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Ask HN: Taking the First Job Offer?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24946252What are your thoughts on taking the first job offer you receive out of college?I'm in a weird situation. I have an offer to start as an SWE consultant at a small, but growing technical consulting company that has an office near my college (in NC), as well as offices in other states.Things I like about the company/offer: - Flat organizational structure - Supportive and collaborative culture (I've talked to 7 people at the company and had good impressions from all of them about this) - Better work-life balance compared to other consulting companies I know of - Opportunity for exposure to lots of technologies via different clients - Good starting pay ($72K) - Company pays for continuous learning opportunities (certifications + online courses) - Role is oriented around being a self-starter - Health insurance and 4 weeks PTOThings I don't like: - Perception (by others and myself) of settling, since this is my first offer - In an industry I don't think I'll stay in long-term. I'm interestedOct 30, 2020 7:54 PM
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My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spellhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb56e2de1414fb61b2e6dc79a996b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.allaboutjazz.com%2Falbum%2Fmy-magic-dreams-have-lost-their-spell-nick-storring&c=10817765968175861139&mkt=en-usTides That Defeat Identity; Pretending You And I; Tonight There’ll Be No Distance Between Us; What A Made-Up Mind Can Do; Now Neither One Of Us Is Breaking; My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell. Nick ...Oct 26, 2020 4:01 AM
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Why Paper Cuts Really, Really Hurthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b0cdc43bb4e57bd37fdb7ae2ca7b6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthline.com%2Fhealth%2Ffirst-aid%2Fwhy-paper-cuts-really-really-hurt&c=1066063524600516283&mkt=en-usWe all know what it’s like to pick up a sheet of paper, only to get a painful paper cut. The injury is usually small and shallow, but it can really hurt! Although it can be uncomfortable, the pain is ...Sep 29, 2020 7:00 AM
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Ask HN: Can signal processing experts contribute to sustainable food production?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24386530From the outside I've always seen the field of sustainable food and artificial meat production as extremely important but am not aware of any ways someone with my skills can contribute to it. My training is as a communications engineer. I've thought about information theory, signal processing and statistics. Is there any demand for these skills in that sector?ThanksSep 5, 2020 8:12 PM
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What to Do with Spreadsheets in an Organizationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24318471I work for a midsized public agency with some very smart but non-technical colleagues(housing, environmental health etc.) I was recently hired to improve our "data infrastructure".I am currently talking to departments to understand the landscape by asking them a few key questions: 1) What data sets have they used in the past year 2) Where and how do they source it (census website, internal databases etc) 3) How frequently do they refresh it and reuse it.I am starting to see a pattern where some datasets are sourced from internal systems with their own backing databases. It's a bit of a clutter but I can bring these different datasets to a centralized warehouse/datalake like environment that has discovery and querying capability.However, there is another consistent thread expressed by departmental analysts - "I get this other data from another agency via an excel spreadsheet as an email attachment" which I am struggling to understand what to do with. At this point I am not seeking a tooAug 29, 2020 6:47 PM
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How Self-Punishment Impacts You — and Why Self-Love Is More Effectivehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89d049c21f4412805ebe28b58caee2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthline.com%2Fhealth%2Fmental-health%2Fself-punishment&c=16400095964760008282&mkt=en-usYou’ve done something that hurt someone else, perhaps even yourself. You regret it, but you can’t take it back, so you wait for someone to notice and provide some sort of correction to relieve your ...Aug 27, 2020 2:13 AM
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Background 4.jpghttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiZEFVX3lxTE9xa2FFOEdyU0lUY0pwcUl2OWdGaHFQalpNRUVtZ2pqUUZBak9JWFpnM2doTmZ4SklJUTNRRXJlY253RlA1cnV4X0pZNkRrUHVqQ3hPVGxCRG1FZnBCcE5QWDAxMUI?oc=5Background 4.jpg Chattanooga State Community CollegeAug 23, 2020 1:54 AM
