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Show HN: Life as a maker can be pretty lonely. AI “Tinder for friends”, anyone?
Hi guys,
Life as an entrepreneur can be a tough and lonely ride. I've experienced it first-hand for almost a decade, now.

As many of you know, your friendships will be critical when you're stuck in the mud or have to kill your startup. For about half of my entrepreneurial career, I haven't had a good friend group, and it really took a toll on my health and happiness.

So I decided never to go through it again, so I built an app that matches you to the most compatible people nearby for the purposes of friendship. For two years, I've been working on the compatibility algorithm and I'm super proud of the result. We've connected over 30k people in over 10 countries now.

We just got featured on PH this morning. Your support would be awesome, but it would make me even happier to know that you met some amazing people on We3.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/we3

Or

https://www.we3app.com
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Well, the fixed costs could probably be reduced, but there currently isn't an incentive for the bank to pass that reduction on to you, the customer.
It's interesting that this is true, because (at the state level, not federal) this is table stakes to lure large corporations to locate in one state over another. Just look at some of the pitches cities/states have been making to Amazon for their HQ2, or the Foxconn deal in Wisconsin.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/05/foxc...
And that is entirely fine. I'm all for group white boarding exercises, or pair programming. I think there's a lot of value to be had in making sure the other person can communicate in a technical setting effectively, and explain why they make choices.

Likewise, if someone wants me to walk them through a project I have with explanations of what choices I made and why, I'm happy to do that. But please don't waste my time asking me to implement DFS, or write another twitter API client.
Problem is: It's hard to judge the difference between someone who doesn't know what they are doing and someone who does but loses it under the extreme pressure of an interview wherein their entire future with the company is being determined by their performance on a 30 minute exercise.

Throughout my career, I've been in professional situations where I was under a lot of pressure: Having to explain failures to executives, near-impossibly tight deadlines, production outages. At least I haven't had to testify in front of Congress yet. Absolutely NOTHING I've encountered in my professional day-to-day has the extreme level of pressure of a typical silicon valley job interview.
>Fifth Generation project

Does anyone know what eventually happened to it? I had read about it a bit in the media at the time, it seemed like an ambitious project. I remember they were going to use Prolog instead of Lisp (for whatever reason). Did any concrete benefits come out of the research, for example, that are widely applied in (any) industry? Interesting to know.
I wonder if Amazon's plan of delivery into home was just marketing for in-trunk delivery.

Or maybe as a distraction for Walmart , which copied the in-home version.
No need for external services from now on.
I actually would rather have a phone that I have to charge every night. If it's only once a week then I'll forget but if it's every day it becomes a habit and therefore automatic.
> we could improve the prompts we provide on the “Ask Question” page, and we could provide more tools for community moderation of comments where the snark currently runs unchecked.

Here's an idea: On the ask question page, have a checkbox for "Help me ask my question". Check that, and the question temporarily goes into a separate corral where helpers can edit or refine the question. These self-selected subset of the Stack Overflow community help get the question ready before it goes "public" to the larger SO world.
From the article:

>WeWork is issuing seven-year, senior unsecured bonds

This means that in case of bankruptcy the holders of these bonds will probably be the last ones to get paid back, if they ever do. This increased risk is usually compensated by a higher yield than regular bonds.

EDIT: As commenters point out, they wouldn't be the _last_: "In the event the issuer goes bankrupt, senior debt theoretically must be repaid before other creditors receive any payment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_debt
>Ireland created tax laws, to incentivize companies to come.

That makes it seem like the EU decided Ireland's corporate tax rates were too low but that's not what happened here. Ireland gave specific tax considerations to Apple that it didn't give other companies which is illegal in the EU. This is just forcing Apple to compete on a level (tax) playing field with other corporations.
Knowing you aren't held in respect by your peers doesn't cause depression because of culture or society - every single living organism with some sort of higher brain function gets "depressed" when its peers hold it as less valuable.

This isn't platitudes, this is science, and shows the solution likely isn't down the path of telling people 'losing your junk" jokes are harmful. Choosing to not have kids are far different than having that choice taken from you, and the most viable solution is likely chemical intervention.
This is my favorite perk of working at a company. The only thing that sort of sucks is when you buy some items for personal use, some for the business, and some for personal-use-at-office, all from the same vendors, and need to disintermingle them. If you're out of town, telling a coworker to go into the Provantage box to grab the network tester you ordered, and having him open the box containing soap, is weird.
lol. not surprised, though. THat's where the money is. ANd that's why all other "friendship apps" are really thinly-veiled dating apps. SAD!
For tracing functions, there's also latrace:

https://people.redhat.com/jolsa/latrace/index.shtml
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I don't know which startup pitches are the best, but here's a list of the worst ones to avoid at all cost :) https://www.inc.com/matt-hunckler/startup-pitches-that-fail-...

