164.0,, 2715,Resources to encourage teen on becoming computer engineer?,,"Howdy HN
A teenager I am close with would like to become a computer engineer. Whet resources, books, podcasts, camps, or experiences do you recommend to support this teen's endeavor?",,tomrod,111,1600521225,2020-09-19 13:13:45+00:00,story,24527203,,93.0,, 2716,How to deal with internet addiction?,,"I find it hard to keep off from mindlessly browsing the web because I'm so dependent on it as a web developer.
It's become second nature to Ctrl+T and 'fa' for facebook, 'news' for HackerNews, 'red' for reddit, etc. that I barely notice I'm doing it.
I also regularly stay up another hour instead of going to sleep, "to catch up" on things that really don't matter or I can view tomorrow.",,danr4,111,1547996986,2019-01-20 15:09:46+00:00,story,18953356,,75.0,, 2717,Who was the most competent person you worked or collaborated with?,,"Who was it that left an impression on you and potentially influenced the way you work? What did they do, how did they work, what habits did they have to earn that distinction?
Don't necessarily mean technical work, anything that would cause you to think of them.",,yan,111,1631289096,2021-09-10 15:51:36+00:00,story,28483242,,13.0,, 2718,Modern web design resources?,,"What are some modern web design sites/resources?
It appears nettuts has some good stuff, as does themeforest... most of my searching led to crappy, outdated resources, worlds inferior to these. (I'm looking at you, SitePoint...) Where do I go for the good stuff?",,superuser2,111,1278773343,2010-07-10 14:49:03+00:00,story,1503710,,36.0,, 2719,Should I consider a startup based on scraped data?,,"A friend who is a sales associate within this particular industry complained to me about how hard and time consuming it can be to search for a particular item. He said if I could build a search engine that searches the top 500-1000 sites for this industry, it could be 'really' valuable. My target market for this search engine would be the owners and associates of the sites I would be scraping.
The data I would be scraping are images and its associated description. I would only store and display thumbnail images. Without an image, the description would be fairly worthless. For each image/item, a link would lead directly to the original website.
One business model I am considering, and the most obvious, is a subscription based web app.
While at PyCon last month I showed a few people a prototype. One person, an employee at Google, said, "Be careful." He was alluding to potential copyright and legal issues. "But," I said, "I'm not really doing anything different than Google." He countered, "Google has lots of lawyers." Ahhhh, message heard loud and clear!
I understand, in general, copyright and fair use [0]. But, I don't want to be writing letters to the owners of the original content arguing this fact let alone wind up in court. What advice or experiences can you share that might helpful?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use",,un-devmox,111,1430841674,2015-05-05 16:01:14+00:00,story,9493206,,70.0,, 2720,How to talk smart?,,"I am always intrigued by people who talk smart. This could be James Bond, lead actor in 'the spy' movie ( forgot his name) or Kevin Spacey in HoC and many more... My current boss has somewhat similar quality about talking. All these people speak slowly and clearly, feels like they are doing calculated talk but always make lasting impression. Its not about winning or losing argument rather making the point, make other party think twice before they utter any word.
What can i do to aquire smart talk skill? Any books , podcasts I can listen to?
This skill is largely possessed by spys, diplomats, political leaders, executives but I cant find enough resouces to attain such skill and master it.
As always, obligatory thanks in advance for all responses!",,youngtolearn,111,1431311141,2015-05-11 02:25:41+00:00,story,9522379,,82.0,, 2721,Is back end dev generally easier than front end?,,"I've been a "front end" guy since 2007. The pool of jobs I can fit gets smaller every year because I'm not a very good modern front end guy.
I'm not good at animations, responsive layouts, pixel perfection, es6
The simplest task now so complicated, many edge cases.
Things get deprecated (or sunsetted) so fast.
When I open the chrome inspector there's 10 new features which I ignore. It's too much.
I spend so much time googling obscure npm error to fix my local dev environment with each OS or package update.
I lost confidence to apply for jobs because I don't have the will to study the things they will test me for.
Has anyone made that move from front to back, do you feel it's easier?",,mouzogu,111,1637743927,2021-11-24 08:52:07+00:00,story,29328111,,174.0,, 2722,How does your team handle knowledge documentation?,,"We are currently going through a rethink of our documentation (not for customers, just our internal processes, tools, etc.). Currently we have a docs directory in the root of our project repository which holds a bunch of markdown files, but we are beginning to grow out of this. Keeping links accurate and update to date isn't too much of a challenge, it's the barrier to entry. Filing a PR to make a minor documentation change is just too much. We could have the documentation in a separate repository, but if we are going to be making this leap, we want to be sure we are using the right tools for the jobs.
The way we see it, we are going to end up requiring at least 2 different types of documentation. The first is our deep documentation of our tools. This explains exactly what it is, how it works, etc. and is designed for people who want to work on these sorts of tools, not with them. The second is a quick fire Q&A. "I'm having issue X, how do I fix it?" Think StackOverflow.
So, what does your team do for these challenges? How effective is your solution? What do you think would be better?",,dalemyers,111,1509990523,2017-11-06 17:48:43+00:00,story,15637194,,90.0,, 2723,"After 20 years of programming, what do I do now?",,"I've been programming for 20 years, the last 12 in ASP.net webforms (I know, I know). In every job, I've been told I was the top dev at the company. I kept my current job because of the money and flexibility they gave me to stay, but now that working here isn't worth it anymore, I'm feeling that remaining in this job has soured my career. I'm not sure where to go from here.
I've held management positions, and while my projects were successful, I'm not interested there. The monotonous consulting-services work I've been doing for the last 5+ years hasn't lent itself to exploring new technologies, so I don't have the breadth for an architect job. I've tried the solo-business route, and while my app is loved and has sold copies, it's only breaking even and won't sustain me now.
Almost all of the jobs I am interested in (remote or product-based) want newer technology. SQL Server's been a big part of my entire career, but it feels like that is losing relevance with the ORMs/EFs of the world. I've only worked with MVC on personal projects, but even if I brushed up on it, I'm guessing managers would feel I am an expensive hire without any advantage a junior dev who worked with MVC their whole career.
Do I try to build a MVC portfolio, since that seems to be the popular MS technology? Or work on a JS portfolio (my web style today is already JS calling JSON services) and try to rebuild myself on the front end?
Do I take a big pay cut and try to rebuild my skills with a company open to a senior dev without the exact experience?
Do I try to gamble and find myself a newer technology to reinvent myself into, hoping it sticks around?
Or am I just at the natural point in my career where I'm supposed to be working for another services company?
Anyone refactor themselves into something new at a similar point in their career? I'd love to hear your advice. RefactorCareer@gmail.com in case you have any private advice.",,RefactorCareer,110,1440079665,2015-08-20 14:07:45+00:00,story,10091903,,82.0,, 2724,Been writing code for 40 years and can't get hired,,"Merry Christmas to all!
I would like to ask the advice of those who have possibly been in my situation:
I am over 50, and have been developing software since the late 70’s. Over the years I switched from being a full timer at Hughes Aircraft in LA to a part time consultant in Hawaii. Things went pretty well for decades, but after a family loss I lost interest in work for several years.
Since then, and after my skills no doubt became somewhat outdated, it is absolutely impossible to find work. The continuous news articles about the “great quit” where many folks are leaving work, as well as the claims that hirers are having great difficulty finding employees seem to be fictional from my POV.
Over the past few years I have been only interviewed once or twice a year by anyone who seemed interested, most notably Google and Facebook, but neither decided I was a worthy hire. At this point it seems impossible to get even a junior developer job! The only interest I ever see is from recruiters overseas, who seem to be matching my resume up with job listings by keyword only.
Does anyone have any advice for a developer who has been writing (and delivering) code for over four decades on how to find a job? How do I make someone believe they are hiring a developer who can deliver? I know it sounds ridiculous, but that’s the situation I am in!",,therealdavesky,110,1640542051,2021-12-26 18:07:31+00:00,story,29694739,,186.0,, 2725,Books Similar to Code by Charles Petzold?,,"Code is an awesome book, especially for someone like me who never went to college. I am looking for similar books not just in Computer Science but in other fields as well. Please suggest.",,gautamsomani,110,1639243639,2021-12-11 17:27:19+00:00,story,29522588,,21.0,, 2726,Why were a few rank numbers black on the homepage?,,"The HN homepage has five ranks colored black rather than gray. Currently this is "Learning how to ride a bike", "Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place", "How to train your decision-making AIs", "Carolina Gold was once the most popular rice grown in America (2019)", and "Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed". It seems to follow the story, e.g. the bike story was #12 before and now it's #13: the color moved with it. They do not have in common a recent/old submission time, high/low score, or high/low comments.
The HTML difference is `<font color="black">$rank</font>` being inserted around the rank.
It also shows up in incognito mode with the same ones colored black, so I don't think it's account-related.
(Some rambling follows, I'm not actually serious about a secret hidden meaning, just a toy idea. Most likely it's something like low comment downvotes to attract attention to the story.)
My first thought was that the numbers had a hidden meaning as a puzzle or respect, maybe someone died who invented the equivalent of a Fibonacci sequence. Looking in the OEIS, 1,4,6,12,18 did not mean anything obvious (http://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C4%2C6%2C12%2C18). Then I noticed the numbers changed... but not pseudorandomly, but with the stories, so it seems that the numbers are irrelevant. Is it about the title? If you read the first title character of each, you get LCHPL. If you read the 1st character of the first, the 2nd character of the 2nd, etc., you get LAWKN. Not yet seeing that hidden meaning.
Edit: To everyone saying a hot indicator, I thought of that and it doesn't seem to make sense. E.g. go to page 3 and observe this one being black:
> 4 points by [user] 7 hours ago
There are currently (22:47 UTC) actually 3 black on the third page, which seems a bit inconsistent with what I saw earlier (earlier: first page had 4, next page had 1, next page had 0).",,lucb1e,110,1639261170,2021-12-11 22:19:30+00:00,story,29524781,,39.0,, 2727,What's the Hacker News of hardware?,,,,EXueBRJ9d,110,1492298334,2017-04-15 23:18:54+00:00,story,14123394,,46.0,, 2728,Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?,,"Hi HN! I want to reduce my footprint on FB, i.e. delete all posts and photos, unlike all likes, etc. I'd like to keep the account active, so simply deactivating isn't the way to go (yet?)
I did some digging and there seems to be some Chrome extensions that - according to reviews - can give mixed results.
Most of what I could find - including past posts to HN - were 4 or 5 years old. So my question: is there a recent, go-to tool that you know of which can help me achieve the above? Or should I try my luck with the random years-old tutorials you can find online?
Thanks!",,galaktor,110,1470750024,2016-08-09 13:40:24+00:00,story,12254374,,95.0,, 2729,What are some more authentic online forums?,,"I grew up in the late 90s on obscure message boards and in many ways it was my real introduction to the Internet. I really miss the community and authenticity of that world, which seems to have been replaced entirely by monocultural mass social media like Reddit.",,keiferski,110,1568215826,2019-09-11 15:30:26+00:00,story,20941191,,75.0,, 2730,Who wants to be hired? (February 2021),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
* You sit in some pub with a few friends. You show them a video you filmed yesterday on your phone. You're speakers are really bad, and you want to send it to a friend who has better speakers.
--> You try to send the video over What's App. You discover you have no cell reception. You give up.
* You are at a conference, about to give a talk. For some reason, your MacBook won't work with the projector. You want to copy the presentation to some other laptop. The WiFi is overloaded.
--> You spend 5 minutes finding someone who still carries a USB stick and transfer the files.
* You are in an airplane, and you have a bunch of company documents stored on your laptop, which you want to read on your tablet. You forgot your micro USB cable.
--> You are angry at yourself for not installing a file sharing app and for forgetting to send yourself the documents with GMail and downloading them on the tablet.
Everytime I run into one of those situations, I just get angry that there is no easy solution, and most of the time we have to resort to some clutch, like relying on a centralized service like email or messenger apps.
How do we still have this problem in 2016, where we all carry multiple supposedly inter-connected and interoperable devices?
There is an endless amount of file sharing apps for iOS and Android. There are countless protocols and options for discovering devices and sharing files (including "ancient" options like Samba, NFS and FTP).
Why is there no universally accepted standard that facilitates device discovery and file sharing between devices over WiFi AND Bluetooth, with implementations installed by default on every device?
Am I alone in seeing a need here?",,the_duke,110,1472996498,2016-09-04 13:41:38+00:00,story,12424258,,84.0,, 2732,I think I hate the software development industry? Am I crazy?,,"I can’t stand software development. I hate the work, hate the people, the culture, etc. The idea of continuing this until for many more decades is sickening. Additionally I’ve pigeonholed myself into an area of the industry that’s is particularly draining (though not for the reasons you may thing).
Money is not a huge concern to me, but if I’m going to have to do something I hate 8+ hours a day, I would at least to prefer to be making enough money to distract me from it. I’m not anywhere near there at the moment. I’ve considered maybe just doing the leetcode circus and trying to land mind numbing FAANG job so I can at least have the luxury of otherwise unheard of money. But it’s not ideal and I’m not sure I’d be cut out for it. I’ve never been a particularly good software developer compared to many of the people I’ve interacted with.
I’d gladly accept less money (within reason) to work on something that excites me, but that’s about the least likely scenario, between the narrow and poorly definable category of what I would find enticing and the basically impossible to obtain requirements on the fee jobs I do see.
I’ve considered going back to school, to try something else, and was actually very close, in fact I nearly registered for classes. But I can’t afford it: not the monetary cost, not the time cost. If I could magically pull tens of thousands of dollars out of my ass tomorrow maybe, or if I wouldn’t be well into my 30s by the time I finished, it would be a different situation. Even then it’s unheard to go from software to anything I’d be interested in.",,goodbyeworld37,110,1621203722,2021-05-16 22:22:02+00:00,story,27177574,,78.0,, 2733,At what point did you incorporate for your startup or side project?,,"At what point did you incorporate (if at all), and why did you choose to incorporate when you did?",,bradtx,110,1515374503,2018-01-08 01:21:43+00:00,story,16093966,,53.0,, 2734,How often do you vote on posts in the “new” tab?,,"I am curious how posts from the "new" tab ever make it to the front page. Most posts there have 1 or 2 upvotes only and the posts disappear within an hour. With such low votes on the new posts, how do they ever come to the front page at all?
I see there are many interesting posts in the "new" tab. I vote on them but they don't stand a chance to come on the front page because I am the only one voting.
Do HN members really look at the "new" tab to see what interesting posts are there and upvote them? Or do you only see the front page and upvote posts there?",,alexmint,110,1570869074,2019-10-12 08:31:14+00:00,story,21231508,,44.0,, 2735,How effective have the job posts on HN been?,,"I do come across job posts on the home of HN. Job postings by Y Combinator alumni, which are guaranteed to appear on the front page for a period of time.
How effective has been these posts? Anyone here who has out the job post and can share some numbers? Anyone who has applied to these job posts? Others, what do you do/think when you see a job post?
We are working on a startup idea, and this question carries some value in validating our concept. However, it is not related to job openings. Our validation is primarily to understand user behavior.",,rrpadhy,110,1394650550,2014-03-12 18:55:50+00:00,story,7387512,,95.0,, 2736,My VPS got hacked and now I'm facing a massive bill. What can I do?,,"I've got a VPS which I use for small programming projects and college assignments. Two weeks ago I received an e-mail from my provider, stating that "your VPS has been transmitting a lot of outgoing traffic which results in a very large traffic usage bill". In September on my 500 GB data-limit VPS, it had been transmitting 27 TB of data traffic. This resulted in a € 3300 extra charge on my € 15 VPS. I'm expecting a similar bill for this month.
Of course I immediately shut down my VPS after the notice two weeks ago, but by then it had been using these amounts of traffic for a month and a half.
What are my options here? I can't afford to pay > € 5000 unfortunately. Does anyone have similar experiences?",,Koekoeksklok,110,1413724821,2014-10-19 13:20:21+00:00,story,8478159,,77.0,, 2737,Which books have helped you the most professionally?,,"Often times I see threads on HN about good Compuer Science books, but I'd like to find out which books have helped you the most in your career growth (which may not specifically be CS type books) or professionally (which may be CS type books).
Edit - having a few words describe how the book was helpful would be really useful!",,marai2,110,1520869978,2018-03-12 15:52:58+00:00,story,16568949,,37.0,, 2738,What kind of side projects are you working on?,,,,gembird,110,1385450654,2013-11-26 07:24:14+00:00,story,6799694,,122.0,, 2739,How do I stay motivated to learn?,,There are a lot of great things I want to learn but I find it hard getting myself to buckle down and get in the process of learning. How have you found ways to stop beating around the bush and get to learning?,,devcheese,110,1437273824,2015-07-19 02:43:44+00:00,story,9909842,,64.0,, 2740,What excites you today (technologically speaking)?,,"I was born in 1973.
My first exciting thing was my Commodore 64. I loved playing games with friends, I loved typing code from magazines, I loved creating sprites on paper and dreaming of giving them life on my Commodore 64.
My second exciting thing was my first modem and the first connections to the local BBS in my town. I loved chatting with people, I loved downloading JPGs (well, you can imagine what kind).
My third exciting thing was the internet. This was an evolution of my second exciting thing, it was BBS on steroids. I loved visiting my local newsstand and buying the new issue of .Net magazine. The final pages always included a list of cool new websites to try.
My fourth exciting thing was social media. I loved keeping in touch with friends on Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, etc.
My fifth exciting thing was Bitcoin. I got lost in the rabbit hole, having fun mining with my computer (when it was too late to make money), spending hours reading posts on btctalk, buying my first Bitcoin from a guy at a coffee shop for cash, mining with my first Butterfly hardware (again, not enough to make a profit), building my Raspiblitz, staring at Blockchain.info waiting for the next block to be mined.
It has now been quite a while since the last time I was excited about something. The top excitement for Bitcoin was maybe around 2015. Now it's just all about money money money on crypto or developments that are way too complex for me to understand.
What is exciting you nowadays? Any new technology, any new website, any new cool thing going on in the tech world?",,botolo,110,1633881941,2021-10-10 16:05:41+00:00,story,28819489,,120.0,, 2741,Why is spam email still a thing?,,"If you've had an email account for a while you probably know what I'm talking about. Open your spam folder and undoubtably it's filled with poorly written and worded emails still advertising "free sex", "you've won", "open for a gift card" or otherwise.
These emails are so bad and there is almost no chance of them finding their way through a spam filter, why are people still sending them?",,kisamoto,110,1642430457,2022-01-17 14:40:57+00:00,story,29966942,,192.0,, 2742,How to fire your co-founder?,,"So I just read this HN posted article (The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6965295) and thought a lot about my co-founder who is doing jack shit in the company. I already talked to him about lowering his share options (which he currently holds about 40%, (same as me, after seed round dilution)), but with no avail. He actually threatens the company's success if I ever try to "sneak a move" on him when in reality his contributions are near 0 for product development as well as S&M.
If I talk with my boards on his misbehaviour it will get them stressed and stop believing on the company. Is there really no way to fire him and the only way is to actually quit ?",,mesogamer,110,1388085195,2013-12-26 19:13:15+00:00,story,6967516,,81.0,, 2743,What's the best way for foreigners to incorporate in the States?,,"We're a design and development team with a company registered in Europe (Portugal). We have a product we've been selling worldwide (mainly to the US) for quite a while. We've had our problems with being non-US in the past, the main one being not having a merchant account and thus being impossible to signup for Authorize.net (or a similar service).
For the last couple of weeks we've been thinking about incorporating for different reasons: taxes and paperwork. We've been hearing about taxes and incorporating on Delaware, Texas, Nevada and the likes but we'd love to know what you guys on HN would suggest.
Where are your startups based? If in the US, what State? Where would you suggest us to register the company and where should I look into? We're looking for low taxes and almost no red tape, paperwork, invoice requirements, etc... We're developers and designers, we like to build awesome products ;)
We'd love to hear about not only taxing but also about monthly/quarterly/yearly paperwork one needs to fill in and submit on each example you guys know about.