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Manhole covers in Japan’s Tokorozawa get glow in the dark anime makeoverhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8aaacc5fff4ae5b6cf1a4e566e52c0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Fit-s-viral%2Fmanhole-covers-in-japan-s-tokorozawa-get-glow-in-the-dark-anime-makeover%2Fstory-Sk4vZ6qqg28wMQyHZB3ohJ.html&c=17419716084518444413&mkt=en-usA set of manhole covers in Japan’s Tokorozawa city, north of Tokyo, has been decorated with anime characters that glow in the dark, to the delight of locals and city officials. A passerby stands next ...Aug 20, 2020 2:19 AM
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More Idleness would be betterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24168732Idleness. A word that has fallen into disrepute. Idleness, as the proverb warns, is the root of all vice; and more than a few even see in it the worst of all vices: the refusal to perform in a performance-based society.The calls for deceleration, which are becoming louder and louder, have rehabilitated idleness to a certain extent in recent years. In the wellness sector at least it has found a firm place - and in countless magazine articles when it has to do finding oneself or burnout syndrome.Idleness requires free time. This is more than leisure time: it is a time free of constraints, empty time that can be filled with what the moment offers.Caught in the daily hustle and bustle, it is difficult to develop new perspectives. One is so busy mopping up the water that one does not even think of turning off the tap.In order to get a grip on things at any time, your hands should be free. Being idle means to have time to do the right thing at the right moment.(Source: Jupp Hartmann: DepartAug 15, 2020 1:34 PM
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Why Are Plants Green? The Answer Might Work on Any Planethttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b21e92137412aa4cd88ce354dce2b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fwhy-are-plants-green-the-answer-might-work-on-any-planet%2F&c=14620678223925175178&mkt=en-usFrom large trees in the Amazon jungle to houseplants to seaweed in the ocean, green is the color that reigns over the plant kingdom. Why green—and not blue or magenta or gray? The simple answer is ...Aug 2, 2020 1:00 AM
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Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series databasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975807Hey everyone, I’m Vlad and I co-founded QuestDB (https://questdb.io) with Nic and Tanc. QuestDB is an open source database for time series, events, and analytical workloads with a primary focus on performance (https://github.com/questdb/questdb).It started in 2012 when an energy trading company hired me to rebuild their real-time vessel tracking system. Management wanted me to use a well-known XML database that they had just bought a license for. This option would have required to take down production for about a week just to ingest the data. And a week downtime was not an option. With no more money to spend on software, I turned to alternatives such as OpenTSDB but they were not a fit for our data model. There was no solution in sight to deliver the project.Then, I stumbled upon Peter Lawrey’s Java Chronicle library [1]. It loaded the same data in 2 minutes instead of a week using memory-mapped files. Besides the performance aspect, I found it fascinating that such a simple method wasJul 28, 2020 1:57 PM
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IBM launches free, open digital learning platform 'SkillsBuild Reignite' to help Canadian job seekers and business owners get back to workhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8c03e7853a4d23aa4e1c50a0af940c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.ca%2Fnews-releases%2Fibm-launches-free-open-digital-learning-platform-skillsbuild-reignite-to-help-canadian-job-seekers-and-business-owners-get-back-to-work-811150034.html&c=17016783945369735807&mkt=en-usTORONTO, July 27, 2020 /CNW/ - Today, IBM, (NYSE: IBM) and non-profit organization ACCES Employment launch a collaboration using the SkillsBuild platform, making custom courses, projects, and ...Jul 27, 2020 6:00 AM
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Ask HN: How can I gain more control over how much I work?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23773558I have 12 years experience writing software. The first half of that was at big data startup working with distributed systems using C++ and python. The second half has been more conventional full-stack development. That would be node / react / angular / backbone, etc. I was recently a part of a team upgrading a legacy system to a modern web application.I do enjoy my job and software in general, but there are a lot of other things I'd like to do in life and having a full-time job makes that difficult. Here are some options I've considered and my thoughts about them.1) Contract work: I live in NYC. From what I gather online, most contract opportunities are actually just a way for companies to put you on probation for a year before hiring you. I would happily work for 6 months to a year to then be able to take 1-3 months off. I can't help but wonder if there aren't speciality developers work shorter contracts that aren't just glorified probation. Am I missing something here?2) Part-time woJul 8, 2020 7:50 PM