Hope this is helpful
> How can a company plan for all the potential laws that Europe could reverse. Luckily in Apple's case, they have the funds to pay.

They can't. The world is uncertain. Sovereign Nations legally have the power to do anything they fucking want in the regions they govern (they might be restricted by their own laws and constitution, but it is an internal one).

In this case, it appears that Apple abused certain Irish tax laws to an extreme degree. The EU is well within its rights to punish Apple for doing so.
and then some interviewers have the nerve to ask, "have you seen this question before?"
How often do you need to write palindrome functions for your job?

Checking substring in a string is a 1 liner in languages like python.

I was at a final interview with FAANG. One question asked was to load a csv. I used pandas, it's a 1 liner. You could see the wretched face of the interviewer since he was expecting a

with open() as f:
do_some_shit

and kept pushing me to write this on the board. I looked at him and said "Why? Why write your own method in a vanilla language? Give me a good reason."
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My Mazda has the backseat release cables in the trunk on purpose.

I'd be more worried about someone breaking the glass to get into the trunk than vice versa, so the arrangement seems the most logical.
> The second time, the guy did well with initial production, but over time he ended up using local college interns to write his code, who got other jobs and his commit speed fell off of a cliff.

Sounds like you should have moved him to management.
Yeah but I always turn off lights as I leave a room anyways so it's not like I have to run through the house. The thermostat is on the way out too. I am considering getting a nest or something but that's just for the thermostat, nothing else is all that important. And I can just set that to match my schedule.

I have friends who have it, seems neat but still very "eh" for me.
So, you're the one talking about "typical". I am pointing out that there is a rather significant market where current EVs are not workable (FCV would be, if they were reasonably priced, though). And that market really is larger than just people with long commutes. My commute is short enough, but I would end up paying more to charge than I pay for gas, and spending an 30-40 minutes each day just getting to where the car is.
Well, I am sure MaxMind provides a lot of value for many use-cases. However, I just need something very basic (country, city, lat and long) and getting this "out of the box" from Google's LB is blessing for me.
If you have an iPhone you can set it to be an accessibility shortcut and turn it on/off by pressing the home button three times.
You stopped half way. when you put your phone off notification, you have to make that final step to put your mind too.

I consider this (I have it too) to be almost full fledged clinical addiction. It toys with your mind and distort your life in unhealthy ways.
It should be obligatory to give some feedback if the interview process is longer than one hour.

To simply give feedback is not a big deal to HR, and since they're making you do hours of homework it should be legally required to answer if you ask for feedback.
Amazon is more interested in lowering delivery costs, which means delivery density, and installable mailboxes per resident don't help here.
Having async_hooks in an LTS release is going to be awesome. The v10.x docs aren't live yet but I'm assuming it'd be similar to the v9.x functionality[1]. There's a lot of interesting use cases for it and I think it's the long term replacement for one of the major use cases for domains[2], namely continuation local storage. Domains have been available but deprecated since v0.10 so great to see a path forward to finally switch off them.

[1]: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v9.x/docs/api/async_hooks.htm...

[2]: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v9.x/docs/api/domain.html
Don't listen to the media and you are uninformed, listen to the media and you are misinformed. I know which I prefer.
You must be American. People have laid out how this "free" services, like education or healthcare, can lead to a more productive, fairer society (e.g. less people off work sick, because they go and get treatment sooner, and recover sooner). Or why do you think tech companies offer good health care? Out of the kindness of their heart? No, because having people worry about basic needs and not get medical treatment when they need it is counter-productive.

But it seems like all you care about is how many taxes you pay, and how much you get back for it. Fair enough, if you're selfish and have no compassion for your fellow countrymen and the next generation that much, we won't be able to sway you.
> (1) His most recent job lists junior level work

This shouldn't matter, chiefly because he has other work listed, so stopping at the first job post and forming an opinion makes the reader the problem. But also because people can sometimes take an easier job if they have life issues.

Secondly, these are consultancy gigs + 1 full time gig (or maybe it's part time) that could have a low hours/week commitment. He wouldn't be the first dev ever to moonlight.

Even if it were junior level work (trusting auth to be done correctly with junior engineers? LOL), he probably completed it faster than a junior engineer would.
what part of it is unpredictable? I guess if you know how much VMs or EC2 you're planning on using its the same pricing model as Dataproc or EMR
Opening my car concerns me less for privacy and in basically every way than opening my home. I'd make sure any firearms were in truckvaults, but while it's possible the Amazon guy would steal the trauma bag out of the trunk, it seems relatively unlikely.

