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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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Kendi's book, 'How to Raise an Anti-Racist,' is part study, part memoirhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d1c50ec454e85b5cffe3b78d17d2f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2022%2F06%2F13%2F1104529540%2Fkendis-book-how-to-raise-an-anti-racist-is-part-study-part-memoir&c=6932338279177117080&mkt=en-usSome people claim they want to protect children from the writings of Ibram X. Kendi. He wrote a history of racist thought and a book on how to be an anti-racist. Activists in Virginia, North Carolina ...Jun 12, 2020 10:09 PM
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Ask HN: Why (Not) Serverless?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23299961I would love to hear your thoughts about what you enjoy, and what you really don't enjoy about serverless development.In my experience, it's pretty hard to build serverless systems where functions interact with each-other. Data pipelines, for example. Managing deployments, distributed debugging, lack of local testing, it gets painful! AWS Step Functions help, but they're not portable, cheap, or fun.I'm attmpting to make that easier with something called Teal. https://github.com/condense9/teal-lang is where I am now.I really want to make something useful, and would love to hear about your experiences. If anyone can spare half an hour, it'd be great to chat, though just your thoughts would be wonderful too :).I've also asked on r/serverless, hope cross-posting is okay.For clarity, by "serverless" I mean running production code in the cloud without having to manage servers, and preferably without idle servers. So AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, GCP Functions, etc.May 25, 2020 11:18 AM
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Ask HN: Amazon listing sold by Apple; majority of reviews say it's fakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23231074I was looking for a new USB-C power cable for my MacBook Pro and came across this prominent listing on Amazon.https://www.amazon.com/Apple-USB-C-Charge-Cable-2m/dp/B01MQ5Z080At first I thought, great deal. Then I started reading the reviews and looking at the user posted pictures. Most reviews all claim this is a not an official Apple cable, and the very top review scarily says: "THIS CAUGHT MY COMFORTER ON FIRE!"How can this listing be claimed sold officially by Apple[1]? Doesn't Amazon verify name brand sellers?[1] https://www.amazon.com/stores/Apple/page/77D9E1F7-0337-4282-9DB6-B6B8FB2DC98DMay 19, 2020 3:35 AM
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Why Should You Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d5eefd0514735ba2f4233700de6eb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncregister.com%2Fblog%2Fwhy-should-you-pray-the-divine-mercy-chaplet&c=842398123151622521&mkt=en-usWhen I first heard about the Divine Mercy Chaplet, I thought it was ridiculous. That was in the year 2000, when St. Pope John Paul II canonized St. Faustina and granted universal observance of the ...Apr 19, 2020 12:36 PM
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Ask HN: Why have post numbers become green and red?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21880128Dear HN, I appreciate you for the minimalistic interface that just does not contain anything unnecessary. For what purpose did you start using colors in post number?Does this mean the beginning of the end of the HN I know and love? Maybe now you will make a mobile app? Hang a banner warning that you store cookies? Forbid to use adblock?I could not understand for a while what this differentiation means. My first thought was that green posts - being voted positively and vice versa. Now I realized that they are simply alternating. It reminds me Mark Miller's "Tragedy of Common Lisp" story, and maybe the theory of broken windows a little bit.Thank you for all the wonderful that I discovered because of you.Dec 25, 2019 7:56 PM
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Show HN: We are going to help you land a job from today's Who is hiring threadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21684411Hi HN!We are Pascal and Beroli, co-founders of Voorjob (https://www.voorjob.com) a small startup from Copenhagen that is going to help you get a new job from today's Who is hiring thread.We started sketching this idea while I was looking for a new job opportunity at October's thread. During the job search I went thought a process that might be familiar to many of you: sending dozens of resumes, writing custom cover letters, having interviews, getting ghosted, the whole nine...That was when we realized one thing: Today's hiring process with all those fancy ATS, resume parsers and ML algorithms, is kind of broken, the power is almost entirely with the side that is hiring.We decided to fight back!At first we are trying to solve the data manageability of job hunting, our initial set of features encompasses a few tools that will help you thought this journey: backlog of applications, application manager, assets (resumes and cover letters)In addition to the management/tracking features, you Dec 2, 2019 5:17 PM