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Launch HN: PostEra (YC W20) Medicinal Chemistry-as-a-Service and Covid Moonshothttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23700275Hey everyone! We’re Alpha, Matt and Aaron, co-founders of PostEra (https://postera.ai/). The title above is quite a mouthful (we used all 80 characters) so we'll begin by breaking down what it means.What is medicinal chemistry? It’s part of discovering new drugs. A drug hunter decides what disease to focus on and then selects ‘targets’: usually proteins whose activity is key to the disease. Then they look for a molecule that can ‘hit’ that target and stimulate a response which will hopefully have beneficial effects. Developing such a molecule that is potent and safe is medicinal chemistry.Despite it being a crucial part of drug development, this field has relied on trial-and-error approaches—a very expensive way to muddle toward a drug. Where computational tools have been used, they have emphasized the 'best' designs without any awareness of what it would take to physically make the drug in a lab and test it. Our approach is to apply computational methods that know how to make these deJul 1, 2020 11:27 AM
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Copthorne London Gatwick GDS Codeshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a53f0d38b4347b715972af1ee20e8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.travelweekly.com%2FHotels%2FCopthorne-England%2FCopthorne-London-Gatwick-p3791466&c=6098287183261928114&mkt=en-usCopthorne London Gatwick Amenities Amenities are in all rooms unless noted otherwise Air Conditioning (some) Coffeemaker Daily Maid Service Fireplace (working) (some) Iron/Ironing Board Mini-Bar Free ...Jun 22, 2020 5:58 PM
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Marques Houston Defends His Engagement to 19-Year-Old Fiancée Miyahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a90f9bc2545ebbbb4bf0a20f95994&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eonline.com%2Fnews%2F1162688%2Fmarques-houston-defends-his-engagement-to-19-year-old-fiancee-miya&c=8914580086476476993&mkt=en-us"And that's the story. No twists, no turns, no scandals, just true love. There is nothing that can come to light, because there's no darkness in my life. You wanted the truth," Marques insisted. "I ...Jun 18, 2020 9:53 AM
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KRAFTWERK New Streaming And Download Titles Available July 3 From Parlophonehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxQeFV0Wkd6b3JPZnotX0s1WVFDdDBoa3F3THkyOFVxMTgxeFRhSUNCWk9SeGJpV3NhZVJwckw0OHN4OG9rZDBHMXhZc2xOOVpwdzV2WUxicTROVjJXRGpUcUp2R1o2eUFjYUMteTBXb05HanFyNzdOOXFTRTY4MkEtNVpTNG5VZm50TWJ4eGNRcktlVDYxcDY2cnFzZ3RYZGowQVVOVHpGRW00UQ?oc=5KRAFTWERK New Streaming And Download Titles Available July 3 From Parlophone rhino.comJun 18, 2020 7:00 AM
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TikTok Finally Explains How the ‘For You’ Algorithm Workshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8bbea26371446992746d44bae112fc&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Ftiktok-finally-explains-for-you-algorithm-works%2F&c=15513713080098584902&mkt=en-usThe first thing you see when you open TikTok is the platform’s For You page: an endless stream of videos uniquely tailored to each user. No two feeds are exactly ...Jun 18, 2020 6:00 AM
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KitchenAid Releases Its Very Own Collection of Cordless Applianceshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilAFBVV95cUxPSlpKVkF5aGlDTGYyWHIzWVZQazNIRkFwcjNNdkxyZ0lRQklEZTBUek5EUjc5VkdyV3d4VWxXQ2FRandYNThsemoxY0hkY1JBUEduR3ZpVUMwT0JFSG1nM1ZnMDlCY1ZWOC01czg1M3ltdzN2ZkJkMEVaNHpZUzBhSE80Z1VzdzUwNnR6ZS1uc183cnlK?oc=5KitchenAid Releases Its Very Own Collection of Cordless Appliances SheKnowsJun 8, 2020 7:00 AM
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Ask HN: How to avoid losing a baby video that “violates YouTube's guidelines”?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23403759Years ago I uploaded to YouTube a 30 minute home video of my kids when they were babies. I wanted to avoid losing the video to a hard drive crash, and also wanted to be able to share it with family members. I never shared it publicly.Big mistake!Now years later, YouTube emailed me, and informed me that my home video "violates guidelines". My guess is that a short sequence showing a 6 month old baby naked in a bathtub triggered some kind of porn filter :(.Of course I appealed, YouTube's decision, but to no avail.The worst part is that the YouTube UI prevents downloading my video and storing it somewhere else! Four days from now YouTube will delete my home video, and it will be gone forever.What can I do to avoid losing my video?Jun 3, 2020 2:35 PM