It would have to be a car with a trunk, vs. a SUV, if left parked in a place like San Francisco, though, due to risk of theft by third parties.
Great article! It's about time that Google will come with a geo solution
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The difference is that SESTA/FOSTA has no discernible benefit to anyone but congress, whereas actual regulation would presumably help consumers.
Three sum is what google uses for their video 'how to do a google code interview': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKu_SEDAykw
appealing to/pleading ignorance doesn't sound like a good excuse for a mega multinational company that employs a legion of tax lawyers and accountants. As previous commenters noted, Apple tried to game the system, but lost. Now, it's time to pay up.
I noticed this too!

> In fairness, the author (Robert Bringhurst) probably didn't have final say over the paperback, at least as it was bound in final form.

I’m guessing he had a LOT of influence over the printing. The paper is extremely high quality, there’s red color type every so often, etc. If there’s any book where the author would control the printing, it’s this one.

I’m guessing he’s either optimizing for a mathematically or historically “correct” ratio over the reader experience, or we’re supposed to “break in” the book more before reading:

http://booksville.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-break-in-new-b...
Nailed it. Despite the “shortage” (haha) Been underemployed for quite a while due to the these ugly practices. It’s very frustrating to have misguided folks in control of what you are allowed to work on and hellbent on wasting time.

One interview was for a Java Spring position, advice says study! But study what? I studied spring but interview was dozens of database questions instead. Could be CS, lang, framework, db, metrics, platform, OS level. No one knows all of these subjects completely.

Companies are so skittish that I recently could only get a two-week trial at low pay after crushing a call/homework. Hopefully they won’t be offended when I show up without sockhat and beard. :p
> but if I have an entire github of highly starred and heavily developed projects with reasonable commit histories... don't make me do your do damned homework or implement a toy BST.

Unfortunately, the current common argument from the hiring side is that GitHub profiles are not sufficient proof of skill since code can be copied (not fair) and GitHub projects bias toward people with extra free time (reasonable, but not enough to discount GitHubs completely IMO)
I spent six months in a NYC building very recently, and had the opportunity to listen to the sales team give their pitch to leads every day as I hung out in a common area. My observations:

1. Lots of the people looking at WeWork space are aspirational, to the extent that they hope being at WeWork will boost the prospects of their small business (via networking etc)

2. The tenants in more than one office on our floor were involved in one form or another of cyber-currency promotion.

3. Turnover is wicked fast.

4. Marketing to WeWork tenants is a lucrative revenue stream, both online and in WeWork buildings. All these kids have money burning a hole in their pocket and service providers are paying WeWork a lot to reach them.

5. WeWork competition is very strong at the high-end (Knotel etc). Everyone else is hanging on for dear life.
Or you could do top 100 questions on leetcode or hackerrank and you would have solved the question in a minute. It's kinda sad that you could remember the top 100 solutions and clear interviews in almost all big tech companies.
https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge creates rss for many popular services.
I'm not sure that's the case because the United States is also filled with people that speak different languages.
I understand and truly symphatize with stress the candidate is in, but someone who claims to be a "senior developer with 10 years experience" should be able to write that palindrome function in 30 whole minutes in any kind of stress scenario.

Because if I hire that person, they'll be in charge of critical production systems and will face much harder problems in much more stressful situations and if they can't handle the palindrome question, I have very little confidence they can handle the actual job.
Thanks. I am very much interested in making a similar setup of my own on a Raspberry Pi. Do you recall what were the IPv6 issues with Rasbian? Also, do you have any concerns about potentially going against Comcast policies which appear to prohibit running servers?
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Haskell rather than Erlang.
Make the bar for passing high enough such that even a person who scores the lowest passing score has demonstrated that he/she can at least code. A standard exam doesn't solve all problems with hiring, but it could at least help solve the very first "can this person even code at all?" screen that weeds out the total phonies.
Eeasy, given the politics and history of the region in question, anyone in the relevant positions knew Ireland tax break was a long term risk, but worth it short term. Chasing tax breaks is always a gamble.
Are domains removed from this release?
> 1. The job search takes much, much longer than it used to.

Senior positions take longer than junior. There may be other factors in any individual case, but just as a general rule, the more experience you have, the longer it takes to get hired. This may relate to...

> 9. Age discrimination really exists.

In my experience, I haven't seen it. What I have seen is salary discrimination. I'm a pretty expensive guy. I've got 30 years of experience, I'm way more productive than younger people, and I want to be paid accordingly. A lot of companies don't want to pay that.
Thanks for mentioning this. This is one of the first use cases where it seems to be solving something more than insignificantly annoying to me. Especially for my non-tech friends who I am always having to adjust their TVs for.