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Samantha Fore’s Roving Pop-Up Is Hooking Americans on Sri Lankan Foodhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d846ca3fa4224be259e83107444f8&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bonappetit.com%2Fstory%2Fsamantha-fore-tuk-tuk-sri-lankan-bites&c=12644757080349149904&mkt=en-usWhen Samantha Fore told me she would pick me up in a silver Honda, I thought I knew what to expect: a comfortable four-door sedan with safety ratings so high that it’s beloved by South Asians across ...Nov 7, 2019 3:00 AM
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Should Teachers Be Allowed To Carry Guns at School?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cf81bb0314c85b164727b1f516660&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Feducation%2F532863%2Fshould-teachers-be-allowed-to-carry-guns-at-school&c=15714572056972639566&mkt=en-usTraditionally thought of as gun-free zones, some schools are now allowing teachers to carry guns in classrooms— an effort that is meant to increase school safety, particularly when it comes to ...Nov 6, 2019 4:00 PM
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Should Teachers Be Allowed To Carry Guns at School?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b37b53b044b3bbbb4cc4c681abdd0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Feducation%2F532863%2Fshould-teachers-be-allowed-to-carry-guns-at-school&c=15714572056972639566&mkt=en-usTraditionally thought of as gun-free zones, some schools are now allowing teachers to carry guns in classrooms— an effort that is meant to increase school safety, particularly when it comes to ...Nov 6, 2019 4:00 PM
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How To Delete An Archived Story On Instagram So It's Gone Foreverhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d7ac6eaa444e58d762ed4c036f08a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bustle.com%2Fp%2Fhow-to-delete-archived-story-on-instagram-so-its-gone-forever-19260408&c=8820604239613001534&mkt=en-usIf you thought your Instagram Stories completely disappeared after their 24-hours were up, think again. After a post disappears from your Story, Instagram keeps it in a separate section of your ...Oct 22, 2019 3:56 PM
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Launch HN: Quirk (YC S19) – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20646918Hey HN, I'm Evan. We make Quirk, an open-source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy app. (https://github.com/flaque/quirk)If you've never seen a cognitive-behavioral therapist before, it's easiest to understand by analogy with physical therapy. Like a physical therapist, a cognitive-therapist gives you goals and exercises to do, only they're mental rather than physical. Similarly, Quirk gives you exercises where you record and challenge negative thoughts.I work on Quirk with my brother, Koby, a former founder and marketer in both consumer products and the mortgage industry. He's really good at simplifying, branding, and explaining complicated topics to the average consumer. Personally, I'm just an engineer who used to work on Segment's developer platform.Quirk started as a command line tool (https://github.com/flaque/freak) that I used to track my panic attacks. I've had severe attacks for as long as I can remember, some lasting several hours. I always used to down-play them, saying "they're Aug 8, 2019 6:02 PM
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Ask HN: I want to share my experience with Pioneer, what should I write?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20448984Hey fellow Hackers! I've been playing Pioneer (https://pioneer.app/join/bethechange), a weekly online tournament for projects (of any kind, from local charity to blockchain), for a few months now, and it's been an amazing motivation boost and a focusing tool for me and the project. I honestly think that anyone working on a side-project or a small startup with ambitious goals should try try participating.I want to write an article about my experience, and I wonder what aspects should I highlight and what questions to answer? Would love to hear your thoughts!Jul 16, 2019 11:04 AM
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Ask HN: Any seasoned entrepreneurs looking to mentor or find an apprentice?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20340953I phrased the question wrong in an earlier thread and thought I'd give it another go. I'm a self-taught web developer/writer/maker. I've had a huge desire to run my own business since I was young. I've been homeless, traveled to three different states in search for work. I've struggled for a long time. I'm becoming more and more motivated but it seems the harder I try the less amount of direction I end up having. I'm looking for a mentor. Someone that could help me learn and grow into the person I want to be. It's a bit vague, I know, but I think something good could come from this.If you'd like to learn more about me before you reach out, check out the links below. In my last post, I offered to pay someone to mentor me but in all honesty, I am barely scraping by each week. I'm sure I could make it worth your while, in time, but I realize it would take patience and risk to spend spare time answering my questions. Anyways, I really appreciate your time for reading this, even if you can'Jul 3, 2019 1:55 AM