Thanks for sharing. Feel free to link to any resources you know about.",,tpinto,110,1288290751,2010-10-28 18:32:31+00:00,story,1844221,,28.0,, 2744,Who wants to be hired? (March 2015),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:The basic idea is to aggregate all the ratings and allow you to search and filter by the effect or medical relief that you are looking for. A secondary goal with the site was to make it very work friendly. There is no pot porn or pictures of giant leaves. Definitely not geared towards the stereotypical pot heads, focusing on all the other pot heads in the world that you don't know about.
http://www.leaf.ly",,sv123,110,1280164397,2010-07-26 17:13:17+00:00,story,1548584,,86.0,, 2746,What are some good methods to prove current time?,,"I know I can film a current newspaper to prove one side, how do I prove the other side? In other words how can I prove the current time of message? I think this should be possible but every idea I come up with, it seems to be possible to fake in the future tense.
Is live streaming the only true method? Or am I missing something?",,sigmaprimus,110,1602405894,2020-10-11 08:44:54+00:00,story,24744531,,66.0,, 2747,Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?,,"My earnings have dropped since last few months. So, I would like to know if anyone is making a good earning from Google Adsense or the earnings have dropped like mine?",,thescribbblr,110,1572404945,2019-10-30 03:09:05+00:00,story,21394349,,95.0,, 2748,What makes for a world-class software engineer?,,,,Nuance,110,1541252489,2018-11-03 13:41:29+00:00,story,18370116,,53.0,, 2749,Talk me through the acquihire process,,"I need your advice, guys.
Angel-funded startup isn't going to make it to its series A, will be going on the auction block soon. I'm an employee with a significant equity stake, but not a founder, who invented and implemented the software which is the company's sole salable asset. (In hindsight I am very aware that this was a lousy situation to have put myself in, but here we are anyway.)
The software has real value, good market visibility, and actual sales. I don't think we'll have much trouble finding buyers -- but most of the likely acquirers are larger corporate types I have little interest in working for long-term. (This is at least partly burnout talking, but I'm kind of done working for other people at all at this point.)
So I know I need to get out in front of my management team before they make a deal I'll walk away from, but this is new territory for me and I have no idea what would be reasonable to ask for and what would get me laughed out of the room.
I know there are a lot of variables here so I'm not asking for dollar amounts, just a general reality check on what I can expect from the next few months. In particular: what's the shortest transition-the-product-to-new-ownership period I can reasonably look for? Is there typically any short-term payout for acquired employees or will everything be in salary and slow-vesting options? Is there any likelihood of an acquirer being interested in purchasing the product but not its developers? Assuming I do stick it out as an acquihire, what's the likelihood I'd be allowed to remain in charge of my product vs having to execute on someone else's vision? When, if ever, is it appropriate for me to ask to be included in negotiations with acquirers? Most importantly: how do I best stand up for my own interests here, without being the asshole that ruins the deal for everyone?",,throwaway-acct,110,1436971766,2015-07-15 14:49:26+00:00,story,9891531,,41.0,, 2750,Best big companies to work for?,,"In the event that someone wants to take a break from the typical startup life (e.g. after a burnout or because of shifted priorities in life) and work for a big company, what would HN recommend for a senior software engineer (late 20s) with a very solid background developed while working like a horse in startups for the past few years (and MS in computer engineering)? These points (in random order) might be important:
- Very very competitive salary and "deterministic" benefits (401k with good employer contributions, RSUs, cash bonuses, etc.)
- Challenging working environment where neat technical problems are still solved despite not being a startup, possibly with modern tools and technologies (e.g. not a "we use CVS as our SCM" shop)
- no more than 40-45 hours a week expected as per company culture
- Stable job (no serious failure possibility in the next 3 years or so for the company)
- Possibility of working from home (even just once or twice a week to break the routine)
- Main headquarters in SF bay area (where I'm located)
I'm of course expecting Google, Facebook, etc. But I'm curious to see what else might be there.",,deanmoriarty,110,1390762166,2014-01-26 18:49:26+00:00,story,7126242,,114.0,, 2751,Anyone working remotely for a US company internationally?,,I've been working for small(ish) startups based in the US internationally and have had no issues. (I work as a contractor essentially)
I was wondering if anyone's got an arrangement like this going with a larger organization? I'm looking to switch jobs and try working somewhere a tad bigger.,,anonymous2324,110,1634899157,2021-10-22 10:39:17+00:00,story,28955562,,91.0,, 2752,What Go framework for web API are you using in production?,,,,srameshc,110,1504793062,2017-09-07 14:04:22+00:00,story,15191920,,63.0,, 2753,How do big web sites roll out new versions?,,"The operations of big websites fascinate me. Sites such as http://highscalability.com/ give an glimpse into the architecture of Amazon, Twitter, and other large systems, but leave out the operations side. So, can anyone explain how they deploy new versions of their sites? For instance, I can't imagine Amazon choosing to go down for even a minute, so what do they do? Am I wrong? Thanks!",,Bluem00,110,1230407942,2008-12-27 19:59:02+00:00,story,411282,,44.0,, 2754,Experiences going part time?,,"Hi HN,
Has any one gone part time? How did it work out? What are you doing with the extra time? Anything you would have done differently? Anything else you want to tell us?
Cheers!",,robinwarren,110,1501496905,2017-07-31 10:28:25+00:00,story,14890758,,77.0,, 2755,"What methods, tools etc. do you use to validate your business ideas?",,"Do you even validate your ideas or start implementing right away? What does your process of validation look like? How do you generate leads? (landing/coming soon pages, emails, etc.) How do you make the final decision whether the idea is worth implementing?",,kadfak,110,1502464158,2017-08-11 15:09:18+00:00,story,14990416,,35.0,, 2756,Are there 'dumb' ways to make money as a developer in your spare time?,,"As a 30-something, I've suddenly come to realize that retirement savings are important, and that small amounts of extra savings can add up. Suddenly an extra $100/week actually sounds worth thinking about.
Are there simple ways to earn a few extra bucks as a developer in your spare time? Or is it just down to 'invent some SaaS offering and hope people like it'?
What simple things have you do that have brought in a small bit of extra income?",,mabbo,110,1486921688,2017-02-12 17:48:08+00:00,story,13629479,,111.0,, 2757,What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework),,"Hi HN-crowd,
Is anyone using Svelte (https://www.svelte.dev) in production? What are your experiences with it? I can't seem to find any experience reports.
Thanks!",,melleb,110,1572268017,2019-10-28 13:06:57+00:00,story,21376557,,101.0,, 2758,What's the most simple way to accept monthly subscription fees?,,"I've got a web application with monthly subscription fees. What's the easiest way to implement monthly billing? Is there an app out there that handles that kind of stuff for you?
Side-question: what's the cheapest way? That is, requiring the lowest transaction fee.",,arnorhs,109,1269119152,2010-03-20 21:05:52+00:00,story,1206993,,54.0,, 2759,Is Bay Area in a tipping point for tech talent?,,"Some younger companies like Coinbase[2] and Stripe[1] are sharing numbers that they are not hiring much in the Bay Area anymore.
I am assuming that many positions that require the candidate to (eventually) relocate to the Bay Area are not getting a lot of traction. A fried of mine refused to interview for position like that despite being very junior! She decided the cost of living is not worth it.
What all of this means for the Bay Area talent pool and job market? Talent in the Bay Area are fetching astonishing pay ($600k for L6)[3] which I believe contributed to the out of the ordinary housing market in the Bay Area when you compare it to other cities in CA like San Diego and Los Angeles. I know many older talent have grown roots in the area. They have kids and friends which means they can't easily move. What if with this new wave of remote work acceptance, Bay Area pay won't match the expenses? Companies can hire everywhere in the U.S. for arguably the same talent quality. Some companies are even expanding to Mexico City[4] and other countries which might put even more pressure on Bay Area salaries.
Are we at an end of decades of continues growth and competition in the Bay Area? Will there be big pay adjustments?
[1] https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/14811295897619988...
[2] https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1480647701221896195
[4] https://www.lyft.com/careers#openings?location=mexico%2520ci...",,msoad,109,1642085222,2022-01-13 14:47:02+00:00,story,29921265,,181.0,, 2760,Django Deploy Recommendations,,"I have an app that uses Django Python and Postgresql.
Right now is running under Linux/Apache/mod_wsgi, how ever have read about Nginx and Gunicorn (also uwsgi and others) as a better option...
I would like to read your recommendations (advantages and disadvantages) about deploying django.
PS: I am mainly developer so I lack a lot of knowledge about sysadmin.",,juanefren,109,1287861720,2010-10-23 19:22:00+00:00,story,1824171,,38.0,, 2761,How do you get started as independent consultant or contractor,,"Hello HN,
I do plan onto pursue independent contracting in feature. I would love to hear the thoughts of the community on how to pursue independent consulting. For instance, how do you find clients, how do you pursue a niche and keep yourself updated as a contractor",,mr_o47,109,1644182631,2022-02-06 21:23:51+00:00,story,30237149,,49.0,, 2762,"Who's using Clojure, and to do what?",,"Who's using Clojure in production today and what are you using it for? I'm curious about the state of the ecosystem and its adoption today. There are a lot of old threads (on HN[1] or Quora[2]) that ask this - but none of them seem to reflect latest on who's using Clojure in production in 2017.
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/whos%20using%20clojure
[2] https://www.quora.com/Whos-using-Clojure-in-production
Ask HN post from 2014 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8549823",,udkl,109,1494355322,2017-05-09 18:42:02+00:00,story,14302762,,49.0,, 2763,Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?,,"YouTube started adding a new parameter "pp=sAQA" to video URLs on most index style pages (e.g. /feed/subscriptions, search results, the /videos page on any channel). The actual video pages (/watch) strip the pp= parameter, and it doesn't appear to be added to the URLs for the "recommended" videos.
Does anybody know what this parameter does and/or why it was added? It's really annoying; using YouTube URLs in the shell now requires quoting due to the "&".",,pdkl95,109,1627632506,2021-07-30 08:08:26+00:00,story,28005638,,69.0,, 2764,How am I supposed to start over as an amnesiac ex-software developer?,,"I’m a late 20s female ex-software developer. What happened? Well, not going to go into details, but I ended up with retrograde amnesia about a year ago. The memory of the last 4 years was most heavily affected, which sadly were the most prolific for me in terms of my graduate education and job-wise - I’d worked my way up to an actual developer job, and was doing quite well for myself.
It’s been an incredibly difficult year, and I’ve really had very few advocates along the way. My past employer failed to communicate with me properly post-amnesia, and I’m currently in bureaucratic hell trying to work with my University to see if I can retake the classes that I now can no longer remember.
I’ll often get something like, oh, jump on CodeAcademy/etc., get right back into things! But it’s not quite that simple. It’s - for back of a better word - downright PAINFUL, and I feel like I need more support going forward.
I feel like the best options for me would be some kind of class, workshop, or internship, but I’m having trouble finding the right fit. It’s going to be hard for me trying to find the right level, given that I’ll probably be rolling my eyes at how simple some things are but also getting stuck on relatively basic things until they click again.
An internship could be great for me, but I don’t have any contacts, let alone any contacts who would be able to place me at a company that understood my situation. For example, how am I supposed to explain a resume that I know nothing about? It’s pretty unavoidable, and I’d need a company that was understanding about the situation.
I just want to make it clear I’m not looking on advice on how to deal with the burden of this, but any advice you would have for me to get back into the field given these bizarre circumstances. Maybe there’s some avenue that I’m just not realizing? Thanks so much!",,Tabula_Rasa,109,1365842105,2013-04-13 08:35:05+00:00,story,5542925,,57.0,, 2765,Lost $10k as my email was hacked. Any ways to recover it?,,"I have suffered a loss of $10k due to an extremely unbelievable case of my client's as well as my own email domain was hacked.
–----
So, I run a very small pharma export company in India. I have a client in Ontario, Canada with whom I have been doing regular business.
2 weeks ago I got an order worth $10000 from them. So as usual I dispatched the material to them and then raised the invoice with my bank details from my email address called "abcde@mydomain .com".
Now on the next day my client received an email from "abicde@mydomain.com" stating that there is a change in invoice and revised invoice is again sent which had bank account details of a UK bank account.
Now an email like "abicde@mydomain.com" doesn't exist at all.
My client asked me for a confirmation email again but this email never reached me. So the client made the payment and the money is already deducted from his account.
Also, what makes this even more strange is that I received a fake email from my client's company with 3-4 times about not asking for payment as it will be delayed.
I got this email from an email address like "klye@clientdomain.com" instead of "kyle@clientdomain.com".
Now $10000 in an extremely huge amount for survival of my company. I want to know what are my options and is there any way of recovering it.",,milanmot,109,1540567687,2018-10-26 15:28:07+00:00,story,18310135,,86.0,, 2766,I'm looking for the self-proclaimed “last private web hosting” site,,"I'm looking for the self-proclaimed "last private web hosting" site, that requires no name. You could send them $1 USD in the mail with a desired account & password & they would set it up for you.
I think void was in the title. Anyone know?",,hellbanner,109,1438465772,2015-08-01 21:49:32+00:00,story,9988817,,36.0,, 2767,"I just got $100k in AWS credits, how should I use it?",,"I got $100k in AWS Credits, with a 1-year time limit. I built a scrapy-powered image crawler that crawls over 300 art sites and finds the most popular posts with clustering algorithms and perceptual hashing (www.arthunted.com), but in the end it takes at most a few hours of a high CPU-instance per day to scrape and process (at most several dollars per day). At a year it'd barely make a dent.
I'm looking to build something that would make a splash, that would otherwise be constrained by budget, and that would have long-term self-sustaining value after the $100k runs out.
So no arbitrage, reselling, bitcoin mining, etc.
What type of project would require high-storage or high-amounts of processing? What can I build that would only be possible with that much money in infrastructure or compute power? Preferably the monthly budget would be about $10-20k.
Also I have a 40-instance limit on EC2 (which I may be able to raise).",,chrischen,109,1431627151,2015-05-14 18:12:31+00:00,story,9546609,,156.0,, 2768,"Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?",,"Let's do this again. It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue.",,xrxrxrx,109,1469208762,2016-07-22 17:32:42+00:00,story,12145137,,58.0,, 2769,What Android apps do you use?,,"Hey HN, I recently got a SGS2 and I really love it. I'm always looking to improve my Android experience, and am curious to know what Android apps you use and recommend. Cheers!
I know this has been asked before, but couldn't find anything asked/written in the past year on HN.",,riams,109,1317551824,2011-10-02 10:37:04+00:00,story,3062517,,94.0,, 2770,What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?,,"I'm part of a small group that is working on a new set of protocols for terminals and shells, in order to move terminal handling out of the kernel as much as possible, and to replace the huge organically grown mess of ANSI escape sequences, terminfo databases, and so on.
I'm posting this from 34C3, where I'm asking people the same questions:
- What do you love about terminals?
- What do you hate about terminals?
- If you had to build one from scratch, how would you do it?
If you do not wish to answer in public, you can also write a mail to 34c3-terminal-survey at posteo dot de.
[I'm posting from a throwaway account because my Github links to the work that we have started on this, and I don't want to bias the survey by having you look at it before answering.]",,terminal-survey,109,1514370210,2017-12-27 10:23:30+00:00,story,16013950,,200.0,, 2771,What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?,,"I'm mainly trying to think of something to do for my undergraduate thesis, but I'm also curious about the projects you would work on that aren't academic.",,conglats,109,1406296284,2014-07-25 13:51:24+00:00,story,8085148,,176.0,, 2772,Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?,,,,balajics,109,1437747703,2015-07-24 14:21:43+00:00,story,9942144,,46.0,, 2773,"Best tech for a web site 2018? (PHP, Rails, Django, Node, Go, etc.)?",,"Back in the day, PHP was a great tool for getting a site up quickly. Then Ruby on Rails took off in 2006 and took the lead. It was the "batteries included" of web frameworks. You could build a CRUD app very quickly. Many other language frameworks followed and evolved.
It is almost 2018. What do you think is the best tech for a web app these days?
Here are some features I could quickly think of:
* basic HTTP handling
* good security
* i18n/translation
* ORM/persistence system
* a built-in user/authentication system
* a built-in admin UI
* a migration system for db schema changes
* easy REST (gRPC, etc) API construction
* good form/model validation
* a type system for the language
* websocket support
I'm really impatient to achieve big things. It's like I need to in order to justify my existence. How do I transition to a healthier state of mind and stop feeling worthless?",,mwhuang2,109,1446872215,2015-11-07 04:56:55+00:00,story,10523788,,72.0,, 2775,What HN threads most influenced your thinking about startups?,,"I often find that reading the comments on a HN post lead to more insights than simply reading the linked website alone or just the OP, so in the spirit of HN as a link aggregator: What HN threads have most contributed to the way you think about startups now?",,benvolio,109,1636375204,2021-11-08 12:40:04+00:00,story,29148698,,49.0,, 2776,Why aren't micropayments a thing?,,"Amazon aws and related services can charge you a rate per email, or per unit time of computation, so why can't news sites just charge you $0.01 to read an article, or even half that?",,wppick,109,1611344359,2021-01-22 19:39:19+00:00,story,25875386,,188.0,, 2777,How to use small chunks of time productively,,"We all know about Flow and how long of uninterrupted periods one needs to get into it. I am wondering about how to take advantage of the opposite of those long periods.
Due to many different unforeseen circumstances, I can't get more than about 20-30 uninterrupted minutes at a time throughout the day from 7am-8PM. I am sure I am not alone in this.
All of the tricks of the trade (email once a day, phone off during set periods, scheduled alone time etc...) are not possible for the foreseeable future. I am wondering if anyone has any good ideas for how to be productive in those short windows. Assume that standard work/sleep hours are enforced and that the job is as a Product Manager.",,AndrewKemendo,109,1419704688,2014-12-27 18:24:48+00:00,story,8803389,,55.0,, 2778,"Germans, how to work legally remote?",,"Hey there,
being a freelancer in Germany is possible and well-known if you have multiple clients throughout the year and follow some rules.
However, being a remote worker and employee of a US corp/startup seems to be a grey zone to me because German law requires to work maximum 80% of your time for one client only.
How do you solve that problem? Is there even a legal way to do that?
I also thought about incorporating a GmbH which then creates invoices to the US company. Nevertheless, this would introduce additional costs and probably risks (e. g. when you are no longer an employee of the US corp).
I asked some tax consultants. Nobody of them really understood what I want to do and additionally, the bigger problem seems to be the German Rentenversicherung and not only the Finanzamt.
More info: I want to stay in Germany and am a German citizen. I want to be for a significant time at the company (3y+).",,throwaway9283i,109,1564922393,2019-08-04 12:39:53+00:00,story,20606137,,120.0,, 2779,"Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?",,"I've just had to talk my 80-year-old father through setting up Skype on his new computer. For some reason he had to create a Microsoft account, and it was encouraging him to store all his documents on some drive in the cloud, and it combined his existing Skype account into the new Microsoft account, and all the while I was thinking "it shouldn't be like this."
It shouldn't be the case that for what could be, should be, a single, stand-alone application such as IP-telephony, there is all this cross-linking, central registration, etc., etc., etc., ...
It's probably a consequence of Microsoft buying out Skype and forcing integration with their own universe. So I ask, is there now an alternative to the centralized, you-will-do-everything-our-way system? I've searched, but had no success.
Suggestions?",,ColinWright,109,1388233202,2013-12-28 12:20:02+00:00,story,6974835,,76.0,, 2780,What's your favorite code practice site?,,,,pmoriarty,109,1540261620,2018-10-23 02:27:00+00:00,story,18280299,,29.0,, 2781,Resources for learning advanced JavaScript and React,,"What are the best resources for learn advanced js/es6/react ?
Something similar to "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby"
Right now I'm a junior/mid js developer, but I want improve my skills/code/tests etc...
Any help is welcome.",,CCing,109,1501504357,2017-07-31 12:32:37+00:00,story,14891287,,43.0,, 2782,Why does an article critical of Paul Graham get removed?,,"I just saw this article (https://antipodes.substack.com/paul-graham-is-not-a-public-intellectual) that has now been removed from HN and also the Substack page shows a 404.
I read through the article, and while critical of Paul Graham, it wasn't out of line or insulting or something.
I'm also surprised that it got removed from Substack (which is a YC company) - not sure why the author himself would have removed it?
What's happening?
Edit: Yes, it looks like the author removed it from Substack: https://twitter.com/MichaelOChurch/status/1336033522327445504?s=20
But still worries me that it was flagged down on HN.",,shafyy,109,1607370011,2020-12-07 19:40:11+00:00,story,25336231,,74.0,, 2783,Best privacy preserving alternatives to Apple products?,,"After latest apple content scanning privacy debarcle, I will likely migrate away from apple. They have destroyed my trust such that I can’t tolerate the uncertainty they may change their minds later or introduce a hash inspection function secretly.
Which leaves the question: where to go? What is the best alternative to apple products?My current working suggestions, but would greatly appreciate others weighing in.
Phone: Pixel with graphene OS Laptop: System 76 laptop or X1 carbon Watch: Garmin variety of some description Cloud storage: probably nextcloud self hosted",,Engineering-MD,109,1628258093,2021-08-06 13:54:53+00:00,story,28087201,,62.0,, 2784,What did you build in 2019?,,"I've had a rather uncreative year, and I'd love some inspiration going into 2020. Please share your side projects/businesses/hobbies, ideally with links and traction numbers. :-) Have a lovely new year!",,hackathonguy,109,1577721581,2019-12-30 15:59:41+00:00,story,21914185,,144.0,, 2785,What happened to the semantic web?,,,,drdrey,109,1523403074,2018-04-10 23:31:14+00:00,story,16806657,,68.0,, 2786,Courses like Coursera or Udemy but without the videos?,,"Hi All,
Happy new year.
As of 2016, I realised that video based courses in Coursera and Udemy are not ideal and are a drain on efficiency. You cannot skim through content in videos and you are constantly wondering what you will miss if you forward the video. You will have to adjust to lecturer's speed rather than choose your own speed. You cannot listen to videos in noisy environments.
What I would like to see is repository of paid (or free) tutorials, which uses text and pictures to convey information rather than videos. Googling only shows scattered tutorials, but not the equivalent of Coursera. If anyone here please knows of such a resource, please let me know.",,rgovind,108,1451667947,2016-01-01 17:05:47+00:00,story,10822376,,55.0,, 2787,What are some good sources of climate data to analyze?,,"I've noticed that articles mentioning climate and climate change that make it to the front page end up being flagged.
I think this is probably fair, because discussions about such articles invariably end up being political and don't end up contributing very positively to HN.
I certainly have thoughts and opinions on this topic, but upon reflection I realize they're not especially well informed. They're mainly based on what I've read in popular media, and I'm hoping I can do better than that.
So I'd like to approach it from another direction. If I want to get some raw climate data for myself, and analyze it using R or Python, what would be a good starting point?
Are there specific data sets that I should focus on? Are there any well known papers that I should read?",,rpeden,108,1504101377,2017-08-30 13:56:17+00:00,story,15132145,,40.0,, 2788,Advice on Colocating Servers?,,Looking at our VPS provider bills each month makes me cringe. I was thinking maybe we could offload non-critical systems to our own colocated servers onsite or in a cabinet in a local data center.
Has anyone done this and what was your experience?
How do you select a colo and what do you look for?
How do you manage the hardware and how much savings in time/$ is there really?,,exabrial,108,1637327280,2021-11-19 13:08:00+00:00,story,29276734,,88.0,, 2789,Where do you see web and desktop apps in 5 years?,,"As the browser becomes home to more and more software that traditionally would be desktop only, where do you see web apps and desktop apps in 5 years?",,OedipusRex,108,1414377073,2014-10-27 02:31:13+00:00,story,8513477,,97.0,, 2790,I want to learn how to prototype hardware. Where do I start?,,"I'm an iOS developer. I'm decent and have launched a couple of apps. With bluetooth LE and multipeer connectivity, I am very interested in learning about building a hardware device that pairs with my iPhone. Where can I go to learn more about prototyping?",,allsystemsgo,108,1390164862,2014-01-19 20:54:22+00:00,story,7085950,,36.0,, 2791,"Have you had any real benefits from apps like Headspace, Fabulous, etc?",,"There are so many apps which promise scientific benefits like relief from stress, better habits, etc.
Unfortunately most of them are free for only 7 days or 10 days and followed with a steep cost. I'm okay paying if there are any real benefits but the reviews are really mixed on the play store.
So just wondering what you guys think? Has any such app has had real life benefits? What do you think?",,thyrox,108,1649599303,2022-04-10 14:01:43+00:00,story,30976971,,96.0,, 2792,What are your best shell scripts that you use?,,"I saw a note[0] about using a script to activate Redshift in Linux and wondered what other cool, useful, or otherwise interesting scripts you might be using.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916949",,JadoJodo,108,1577760381,2019-12-31 02:46:21+00:00,story,21918584,,60.0,, 2793,Would issue “bounties” make contributing to open source more appealing?,,"I'm building an open source company (https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope) where we're very upfront about intent to eventually monetize via cloud-hosted version as many open source companies do.
We, in a way, have financial upside to people completing (some) of the issues we've posted, so sometimes it feels like it would be mutually beneficial to pass some of that through to the contributors as people contribute.
I'm wondering... if we added a "bounty/reward" in the issue text that said we'd pay $X amount for someone to resolve the issue, would that make people more or less likely to contribute?
On one hand it seems to go against the historic "vibe" of open-source, but on the other commercial open-source seems much more acceptable these days and would maybe be a nice bonus for the. contributor.
Any thoughts, experience, or ideas here? Anyone have experience really incentivizing people to contribute to open source?",,Rperry2174,108,1618438133,2021-04-14 22:08:53+00:00,story,26813725,,93.0,, 2794,Who wants to be hired? (October 2021),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Searchers: try https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/.",,whoishiring,108,1633100458,2021-10-01 15:00:58+00:00,story,28719317,,213.0,, 2795,I feel my dream slipping away,,"They say advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Well, I'm not looking for hang-in-there-buddy-advice but rather employment ideas or immigration hacks from someone in my situation or who understands it. I'm an Engineer working at a big corp in California - a job I so hate but have been needing to hold on to for green card purposes (I'm a foreign citizen). I'm still at least 2 years away from getting it. Meanwhile, in my spare time, I've been hacking away on my boostrapped startup idea. I released a MVP two months ago and it has been gaining steady traction. I intend to hit ramen profitability by early next year. This is where it gets hard on me. In spite of spending many waking hours working on it, moonlighting often translates to slow progress. At the end of a full 10 hour day working for the man, creativity and productivity are not at their peak when I get to work in the evenings. I fear that when competition gets wind of the opportunity that exists in their blind spot, they will get to work and could outdo me quickly.
One option is quitting my job cold turkey but that may mean going back to my home country. I've lived in the US for 8+ yrs now and want to stay here. I want to build my business here. I like it here. Is that so bad? Isn't America the land where you can realize your dream and help others realize theirs too?
It gets very frustrating at times and I fear my dream is slipping away. I will turn 30 soon (no, that is not precipitating this :). I'd like to spend the next decade of my life building my own company, not waiting for a green card. I am making progress but at a snail's pace (at least I feel so). Plus from my last venture, I learned the lesson that working with a useless co-founder is worse than going it alone. This time, I am solo-ing until I can find a partner who is as passionate & hard working.
I've been bearing this situation for two years now and feel like I'm stuck in this rut for the foreseeable future.
Are any of you in similar shoes? How do you deal with it? Are there any immigration hacks that you are aware of? Have you figured out some way to spend a major chunk of your time working on your startup but staying in legal status and maintaing your perm residency petition?
tl;dr: Working on startup venture. No green card. Stuck in this situation for 2+ yrs. Slow progress and sometimes feel dream slipping away. Suggestions?
Gosh. I hope I don't come across as whiny. I'm not.
[EDIT] I've been trying to reply to some of your comments but the post isn't going through. Would you know why? I'm a long time HN user but this is a throwaway account and I'm not sure if it's because this is a new user.",,whatnext,108,1276632488,2010-06-15 20:08:08+00:00,story,1433729,,77.0,, 2796,What is the ideal developer experience in 2020?,,"Today software development looks pretty fragmented and complex depending on what angle you're coming at it from. I've spent the past decade building web apps, distributed systems, infrastructure and all sorts. My feeling is that as a developer there is still so much that stands in my way getting from some local piece of software to something that runs and scales in "production". I'm starting to rethink this from first principles and curious to know what others deem as the ideal developer experience for 2020.
Share your thoughts!",,asim,108,1591617397,2020-06-08 11:56:37+00:00,story,23455741,,90.0,, 2797,"Current and former FB employees, what's the other side to the story?",,"Another day, another story of Facebook's reach overextending, breaching privacy unnecessarily, and generally acting in some form of bad faith.
But business is clearly still good and it seems like they're still able to recruit plenty of talent. So what's the other side here? Internally, are there feelings of consternation about all the negative press or is there a bigger piece that is missed by it?
I'm really curious what the other side is here, especially given FB hasn't slowed down at all despite all the press.",,adpirz,108,1551892203,2019-03-06 17:10:03+00:00,story,19320580,,129.0,, 2798,Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN,http://clusterify.com/,,,aneesh,108,1234969620,2009-02-18 15:07:00+00:00,story,485813,,59.0,, 2799,What are your war stories for converting teams to remote?,,Stories for starting remote teams also welcome!,,vsareto,108,1581257965,2020-02-09 14:19:25+00:00,story,22282205,,89.0,, 2800,How do you deal with getting older?,,"As hackers, do you feel like you can hack life and get more years out of it then the average joe?
Or do you feel lost in a culture that hails 20 year olds that are dreaming up the next big thing?",,dreifi,108,1439215368,2015-08-10 14:02:48+00:00,story,10034622,,128.0,, 2801,How do you keep track of releases/deployments of dozens micro-services?,,,,vladholubiev,108,1516181613,2018-01-17 09:33:33+00:00,story,16166645,,52.0,, 2802,How do you deal with alienation?,,"How do you deal with social alienation? Over the past couple of years of high school, I've slowly lost contact with all of my friends. Whenever I do speak with them, I constantly think about the differences between me and them, and why I'm not friends with them anymore. Despite that, I'm so alone now that I desperately want to have a peer group to be with again. The problem is that the only people I consider to be good friends all have different interests, and all belong to different social groups. I have no social group of my own and go back and forth between their friend circles. It seems that their respective friend circles are very close knit.I always feel like the odd one out of whatever group I'm with at the time.
I don't think I could consider my close friends a social group of it's own, as they are all from different groups and aren't friends with each other.
Am I setting my standards for friends too high? I don't think I am, because I just want a friend that I can talk to on a wide variety of subjects, not just the few we have in common. I can't do that with anyone I know. I feel like when I talk to my ""friends"", I either have to talk all about computers, or all about music, or whatever that they're interested in, but never a mixture of everything. The peer groups I see are all so specialized and serve niche interests; none of them are generally interested in everything.
I feel even worse about this, because I think that because I am feeling like this, that it makes me a walking adolescent stereotype. I feel like just another Holden, which probably makes the entire situation worse. I'm being self-conscious about myself being self-conscious, so that probably doesn't help.
I feel like I can recognize the flaws in how I handle friendships, but I have no idea of how to solve them.
The only thing that feels like a solution is waiting until I am out of high school to find new people. Everyone has told me to wait until college, and then I will find new people, but everyone I know in college generally sticks with the same friend group that they had in high school (hence why I would know), so I don't have much hope in that.
How do you go about meeting new interesting people? How do you stop yourself from over-analyzing your current friendships? I never post here on HN, but I love reading the articles and discussions, and you seem like a wise and interesting bunch of people. Please give me your advice. Whenever I try to talk to people in person about this, they just tell me that they don't know what to say, and I can't stand talking to psychologists because they seem to just regurgitate what you want to hear repeatedly.
Where are the truly interesting people in life?",,daniel_,108,1232093261,2009-01-16 08:07:41+00:00,story,436331,,161.0,, 2803,Check out my little app,http://huddle.im,,,jmonegro,108,1254153427,2009-09-28 15:57:07+00:00,story,848640,,75.0,, 2804,"If you restarted your career, what would you do differently?",,"No matter the level of expertise or experience, it's always a favorite question of mine to ask people this.
If you could restart your career from day 1, what would you do differently (or the same)?
Please also leave years experience/current position.",,kenentu,108,1462504723,2016-05-06 03:18:43+00:00,story,11641453,,95.0,, 2805,What is your yearly passive income?,,,,Kevin_S,108,1508166451,2017-10-16 15:07:31+00:00,story,15483692,,103.0,, 2806,I'd appreciate advice on my current work situation,,"I'm the sole developer for a product that has been selling as a desktop version for a couple of decades, with me 'on board' for around 15 years. During my time as the helm, I've implemented a number of improvements to the architecture of the software (including a rewrite enabling development of Mac and web versions, based on the original PC-only version).
My agreements with my business partner are based on royalties (20% of all sales and renewals). He works in an office and deals with customer support, I work remotely. He covers all business costs. Our agreements included payment for development work, however then I have needed to pay these pay with reductions in royalties -> I was given an interest free loan for my own salary, and eventually he's out of pocket nothing for development costs. Total income for our royalties agreements across time equate to 2 x yearly average salaries in my home country, but spread across the last 6 years.
Now he's discussed selling the business. If sold, I would receive royalties for the balance of our agreement, using the average sales for the last year.I made a mistake in that I agreed to the 20% royalty rate without negotiation initially, I know that much. I have worked many hundreds of hours under these agreements, and he agrees sales have not been as we would like - but of course, with 80% of the income, it's still (roughly for him) 3 -> 3.5 an average salary per year.
I wish to renegotiate our agreements to include a clause that gives me part of the sale value of the company as a cash payout, the reasoning here being that my work has increased substantially the value of the company. At say a valuation of 20 x the average salary, I was thinking of 10% i.e. two years of an average salary. I feel that my value to the company is larger than what is being recognised currently, given my contributions (i.e. every single line of code in the company's products have been written by me).
Am I being unreasonable here?",,mb_72,108,1591703463,2020-06-09 11:51:03+00:00,story,23465774,,73.0,, 2807,Mistakes working with small local clients?,,"Hi, so I have been working with some very small local clients/businesses developing them websites and custom made internal software/tools and also providing hosting and support.
What are some mistakes you have made down the road and what advice would you give to someone that just started?",,psikomanjak,108,1642086734,2022-01-13 15:12:14+00:00,story,29921554,,78.0,, 2808,LinkedIn suggesting I connect with my infertility doctor,,"Looks like they mined my Gmail account and got the e-mail.
From a damage control perspective (obviously I want this info known to nobody but me and my healthcare provider), what can/should I do?
Are LinkedIn's affiliates looking at this data?
Who are they sharing it with?
I'm hoping to publicize this enough that someone at LinkedIn takes notice.",,throwaway_97532,108,1624647675,2021-06-25 19:01:15+00:00,story,27634920,,47.0,, 2809,What to do if you are ridiculously burnt out?,,"I'm in a partnership project where I am the developer and my partner is the marketer, and it hasn't felt like a partnership at all.
The app is written in AngularJS and Node-Webkit (gosh, I regret not using React), and I'm bad with time which my partner understands, but every week asks me to get it done over the weekend and it's been a month of that so far.
I'm working 7 days a week 10+ hours a day and I can't handle it, I can't eat from the stress getting to my stomach, and I can't sleep because I always think about the project. On top of that, I'm the only one expected to work these ridiculous hours, everyone else is usually 8 hour week days.
I just want to get this project done, start making money but also nicely (without explaining all the technical details) why it is taking so long.
What should I do in this situation?
Thank you in advance!
EDIT: Grammar fixes and separated in paragraphs.",,reactivator,108,1422673498,2015-01-31 03:04:58+00:00,story,8975719,,98.0,, 2810,As a technical founder what is the best business book you've read?,,,,enjayz,107,1536439741,2018-09-08 20:49:01+00:00,story,17942709,,39.0,, 2811,Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?,,Usually gaming mice have a few extra buttons that can be mapped and some gaming keyboards have extra keys for mapping/chaining functions to them in games. Of course there is also the world of people that build custom keyboards. Has anyone used these extra buttons/keys for programming uses? Is it helpful and what are the details?,,matt_s,107,1627301304,2021-07-26 12:08:24+00:00,story,27958431,,155.0,, 2812,"How can we improve the world via creative, compassionate new ventures?",,"How can we...
• improve Fair Trade on the consumer or producer side?
• strengthen and expand non-profits or charities?
• educate or help the working conditions of labor (people who work for wages)?
• improve the ecological sustainability and environmental impact of supply chains?
• Expand access and convenience of healthy foods and diets?
• Improve democracy at the organization or government level?
If you're already part of an organization focusing on these things, tell us about it!",,fogzen,107,1514863629,2018-01-02 03:27:09+00:00,story,16049642,,70.0,, 2813,Has anyone gone from software to physical engineering?,,"Im feeling burned out and getting interested in machining, materials science and engineering outside of code.
Anyone else done this? Thinking of going to school full time to see it through.
FYI:
I do not have any schooling past highschool. I got really lucky and ended up an SRE after working my way off the helpdesk.",,tekno45,107,1643044669,2022-01-24 17:17:49+00:00,story,30060667,,97.0,, 2814,"Do you use Purism, PinePhone, or Fairphone?",,"Kicked off by everything happening with Apple, anyone in this community who has tried these different devices? What's your impression? What are the big problems that need solving?
I've seen a lot of people referencing these devices so figured I would ask about firsthand experience.",,istingray,107,1628818004,2021-08-13 01:26:44+00:00,story,28164208,,53.0,, 2815,Did you pay Marc Andreessen for advice and was it worth it?,,"I see you can ask Marc Andreessen for advice at https://21.co/pmarca/ - It costs $100 if he answers... Has anyone here asked him for advice and received it, and if so, was it worth the $100? I saw this a day or so ago, and at the time it was $20. The price seems to be inflating fast!",,wocg,107,1488214575,2017-02-27 16:56:15+00:00,story,13745617,,77.0,, 2816,Learning Web Design,,"I'm a developer who is interested in doing some web (and CSS) design. Are there good introductory online tutorials/courses for learning design and best practices? Any long term tutorials with design exercises, instead of simple How-To's?
The question is inspired by the recent design about startup web design [1].
1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604693",,notnoop,107,1281869076,2010-08-15 10:44:36+00:00,story,1604915,,32.0,, 2817,Twitter account stolen by presumed vulnerability,,"Hi HN,
My Twitter account was recently hijacked using what I believe is either a vulnerability or exploit within Twitter. My username was one that I consider to be somewhat sought after (I had offers to sell it).
I am not able to contact anyone at Twitter support. The Twitter support platform is just automated steps that do not help in any way.
My followers, tweets, and most importantly the connections I’ve made are gone. Simply vanished. My e-mail address is no longer associated with a Twitter account. Ifound a user on HN who had a similar issue [0] but my mobile device wasn’t hacked.
Here’s what I know:
I received an e-mail from Twitter stating that my e-mail address was changed. Prior to this I did not receive anything else from Twitter - no login notice, no two-factor authentication code, etc…
My Twitter password is/was 64 characters and is stored in KeePass. I had two-factor auth enabled on my account which was linked to my mobile. I retain sole access to all of my devices and that e-mail address. As far as I know, nothing that I own has has been compromised.
Whoever has control of my Twitter account joined Twitter in May of 2019. I suspect they may have bypassed the existing username restriction during registration.
I’ve opened multiple support requests with Twitter. All of those have been closed. I submitted a bug bounty report on Twitter’s HackerOne page [1] but it was promptly closed citing no access to individual accounts.
I reached out to some current and former employees on via Twitter and only had one response from a former employee. I also reached out to a few Twitter employees via e-mail to no avail.
I’m hoping that someone here might be able to at least offer me some advice. I doubt I’ll ever see my account again but figured this was worth a shot. Thank you for your time.
Scott
[0] - https://medium.com/@simon/mobile-twitter-hacked-please-help-2f65c691edf8 [1] - https://hackerone.com/twitter",,scottsousa,107,1560543154,2019-06-14 20:12:34+00:00,story,20186293,,38.0,, 2818,what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?,,"While thinking of ever more imaginative ways to punish domain squatters following yet another abandoned hunt for a domain-cum-product name, I finally became aware of the irony that I am sitting on a few decent domain names that I'm not using.
Then, I wondered, if one of the parked domains I've come across recently is held just by someone like me, not maliciously or out for profit, but just as a by-product of a non-startup startup, an abandoned weekend hackery project or whatever really.
So, rather than set up www.domainnameswap.com (partly because the name is parked ;o) ), how about a thread where we have a rummage down the back of the sofa and throw in any parked domains we'd be willing to give/swap away. If there's a match up, the relevant poster is contactable via their HN profile.
[Note: this idea may tank, but it's got to be worth a try. My fingers are being worn shorter with each fruitless domain search]",,stevejalim,107,1244736258,2009-06-11 16:04:18+00:00,story,652952,,298.0,, 2819,Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI,,"I have recently started taking interest in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and AI. I would like to attend good ML and AI conferences in Europe. Any recommendations?",,innoprenuer,107,1513606031,2017-12-18 14:07:11+00:00,story,15951647,,29.0,, 2820,What are more books like “Masters of Doom” or “Showstoppers”?,,I recently read "Masters of Doom" and found it to be far more motivating than any self help book. What books do you think are similar to it?,,enitihas,107,1578358271,2020-01-07 00:51:11+00:00,story,21975474,,42.0,, 2821,"Mobile devs who added Apple Sign In, what conversion changes?",,"Curious if adding apple sign in substantially affected conversion rate for mobile apps, thanks.",,davidajackson,107,1585416730,2020-03-28 17:32:10+00:00,story,22712699,,65.0,, 2822,Language-agnostic concepts a Backend Engineer should know?,,"Hi, what concepts do you think a backend engineer should know which are language agnostic/independent? An example could be knowing the different ways of how to connect to the database from the backend such as ORM or basic SQL and their pros and cons?",,nicksont,107,1625224929,2021-07-02 11:22:09+00:00,story,27710097,,59.0,, 2823,How to get back hacker's mentality and joy of coding,,"I've been coding since I was 11-12 years and I can remember the incredible amount of hours I was able to put in just because I was completely zoned out by the fascination of coding.
Now I'm 30 and I grew to be, at least according to market, capable (scala/backend) software engineer, but I no longer take any joy in coding. It's been around 12 years I've been coding professioanly (I had my first part time job at 15), and I can build a variety of interesting things.
My biggest problem is I can't find motivation and focus to do it. I don't enjoy work, and I'd like to WANT to build new things, just like when I was 12, but I just don't care anymore. I pretty much count down hours when I don't need to code (when does my job finish). When I finally manage to overcome exceptional effort and start coding something of my own, it's usually a lot of fun, and there are some sparkles of fun, but it never turns into fully fledged flame that I used to have.
And the next day it's the same again. For the most days I just can't overcome the lazyness to do something useful with my skills. I have balanced life, even considering corona, but overall I would just like to be fascinated by tech as I used to be, and toying with it would be something that I'd look forward to and take as a relaxation instead of something that saps the last pieces of energy that I have from work. I used to be like that, but last few years (5+) it's no more.
Any tips on how to perhpas change perspetcive, habits, or what to read, so I can enjoy the skillset that I had developed over the years rather than feel miserable?",,epimetheus2,107,1619334850,2021-04-25 07:14:10+00:00,story,26930923,,124.0,, 2824,Can use the #1 supercomputer for any project I want. What should it be?,,"I'm taking a very interesting class this semester called Computational Physics. The goal in the course is to select a research project that requires the use of parallel computing. We can use our university cluster or, because of the close association of the university with Oak Ridge National Labs, we have the opportunity to use the world's fastest supercomputer, Titan (17-27 pFLOPS). The usage of the entire machine at once is reserved for very special projects, but I'm sure I'll still be able to use a large number of nodes because projects that can be done on smaller supercomputers aren't allowed on Titan.
The professor recommended choosing something that relates to published research in physics or our own research field (mine is chemical engineering -> molecular dynamics). This freedom to choose whatever is really exciting, and I've got some interesting ideas, but I imagine there a lot of experts in their field who post on HN, and so someone may have a good idea for a new and exciting project.
My initial idea is to contribute to the effort of porting Quantum Monte Carlo code to GPUs. Titan's processing power is unique among supercomputers in that most of it comes entirely from nVidia Tesla K20X GPUs. QMC is among the most accurate methods that exist in predicting physical phenomena; the problem is that the methods are incredibly computationally demanding, something which highly parallelized GPUs are well-suited to handling. But I don't know. Maybe that's too much to do in a semester.",,Xcelerate,107,1357948782,2013-01-11 23:59:42+00:00,story,5045764,,91.0,, 2825,How do you motivate a lazy co-founder?,,"Hi, I'm new to this board.
I have a question about motivation. I'm running a mobile start-up and we just moved into our new offices. We started working on our spare time putting in time whenever it was available. Now, my co-founder and I are dedicated full time to the business and we've hired a couple of interns.
The problem however is that while I show up daily at 9 AM, my co-founder (the engineer, I'm the business guy) shows up every morning in the PM. We've had several discussions about inappropriate this is and how he's degrading office morale (mine and the intern's) by showing up so late every day. He stays late hours to try and compensate this tardiness, but it's still really poor presentation and incredibly unprofessional.
I have no recourse because we split the venture 50/50 (no vesting). If I want to continue on the project without him, he can block it. I've tried buying him out and he insists he's committed and will not sell under any circumstance. My only recourse is to quit and block him from taking the idea and running with it. Neither of these are admirable outcomes and I'd rather run the business as far as it can go with a lazy co-founder than end it in such an ugly fashion.
What I really want is a decent fucking co-founder who can show up at 9 (or 10 AM if he absolutely needs an extra hour of sleep) and be a profesional. Does any one have an idea on how to motivate him to do this?
Thanks, Vignesh",,vignesh343,107,1277744767,2010-06-28 17:06:07+00:00,story,1468545,,106.0,, 2826,Inspirational money making web apps made by hackers.,,"Please post money making web apps that you know of, like 37signals stack, dabble etc. That
1. were made by single hackers (or verry small teams)
2. make money
If possible add a short description.",,clyfe,107,1286383385,2010-10-06 16:43:05+00:00,story,1764682,,96.0,, 2827,Who needs contributors?,,"Looking for contributors to your project? Feel free to post any project that may interest HN readers, with a strong preference towards open source. Please follow this general format:
Project name Project description What do you hope to build this month? What kind of skills do you need? Link to your GitHub or somewhere else you'd like to onboard new contributors, like your project management software or chat room. Your license(s)",,joshdotsmith,107,1472742038,2016-09-01 15:00:38+00:00,story,12405712,,37.0,, 2828,Has Hacker News been hacked/cracked?,,"It seems like you can change the about field under PG's account http://news.ycombinator.org/user?id=pg using this appjet app http://notabank.appjet.net/",,code_devil,107,1237265968,2009-03-17 04:59:28+00:00,story,519433,,53.0,, 2829,Introductory Books on the Stock Market?,,"Hello all. Most of the books out there on the stock market are these flashy title kind of books promising to make you money.
I'm instead interested at learning about the systems at play with the stock market as the whole thing has always confused me.
Books/Articles/Online Courses will be appreciated!",,goose847,107,1585382038,2020-03-28 07:53:58+00:00,story,22709843,,36.0,, 2830,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2016),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,107,1462201314,2016-05-02 15:01:54+00:00,story,11611868,,136.0,, 2831,What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should exist in the future?,,I have been thinking about what the current VC fund structure limits the founder's imagination about the future for a long time.
Please share your wildest ideas.,,allenleein,107,1593579023,2020-07-01 04:50:23+00:00,story,23697840,,213.0,, 2832,How did you find your early adopters?,,"What outreach resources did you go through and how did you target potential users once you had a prototype?
edit (from comment I posted): Some friends and I had trouble getting leads on who to ""sell"" our prototype to, and we had the thought that this may be an even more legitimate problem than the one we were previously trying to solve.
Is this a problem that other startups have faced, trying to find specific (with contact information) customers to talk to and become the first users?",,pwingo,107,1363141167,2013-03-13 02:19:27+00:00,story,5366396,,69.0,, 2833,Why did delicious.com fail?,,"One day it was popular and then it started going through redesigns and relaunches. For a while, I used it to see what was trending, but then they hid that info from the home page and then brought it back until finally the site appeared to be a broken ghost town.
I'm just trying to construct a narrative to satisfy my curiosity. What exactly happened? Was it death by a thousand cuts (if so, where did it get cut?) or was there one fatal mistake (like Digg).
Discuss. (And feel free to share any links to stories/articles on Delicious' demise.)
EDIT: Typo. I meant "Digg", not "Reddit."",,bookbinder,107,1508263768,2017-10-17 18:09:28+00:00,story,15493212,,74.0,, 2834,Where to meet non-technical cofounders?,,"I spent most of my undergraduate degree (in applied math/physics) with my head down powering through courses and working a job in the evenings to pay for my education. Over that time, I met a bunch of talented people, many of whom I keep in touch with, but none of whom I could ever see myself working with. Moreover, they're also all engineers as well with skillsets that more or less resemble my own.
I'm at a FAANG company at the moment and I'm finding it quite unfulfilling (nothing new here), and for the last several months I've been hacking away on my own projects just to keep honing my skills and to try to figure out what's possible in terms of turning technical know-how into commercial products.
The last one I built felt like a relatively solid idea but I quickly realized (a) how much of the difficulty in launching the product depended on having a good network and knowing how to utilize it, and (b) how much I felt poorly equipped to do (a). Moreover, I'm also understanding how deeply reliant tech products are on domain knowledge in the industry they're attempting to push into.
The conclusion here seems to be that I'd be far more effective at reaching my goals working in partnership with someone who checks the above boxes (which, in hindsight, was incredibly obvious). The problem I'm having now, though, is that none of my friends are similarly motivated to me, and networking feels nigh-impossible with the COVID-19 situation.
Does anyone here have tips on how they meet people and feel out whether there's any professional compatibility – especially in the current situation? While I'm not opposed to just riding this out and trying to network the traditional way when the world reopens, it seems like there has to be a more effective way.",,aumakua,107,1599982666,2020-09-13 07:37:46+00:00,story,24459155,,94.0,, 2835,"I am “trapped” in a senior engineering role, how can I escape?",,"This is my first time speaking on this subject so I hope I am able to convey my position with reasonable coherence.
I learned to build websites around 2011 when I was in my mid 20's. I had been working as a cleaner for some time and had come to realise I needed to escape that particular poverty trap. My father and grandfather were also cleaners for the majority of their working lives and often expressed regret before they passed. After some months self-learning I had amassed the courage to start applying for internships and junior jobs. No luck initially, though eventually I was able to begin a data entry job on a 12 month contract. I was finally able to sit at a desk and have a work assigned email address!
Half-way into my contract I organised a dozen or so meetups at Google Campus. There I met people who gave me the inspiration to continue applying for jobs. I was a fish out of water but it was a fantastic time. Finally, after another year or so of searching, I received an offer. I was able to jump in at the deep end had full project ownership over critical projects for several international brands. Over the next year I was able to fit in a wealth of experience and saw my career progress nicely as I jumped from project to project.
Eventually I was offered the chance to join a small business services company and lead development of financial systems there. I accepted, and I have been here for over half a decade now with some success. However, I now feel woefully under-experienced compared to my peers and sorely need mentorship.
I feel hopelessly trapped and constantly on the precipice of professional and personal catastrophe. I am not fit the for job market as a senior engineer, and I no longer have the financial means to take a step back into a less senior role at a company with a larger engineering team.
My scenario is certainly not unique but I have no peers to discuss this issue with so I am reaching out to HN for stern and dispassionate advice.",,throwaway16011,107,1601122854,2020-09-26 12:20:54+00:00,story,24598261,,59.0,, 2836,Is Google still a cool place to work?,,I'm most interested in opinions from xooglers. From what I see it's still a great company and great place to work. Some xooglers seem to think it's lost its luster. I'm trying to collect all opinions; I'm expecting an offer today.,,offer_today,107,1346417325,2012-08-31 12:48:45+00:00,story,4459412,,122.0,, 2837,What are the best books for professional effectiveness?,,What books have helped you be more effective at work that apply to most “knowledge work” jobs?,,arikr,107,1639808795,2021-12-18 06:26:35+00:00,story,29602228,,59.0,, 2838,Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work?,,Title says it all! Have a $300-ish budget for a new screen for dev work. I've been using a https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=10509 for a past job and enjoyed it but it's been a few years since that model came out so I thought it was worth asking.
If it makes any difference I'm on the new Macbook Pro w/ Touchbar which I'll be pairing it with (as well as wireless keyboard/mouse). Thanks for any suggestions!,,thebiglebrewski,107,1481510295,2016-12-12 02:38:15+00:00,story,13155095,,83.0,, 2839,"I was fired from a startup I helped found, I'm fucked",,"I'm in a rough spot and I'd like to ask for advice from my fellow HNers. I was employee #1 at my startup and was fired 11 months in - 1 month from my cliff. I'm not necessarily bummed I was let go, things changed with the company and my role so I guess I just wasn't a good fit anymore. I get that. I'm sad because I'm out of money and and have no stock. I spent so much $$ commuting (SF to Palo Alto), eating out in Palo Alto, courting clients etc. I hardly have 2 months of personal runway saved up. And of course I worked my ass off. I never even expensed any travel expenses because I figured it was best to keep the money with the company. All the while I was getting paid a startup salary to begin with.
But now I don't have anything to show for it and am going broke. They are offering me a tiny equity package which is approximately equal to 3.5 months of work but it seems like an insult. In exchange they are asking me to sign a document which basically says I can never take any action against them, ever. So should I ask or demand more? Do I have any other options here? I would like to stay on good terms with the 3 founders because I really do respect them professionally but I'm not sure what to do. Another potentially interesting detail: I'm in my 20s and they are all 10-18 years older than me.
Onward and upward,
-grumpymarketer
[This is a throw away account obviously because I want to protect the identity of my former employer for the time being.]",,grumpymarketer,107,1336786213,2012-05-12 01:30:13+00:00,story,3962292,,97.0,, 2840,Is it practical to create a software-controlled model rocket?,,"Is it practical to launch a model rocket and have it land in a controlled manner, like Falcon 9, using hardware on the level of arduino and open-source software?",,ph0rque,107,1550342545,2019-02-16 18:42:25+00:00,story,19180181,,77.0,, 2841,I am interviewing product managers – questions to ask?,,"Hi all! I’m connecting with product managers to understand more about the space. I make 30-60 minute interviews as part of some discovery research I am doing for a side project. I did an interview of a product manager in an enterprise and learnt quite a lot. Here are a few truths and titbits from it.
* Product management is a high velocity communication game. You are constantly working with customers, customer success managers, sales engineers, CXOs, marketing team, sales people etc. * You can easily have a 1000 open tickets. You need to stay on top of which are in progress and what are the priorities. * The customer may communicate with multiple people in your organization but ultimately it is your responsibility to ensure that their priorities are taken into consideration and addressed. * Slack, Outlook in Office 365, Jira, and Zendesk are the goto tools
Here is the interview https://prodjeeves.com/transitioning-into-product-owner-role-interview/
I want to hear what the community says. What would you like to hear?
What would you like to ask other product managers? If you have some questions, let me know.
Otoh, I am also trying to understand the space. If you can spend sometime for an interview, please let me know. I would be glad to.",,sharmi,107,1606997850,2020-12-03 12:17:30+00:00,story,25288133,,52.0,, 2842,So what's new in the world of A.I.?,,"AI research and related topics and startups rarely make news. Is it really such a dead field? There's never any breakthroughs announced, and there's no grandiose research projects underway that I know of. I read every day how mobile social network platforms are being funded en masse in Silicon Valley while an entire branch of computing appears to be whithering away in the grips of academia.
Are there any websites that try to track the different AI projects going on? Which books should someone fascinated in this field be reading to try stay up to date?",,dstein,107,1286153338,2010-10-04 00:48:58+00:00,story,1754134,,48.0,, 2843,How does a beginner best spend one week of learning machine learning?,,"I'll spend all my time next week studying machine learning. However, I know that it's easy to get lost in overly theoretical material when learning ML.
So I'm interested in some advice on how to best spend my time, given that I'd like to get as much practical knowledge as possible.
Here is the level I'm at now:
I'm currently halfways though Andrew Ng's ML course on Coursera, and will probably finish this within the week. I love the mix of theory an practice this course is based around.
I've also done the Udacity - Intro to Machine Learning, but found it too theoretical.
I kind of understand the basic principles of linear & logistic regression, cost functions and gradient descent & the normal equation.
By the end of the week, I hope to be able to do linear regression using gradient descent on an actual dataset. If so, the week has been very well spent!
My preferred language is Python.
All tips and suggestions are highly appreciated :)",,mrborgen,107,1429879824,2015-04-24 12:50:24+00:00,story,9432952,,35.0,, 2844,How do you manage your mental health?,,,,gmemstr,107,1528821916,2018-06-12 16:45:16+00:00,story,17295064,,89.0,, 2845,Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?,,It seems like all companies that are valued at $1BN or more raised money in their early days.,,mdunn,107,1406233663,2014-07-24 20:27:43+00:00,story,8081987,,134.0,, 2846,Moving from a product org to a consulting org: What should I know?,,"Hi HN,
So far in my software engineering career, I’ve worked at a product focused company and at a media company (building internal APIs/tools/etc.). I’m interviewing at a small software company that’s more of a consulting shop / contractor. Teams have several active projects, and it sounds like most contracts last for less than a year, with several multi-year engagements mixed in.
So my question is: What should I be considering before moving into this sort of work? A variety of projects sounds like it could be engaging, but on the other hand, maybe I’ll get bored writing the same boilerplate over and over? It also sounds like consulting has the potential to expose me to a wider variety of technologies and languages, which I see as a plus. But I’m worried that being involved with shorter term projects means I won’t get the chance to gain _deep_ expertise in any one thing, which might hurt my future job prospects?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.",,pwnasaurus,107,1619090621,2021-04-22 11:23:41+00:00,story,26901468,,73.0,, 2847,"Who's using Clojure, and to do what?",,"Hello everyone,
I've seen a lot of articles on HN recently talking about Clojure. I had a quick look at a few pages (Wikipedia, etc...), and I can't help but think that it sounds like the new cool language, pretty much like Ruby in 2007.
But to get a better idea, I'd like to hear the feedback from the community: Who is using Clojure (in real-life cases), and what are you doing with it?
Bonus points if you can tell what specific features made it a better language for the task.",,gregschlom,106,1277242353,2010-06-22 21:32:33+00:00,story,1453259,,70.0,, 2848,Who wants to be hired? (December 2018),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:It strikes me that instead of the old motto of "Don't Be Evil" Google is now implementing the new motto of "Be Evil All The Time". Very disappointing.",,x0054,106,1565391757,2019-08-09 23:02:37+00:00,story,20658912,,41.0,, 2852,What are the technical justifications for keeping .DS_Store?,,"I was hoping that with macos 11 we would see the deprecation of .DS_Store. I'm not running the beta so perhaps it is, but what has surprised me is its sustained longevity. What are the technical reasons for keeping .DS_Store? It is essentially a application-specific (i.e. Mac Finder) solution that pollutes the data store.