Gonna set up my family's Alexas now. But it's a 1 time investment. :D
> ETH executes all VISA payments

> ETH Value: $0.088

(There are 100M ETH)

Correct me if I made a mistake, but it seems like this is not a stable market. What's to stop me from buying a large chunk of the supply and sitting on it? That would increase the value of my ETH because VISA throughput would have to be maintained. Many others would come to this same conclusion, driving the price up massively.
Personally I don't see how Reddit really differs. They both have up/down they both support markdown. SO doesn't have a frontpage or specific subreddits (although it does have tags).
"I got all the way to the end, nailed everything perfectly and then never found out why I didn’t get it"

"I saw this repeatedly on jobs that I got all the way to the end point on."

"Total Jobs Where You Got an Onsite Interview: 2"

Interesting points, although I would probably want to see more data before drawing the same conclusions.
Why would they be the last? In the case of bankruptcy these will be paid back before any money goes to junior unsecured bonds (if any) and before shareholders.
Drives me crazy too.
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YMMV but in my experience npm would break consistently doing the most trivial of tasks. Switched to yarn and haven't once looked back.
Wework are overcapacity for all locations here in Toronto while the off brand nearby coworking spaces still have lots of space. I have been hearing similar news from friends living in other cities as well. All agree about vibe and good-feel of wework compared to blandness of knock offs.
Nice work!

I almost entirely prefer pre-recorded classes to live ones, except for being able to meet classmates and study together. You can watch at your own discretion, change playback speed, etc.

I think there is a big opportunity with ideas like this to make online lectures feel less isolated.
Honestly if it’s really bad I’d let them know before an interview. Just say something like.

I have social anxiety. It doesn’t interfere with my work in any way but I’m wondering if you could accommodate me in the interview by doing x y z.

It’s worth a try, right? I’ve thought about doing that.
And don't forget people being asked to do coding exercises for non-development jobs :|

(I've had that happen several places)
I feel this way about smartwatches but they still blew up. -shrug-

Different lifestyles I guess. Most of my family loves having Alexa but my cousin and I both agreed it seems pointless for us.
Cute. Makes sense especially for RF prototyping. But a 60W power supply? Too high power. There's a reason for Fire Resistant 4 board stock.

This has the look of something that works well only for people with really good skills at working with tweezers at tiny scale. Many YouTube videos of people doing surface mount work are like that.
There was a time before NAT, where every machine had a publicly routable IP, and things were good. Any machine could talk directly to any port on any other machine (firewall willing). Until one day, IP exhaustion attacked.

Thankfully NAT doesn't exist in IPv6, because 2^128 addresses should be enough for everybody.
Great for houses that you own, doesn't work as well for apartment/condo if you don't get the building itself to just put package lockers in the lobby.

My dream configuration is a guardhouse/lobby or something with package bays and a bathroom/drinks fridge/tv/wifi for delivery personnel. I'd love to give my UPS/FedEx/USPS/Uber/Lyft/etc. drivers a great place on their route to use the bathroom, take a break, potentially eat their lunch, etc. when delivering packages to me. Doing this as a business is easy, but it would probably work for a gated community or apartment complex, too.
Well, I'm glad to see that we're heading in the right direction on patents for once. Finally, all that consolidated tech monopoly power is being used as a force for good. Hopefully this sets a precedent for dismantling other frivolous patents as well.
Most notably relative time formats[1] are missing.

[1] https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/fromnow/
Yep, they do. Unsecured corporate debt is colloquially referred to as Credit in finance. Equity and low-grade credit tend to correlate quite well.

In fact, this is one way that companies die in a recession: credit spreads blow up (i.e. risky debt is much more expensive than good debt). That makes it difficult for struggling companies to refinance maturing debt, and they go under.

There's even a class of debt called CoCo bonds (contingent convertibles) that turn into equity if the company is struggling. The idea is to avoid the maturing debt scenario I described above. In practice, they're a horrible product for investors. Equity-like risk with bond-like returns.
YouTube is getting faster at taking down objectionable video
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It's pretty amazing that some coworking spaces manage to have bad WiFi. Like, there are three requirements for a functioning coworking space: desks, meeting rooms, and internet access. Focus on those before building the cereal bar.
FizzBuzz? I find it hard to believe that FizzBuzz is being used as an actual screen, because realistically you'd have too many people passing.

If anything, the interviews I've been on have been four or five 45-minute whiteboard sessions, usually about data structures and algorithms or object oriented design.

Nowadays that also seems preceded by a homework assignment and a 3rd party coding quiz.

FizzBuzz would be refreshing.
Gilbert Strand's lecture at MIT are very helpful to start with linear algebra: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra...