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Ask HN: Skills needed for stable remote work 4 hours a day?
Can someone advice what skills and exact technologies are the most popular among employers giving part time remote jobs in Europe?

I will be able to work up to 4 hours a day and willing to learn new technologies and skills. I have broad background in IT, basic experience in programming, network and system administration, general computer science knowledge.

I don't want to learn specific language, technology or skills just for one job. I need advice what programming technologies or skills are best for having stable remote job for part time and also possibility to change if needed (for now I will not be able to have full time remote job).

I'm interested in jobs requiring technical skills but also open to more soft skills based types.

Thanks in advance for the answers.
Ask HN: How do I get my software to stop being flagged by anti-virus vendors?
Our .NET desktop application has been detected off and on by anti-virus software as a false positive for over a year now. It is not obfuscated or packed in any way. Nothing in the binary does anything that could be construed as malicious, I think. The binary is digitally signed by my company's EV code signing certificate. It's detected as Generic/MSIL. I have tried contacting the vendors several times through their report false positives system, and have never gotten a reply.

I'm losing clients because of this. I'm really at a loss here. Hopefully someone here can help. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: Here's a link to a virustotal scan:

https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/f4550f0c64925bca64c3759a6e279f3a5ecf88fb29d281d2b1103c6c6f5a6320/details
Given that windmills only make a sound when there is wind, I have a really hard time believing you could hear them over the masking sound of the wind that was driving them. 7 miles is "train horn on a still winter's night" distance.
Arizona has it. But I don't believe any city in California does
Might as well have written (evergreen)
Bawawawhahahaha.

You realize that the more wireless you have the more fiber backhaul you need with the towers and fiber everywhere?
I try to consistently use the word "target" to head off the ambiguous semantics around time estimates versus "deadlines". It's a little thing, but it can be psychologically easier if one explicitly controls the project language to allow "we need to revise our target" than to be implicitly seen as "not meeting a deadline".
What do you mean by domain hosting? Are you talking about a registrar, or a DNS hosting service (or both, which is common)?
Within CT, what are examples of things Macie will catch, vs. things you'd need GD to catch?

If GD weren't so expensive, I wouldn't really care that much. But GD is so expensive that it can be hard to recommend, which is especially weird since the pricing for Macie CT is so low --- even weirder when you note that the pricing for Macie S3 is so high!
Cliche: "Deliver more than you promise"
He means speaking commands (to a shell I presume) rather than type them.
Some of the best jokes are funny because they're true.
Flutter is in alpha, and has a very small ecosystem. Flutter does perform much better in 'tough use case' scenarios though.
You should probably put it at the top - otherwise those of us happily using the browser have to skim over a lot of stuff on various useless apps before we can see that you ruled out the obvious (to us) solution.
Your perception of what qualifies as an open mind is relative. As far as being risk adverse, that indicates a closed mindedness and fear of things outside your comfort zone. You are not nor ever we're "safe", nor can you ever be. Control is an illusion of man when played against the greater backdrop of reality and authority a fickle joke. Culture is not your friend, your choice to play the game of American industrialism and "capitalism version X.Y" is your own by way of you giving others power over you. You are the only true authority in your life, not your parents, not your wife, not your boss, not your friends. Emotion does not translate to text well, I hope you have not taken my words as insult, they were meant to be emotionless but reflective.
I have to agree, English being a Germanic language with similar grammatical structure this does indeed seem inaccurate.
"... endlessly copied and pasted by a clueless generation of IT "professionals" who wouldn't recognize sound IT architecture if you hit them over the head with it."

Why is this generation of IT "professionals" clueless? Why can't they recognize a sound architecture? How to get a clue?
> (1) Write your new endpoint. (2) Proxy to it via your old one.

OR: (1) write your endpoint. (2) use something like apache's mod_rewrite to adapt endpoints.
Not true, at least if you are looking at the demand side. Micro-apartments got approved for building in a San Francisco suburb and got bought up right away.

Perhaps your city is an outlier, but across the U.S. micro-housing is in demand. Here's a great starting off point to read about it (and do visit the linked research in the article):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2017/03/31/what-is-t...
I use Feedly not only for hn
Most people would consider that an "edge case" which can be neglected in the model since it doesn't create any forces in the y direction.
Hopefully just the process of watching all connections break and seeing the internet go away as the client reassociates with the AP each time they foolishly tumble their MAC on an _active_ connection will be enough to keep this scenario from ever playing out.
Democracy: actual equal access to decision making for everybody, majority decides.

Republic: from latin, res-publica, elected representatives manage public affairs, once removed from the people (and cozy with powerful interests).