Off the top of my head I can think of a number of other solutions to store directory metadata: a Finder-specific database mapping values to directory paths, resource forks (ala OS 9), etc.",,kaptain,106,1593139339,2020-06-26 02:42:19+00:00,story,23648165,,91.0,, 2853, What hosting do you use for personal projects?,,I'd like to set up a webhost just to play around with during my spare time. I'd like some kind of virtual private server so I can have root access and customize it to my heart's content.
I don't need anything too expensive. Does anyone have suggestions?,,j_baker,106,1261251279,2009-12-19 19:34:39+00:00,story,1005067,,126.0,, 2854,Hackers falling in love,,"I quit my job around six months ago to start my own thing. Thought through a lot of possible distractions, technical/financial blocks, how much runway I had, etc. What wasn't anticipated was meeting someone and falling head over heels. Well, it's a few months later, and I feel a bit like waking up from a dream, but the project seems to be on the right track again, slowly building momentum. But I wonder if I could have done things differently, taken on a different attitude, basically done more in the past few months instead of behaving like a smitten puppy with all the time in the world.
The amount of focus and effort required in building a startup is incredible, but molecular chemistry is a tough adversary that doesn't fight fair. I'm curious how others have dealt with similar situations. Really love to read some war stories. Anyone?",,rmundo,106,1297400911,2011-02-11 05:08:31+00:00,story,2205259,,68.0,, 2855,Should I learn Bootstrap 3 or 4 at this moment?,,I noticed Bootstrap 4 has not been released yet. Is it close to being released or should I still learn and use Bootstrap 3 at this moment?,,utt,106,1482805445,2016-12-27 02:24:05+00:00,story,13260887,,108.0,, 2856,Where can I find “unsolved problems” for various industries?,,"As a developer, I'm interested in working on a problem in my spare time. However, most of the problems I've thought of over the years have already been addressed in my field. I'd like to consider other fields that have problems needing solving, but I'm not really sure where to start other than doing pretty generic Google searches.",,matthuggins,106,1438958106,2015-08-07 14:35:06+00:00,story,10022691,,68.0,, 2857,My mother has shaky hands – guidance on iPhone accessibility settings?,,"As my mother ages (she's 89) her hands are getting quite shaky, and she's finding it more difficult to use her iPhone. I've been looking through the Touch settings in Settings > Accessibility, such as Touch Accommodations, but I'm a bit confused by the number of variables.
Her hands don't shake so much yet that she triggers Shake To Undo, it's more about things like the screen detecting the start of a swipe when she wants to do a long press. I also think Touch ID can be a bit confused by slightly shaky fingers.
I'd really value guidance from people who've gone through the same process, either with relatives or themselves, whether through age or conditions like Parkinsons, so I can at least have a starting point to work from.
She recently bought one of the new iPhone SEs, but I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to get an XR with FaceID to avoid issues with TouchID.",,frereubu,106,1590060295,2020-05-21 11:24:55+00:00,story,23257102,,62.0,, 2858,Can anyone recommend some fulfillment alternatives to Amazon?,,"(I'm aware there are many that can be found on Google search, I want to see if anyone here has any experience with them...)",,newyearnewyou,106,1481037060,2016-12-06 15:11:00+00:00,story,13115115,,39.0,, 2859,The best way to find remote job,,"What is the best way to find remote job? Actually i'm tryin' to find 20hours\week job to upgrade my Node.js(for now i'm .NET developer) skill and learn something new with real life project.. But I want to get some small salary, 5-15\hour will be okey. So where I can find such jobs?",,shtpavel,106,1400508084,2014-05-19 14:01:24+00:00,story,7767420,,91.0,, 2860,What’s your daily/weekly routine?,,,,voisin,106,1596382239,2020-08-02 15:30:39+00:00,story,24029286,,82.0,, 2861,Are Cybersecurity Workers Ok?,,"In the last 12 months we have seen the SolarWinds hack, the Microsoft Exchange Server data breach, and since Friday, Log4j. I'm reading an article on CNN about the US government's response to Log4j.
"Organizations are now in a race against time to figure out if they have computers running the vulnerable software that were exposed to the internet. Cybersecurity executives across government and industry are working around the clock on the issue."
""For most of the information technology world, there was no weekend," Rick Holland, chief information security officer at cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows, told CNN. "It was just another long set of days.""
The sysadmin subreddit is also full of professionals talking about the problem.
With so many large scale hacks, 0-days, and breaches happening these days, are cybersecurity professionals ok? Have studies about the mental health and anxiety levels of this group of professionals been conducted?",,Victerius,106,1639493579,2021-12-14 14:52:59+00:00,story,29552136,,136.0,, 2862,"Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp",http://wordoid.com,,,op,106,1242991673,2009-05-22 11:27:53+00:00,story,621855,,78.0,, 2863,Simple tools/hack for small project management,,I am looking for an equivalent of Google Keep for project management. Appreciate any help in advance.
thanks.,,waqasaday,106,1517991032,2018-02-07 08:10:32+00:00,story,16322942,,83.0,, 2864,What books are recommended to learn the semiconductor industry?,,"I want to understand the ins and outs of the semiconductor industry. What resources would you recommend for beginner, intermediary and technical person?",,allie1,106,1645292903,2022-02-19 17:48:23+00:00,story,30398930,,35.0,, 2865,My startup has more annual subscribers than monthly. What to make of it?,,"I very recently realized that my product has more annual subscriptions than monthly ones. This was very surprising because it goes against everything I've read online. I offer only one tier that gives you access to all features; it costs $X/month or $10*X/year (the typical two-months-free-if-you-pay-annual thing you see everywhere). The split in subscribers between the monthly and annual plans is 44% and 56% respectively and I don't know how to interpret this information.
Does this mean I should simply increase prices? Is it fair to interpret this as the majority of the market saying "I'm happy to pay the highest tier your product offers"? I'm know that HN always suggests increasing prices all the time, but I'm wondering if my situation is an even stronger signal to increase prices.
Does this mean I should offer more than one tier and segment the market with different features for different prices?
My product isn't very niche or anything like that. It's a typical internet/web SaaS, so I believe most advice should be generally applicable.",,throwaway_23124,106,1618498789,2021-04-15 14:59:49+00:00,story,26821281,,132.0,, 2866,How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?,,"Hi,
At my current client I've been doing more and more security related tasks such as audits on external software. Currently the type of software I audit are WordPress plugins. I have more than 15yrs of experience with WordPress and in the past I could fairly easily assess a WordPress plugin's potential security impact(s). Nowadays not so much due to the seemingly increased usage of npm packages included with these plugins.
Often these plugins do not include a package.json, package-lock.json nor are the javascript files readable (bundled & minified). This makes using npm audit near impossible. Good for production, less for audits.
Sometimes I can grab development files such as package.json, package-lock.json from a public repo, but in the case of so-called 'premium' plugins a public repo is usually absent.
So my question is: How do you (security) audit external software depending on npm packages?",,BjornW,106,1635844769,2021-11-02 09:19:29+00:00,story,29078836,,82.0,, 2867,Did you learn any life changing lessons this year?,,This year I learned a hard lesson in personal life and realized that playing a "Providing Hero" is a poor life choice. It just makes you open to exploitation especially by close family where your guards are down.
What lessons did you learn this year?,,drieddust,106,1545582176,2018-12-23 16:22:56+00:00,story,18746881,,97.0,, 2868,What are the best hacks to fight depression?,,,,xkbd,106,1528975928,2018-06-14 11:32:08+00:00,story,17310846,,145.0,, 2869,How much money does an average VC make?,,How much money does an average VC make ? And how much does the top VCs make and how much personal wealth do they accumulate over their tenure as a VC.,,srameshc,106,1431194018,2015-05-09 17:53:38+00:00,story,9517069,,61.0,, 2870,Tired founders facing acquihire – please advise,,"After 18 months of 80+ hour weeks, no weekends, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of opportunity cost income, I am tired.
I'm having a really difficult time making a decision and appreciate any advice the HN community can offer.
Here is a quick summary of my situation:
A bit over a year ago, I left a high paying corporate job to start a company. For ~6 months, my co-founder and I did not pay ourselves and ran through a lot of our savings. We soon got accepted into a top tech incubator and were able to use their small investment to keep running. After graduating from the incubator and without even really trying, an investment of more than $1 million fell into our laps. Shortly after, a very successful company contacted us about a potential acquisition and after two months of talking extended a "low-ish ball" acquihire offer to myself and my co-founder.
I wish we had the momentum and growth to comfortably pass on the offer but the reality is that we have not had much confidence in the business for a while. Even before the investment fell into our lap we considered "pivoting" to an entirely new idea because we were so frustrated with the highly competitive market in which we were operating. The acquiring company now also has plans to enter our market and it would be very difficult to compete.
The terms of the deal allow us to mostly pay back our investors in full and would line us up with great jobs. It is not the exit we dreamed of but it gives us a nice story for the future and allows us to "wipe our hands clean".
We have been working 80+ hours weeks without weekends and extremely low pay. My health has been declining (I was recently injured and need surgery but cannot without better insurance) and I had to move away from friends and family. I'm still young but my savings have essentially run out and I have become somewhat disillusioned by startup life.
Is it time to call it quits?
Thoughts?",,tiredandseeking,106,1497305839,2017-06-12 22:17:19+00:00,story,14541569,,78.0,, 2871,Best uses for Amazon Echo?,,I got an Amazon Echo and some wifi enabled light bulbs and electrical outlets for Christmas.
What are your favorite uses for it? Any cool "skills" you've made?,,leesalminen,106,1482702775,2016-12-25 21:52:55+00:00,story,13255581,,70.0,, 2872,What is your job? Do you like it? What was your favorite job?,,,,zipfle,106,1448543671,2015-11-26 13:14:31+00:00,story,10632809,,80.0,, 2873,Becoming a Freelancer in 6 months?,,"Hey All,
Bit of an odd, specific question here, but I think it brings up an interesting discussion, so here goes -
If I have 6 months to get my web development skills to a level where I can be paid $35+/hour freelancing, what's the best way to go about it?
Now a couple things I want to mention to help keep the question clear: the timeline is somewhat arbitrary (give or take a few months), but for personal reasons I'd like to be able to quite my current job and move home for at least a year, while still being able to make some money (hence the freelancing). Also, I do have beginner/intermediate level experience with HTML, CSS, Java and C++, but nothing that anyone would pay for right now.
So, with all that being said, what's the best way to go about positioning myself to make money as a freelancer in the very near future? Is it possible in that timeline? What language(s) should be focused on, and where/how should I learn? And what projects should I do to prove to someone that I'm worth hiring?
Edit: One other note, learning to code at a high level is something I've been wanting to do for a while, so this isn't just a 'one year and done plan.' After my hypothetical sabbatical, I'd like to join a start-up as an engineer and use the programming skills I've acquired. Anyway, thank you for the help. I'm interested to see the responses.",,olso4052,106,1372253501,2013-06-26 13:31:41+00:00,story,5945865,,64.0,, 2874,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2013),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,106,1364821387,2013-04-01 13:03:07+00:00,story,5472748,,149.0,, 2875,Who is using the .NET stack for their startup?,,Who is using c# or f# for their startup? I am compiling a list of startups using .net stack. I would appreciate your help.,,nirajs,105,1414892362,2014-11-02 01:39:22+00:00,story,8545278,,96.0,, 2876,Do you still play with VR actively?,,"I'm trying to tell if I should invest time into VR development.
HTC vive and oculus owners, are you still actively playing VR after few months, or you put it on the shelf?",,billconan,105,1470240862,2016-08-03 16:14:22+00:00,story,12219043,,108.0,, 2877,How do you sell yourself as a new freelancer to clients?,,"I've decided that I want to start freelancing doing web design for local businesses/organizations. It seems that established freelancers or people with extremely good portfolios don't have much problems finding work due to the amount of referrals they get. But for someone starting from scratch, is there a secret sauce to getting your first few customers? Currently I'm just introducing myself and handing out cards to office managers of businesses.",,pbj,105,1340636093,2012-06-25 14:54:53+00:00,story,4156764,,59.0,, 2878,How much do founders pay themselves?,,"This is something I've always wondered about... When you take a VC round, how do you (as a founder) get your salary determined? Is it purely up to the board and investors? Is it up to you? How does it compare -- is it the bare minimum to live on, so that everything can go into the company? Is it comparable to an executive you'd hire? Somewhere in between?
I'm very curious about the calculus. I imagine it varies quite a bit by the type of investment made (e.g. angel vs. VC vs. institutional), but that's just a guess.",,mrbird,105,1283960994,2010-09-08 15:49:54+00:00,story,1672215,,80.0,, 2879,Did reading HN bring anything valuable into your life?,,"I'm trying to figure out my motivations behind specific online habits. One of them is reading HN.
I'm curious if reading HN bring anything valuable into your life or is it just pure entertainment. Did you learn something valuable, found a job, meet your wife. :)",,mdoliwa,105,1538768125,2018-10-05 19:35:25+00:00,story,18151061,,86.0,, 2880,How much do you make at a remote job?,,"Inspired by threads about Amazon [1] and Google [2], I thought that we would all benefit from some more information about the pay of remote jobs.
Some companies seem to highly adjust for location, for example, Buffer is paying $93k for a developer in Hong Kong, $77k in Buenos Aires, and $144k in San Francisco, for the same job.
This raises questions about determining 'fair' salary outside the major cities, where the cost of living is well known and understood, and sources such as Numbeo and similar sometimes miss essential issues.
So, dear reader, what's your job, where are you based, on what's your salary?
The more information we have available, the better off we are! :)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312984
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314449",,throwaway0822,105,1471877181,2016-08-22 14:46:21+00:00,story,12336661,,126.0,, 2881,How much do you contemplate per week?,,"Feel also free to mention methods, places and what have you.",,jereees,105,1621610859,2021-05-21 15:27:39+00:00,story,27235288,,123.0,, 2882,Are you with me? Leaving Facebook. ,,"I'll be deactivating my Facebook account (tainting what I need to) and removing as much information there as possible within the week.
I'm not a hardcore privacy advocate, but I joined Facebook with the understanding that some of what data placed there would stay private. That is what we agreed to.
Facebook has repeatedly violated that trust.",,ihodes,105,1272754579,2010-05-01 22:56:19+00:00,story,1311391,,139.0,, 2883,I want to learn statistics and data mining,,"I want to learn statistics and data mining. I can't afford to buy many books right now, so I'm asking for one or two on the topic, and also one or two available online, as ordering through amazon would take a month for shipping.
I'd like to get your opinions before spending time on random books. Thanks a lot.
P.S. My math background is not very strong but I'm willing to learn.",,oscardelben,105,1258822904,2009-11-21 17:01:44+00:00,story,954677,,37.0,, 2884,Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell,,"It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.",,folli,105,1604094288,2020-10-30 21:44:48+00:00,story,24947167,,76.0,, 2885,What are the bibles of Computer Science?,,"I am building out my CS book collection, and I was curious to see if there is a widely accepted group of textbooks that are considered the bibles of different CS fundamentals. For an example:
* Brian Kerrigan's "C Programming Language" for C language
* W. Richard Steven's "IP/TCP Illustrated" for networking
Thoughts?",,laddng,105,1479830255,2016-11-22 15:57:35+00:00,story,13014900,,53.0,, 2886,How to find contract work in Bay Area?,,"I have over 6 years of experience in iOS and I think i am pretty good programmer. I am looking for hourly rate of $200+ in Bay Area. I get calls from companies that do placements but they don't go above $80 (even for Bay Area).
What can I do to get this rate?",,byebyetech,105,1533674600,2018-08-07 20:43:20+00:00,story,17710597,,36.0,, 2887,"Remote workers, how do you show your work?",,"When I was working remotely as a dev, I found one of the hardest problems was communicating what I was working on with my team.
My parents always taught me to be modest when speaking about myself, and to let my results speak for itself. However, I found that in a team environment, proactive communication works much better.
How do you share your day to day with your team? What tools, methods, or habits do you use to solve this problem?",,csytan,105,1516524775,2018-01-21 08:52:55+00:00,story,16197364,,45.0,, 2888,What's the most important piece of code you've written?,,"What's the most important piece of code you've written?
My answer is as follows... The most important piece of code I've written was a rudimentary 2d tile engine in QB64 for an RPG I never finished. It's memorable and important to me because of what writing it did for my confidence as a developer. At the time, writing a tile engine "from scratch", in my mind, would make me a "professional".
I had been following a Game Development YouTube series called "Adventures In Game Development". I wanted to be a game developer! It was my dream! I was a novice developer when I took on that challenge. After a few articles and discussions with some people in various IRC channels, I began.
A few hours later, I saw a map appear that I had hardcoded which contained 0's, 1's. When I saw the square patch of grass with water in the middle (my clever map design), I thought I could accomplish anything. It was one of those moments that changed my life.
I'm not kidding when I say I had wanted to write a tile engine for a year, at least, before I was actually able to do it. I was probably around 14 years old, at the time.
I hope you enjoyed reading my answer to this question and I look forward to reading yours!
EDIT
I found the link to one of the articles I read when writing the tile engine.
http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tutorials/rpg_tut2.txt
EDIT 2
Another important piece of code I've written was the prototype for this game.
http://hdfgame.com/
I helped with the commercial version a bit but it was awesome to see my prototype turn into the first commercial game that I helped release. The prototype was simple but it had the basic functionality that Hexapod Defense Force has.",,jessehorne,105,1547427960,2019-01-14 01:06:00+00:00,story,18899809,,108.0,, 2889,Who wants to be hired? (August 2015),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Would love to hear your experiences,,amerf1,105,1562451870,2019-07-06 22:24:30+00:00,story,20372393,,24.0,, 2891,"Most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software?",,"Books like nand2tetris, Let Over Lambda, Lisp in Small Pieces, Hacker's Delight are iconic. They aren't required reading to do well in software but they are extremely interesting and are fairly easy to read (they are well edited).
What other books are in this vein?
Due to popularity, feel free to skip The Littler Schemer/MLer, HtDP, SICP, On Lisp, Thinking in Forth. And let's skip history, biography books like Soul of a New Machine and Isaacson's Jobs.
And again, let's skip books that you might actually consider required reading for experienced developers.",,eatonphil,105,1637591517,2021-11-22 14:31:57+00:00,story,29306651,,100.0,, 2892,Inspirational movies,,"When feeling demotivated or simply in need of a gentle kick in the ass, watching a good inspirational/feel-good movie can never hurt. Which movies did you find inspirational? Bonus point for business related movies.",,olalonde,105,1289975509,2010-11-17 06:31:49+00:00,story,1913174,,148.0,, 2893,What is the best book on data visualization in 2021?,,"I am looking for a comprehensive resource on data visualization. There are many individual resources that have been posted over the years (such as in blog posts). However, as a non-expert I am not sure which advice is good to follow (e.g., many blogs are published by companies trying to sell me a particular product or package).
Not sure if the book is the ideal format for this, but it seems to have the highest chance of being competent, unbiased and comprehensive. For the latter point, I think important topics are
- Colors and accessibility
- Concrete examples of color schemes
- Pros and Cons of different visualizations vis-à-vis data
- Print versus digital
- Fonts and layout considerations
- Perhaps short insights into the research on these points
But perhaps there are other things not on my radar that are current or interesting?",,zwaps,105,1638779027,2021-12-06 08:23:47+00:00,story,29457470,,33.0,, 2894,How do you deal with potential acquirers?,,"How do you respond to someone who says they are interested in acquiring your business (especially a potential competitor) but won't make an offer until you share your financals and other confidential data? Do you ask them to make an offer without seeing the books first or share your data, hoping they make an offer, but realizing you're sharing confidential info? And how do you differentiate serious offers from time wasters who will chew all your time only to either not offer or low-ball after seeing your financial state? Can you get away with saying: "I'm not sharing you anything until you make an offer?" But then how can you obligate them to that?