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Lululemon Just Launched A Selfcare Beauty Line—Here's My Honest Reviewhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8dcdbe210c4481ad6d3c626727e1eb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.womenshealthmag.com%2Fbeauty%2Fa27818588%2Flululemon-selfcare-beauty-review%2F&c=9595957148474652294&mkt=en-usAs an editor at Women’s Health, friends are naturally always asking me for my thoughts on different workout gear lines or which leggings I love. And while I am all for trying out the latest trendy ...Jun 18, 2019 5:00 AM
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Latin is dead—yet it also lives onhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cf57ed6f74247a25569a0135d7f21&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fbooks-and-arts%2F2019%2F06%2F06%2Flatin-is-dead-yet-it-also-lives-on&c=11809508175953223725&mkt=en-usCICERO, THE Roman statesman whose prose is thought to represent the peak of style in Latin, was also a bit of a snob about it. Few others, he complained in a tome written in 46BC, used the language ...Jun 6, 2019 7:33 AM
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Clash of Clans – Short Review by My 3rd Graderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19977576My 3rd grader recently wrote a short review of Clash of Clans for his school assignment which I thought was a fun read. I've corrected some typos but left most of the text as-is to keep it original and fun to read. Enjoy -Image of the written assignment - https://imgur.com/iyZER3t--- Have you ever wondered what it is like to play the game - clash of clans, it’s a really fun game. Trust me you’ll like it.Clash of clans has a headquarters like a normal game, but XP doesn’t level you up, you have to upgrade the HQ only then you will level up. You can have weapons, artilleries, traps, walls, spells, wizards, king of soldiers, queen or archers. There gold mines and elixir mines and dark elixir minds.For gold and elixir it’s the opposite, you need gold to upgrade elixir mines and elixir to upgrade gold mines.If you install this game, you’ll know how to play. By the way, the ship on the shore gets you to a secret island but you just need to fix it. In the middle of your home island there’s a May 22, 2019 3:47 AM
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Safe Schools Initiative – An app attempting to prevent school shootingshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19900903Disclaimer: Safe Schools Initiative (SSI) is a customer of my company Hatch Apps. I believe in their mission to use software to save lives so thought I'd share the story with the HN community:As a response to many of the recent school shootings, SSI is using a mobile app to address the growing nationwide epidemic. The app is a mobile-first community of students, parents, teachers, and law enforcement to crowdsource information and resources to prevent the next school shooting.The thesis of the app is to prevent school shootings by combining software with existing initiatives— users of the app can report violence, speak to law enforcement via chat, and connect with each other real-time in groups.The non-profit is currently working on a pilot with schools in Orange and Seminole County in Florida, as well as Baltimore City Public Schools.The founder is Chris De Ruyter, an active duty Army Lieutenant Colonel stationed at FT. Meade, MD. He founded the 501(c)3 after watching the news of the May 13, 2019 4:29 PM
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What Is a Time Warp and Where Could We Find One?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d589b8eb94b33af3efefb4eac8282&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Ftime-warp-where-find-one-1423508&c=7123851528243854039&mkt=en-usSee more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A time warp can be thought of as anything that disrupts the flow of ...May 13, 2019 12:01 AM
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Ask HN: Should I charge for my product (20k Users)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19308995Hi HN,I am looking for some advice, I am the founder of http://veed.io/ an online video editing platform. We have around 20K Monthly users and we have doubled that month over month for the last 3 with no marketing.The site has been free to use while in beta and i believe we will be in beta for 2 more months or so. I want to start thinking about charging for the product in some way and this is where I need your help!Our main competition adds a watermark to every video, you pay a subscription of $20 to have them removed. Simple. They are doing well and growing fast.I don't want to add watermarks because I think they are ugly and ruins the user's video. I also believe it will give us a competitive advantage if we don't.I thought about offering a PRO tools package to our users, but most of our users are entry level if they want more powerful editing tools they will go to some other product.The other idea is to charge for cloud storage? But our users are not making complex videos. they are Mar 5, 2019 8:12 AM