(Law still "rules" in both democracy and a republic -- to the extend that special interests don't bribe and influence their way into it, which is easier in a republic than in an actual democracy ancient-Athenian style, where people directly vote).
Bobby Tables
What the hell is this???

A hammer analogy?

If it ain't broke don't "fix" it.

Car analogies only please.

(Ironically "if it ain't broke..." doesn't apply to Apple)
Some friends and I visited an wind farm just as a place to fly a kite. The area was rolling green hills, a few cows and these massive, clean, white towers up into the sky. It honestly struct me as a scene from an idyllic future sci-fi movie. It was like walking around in someone’s CG desktop background.
I’m an iOS developer. I once considered writing a Hacker News app. After looking into what would be involved, I decided it would be a waste of time. The API is inadequate and YC makes no guarantees about future expansion.
Not everyone needs to know my home address. Especially not for a domain I use for emails.

Way too many weird people out there.
Hey, it seems like you have the broken links here..
Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: NodeJs (Core Member of NodeJS), React, Meteor, Python, React, AWS, Chatbots (Worked at Slack in SF), Automation, Scripting

Résumé/CV:

https://gist.github.com/vicky002/92e7a1e3d6e058d40b1c54d3abe...

Email: tvicky002@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWiSIxVlI7w
First, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Second,
doesn't matter whether a person is an ass or not. When it comes to deciding things that affect their life too, they should have a say. And that's the whole point of actual democracy.

It's not for deciding on some BS "best course" (which doesn't even exist, different people want different things and see them as best), but of giving people an equal say to public matters.

Saying: these people shouldn't have a say because they're "asses" is not really different that saying these people shouldn't have a say because they are blacks, women, etc.
I've also settled on this one as the least sucky.. There are still some issues as you can't easily see your comment history, and there's often a bug when you click a story directly, you can't see the content..

But again, its the least sucky I've found
PM always wants ROMs (Rough Order of Magnitude estimates), then they bitch when actual project cost is under 5%, or head will roll if it's 1 penny over. Not understanding an order of magnitude, much less a rough one, is why they are not in engineering. They don't like it when I say a ROM is roughly accurate to 0.1X to 10X cost.
The published paper: "Experimental Study of Ordering of Hard Cubes by Shearing", https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11...

Calling them "dice" (which is what was actually used in the experiment) is fine for a summary of the research for laypeople. If confused, any interested reader will quickly know what "ordered" means in this context. As to the work itself, if someone had asked me one hour ago if this would happen, I would have guessed not. I know that light shaking of small objects will tend to organize them, and that large objects in particulate matter (such as sand) will tend to rise in such circumstances. But I still am surprised enough by this result to think it's notable - and, I assume, so were the editors of Physical Review Letters.
Concurrency vs. Parallelism: A breakfast example
A lot of good lessons in the script. It may not be apparent, but they sure put a lot of hours into making the videos. I especially like the point of no Googling for research (research offline). Every Frame a Painting feels unique because they don't just try to echo other's opinions.

A huge percentage of the Internet is the same information, repeated over and over again. This is especially apparent on film websites; they call it aggregation but it’s really just a nicer way to say regurgitation.

It's sad that they couldn't turn it as a final video, even using a very different style (breaking from their norm). It feels that a video channel deserves a video closure, not a blog post.

I'm happy that both of them finds happiness in their new jobs and location.
I used the term hypocritical in regard to the Kennedys because many of them have run for and won public office on a strong progressive platform. They get downright preachy.

But as another user pointed out, they are a large family and assuming one speaks for all is unfair.
-Download a postman collection.

-Comments per api. There is valuable information in the section of REDIS docs

Minor nits:

- if I close the try-it-now side bar, it comes back every time I click on a new API

- The try-it-now is slow to load

- the side nav is poorly discovered. It's hidden by the Try it Now side pane.

Full disclosure: I lead the overhaul and modernization of my companies developer documentation site.
How to treat estimates is hugely dependent on the political situation at your company. Things such as, exactly what is your role, the role of the person asking, your relationship and their expectations, what will they use the information for? That plus the technical side of how many unknowns are involved in doing this thing, and how long it has taken to resolve similar types of unknown in the past.

Maybe the most important thing to remember is to beware of keeping your old behavior with regard to estimating things when there's a sudden change in the management structure. You may go from someone who understands development and knows how to interpret and present a good-faith estimate from developers to higher ups, to someone who just presents your estimates up the chain verbatim. And that shift may not be obvious to the developer until the fallout from a bad estimate gets blamed on you.
There's this odd tendency to glorify being powerless or under the thumb of others on this site. If you don't own your appliances, you are at the mercy of someone else. If the microwave in the shared kitchen is busted, you need to wait for the landlord to fix it; meanwhile hope you like eating out. If you have a shared refrigerator, you are at the mercy of other people not eating your food. If toilets, keeping them clean.