And what if they are adamant that they won't make an offer until they see your books and do due diligence? I would think that if investors can make a Term Sheet commitment contingent on due diligence, so can you do that with potential acquirers. But they don't seem to see it that way?
Here's some suggestions we've gotten, but I don't know what is common place or accepted:
* Tell potential acquirers that they must first submit a Contingent Offer providing your books substantiate certain minimum metrics.
* Tell potential acquirers that they have to pay for your time in doing due diligence, setting a flat rate (say, $20k for sake of argument), with the amount counting as a non-refundable deposit towards the acquisition amount
* Use a trusted third party to do a due diligence review, providing your information to the third-party who will not disclose it to the acquirer, but only verify certain required facts or due diligence requests. The Trusted third party inspects the books and doesn't disclose them to the acquirer but knows their desired metrics.
* Breakup fee that penalizes them for walking away.
* Confidentiality agreement with huge damages for disclosing any of the information outside a small group of people in the acquiring company.",,rexreed,105,1389932105,2014-01-17 04:15:05+00:00,story,7074264,,23.0,, 2895,Do you have a software consultant or outsourcing horror story?,,"I'll start:
My friend's first startup took a dive after spending $80,000 to work with a local development company. It turned out the development firm was just a front to outsource all of the work overseas and take a big cut.
Long story short, 5 months later he ended up with no app, no money, and a lawsuit that he couldn't much afford.
Has anyone else had an experience like this?",,Shanerostad,105,1523020680,2018-04-06 13:18:00+00:00,story,16772938,,78.0,, 2896,Alternate Email hosting to G Suite,,"I have been using at Suite with custom domain for my email since 2010. Now google is shutting down g suite and forcing a paid Workspace subscription. I only need to keep my email and domain. By accident, I deleted my g suite but still have access to admin console and the domain registration.
Is there a recommended email hosting I could simply transfer to?",,mrbonner,105,1643477034,2022-01-29 17:23:54+00:00,story,30128198,,149.0,, 2897,Please name two of your most favorite books.,,"Mine are Pixar Touch and IWOZ",,vips,105,1255310912,2009-10-12 01:28:32+00:00,story,875686,,227.0,, 2898,What is a way of making residual income with $5K a month?,,"My friends and I have decided that we are sick of living paycheck-to-paycheck. We want to start a business together that would bring us residual income. I have a few ideas, but I am all ears if you have any suggestions.
A little about me: I am highly knowledgeable in HTML/CSS/JS, website development, wordpress, graphic design, online marketing, and social marketing. I've worked with companies such as ARCO Gas, AMPM, HiteJinro, Ballantines Whiskey, and the LA Dodgers.
I have experience and understanding of the current state of the web and effective marketing.
An idea: buy cheap high quality phone cases from China
* The $5K / mo would give us a variety of cases to choose from, as well as bulk discounts. Obviously, we would start small to test the market, maybe invest $1K in inventory
* Simple, modern website that makes purchasing easy on the web and mobile
* Highly targeted market. Example: (Item: a Justin Beiber case) Facebook ad target teenage girls in the USA who have liked Justin's facebook page
* Analytics, A/B testing, whatever I can do to maximize profits
* Sell $1 cases for ~$10; should result in very high ROI
* Even though the case market is saturated, with targeted ads I'm thinking it would be possible.
Any other ideas?
edit: Don't get whats with all the downvotes :/ We are legitimately trying to start something that would help us get out of living paycheck to paycheck, and are simply open to hearing ideas. Isn't this what the whole entrepreneurial spirit is about?",,hanyoon,105,1450260066,2015-12-16 10:01:06+00:00,story,10743315,,71.0,, 2899,What are the next internet infra problems?,,"There are multiple companies that were born to solve specific internet's infrastructural problems (e.g. Equinix, Akamai). Looking at the way internet usage has evolved, what kind of infra challenges do we have to face (now or future)?
[books/papers suggestions are welcome!]",,vabahe7646,105,1649595569,2022-04-10 12:59:29+00:00,story,30976594,,223.0,, 2900,Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?,,"A book popular in our industry is now a decade old.
Has anyone put the advice from the author Tim Ferriss into practice?
If so, how did you manage to do it and what have you learned from the experience?",,Dejital,105,1502143797,2017-08-07 22:09:57+00:00,story,14951671,,92.0,, 2901,Best practices for editing remote code locally?,,"Working on a remote codebase from a local computer accessible via ssh, what’s the best/easiest way to write, edit and test code?",,E_Evan,105,1649680095,2022-04-11 12:28:15+00:00,story,30987770,,177.0,, 2902,How did you move from a salaried job to contracting?,,"Reading the poll about salaries in London (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804134) it seems a lot of people working permanent jobs are getting shafted. Contract rates seem to be quite good though, so I'm wondering if anyone who has made the move from permanent to contract work could give some hints and tips on their experiences.",,lucaspiller,105,1370183400,2013-06-02 14:30:00+00:00,story,5808627,,99.0,, 2903,Do you feel like you're missing out?,,"It seems like with all this amazing stuff going on in the world (surging web 2.0 valuations, people becoming instantly rich & famous in tech, booming stocks & home prices, new discoveries in physics, twitter debates, viral content and insta-fame) does it ever feel like you're missing out, like there is a big party going and you're watching from the sidelines.",,paulpauper,104,1432396814,2015-05-23 16:00:14+00:00,story,9593292,,71.0,, 2904,What technology is “cutting edge” in 2022?,,I feel like I'm still hearing about the same ML and AI advancements that were purported in 2016. What's some technology that is actually cutting edge and unknown to most laymen?,,MathCodeLove,104,1642998576,2022-01-24 04:29:36+00:00,story,30053761,,121.0,, 2905,How do I develop skills to comfort people and offer compassion?,,I am looking for interesting "book recommendations" particularly.
Someone told me that they were afraid to share their vulnerabilities with me because they feared I might not be comforting or even give them more anxiety.
I have looked up to HN for wisdom over the years and hopefully this ask piques enough interest.,,navalsaini,104,1645420016,2022-02-21 05:06:56+00:00,story,30412165,,87.0,, 2906,Best HN threads in '08?,,"There was a ton of hacker news in 08. What were your favorite threads?",,iloveyouocean,104,1230933960,2009-01-02 22:06:00+00:00,story,417782,,16.0,, 2907,What are the best resources for learning about algorithmic trading?,,"I'm a CS student looking to get into Quantative Finance, and would appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction.",,whiskers08xmt,104,1489494538,2017-03-14 12:28:58+00:00,story,13866919,,19.0,, 2908,Alternatives to HN less web-focused and more technical/professional?,,,,kluck,104,1437558042,2015-07-22 09:40:42+00:00,story,9928556,,100.0,, 2909,Is it difficult for non-Chinese to work in China?,,"What should an American (or other English-speaking) software engineer expect if they wished to work in China?
Is there xenophobia? Are Americans looked down upon or treated differently?
How difficult is it to find a job? How about a visa?
Culturally, what are some things to avoid, things to expect, etc?",,ap22213,104,1469111696,2016-07-21 14:34:56+00:00,story,12137103,,106.0,, 2910,Who's looking for a cofounder?,,"I just stumbled upon an old Ask HN with the same topic from 2010 and I thought this could be useful to resurrect.
You should probably mention what you are working on, where you are located, what stage you are in, who you are looking for, what you can bring to the table and a way to contact you.",,_1tan,104,1435533011,2015-06-28 23:10:11+00:00,story,9795503,,121.0,, 2911,"If you use keybase.io regularly, for what do you primarily use it?",,,,twitchax,104,1481528384,2016-12-12 07:39:44+00:00,story,13156336,,59.0,, 2912,Can you switch to a programming career despite nearing 40?,,What tips can be given to someone who wants to change careers to the tech industry in this stage of life?,,IamZeroBalance,104,1615191766,2021-03-08 08:22:46+00:00,story,26383366,,100.0,, 2913,How to turn a “toy” side project into a business?,,"We launched http://hallway.chat a couple weeks ago and since then hundreds of teams have signed up. They're all free users, but daily usage is pretty high.
Hallway started as a fun side project / "toy app". It creates temporary video rooms in Slack for teams to connect and make working from home less lonely.
I wanted to ask if anyone has any ideas about how to think about turning this into an actual business given there seems to be some interest?",,memn0nis,104,1586358318,2020-04-08 15:05:18+00:00,story,22813573,,55.0,, 2914,What are the most fun-to-play-with open source deep learning projects?,,"I have temporary access to a monster PC (32core thread ripper + 2x2080ti).
I've been playing with deep fakes which is fun (I look good as Neo fighting Morpheus).
But what other fun + awesome open source projects can I run with it before I have to give it back?
I'm a programmer (making apps, websites, games etc). But don't have a lot of deep learning experience though want to learn.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!",,jonplackett,104,1601931603,2020-10-05 21:00:03+00:00,story,24691990,,23.0,, 2915,How Can I Find a Mentor?,,"There was an HN thread a few months back about autodidactic programmers, and many people said that one of the most important things for a developing programmer is to have a good mentor.
I think I'd really like a mentor.
Some things about me: I've been coding for maybe a year, but I have a full time job so progress is not going as fast as maybe I'd like it to.
I've been doing Python (a very small amount of C# as well). I've read an intro book, and now I'm reading a book that goes into more depth with OO. I've solved the first 51 Project Euler problems, many of them with relatively elegant algorithms. I have a love for elegant algorithms.
I'm not sure what to do next. Build a Django app? Learn Java and build an Android app? Learn Haskell? Learn C? Something else entirely?
I'm not locked into any particular field of programming yet - it all interests me.
If anyone feels like they would get any benefit out of mentoring someone like me, looking at my code and giving me pointers, giving me advice about what's wise to learn, I'd really appreciate it.",,kremlin,104,1399203753,2014-05-04 11:42:33+00:00,story,7693954,,49.0,, 2916,What are the expectations of a principal engineer in your company?,,"Because the role varies across companies, and could be vastly different between mainly tech vs non-tech companies, could you provide the industry the company operates in as well?",,dhab,104,1610516724,2021-01-13 05:45:24+00:00,story,25758663,,21.0,, 2917,What are some of the best HN comments that you've read?,,"Have you read a comment here that influenced you significantly, had some great ideas in it, was memorable for some reason, or was just fun to read? Share the link here.",,rayalez,104,1431906065,2015-05-17 23:41:05+00:00,story,9562212,,33.0,, 2918,What happened to Pinboard?,,"Over the last year or so, pinboard.in's paid archiving service has become increasingly sporadic. The process used to be nearly instant, but bookmarks are crawled maybe once a month now and frequently fail to archive correctly or are skipped completely.
From Pinboard's Twitter mentions, I can see I'm not the only one who has been trying to contact Maciej for several months without success. A lot of former delicious users are also desperate to get an export of their data, which is still unavailable over a year and a half after Pinboard purchased and shut down the site.
Overall, it's left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. I decided in September to leave the service, but emailing is the only way to request a full download of archived bookmarks. I'd also like to get a refund on the next four years of my archival subscription - I paid for five years in advance because I was so happy with the site before now.
I know Maciej reads HN, and there seem to be a number of Pinboard users here (it's still mentioned just about anytime somebody posts about bookmarking). Has anybody else had any luck getting a refund and a copy of their data? What are the best Pinboard replacements, self-hosted or otherwise?",,tionsam,104,1545610425,2018-12-24 00:13:45+00:00,story,18749330,,40.0,, 2919,Good articles/courses for understanding mathematical notation?,,"Required at times for interviews or programming puzzles, knowledge I lack.",,rory_isAdonk,104,1592579671,2020-06-19 15:14:31+00:00,story,23575296,,28.0,, 2920,please review our online load testing service - loadimpact.com,http://loadimpact.com,,,rlonn,104,1235141021,2009-02-20 14:43:41+00:00,story,488705,,100.0,, 2921,Who wants to be hired? (July 2020),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
What is the scope of GDPR compliance with storing these comments?,,abdullahkhalids,104,1588793477,2020-05-06 19:31:17+00:00,story,23095273,,51.0,, 2923,Maybe I'm just not smart enough?,,"I have doubts about my intelligence. I'm trying to get a Data Science internship and had several interviews. All of them were on combinatorics/algorithms, and I failed them, though they were relatively simple. I’ve always been bad at this kind of stuff: I have trouble focusing, especially paying attention to details. I also forget things all the time
I’m a 3rd-year student at a university which is considered prestigious here (Russia), but getting in was rather because of my high conscientiousness, not intelligence. I’ve always been average academically, but when needed, simply outworked everybody and got decent grades. It doesn’t seem to work this time. In my country, there aren’t many DS internships, so if I fail a few more interviews, not sure if I can find new opportunities soon. It makes me sad, as I have to find a job for this summer
Recent average grades at uni/failed interviews in combination with all above made me seriously question my intelligence. There is no Mensa club in my country, but I tried to find reliable IQ tests online: got 86 and 135 on two different ones, have no idea what to make of it. My degree is in economics/mathematics, but I’ve been programming since 16, so I thought DS would suit me as a combination of both. In general, I just really love building stuff with my hands (got some personal projects which employers liked), and making smth with ML seemed cool
Is there a way to tell if I’m simply not smart enough for this? It’s not just about interview questions: I genuinely feel I’m thinking too slow in general, always felt. Should I try to move to other fields? I’d be glad to find any other technical internship, at least for now, but I have no CS degree which is a requirement for them.
I would welcome any advice because the situation kind of depresses me",,alasterc,104,1619096300,2021-04-22 12:58:20+00:00,story,26902219,,118.0,, 2924,How do I add $100k to my 2014 income?,,"I'm a serial wantrepreneur. I build things that no one wants. That's my problem and I know it. I respect the candid feedback HN'ers offer. So if I were your son, or best friend, where would you steer me?",,randomnumber314,104,1390748085,2014-01-26 14:54:45+00:00,story,7125239,,101.0,, 2925,Does anyone know if Apple plans to address the MacBook keyboard issue?,,"Does anyone have any idea if Apple is going to DO something about the MacBook keyboard issue? Or if this is simply the new normal for Apple laptop keyboards?
I know that the current butterfly mechanism is v2, it's slightly improved over the very 1st iteration (which appeared on the original 12" MacBook retina).
Will there be a v3?",,plg,104,1528986361,2018-06-14 14:26:01+00:00,story,17311897,,111.0,, 2926,Does anyone dream of code?,,"I have been having this problem lately. When I close my eyes and try to sleep my mind wanders and soon enough I am thinking about code, programming mentally. And I wake in the middle of the night and I am still mentally coding in a semi hypnotic state. I have slight OCD if that matters. Does any one feel the same? It is as if my mind never turns off.",,rs86,104,1486551961,2017-02-08 11:06:01+00:00,story,13597369,,139.0,, 2927,Is it too late to start creating content on YouTube?,,I want to create content on web development and earn passive income.
Is the Youtube space convoluted or is there enough areas where one can create contents?,,p__,104,1591503747,2020-06-07 04:22:27+00:00,story,23444750,,110.0,, 2928,What's are your personal automations?,,"Hey HN,
I'm curious to know more about what automations people use day-to-day. Either cron jobs or other services?
Does it make your day easier?",,iameoghan,104,1607649952,2020-12-11 01:25:52+00:00,story,25381191,,155.0,, 2929,Review my app: Search expired/available short domain names,http://scoretool.appspot.com/,,,jcrocholl,104,1262372832,2010-01-01 19:07:12+00:00,story,1026073,,59.0,, 2930,What would you want in an ideal web browser?,,"I'd think customizability and security are top concerns, what do you think?",,mod50ack,104,1439798023,2015-08-17 07:53:43+00:00,story,10071744,,241.0,, 2931,Please review my site - PickFu.com,http://pickfu.com,,,justinchen,104,1244047094,2009-06-03 16:38:14+00:00,story,639986,,68.0,, 2932,What are some alternatives to Google maps?,,,,skies,104,1538324882,2018-09-30 16:28:02+00:00,story,18106827,,68.0,, 2933,How do you unwind at the end of a day?,,,,gmemstr,103,1492883014,2017-04-22 17:43:34+00:00,story,14173656,,123.0,, 2934,Who's mentoring?,,"Please state what your mentoring, your location, your name (optional), and your email, like this:
Business Development | London | Jane Q. | x@y.com",,david927,103,1504276499,2017-09-01 14:34:59+00:00,story,15148619,,40.0,, 2935,Programming is mentally overwhelming to me now. What to do?,,"When I was 23, I used to be totally comfortable cranking out Javascript UIs like there was no tomorrow. These days I'm approaching 33 and I can barely force myself to look at code for more than 20 seconds without mentally panicking.
I don't know how I got here. I think it's a combination of many things, such as 1) a demanding family life 2) web development getting more complex in general 3) more stressful work environment 4) physical discomfort like RSI getting worse 5) just getting older & brain getting foggier.
I don't think learning in my off hours is an option because my day job is so mentally draining. It takes all of my brainpower just to work from 9 to 5, and then I have nothing left over after that.
I am talking to my manager about reducing my responsibilities but really I've been feeling this way for over a year, just trying to hang in there. But it's only getting worse as the months go by.",,tboyd47,103,1504027545,2017-08-29 17:25:45+00:00,story,15125949,,102.0,, 2936,How to be fluent in functional language speak?,,"When I read academic articles or blog posts written by functional programmers it feels alien to me because of the terms used in their writing. I am not just talking about monads, monoids etc, but the general programming terminology itself is different to what I regularly hear and read as imperative OO programmer. For e.g. this sentence "abstraction over type constructors"; whenever programmers from C++, Java etc world will read that they are sure to say, "eh?!?" and fall off their chair.
So how does a programmer from non-functional world become fluent in understanding sentence such as "abstraction over type constructors"?",,_448,103,1588671606,2020-05-05 09:40:06+00:00,story,23078173,,107.0,, 2937,Are there software companies with a good life/work balance?,,"I worked for a long time in different software engineering positions in b2b tech companies. It looks like a majority of them go through a very similar trajectory - more product, more customers, raise more money, more people, rinse and repeat until you get to IPO or acquisition.
On the one hand, this approach is understandable (it’s what business is built for), and the pay is good in such companies. But, on the other hand, life/work balance usually sucks.
First of all, there is an unsaid expectation of long hours. A company is always on the verge of signing a new huge business deal, preparing for the magic quadrant, and having critical projects. And even if some reasonable hours are negotiated/achieved, people are forced to have an insane amount of multi-tasking (juggling numerous tasks, initiatives, planning, replanning, strategy shifts, and so on). On the paper, life/work balance is advertised in such companies. In reality, work at such a company is draining way too much energy.
Another unpleasant side. As part of this rush forward, engineering usually cuts many corners (both in tech and vetting new hires). This rush creates a mediocre (at best) tech culture with a lot of tech debt and not following well-established best practices. A huge part of solving/fighting these problems falls on the top tech talent (especially on responsible employees).
I am at the stage of my life where physical and mental health is more important than a marginal dollar. As a result, I have started to look around, and I would appreciate the advice.
Do you know which specific companies or preferable areas have better work/life balance and are more committed to tech excellence?",,dotbob,103,1621719940,2021-05-22 21:45:40+00:00,story,27250546,,94.0,, 2938,Who's hiring (for H-1B)? | Dec 2010,,"I ask because there are not many startups that I know of (I'm probably looking in the wrong place?) that also take H-1B candidates into consideration.
I see all these awesome potential job opportunities on HN, but it's never clear whether a H-1B candidate would also be considered, as that is 99% never explicitly stated.
So - anyone hiring that'll sponsor or do H-1B visa transfers?",,agentx,103,1291535331,2010-12-05 07:48:51+00:00,story,1971206,,39.0,, 2939,"Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GNU.org, Discord, coincidence?",,,,JonathanBouman,103,1534083116,2018-08-12 14:11:56+00:00,story,17744431,,84.0,, 2940,Why did Twitter succeed?,,"Hi HN,
I've never really understood Twitter as a business, and so I figure that since it's been bugging me for a good two years now, I'd might as well give it a shot and ask the good folks here for their thoughts on this. Any insight is appreciated.
1) What problem does Twitter solve? Some of the best startups are created around specific solutions to specific problems. Twitter is a non-specific solution to a whole host of problems. It is used differently by different kinds of people. So ... what problem does it really solve? Or is there no specific problem here, and we just have a communal itch that we want to scratch that the Twitter format helps?
2) YC tells its applicants: 'make something people want'. But while Twitter does make something people want, it's not clear what that is. Could Twitter be an example of stumbling, by pure accident, into something people want? Does this imply that there is no way to intentionally create a company like Twitter?
3) Why is Twitter so successful? Twitter seems to be the only company with no clear value proposition (I'm not saying there's no value - I'm just saying that it's hard to explain what that value is to a non-Twitter user); also it seems to be one of the few startups that can get away with producing a generalized platform as its main product. Wave didn't. Why did Twitter succeed where Wave did not?
Thoughts, ideas, and observations are all welcomed.",,shadowsun7,103,1281213439,2010-08-07 20:37:19+00:00,story,1584260,,88.0,, 2941,"'Crash Courses' for Mathematics Related to DL, ML and Data Analysis",,"I am specifically looking for free pdf or online materials for mathematics needed in ML, DL and Data analysis which doesn't necessarily go in depth. My primary aim to have a good top level view and if possible get hold of the most basics stuffs as soon as possible.",,mayankkaizen,103,1520077427,2018-03-03 11:43:47+00:00,story,16508873,,23.0,, 2942,Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine),,"Hi Everyone,
This is the first time that I've submitted anything here, but I lurk and read HN daily. My partner Joe and I just launched a suite of tools for building 2D web games with pure JavaScript and we'd really love your feedback.
http://www.effectgames.com
Briefly: we're a web developer and designer who are both very heavily into video games. While trying to avoid any negativity around Flash, we thought standard and open web tech would be a better basis for creating games (plus we're more familiar with JavaScript).
We have been working on this off and on for over four years, and now we're ready to release the ""Effect Engine"" -- a pure JavaScript / DHTML framework for displaying and animating game graphics, playing sounds & music, handling keyboard & mouse, and performing sprite collision detection. It smoothly renders multiple layers of parallax scrolling tiles and sprites without requiring Canvas or SVG (so it plays nicely with all modern browsers).
Right now, we're working on expanding some of the available game demos to full blown titles (for example: http://www.effectgames.com/effect/games/crystalgalaxy/1.0b), but that doesn't mean that the engine is done.
We're planning on launching a slew of new features in the coming months, but we've gotten to a point where we'd really appreciate some feedback for improving Effect.
As excited as we are about finally getting to create the games that we've had in our heads for years, we're even more excited to see what our friends on HN can do!
Min and Joe",,itsmin,103,1260382349,2009-12-09 18:12:29+00:00,story,986196,,50.0,, 2943,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2020),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
Bonsai (YC W16) (https://www.hellobonsai.com) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.",,whoishiring,103,1585753230,2020-04-01 15:00:30+00:00,story,22749307,,187.0,, 2944,Companies with a culture similar to Basecamp's?,,"I am a big fan of how Basecamp is run as a company, and of the work environment they create for their employees. (Or at least seem to. I don't have first-hand experience.)
You can get a sense of their philosophy by reading what the company's cofounders have written on the subject [0][1]. They've even written a book about it.
You may not buy it, and that is absolutely fine.
If you do however, and if you've ever worked at a company that works similarly, can you post about it here?
[0] https://medium.com/@dhh [1] https://medium.com/@jasonfried",,kxr,103,1514392250,2017-12-27 16:30:50+00:00,story,16015715,,54.0,, 2945,"Your code editor, black on white or white on black?",https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dEdwNEJkVk9jempXcHF2UUYtRlZTQ3c6MQ,,,tbassetto,103,1324380142,2011-12-20 11:22:22+00:00,story,3373018,,116.0,, 2946,Tools you use for remote working?,,"Hi, as remote working is becoming more and more common, I'm curious about tools/services startups are using. (Features management, bug tracker, video conferences, chat, tasks, knowledge center, etc.)",,d0m,103,1387052753,2013-12-14 20:25:53+00:00,story,6906979,,66.0,, 2947,Engineering managers; what are the problems you face?,,How do you insure you are working on the most important items for the TEAM?
Whats the thing that drains you the most?
Where do you reach out to get advise outside of your company?
What is missing from the tools you currently have?,,imrank1,103,1621865475,2021-05-24 14:11:15+00:00,story,27264560,,98.0,, 2948,How do you handle/maintain local Python environments?,,"I'm having some trouble figuring out how to handle my local Python. I'm not asking about 2 vs 3 - that ship has sailed - I'm confused on which binary to be using. From the way I see it, there's at least 4 different Pythons I could be using:
1 - Python shipped with OS X/Ubuntu
2 - brew/apt install python
3 - Anaconda
4 - Getting Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/
And that's before getting into how you get numpy et al installed. What's the general consensus on which to use? It seems like the OS X default is compiled with Clang while brew's version is with GCC. I've been working through this book [1] and found this thread [2]. I really want to make sure I'm using fast/optimized linear algebra libraries, is there an easy way to make sure? I use Python for learning data science/bioinformatics, learning MicroPython for embedded, and general automation stuff - is it possible to have one environment that performs well for all of these?
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Python-Data-Analysis-Wrangling-IPython/dp/1449319793
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/46r8u0/numpylinalgsolve_is_6x_faster_on_my_mac_than_on/",,PascLeRasc,103,1569277900,2019-09-23 22:31:40+00:00,story,21054462,,95.0,, 2949,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2012),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,103,1333288072,2012-04-01 13:47:52+00:00,story,3783658,,92.0,, 2950,Where can I find a software job that helps society?,,"I've tried many different things in the corporate world and entrepreneurship.
I've enjoyed it, but I'm pretty jaded by the usual stuff. A job with social impact--something that makes someone's life better--would be the right thing for me now.
Any thoughts on convenient ways to find these? Some sort of board or listing?",,scottalpert,103,1384288331,2013-11-12 20:32:11+00:00,story,6720789,,102.0,, 2951,What to do after failing final interviews twice?,,I have had two interviews with big companies Google and Amazon. After going to on campus interviews with both companies but only to here the word you are not qualified. I feel like a complete loser.,,uyoakaoma,103,1468272675,2016-07-11 21:31:15+00:00,story,12074862,,147.0,, 2952,How can I get involved with Linux/OpenSSL/GnuPG/etc,,"What would it take to be involved in $bigScaryOpenSourceProject? I'm passionate about cryptography, security, and privacy so projects like Linux, Firefox, OpenSSL, etc... might be perfect for me to get more involved with. Outside learning C or possibly Rust (for Firefox development in future) I have no idea how I'd start with any of these projects, partly as my day job is all web based so it's what I've been focused on for years.
Are there valuable contributions I can make outside writing code? For example, SSL can be tricky to setup but tools like SSL Test and the Mozilla Server Side TLS wiki page are invaluable in making us all safer. What's something in security that's too difficult or time consuming that I could work to automate or make easier?",,ancarda,103,1483820039,2017-01-07 20:13:59+00:00,story,13346359,,29.0,, 2953,Best resources to understand enterprise networking and security?,,"Currently I'm working on a project on a consultancy basis for a large enterprise. There's a lot of talk about private clouds, private endpoints, virtual networks, security zones and a lot of things I've never really come into contact with as a regular application developer. I'd like to understand more of the problems we're facing so I can participate in the discussions.
What are some good resources for learning about enterprise networking and security?",,geewee,103,1589889780,2020-05-19 12:03:00+00:00,story,23233893,,20.0,, 2954,Anyone on HN running a web startup with 50K+ a year net profit?,,,,riskish,103,1300609225,2011-03-20 08:20:25+00:00,story,2345810,,51.0,, 2955,"How many ""self-taught"" programmers and how did you do it?",,"I was wondering to what degree the HN community of programmers is self-taught.
1) How did you learn to code? Totally self taught from books and RTFM // Self taught plus MOOCs or comparable resources // Some classes in college but no CS degree, remainder self-taught // Self taught plus a developer bootcamp or some non-degree related formal education // CS degree and personal efforts
2) When did you start learning (perhaps informative because of the recent rise of MOOCs)?
3) At what point (if yet) did you start working as a programmer professionally relative to your initial efforts?
I had been wondering about this for a bit and the discussion here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6467914) motivated me to finally post it.
Administrative note: I'm below 200karma so I can't make this a poll, if an admin wants to throw some polling categories in here that'd be cool too.
Edit: added quotes to the self-taught in the title since I realized that with the advent of StackOverflow and various other social learning tools that there are very few who can truly claim not to have learned at someone else's digital knee at some point or benefitted from the currently robust community that exists online now.",,BWStearns,102,1380527531,2013-09-30 07:52:11+00:00,story,6468295,,124.0,, 2956,What are you doing for your mental health?,,,,lainon,102,1515312539,2018-01-07 08:08:59+00:00,story,16089846,,92.0,, 2957,How do you scale salary for part-time work?,,"Question:
How does your company scale salary/benefits for part-time work?
Context:
We're a small startup in the UK trying to figure out our hiring policies. An idea we've tossed around before is that since we offer remote work with fairly flexible hours, there's a terrific opportunity to hire people who are taking a career break due to their personal life (young children etc).
Our perceived benefit is:
* we're getting access to a talent pool that might otherwise be ignored
* the offerings that are very possible as a small company (remote, flexible hours, easy access to management) are far more impactful to someone in this situation
* we have a future opportunity to let our bandwidth grow
The cost of two part-time employees isn't quite the same as one full-time, since we incur about the same fixed costs anyway (management time in 1-2-1's, payroll administration, dev setup etc). So we're wondering if cutting the salary in half is actually what we want to do?",,stepbeek,102,1566208429,2019-08-19 09:53:49+00:00,story,20736347,,84.0,, 2958,What's the best way to recover from burnout?,,"I've been in a technology executive role at a large company for 6 years. It's been incredibly fulfilling and the best job I could ask for. In the last couple years though, it's also pivoted a bit and become increasingly draining. Because I can affect my circumstances and mitigate the bad parts, quitting has always felt like giving up, so I've found ways to continue. But I've now reached the point where I'm so burned out that I have very little ambition, and find myself just trying to get through the day, avoiding opportunities and social interactions. I've decided I need to quit.
The problem is, I can't imagine what I'd like to do next. As I mentioned before, this has been a fantastically fulfilling job and a promising career. Nothing I can imagine stacks up to it. At the moment I want nothing to do with it, but I think that's fueled by my burnout. If that's the case, it seems silly to switch to a different career. How do I get past this burnout so I can think clearly and be "myself" again?
Best idea I have is to take a couple months off and try to recover from my burnout, and hope it becomes clear what I'd like to do next -- even if it's a similar role at another company. But taking time off with nothing lined up has its own risks, and I imagine there's more to it than simply "not working."
Any advice?",,techexecadvice,102,1514311652,2017-12-26 18:07:32+00:00,story,16009836,,84.0,, 2959,How to get started with CB radio?,,"I am looking to equip our house (in Bay area) with a CB radio device for disaster communication scenario as well as to expand social network. What is the minimum required equipment/permissions needed to start?",,freediver,102,1625387925,2021-07-04 08:38:45+00:00,story,27728154,,102.0,, 2960,Best Firefox phone to get?,,"Anyone using firefox phone as your main phone? Do you like it? Which phone would you recommend to get (assuming price is not an issue)?",,vijayr,102,1398612730,2014-04-27 15:32:10+00:00,story,7655450,,47.0,, 2961,Which VPN?,,Which VPN do you recommend?,,blohs,102,1526569245,2018-05-17 15:00:45+00:00,story,17091855,,63.0,, 2962,Math for hackers.,,"After the large number of posts I've seen asking about reading math, returning to study, wanting to know more about foundations, etc, I've decided to make some of my writings and masterclass material available on the web. There's a lot of it, and it needs work, so I'd appreciate some comments about what you'd like to see first.
I'm intending to create an undirected graph of topics, so you can start where you want, then go forward once you get the idea, or back if you're struggling. Then you can concentrate on the bits you're most interested in.
But what should I start with? I've read what people have advised others to read, and I'm looking for a start point.
Oddly enough, I will start with ""Adding Fractions"" and basic algebra (expanding, factoring and simplifying), but where then? I will eventually cover O(..) notation, basic calculus, infinities, series, convergence, combinatorics, graphs (vertices and edges) and more, but what do you want to see first?
It will also be on a wiki-like system so you can contribute later if you want, although not at first while I get it running.
Comments, thoughts, suggestions welcome.",,RiderOfGiraffes,102,1245851794,2009-06-24 13:56:34+00:00,story,672067,,56.0,, 2963,How to deal with inexperienced interviewers?,,"Some interviewers are great - they are patient, let you talk, are genuinely curious about your previous work, and ask questions such that the interview is meaningful for both parties.
On the other hand, I frequently come across some inexperienced interviewers (often young, or early in their career). They interrupt you before you finish, ask obscure questions, and try to assert that your professional experience and knowledge is somehow inferior to theirs (or at least make you feel that way).
I feel excited about challenging questions/interviews but sessions with such folks (over the phone, or in person) are always disappointing, and negatively impact the interview outcome. I was wondering if there are any tips on how to handle such interviewers.",,aecs99,102,1511152063,2017-11-20 04:27:43+00:00,story,15737801,,73.0,, 2964,Do you miss 90s simplicity?,,"If so, what in particular?",,ciccionamente,102,1558816076,2019-05-25 20:27:56+00:00,story,20011176,,142.0,, 2965,What work can be done quarantined with a toddler?,,"I am well aware that I have the privilege of working in a career that is not already obliterated by this crisis. I am very sympathetic to others who are more severely impacted by all this and the economic damage from this is immeasurable. I still have my own concerns as does everyone else...
What are the reasonable expectations of me as an employee working from home without childcare? I have a toddler and a first grader. The first grader is pretty much auto-pilot when given some daily academic structure. The toddler is the most difficult to manage which requires constant attention. As a software engineer and team lead I have both technical and administrative responsibilities. I can get some work done however, in my opinion, it is fair to assume that my productivity will _significantly_ diminish almost to the point of just keeping systems alive. Should I consider giving up my position as lead to someone who has no children during this crisis? My wife and I have decided to take some sort of split schedule during the workday but to put in a solid eight hours moonlighting the extra hours for an indefinite period of time is unsustainable. Fatigue will kick in inevitably. What are your thoughts on the matter?",,lovetocode,102,1584974847,2020-03-23 14:47:27+00:00,story,22664590,,95.0,, 2966,"Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you?",,"I’m specifically interested in what you’d tell someone to help them develop a senior engineer mindset. And when I use the word “senior” I don’t mean title or age, but the engineering maturity that it implies.",,nemild,102,1481651454,2016-12-13 17:50:54+00:00,story,13168798,,84.0,, 2967,Resources for learning about boot loaders?,,"I’m trying to find the best resources I can for learning about boot loaders. I recently installed Fedora dual boot on my MacBook Air and want to understand what is happening during the boot process, and why, for example, I’m now staring at a Grub console after resizing my APFS partition.",,rayascott,102,1513881693,2017-12-21 18:41:33+00:00,story,15981575,,27.0,, 2968,Finding the Australian Aboriginal flag in all artworks,,"For those who don't know, the Australian Aboriginal flag (https://i.imgur.com/sGsnLkv.png) is actually copy-righted by an individual although it is recognized as a national flag.
It was created in 1971 by an artist named Harold Thomas and went onto to become culturally accepted as the flag of the Aboriginal people. And then as above, went onto being proclaimed a national flag by the government.
Unfortunately, since then, Harold Thomas has licensed the flag to various private agencies. One of the licenses was exclusive to a clothing label, which now means that no other Aboriginal business can print clothes with the flag on it without paying royalties. (Sitting around 20%) A lot of Aboriginals feel dismay at the current situation of the licensing.
I am rather free market orientated and do respect the artists desires.
But, the situation is rather unique, I can't seem to find any other examples in the world of a nations/cultures flag being owned by an individual.
The creator has no intention to relinquish the copyright, so movements have already sprung up.
A good timeline of events can be found here -> https://clothingthegap.com.au/pages/aboriginal-flag-timeline
The page above found an artwork released 4 years prior that contains the visual elements of the flag -> https://i.imgur.com/rKbS2m4.jpg
The flag artist studied European art just before he created the aboriginal flag so he may have already copied it himself.
For a bit of fun and to build a case, I thought it would be a cool experiment to try find the Aboriginal flag in as many pre-existing artworks as possible.
I am looking for API's and libs that would help me achieve this as I think it is a fun problem.
Regardless, I've used HN for over a decade and have no doubt some of the smartest people on the planet live here.
So if you find this tale intriguing and perhaps unjust, any advice on how to tackle this problem from a public policy perspective would also be great.",,thomasfromcdnjs,102,1597675569,2020-08-17 14:46:09+00:00,story,24187794,,60.0,, 2969,"I need to quickly move to South Korea, How?",,"I'm a British Software Engineer. I just discovered my South Korean fiance has just been diagnosed with a terminal condition so I need to move over there ASAP.
I've got a CS degree and 1 and a half years experience at a large news organisation. In my team we manage a web service written in elixir including all associated CI and aws infrastructure. I've been coding in python since I was 16 and java at uni. I've been learning Korean for the past year but its not business ready yet.
So my main question is, given my situation, how difficult would it be for me to get a job in Korea?
Other questions: How common are English speaking software jobs there? Could I get a remote job for a company outside of Korea while still living there? Does anyone here have insight into Korean job visa or marriage visas on here, that could point me in the right direction?
Sorry if this isn't concise or the questions are easily googleable, I'm still reeling from the news. I just thought this is the most likely place to get the best advice!
Thank you in advanced, your advice is greatly appreciated!",,krthowaway,102,1642012335,2022-01-12 18:32:15+00:00,story,29910964,,34.0,, 2970,I'm considering leaving a startup to look for big-company jobs (really).,,"I know this decision may not be popular around here, but I think the quality of advice that I'll get is good, so I'm going to ask for it. I'm a talented programmer who is now considering leaving a startup and moving back into the big-company fold. My savings are near zero-- that rules out another startup-- and a part of me thinks that a big-company job for a while might not be the worst thing in the world.
I've decided to leave a startup in which I was a founder, although the partnership was always a bit unequal (I'm the youngest and don't have any contacts to potential customers or VCs) and our CEO often takes the attitude of it being a one-man show (i.e. he tends to get ""set"" in decisions without appeal, he makes shitty comments if we take a long lunch, and we deal with 2-4 status checks per day). I've been treated enough like an employee that my motivation has crashed and I essentially am ""just an employee"" at this point. I don't have a sense of authorship over my work. At which point, why am I continuing to work for low pay? If the major benefit of being at a startup is autonomy, and I don't have that, then what the fuck am I doing?
It's been almost 3 years, and we haven't failed, but we haven't launched or secured funding yet and ""just around the corner"" syndrome has been ongoing ever since I started. I don't think our CEO would lie, but I can't trust his perception that things are ""just about to heat up"" because he's been wrong on that matter for so long.
I don't think, for the record, that our lack of success (to this point) is the CEO's fault, and it's definitely not mine: I'm just a developer. I'd prefer to leave details out, but we expended a lot of energy chasing features for customers who flaked on us, or that would/might appeal to VCs, and hence we are at Year 3 and have a lot of cool code but no minimum viable product.
I feel a bit disloyal and selfish for considering quitting, but I also feel like it's what I need to do. It's my career and I need to be selfish.
I also know that established, large companies aren't held in high regard here and I share that prejudice. On the other hand, I think large-company jobs, even if they don't lead to nine-figure exits, can turn out well. My view of large company jobs is this: sure, the default is to get bad projects and not learn much, in which case one leaves after 8-24 months for greener pastures; but they're great if someone powerful taps you as protege, favors you in project allocation, and makes you a ""made man"" (or ""made woman"") in the company. In other words, ""startup"" and ""big company"" are just two games with good and bad possible outcomes, with more variance in the startup scenario and, in both, with the ""good"" outcome being somewhat rare (1/5) and the ""bad"" being the norm. The career game is just about spinning the wheel, repeatedly, until you actually win. And I think it's time for another spin.
The question: what does leaving a startup-- one that a future employer won't have heard of-- do for (or to) one's career? Is it right for me to expect ""career credit"" for the 3 years I spent? Or am I fucked in that regard? Strategically, what should I be doing to maximize my chances of getting a decent big-company job? Also, what is the programmer job market like? When I last looked around (2008) it was horrendous. Has it improved?",,throwaway4921,102,1300547993,2011-03-19 15:19:53+00:00,story,2343776,,67.0,, 2971,What to do when all you have is talent?,,"I'm at the end of my rope and this is my first post. Please be gentle. (deep breath)
I started in IT 15 years ago as a help desk jockey for a small ISP back in the dial-up days. Since then I have done everything from low level hardware support to leading a large government project installing a new telephony/messaging solution for a school system.
Here's the thing: I dropped out of high school and got a G.E.D. my Junior year. I have always had a weird knack for learning on the fly (are the rest of you like this too?). I always bluffed my way in to jobs I was completely unqualified for and pulled it off quite well.
Then the recession hit my area particularly hard so I tried the local technical college but decided it wasn't worth the debt or time learning stuff I already knew.. Lately, I have been wasting my time trying to break into IT Security (always my primary interest), with no luck because my security experience isn't professional. I was able to self-study for both my Network+ and Security+ (gotta start somewhere) and did surprisingly well. I'm proud that I was able to score 895/900 on the Security+ exam after just reading for two weeks but these certifications didn't seem to make a difference.
I'll get to the point. I can't seem to get my foot in the door anywhere to do anything from level one help desk work to anything else. Add a new family to the picture and you can see why I need to make a move now. What's someone like me to do? I am talented (some past coworkers and managers actually called it freakish), but you cant put talent on your resume. I'd relocate anywhere on earth for a stable job. I pull a deer-in-the-headlights every time I try to find a new skill to learn. Too many options. I don't know what's in demand. What can people still turn in to a long-term career? What area or "discipline" in IT shows promise for a career?",,tfg4k,102,1424546295,2015-02-21 19:18:15+00:00,story,9086501,,133.0,, 2972,How should I evaluate a startup as I job hunt?,,"I've been a lurker at HN for a while and it has greatly motivated me to seriously consider joining a startup. I have been at one of the large software companies for almost a year now (first job after college, good CS school) and I've decided to change jobs before I get too comfortable here.
Given the large number of interesting startups, what kind of questions should I be asking, not only the engineers / founders of the startup, but also myself? What are the signs of a healthy startup (funding, background of the founders)? How do I gauge the core principles and culture of a startup?
I apologize in advance if some of these questions don't make sense or may even be irrelevant in the pursuit of finding a job at a startup. I also realize different people will have differing opinions about how to evaluate a startup. That would be particularly helpful.
Most of the links I came across while searching on google were about investors evaluating startups. I didn't find many opinions on how to evaluate a startup from a job-seeker's perspective.
Thanks in advance",,vowelless,102,1344128389,2012-08-05 00:59:49+00:00,story,4340196,,56.0,, 2973,Where do you find weird and wonderful future tech nowadays?,,"Back in the 1980s I used to read Omni magazine. In the 90s, it was magazines like Wired, Mondo 2000, and Boing Boing. These all presented views of the future that I found interesting and (mostly) hopeful - even if a good percentage of their articles had no basis in reality.
Today, they're all gone or nothing like what they used to be.
What magazines, blogs, podcast, etc. do you use to discover possible positive future technologies?",,scottlilly,102,1639143754,2021-12-10 13:42:34+00:00,story,29509694,,52.0,, 2974,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2017),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.",,whoishiring,102,1493650811,2017-05-01 15:00:11+00:00,story,14238006,,144.0,, 2975,Music while coding,,I often find it challenging to get into the zone without background music (although don't notice if it fades out later)
I'm always looking to find new music and interested to know what fellow hackers are listening to?,,qixxiq,102,1279442967,2010-07-18 08:49:27+00:00,story,1525445,,171.0,, 2976,"Please stop ""This.""",,"Can we discuss ""This.""?
Maybe it's a very silly thing to be bothered by, but I can't be the only one agitated when I read a response to anything that begins simply with ""This.""
It's my personal feeling is that ""This."" is a sign of the decline of intelligent discourse on HN. I feel like ""This."" is usually karma fishing, and that their comment more than likely adds nothing to the discourse, and is often a predictor of immaturity.
I'd like to know what everyone else thinks.",,juiceandjuice,102,1321482228,2011-11-16 22:23:48+00:00,story,3245365,,71.0,, 2977,Salary Increases Over Time,,I'm curious about how pay for particular positions at particular companies trend over time. It seems a little tricky to find the data since glassdoor doesn't seem to offer additional breakdown by year. Other sites don't seem to have sufficient datapoints. What has your experience been with annual raises? And do you find salary-reporting sites to be accurate? Or possibly filled with outdated data?,,thingummywut,102,1355991584,2012-12-20 08:19:44+00:00,story,4946748,,91.0,, 2978,anyone ever drop everything and leave software dev behind?,,"I know most everyone that hangs out here sees themselves as hackers/coders/etc, but anyone ever leave the software world to do something unrelated? I've been programming professionally for 5 years now, and am at a point where I can't really take it anymore.
The problem?
* Golden handcuffs - I'm leaving a lot of unvested money on the table if I leave, and realistically speaking if I leave this job I won't get anything that pays nearly as well for years
* Lack of ""support group"" - sure I could up and move to <random country>, but I don't really have much of a social circle so I'm a bit daunted by the prospect of being even more alone
* Still want to code - I don't hate software, but my job has made me realize that I'm really just a mediocre programmer with really good domain knowledge
* Aspirations - if I leave the corporate coding world, all of the other things I really want to do aren't exactly less stressful - move to LA and become a filmmaker, move to SF and join a startup, etc.
On the plus side, I can afford to be unemployed for at least a year, so I'm seriously considering just quitting outright to figure things out (with the caveat mentioned above that once I leave, coming back to this job/pay level is not going to happen). Anyone have similar thoughts/experiences/stories?",,brosephius,102,1279289634,2010-07-16 14:13:54+00:00,story,1521190,,105.0,, 2979,Freelancer Rates in the US,,"Hello,
I have often been somewhat confused when it comes to hourly rates for freelancers in IT. While it is pretty normal to charge more than 60€/h here in Europe I’m always shocked to come across postings like these from the US:
https://soshace.com/jobs/python-back-end-web-developer-remot...
This is a remote python job for an intermediate or senior developer that pays 20-30$/h. And not the first one of that kind I came across.
That would mean a freelancer makes less than half the money as compared to a 9-5.
Is this normal?",,dirtnugget,102,1586781485,2020-04-13 12:38:05+00:00,story,22855286,,92.0,, 2980,How do I secure the domain for my business?,,"In all of my infrastructure, the provider hosting my domain (nameserver) is the most critical part. If I lose the account/access to whatever provider is hosting my domains everything crumbles. It's a single point of failure.
What are best practices to make this as secure as possible?",,davidkuennen,102,1648373423,2022-03-27 09:30:23+00:00,story,30818950,,63.0,, 2981,What can I do to turn things around and make my 30's “good”?,,"I turn thirty in a couple months. At this stage in my life, when looking back on my 20s, it's been very disappointing. Sure, there are plenty of good things, but my career hasn't panned out as hoped, was convicted of a felony sex offense, have had to move pack in with parents, and so forth. What can I do at this stage in my life to improve things and make my thirties a fruitful decade where I'm employed, doing interesting things, and feeling useful.
Good things in my life, to date:
- Finished my bachelors and masters degree from a good university.
- Was employed as a statistician in the online marketing industry for four years.
Bad things in my life, to date:
- Committed a felony sex offense while I was an undergraduate at university (ended up serving three years of probation).
- Lost my job several months ago and can't find new work as a result of not being able to pass background checks.
- Moved back in with my parents.
- Never had a girlfriend.
- Degenerative neurological disorder that's slowly taking over my life (a big reason for I have been lonely and likely contributed to my improprieties).
So here I am. I want to turn things around, have a good career as a statistician, and make a descent salary. What can I do to turn things around and improve my life so that when I'm 40, I'm not looking back on my 30's and thinking that it's been disappointing.
To be honest, I'm more interested in having a good job/salary than anything else. If I never have a girlfriend, that's fine, I'm "broken goods" so I understand why I'm less appealing to women.Good things in my life, to date:",,tonym9428,102,1435446999,2015-06-27 23:16:39+00:00,story,9791803,,87.0,, 2982,Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?,,"I am curious what internal documentation tools people are using. My current use case is an engineering handbook and internal documentation that isn't related to any specific codebase.
Some basic requirements are: - searchable - code snippets - hyperlinking
I know of a few tools and I've even worked at companies that use git repos with markdown. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts.",,sdedovic,102,1547135646,2019-01-10 15:54:06+00:00,story,18874707,,76.0,, 2983,Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?,,"I submitted the application to test drive a Chrome Notebook a couple days ago.
The laptop came this morning. The packaging was very simple: One laptop, one battery, one cord, one large single piece of paper with instructions, and one business card from Intel letting me know that if I cracked the computer open that is what I would find.
I will make a large post tonight after work (5pm EST) detailing my experiences with it and taking lots of photos.
Did any other HNers get one?",,simonsarris,102,1291905243,2010-12-09 14:34:03+00:00,story,1987536,,102.0,, 2984,What highly scalable thing have you built with Go?,,I've just read this article by Randall Degges on how ipify.org scaled to 30 billion API calls a month on a few Heroku dynamos after the app was re-written in Go.
Have you re-written any of your applications in Go and experienced significantly higher performance?,,jonathan-kosgei,102,1530528629,2018-07-02 10:50:29+00:00,story,17440616,,75.0,, 2985,At what company were you happiest and why?,,,,maruhan2,102,1505090839,2017-09-11 00:47:19+00:00,story,15215096,,107.0,, 2986,What caused the Olympics to become so terrible?,,"When I was a kid, we use to look forward to the Olympics. It was a big deal. The whole family would gather around the TV to watch the events live regardless of timezone. We use to follow the stories of the atheletes and it was constantly the talk of the town.
Nowadays, it kind of feels like Olympics are just annoying. Propaganda fest for authoritarian regimes. No one cares. Heck, some people don’t even know that the Olympics are even happening.
How did it go so wrong?",,sshah1983,102,1644167068,2022-02-06 17:04:28+00:00,story,30234367,,146.0,, 2987,How do you get articles/papers/talks recommendations?,,"I've been trying different approaches such as subscribing to newsletters or using RSS readers to follow people I find interesting but not everything they write every time is interesting! Also, if you limit yourself to following people you've been reading before you probably end up not discovering new content.
With the technology, amount of data, and algorithms we have currently should be pretty easy to build a tool capable of tracking articles/papers/talks you read/like and suggest things you could be interested in.
Does anybody use/know a tool like that? There are many places to get suggestions based on how popular they are across the entire platform but aren't we in the era of the personalization?",,__all__,101,1639836989,2021-12-18 14:16:29+00:00,story,29604618,,32.0,, 2988,Why is it so hard to find remote jobs in Europe?,,"I read a lot about remote work - either sourcing from Hacker News and other media. However, what I see in practice, at least in Benelux Area, is that companies are far more interest in on-site positions than remote positions.
Why is it so? If the advantages of remote working are so clear - why companies still hire only on-site positions?",,soroso,101,1432546857,2015-05-25 09:40:57+00:00,story,9599292,,93.0,, 2989,"Were you in a computer user group, back in their heyday?",,"I'm writing an article about The Golden Era of User Groups, and I'd love your input.
This idea came to me when I mentioned user groups to a young person who'd never heard of them. Oh no! It was such a special time of community support! Let's not permit the memories to go away!
So tell me about your experiences!
The basics: When, where, what type of group, how big it was. Your role, if relevant. (e.g. I was president of one group, VP of another, and on an international board of user groups... you might be "just a member" which is fine!)
Your memories: How involved were you, for how long? What drew you to the user group? What made it special?
Mostly I want to hear stories, anecdotes, and nostalgia. So please share! (And let me know if I can quote you, at least by first name.)",,ohjeez,101,1581115041,2020-02-07 22:37:21+00:00,story,22271884,,74.0,, 2990,Do you have inspiring spontaneous conversations while remote working?,,"My research tells me that spontaneous conversation in office is one important factor in inspiring new ideas and increasing productivity.
I'm studying if there is any strategies to compensate the loss of these conversations in remote working and do people really need a new strategy. So, I have a few questions do ask.
1. Do you miss these conversations? Back to the in-office time, when do you usually have a spontaneous chat that is interesting and also meaningful to your work? (eg. After a conference)
2. In remote work, have you tried to restore these moments? What did you do? Is it working well?",,johnnyzzj,101,1601805347,2020-10-04 09:55:47+00:00,story,24677665,,93.0,, 2991,Best Bank for Startups?,,"We've been using Silicon Valley Bank for the last 4 years and while their services generally "work", they aren't the best. We've been working with SVB to setup a line-of-credit just to have in case we need it, and we recently talked with them about their Innovators card. Unfortunately their sales people cannot show you any kind of demo so that you can see how it works or what the UI looks like even. This is a tough ask as the only way to see it is to sign up for an account and start issuing cards. We also talked with Brex about their solution and even looked into Expensify's card.
Brex was able to show us a demo and as part of the trial we attached our SVB account which causes a $0.01 deposit and withdrawal. After doing this we received an email from our SVB sales rep acknowledging the transaction: "It looks like I see a penny test from Brex on June 3rd so it may be that you just set something up." I'm not sure what's buried in the SVB ToS, but SVB sales reps looking into our transactions didn't sit quite right with me. Then we told them that we decided to go with Brex because we liked the solution and not being able to get a demo from SVB made it basically a non-starter. A couple days later we get a call from a Managing Director and he tells us that the line-of-credit will need to be venture debt and backed by equity or warrants, which we're not interested in since this is only a rainy-day LoC and we've got plenty of money in our SVB account. Fast forward to today and they tell us that they won't give us the LoC anymore unless we also agree to use their Innovator card.
Basically I'm looking for other banks that are great to work with and understand how startups work and the needs they have. I've looked at Mercury, and we have an account there, but I was hesitant to move too much away from SVB because it "just worked", but obviously now I'm reconsidering. Hopefully HackerNews has some good advice and recommendations.",,cbisnett,101,1593462740,2020-06-29 20:32:20+00:00,story,23682511,,53.0,, 2992,Who wants to be hired? (March 2022),,"Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
Searchers: try https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/ or https://hirehackernews.com/.",,whoishiring,101,1646150514,2022-03-01 16:01:54+00:00,story,30515748,,274.0,, 2993,How to deal with a dysfunctional relationship with a 50/50 co-founder?,,"We’re four years into a bootstrapped B2B startup that set out to solve two ambitious technical problems for our industry. Last year we turned over more than 1m USD. Each of was responsible for one side of the business.
However there were still a lot of technical issues to be solved when we launched. Over the last year I’ve been able to clear all the problems on my side, but he has pretty much done almost no technical work since launch two years ago. Instead he sees his role as the figurehead of the company who basically just does sales and ideas and treats everyone at the company including myself as incompetent PA’s.
This worked for a while because we had a lot of hype around us in our industry and the money was rolling in. However the next round of potential buyers are wisely waiting to see how things turn out with our first round of customers.
My co-founder responds to complaints by telling them that their problems aren’t really problems in a very professional and well written manner, but that’s not working anymore. I now find myself having to mend bridges with customers which causes a lot of conflict because I am “overstepping my bounds.” Additionally I have to “overstep my bounds” to engage with his talented direct reports who now openly despise him, in order to convince them to not leave the company.
Now the money has nearly run out and we need what seems like a miracle.
I feel like I’ve tried everything I could think of to try and turn this relationship around but I don’t I just don’t see how anymore. We struggle to have any meaningful conversations about anything related to the business even when I manage to maintain my composure in response to nearly constant put downs.",,throwaway9934,101,1525710693,2018-05-07 16:31:33+00:00,story,17014072,,103.0,, 2994,What are your impressions of the HoloLens so far?,,"Microsoft shipped out their HoloLens development kits within the past few weeks. If you happened to receive one: what has your experience with it been like? Information is relatively sparse online recently about the HoloLens, and I kind of expected more blogging to be done about user feedback and what kind of projects are being worked on, but for the most part there hasn't really been all that much posted.
I intend on doing a project with one in the next few months and I want to get other developers feedback on the device and kind of a general synopsis on the feelings regarding it, as the emulator can only give so much "immersion".
There also hasn't been much discussion about this device on HN (at least for a few months) and I'd like to know how developers feel about it: pros, cons, first impressions, etc.",,rmccoy6435,101,1492084673,2017-04-13 11:57:53+00:00,story,14106028,,116.0,, 2995,Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?,,"It is touted to be better, but I don't see the appeal and it's slower. I also notice that old reddit randomly logs me out or "forgets" to use the classic design.",,return0,101,1554495894,2019-04-05 20:24:54+00:00,story,19586656,,158.0,, 2996,What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?,,,,hpvic03,101,1409787440,2014-09-03 23:37:20+00:00,story,8266016,,207.0,, 2997,Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2021),,"Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
Bonsai (YC W16) (https://www.hellobonsai.com) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.",,whoishiring,101,1622559685,2021-06-01 15:01:25+00:00,story,27355391,,131.0,, 2998,How to learn about the history of computing?,,"It is often remarked in the comments here that our "field" appears to have a very bad memory; that we repeat past mistakes and ignore past learnings. I would like to interpret these remarks as an advice to "get schooled".
What are some good sources (books?) to get started on this? Most things I can find appear to stop at Turing / Von Neumann, but one would like to think that history hasn't stopped at that point in time.",,vanschelven,101,1436255226,2015-07-07 07:47:06+00:00,story,9844090,,83.0,, 2999,Would you pay $5/yr for HN?,,"I know what I am going to say is borderline hubris in this web 2.0 world we live in, but bear with me.
A lot of problems this site faces are due to the large influx of new, anonymous users. So I was wondering, how would this website be different if there was a small (say $5/yr) subscription needed, at least for posting. For one thing, it would have less (active) users, but we know that the sweet spot for social news sites is when they have a relatively small amount of users. Also, these users would be easier to identify and perminently ban if necessary. Finally, these users would most likely be those who are more positive in their interaction with the community. I find it hard to imagine a troll paying.
There are of course negative side-effects, not least of which is the locking out (from posting) of hackers who may not have a paypal account/credit card. Also, some may feel a sense of entitlement, an expectation of service-level. On the plus side, if there is anything left after the transaction processing, it may go towards covering server costs and whatnot. Even if pg/YC was to make some money off of this, I doubt us raging capitalists would mind, given the value we get out of HN. It might also go some way towards proving (if successful of course) that users will pay for quality and that ad-supported/freeminum is not the only way.
So, do you think such an alternative-reality HN would be desirable?",,alexandros,101,1233843899,2009-02-05 14:24:59+00:00,story,467825,,166.0,,