The reason why we need this space and own these things is to be able to have control over our own experience. I own a book because I don't want to have to depend on the library having it in stock when I need it. I have a bathroom so I can use it when I wan't, not have to wait for twenty minutes because someone else is being sick in it, cleaning it up, or because there is a long line for the morning shower.
> Music and literature work like that. We think the age of Mozart was particularly wonderful, because we have Mozart's music. But there was plenty of other music in that era, most of it bellowed by bad musicians in taverns. That's not so different from today's music scene.

Yep, it's the good old nostalgia filter in action. You see the good stuff that survives the passage of time, but ignore the crap that gets rapidly forgotten:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NostalgiaFilter
This was an interesting detail: Nearly every stylistic decision you see about the channel — the length of the clips, the number of examples, which studios’ films we chose, the way narration and clip audio weave together, the reordering and flipping of shots, the remixing of 5.1 audio, the rhythm and pacing of the overall video — all of that was reverse-engineered from YouTube’s Copyright ID.
I would personally recommend taking the 10x Club course (note: I work at the parent company, and yeah I know about the name)
I'm not in the software industry so this sounds really odd to me. Don't you guys write proposals to go along with the quote that detail exactly what is in the scope of work? Do you not have a contractual statement of work?

If they come back and say, "oh, we forgot to say we also need D", then the response should be, "that's no problem, we estimate it will take an additional X hours or dollars to implement that. Would you like us to update the proposal?" Or, if you're under budget and you're charging hourly rates instead of a fixed cost, you might even say you can probably add it without going over budget.

PS: I just realized that you're probably talking about internal "clients" so there's no contract or even payment. But I think the same general idea applies. When they bring up extra features, you just say that it's going to take additional time.

edit 2: I guess this doesn't actually help with getting the project done on time. The initial time estimate is still going to be off for the reasons you mentioned. So this comment isn't really an argument against anything you wrote.
This is nice advice for those who can afford it...
>>Music and literature work like that.

It's possible to go too far with this kind of thinking. Yes the pyramid still in pristine condition is the best built one, with all the shoddy pyramids long collapsed. That does encourage a bias. This does not mean any "golden era" thinking I necessarily fallacious, just that we need to watch out for a particular fallacy.

Between about 1967-73 a lot of good rock albums were recorded. A lot of shite too, mostly forgotten about. The filter of time applies equally to the next 7 years, but most people's record collections feature more "golden age albums."
You could still choose to be insured, wouldn't have to pay if your income is low, and couldn't be denied for a preexisting condition. My point is that you're not being _coerced_.
I would be happy with RoR, but i am still clueless on how to make SPA/rich type apps which have more to do with JS.
This is a huge problem.

We are perfectly happy to identify athletic talent and enact systems so that the athletically talented are matched up with peers who share their gifts, but we mostly refuse to do this for intellectual talent.

I was fortunate enough to attend a program that handled this pretty well. Basically it was 120 kids from 11-18 who skipped high school and attended university together instead. It’s called the Early Entrance Program and it’s at Cal State Los Angeles:

http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/eep

The issue I face is that I am raising my children in Portland, Oregon, so this program will not be an option for them. Our personal approach is to home school instead. And I’ll probably investigate starting something like the Early Entrance Program at the state university in Portland here.
> Also, follow the development of Django and comment on the intentional breaks if you think they’re not worth changing.

I really don't want to be sucked into Django's drama:

https://us.pycon.org/2015/schedule/presentation/381/

I've encountered very little sympathy from Django developers. Everyone seems to have just accepted that it breaks often and it's totally my fault for not keeping up with the breaking changes. Everyone seems to think that Django breaking compatibility all over the place is good, proper, acceptable, and inevitable. Nothing is sacred, anything can break, and make sure you go through that list each release to see what you have to change in your code.

This makes me sad and frustrated.

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/
What makes it easier is having fixed goals in mind, because I am seeing a lot of people in this thread arguing because they're all solving different problems which is obviously going to mean different solutions.

If your only concern is passive tracking, then a randomized MAC being used for SSID probes (because whitelist-only hidden SSIDs are rare enough that those people can manually connect) will be sufficient.

If you're looking to keep an open Wifi provider from tracking you over the course of days, then using a different MAC for each connect is going to be sufficient.

If you're looking to avoid tracking by people doing traffic analysis to correlate by behaviour no amount of MAC trickery will help you.

If one is looking to avoid having to pay for overstaying their visit at a coffee house or similar capture portal, maybe what needs to be changed is one's sense of ethics, and changing a MAC won't help with that.

So, you can say "it should be a default" all you like, but everyone's going to have a different idea of what the default is for and they're going to throw a fit about it not being "the right default". Better to be conservative like Android and avoid inciting the newbs.
It might have to do with their one party political system, heavy censorship, thousands of executions each year, and persecution of reporters and political opposition.
It should alert as soon as it hits our mail servers - let check its route and see what happened for you.. apologies.

Edit: Bug fixed, really sorry about that! I've sent an email to the insiders address, to give you an example alert.
My Little Cluster Story
My setup is like this

RSS Reader (Web/iOS/Android):
Import http://opml.SharjeelSayed.com , into Inoreader.com

News Notifications (iOS/Android):
Add http://rss.SharjeelSayed.com into the 'Feed URL' field in https://IFTTT.com/applets/456148p

http://rss.SharjeelSayed.com has the 'Must Read' part of the OPML file http://opml.SharjeelSayed.com so I get alerts for important stuff.

theoldreader.com works well too on the mobile browser (Safari/Chrome). Import http://opml.SharjeelSayed.com into it.
I like to do something similar - I break down what I see are the risks, add a risk factor accordingly, then provide the estimate as a range. For example, the risk factor my be 50%, so I'll say the cost will be between £100k and £150k (for example). I find this really helps to focus the customer stakeholders who can control some of those risks.
I'd been an Apple fan and happy iPhone user for ~8 years until I updated my iPhone 6 Plus to iOS 11. My phone went from snappy to crappy. Apple support told me I couldn't go back to iOS 10, so I figured it was time to buy a new phone. My Pixel 2 came Friday.
I don't think it's a good idea for any app developer to make an app that lets you login to a website that they don't own, especially that doesn't offer an authentication API. What happens when the website changes anything? The app breaks immediately...

The best Hacker News client for getting the headlines is http://hckrnews.com/

You didn't list any criteria besides "runs on iOS and lets me login". A webbrowser is a native app which fits that criteria perfectly - so what's your reasoning for not wanting to use it and what do you want an app to do that the webbrowser app can't do?
If you just want to browse/read, I recommend "Hacker News Client"
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-client/id9394542...
Unit testing seems to frequently result in overconfidence.
And what does the application actually do, what libraries does it use, and
how is it packed and distributed?

At some point completely innocent netcat and tcpdump were marked as viruses or
rootkits, because they used some low-level network API.
Radius’ directors explain the problem with making a corpse out of potatoes
Using Rails 5.1 you can integrate Webpack into Rails and thus setup full React or Vue apps with SPA navigation. I would highly recommend it as you can focus on learning the new JS frameworks but have the comfort of Rails for the backend without a headless situation.
American Universities are for profit corporations and need to be investigated. They have huge endowments and pay admins huge sums.

Yet they crush students with unbelievably high tuition.
We have a student loan crisis, that is mentally destroying millennials.
They refuse to pay grad students a living wage.
They refuse to open up publicly funded research.
They overfund huge sports teams while underfunding much needed scientific research.

Universities may have been a beacon of science before, but now they are a profit-seeking parasite destroying students and true scientific progress.

Endowments:

Harvard - 35 billion

Yale - 25 billion

Stanford - 22 billion

Princeton - 21 billion

MIT - 12 billion

Upenn - 10 billion

Texas A&M - 9 billion

Why do these universities need taxpayer money AND force students to take loans ?!

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-lis...
If you want to go all-in, I would suggest React Create App with a Rails or Python API.
That’s not true, it’s the building codes. Municipalities have made creating new naturally affordable housing illegal. There are minimum unit sizes based on expected occupancy, density maximums (ie up to N units per lot), parking minimums based number of units etc. It is a political problem, not a question of profit.
> the beautiful cathedral of Unix

The biggest irony here is that in the Multics days the Unix design was considered an ugly heretical hack. It's all in the eye of the beholder.
I can give a strong recommendation to Materialistic - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...

It has every feature you asked for and its a pleasure to use. The only place it fell short was the lack of a downvote feature.
Adult Swim – Elastic Man
Seems about right.

A year is an eternity anyway, you shouldn’t start a project with nothing coming out of it before a year, that’s suicide on so many plans.
"there’s pretty good evidence that there's a lot of
fraud going on ... Are we supposed to believe that
bitcoin is the only market in history that's not
manipulated? That’s nonsense, of course it is"

This. A lot of smart tech people into bitcoin aren't vary savvy when it comes to how markets work and in particular how financial scams work.
Why were his friends idiots?

They could have been doing exactly what you described