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New top story on Hacker News: U.S. SEC rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin trusts
U.S. SEC rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin trusts
63 by purplesnowflake | 29 comments on Hacker News.
63 by purplesnowflake | 29 comments on Hacker News.
Wednesday, 22 December 2021
Tuesday, 21 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?
Ask HN: Startup acquired by a large company and it sucks. What to do?
186 by lopkeny12ko | 272 comments on Hacker News.
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?
186 by lopkeny12ko | 272 comments on Hacker News.
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?
Monday, 20 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually
Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually
119 by abelsm | 45 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! It’s Abel and Alex here to share what we’ve been working on for just over a year: FlutterFlow ( https://flutterflow.io ). It’s like WebFlow, but for Flutter. Flutter is an open source framework for building cross platform applications. FlutterFlow combines a UI builder with pre-built templates and Firebase/API integrations, generates clean Flutter code, and allows you to deploy to app stores directly from your browser. This enables extremely fast iteration, from product idea concepts and designs to working Flutter apps. As an example of what’s possible, we built an internal app for playing trivia games by using the jservice.io API and Firebase all in under 2 hours: Time lapse of building the app: https://youtu.be/Fm4jjpuKM1E Link to live version of the app: https://ift.tt/32bwsti Exported source code: https://ift.tt/33N3Eb9 Alex and I, along with a friend of ours from Google, quit our jobs in 2019 to work on a cross-platform mobile app that ultimately failed. It was a learning opportunity, and it also led us to feel the pain of the slow iteration process every time we wanted to roll out a new experience. We were able to experiment with various landing pages within hours, but building new screens and app experiences took weeks or even months. For over a year now, we’ve been tirelessly working on fixing this problem. I first fell in love with coding by pure luck as a kid in Ethiopia. My father, who at the time owned an internet cafe, decided to start taking night classes in CS in the late 90s. Ultimately he didn’t use his degree professionally, but I ended up with learning materials and a compiler, Turbo C++ 3.0. As I grew older, eventually ending up as an engineer at Google, I started to appreciate that as engineers we were often tasked with solving problems even when the solution didn’t necessarily involve writing code. Alex comes from a physics background, doing his undergrad at Stanford, and transitioned to study CS and AI there as well. In 2016 he joined the team I was on, a small ML group within Google Maps. He’ll often admit he had underestimated the amount of skill involved in building beautiful, fast and functional apps. And he certainly didn’t expect to love building with Flutter as much as he does, having been entrenched in ML for most of his career. Yet here we are. There has recently been a healthy amount of skepticism towards no-code tools, mainly due to concerns of extensibility and scalability. This is definitely the case for some apps - a good example is a tool such as FlutterFlow itself. It would be very difficult to build all of FlutterFlow recursively. We do use it internally for many of our pages, but using a visual builder to implement our code generator seems far fetched. This doesn’t imply however that there isn’t a middle ground that enables fast iteration in a visual builder, coupled with the ability to write code that seamlessly integrates with the overall experience. We’re not quite there yet, but we believe this is the right direction. Finally, we believe Flutter is going to be the catalyst that drives this movement. It’s composability, the fact that it’s super cross-platform (Android/iOS/Web/Desktop/Embedded), and the vibrant and passionate community it fosters give it a unique advantage. Whether we do it or someone else, the application builder of the future will be built on Flutter. Huge thanks to our users, the Flutter team and the Flutter community. We’d love for you to give it a try and share your thoughts. What do you think the future of application development is going to be? p.s. we were on HN when we announced our launch back in May: https://ift.tt/3u8glot We’ve made a lot of progress since then, enabling app store deployment, payments, ability to add custom code and much more: https://ift.tt/3sqPqa6
119 by abelsm | 45 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! It’s Abel and Alex here to share what we’ve been working on for just over a year: FlutterFlow ( https://flutterflow.io ). It’s like WebFlow, but for Flutter. Flutter is an open source framework for building cross platform applications. FlutterFlow combines a UI builder with pre-built templates and Firebase/API integrations, generates clean Flutter code, and allows you to deploy to app stores directly from your browser. This enables extremely fast iteration, from product idea concepts and designs to working Flutter apps. As an example of what’s possible, we built an internal app for playing trivia games by using the jservice.io API and Firebase all in under 2 hours: Time lapse of building the app: https://youtu.be/Fm4jjpuKM1E Link to live version of the app: https://ift.tt/32bwsti Exported source code: https://ift.tt/33N3Eb9 Alex and I, along with a friend of ours from Google, quit our jobs in 2019 to work on a cross-platform mobile app that ultimately failed. It was a learning opportunity, and it also led us to feel the pain of the slow iteration process every time we wanted to roll out a new experience. We were able to experiment with various landing pages within hours, but building new screens and app experiences took weeks or even months. For over a year now, we’ve been tirelessly working on fixing this problem. I first fell in love with coding by pure luck as a kid in Ethiopia. My father, who at the time owned an internet cafe, decided to start taking night classes in CS in the late 90s. Ultimately he didn’t use his degree professionally, but I ended up with learning materials and a compiler, Turbo C++ 3.0. As I grew older, eventually ending up as an engineer at Google, I started to appreciate that as engineers we were often tasked with solving problems even when the solution didn’t necessarily involve writing code. Alex comes from a physics background, doing his undergrad at Stanford, and transitioned to study CS and AI there as well. In 2016 he joined the team I was on, a small ML group within Google Maps. He’ll often admit he had underestimated the amount of skill involved in building beautiful, fast and functional apps. And he certainly didn’t expect to love building with Flutter as much as he does, having been entrenched in ML for most of his career. Yet here we are. There has recently been a healthy amount of skepticism towards no-code tools, mainly due to concerns of extensibility and scalability. This is definitely the case for some apps - a good example is a tool such as FlutterFlow itself. It would be very difficult to build all of FlutterFlow recursively. We do use it internally for many of our pages, but using a visual builder to implement our code generator seems far fetched. This doesn’t imply however that there isn’t a middle ground that enables fast iteration in a visual builder, coupled with the ability to write code that seamlessly integrates with the overall experience. We’re not quite there yet, but we believe this is the right direction. Finally, we believe Flutter is going to be the catalyst that drives this movement. It’s composability, the fact that it’s super cross-platform (Android/iOS/Web/Desktop/Embedded), and the vibrant and passionate community it fosters give it a unique advantage. Whether we do it or someone else, the application builder of the future will be built on Flutter. Huge thanks to our users, the Flutter team and the Flutter community. We’d love for you to give it a try and share your thoughts. What do you think the future of application development is going to be? p.s. we were on HN when we announced our launch back in May: https://ift.tt/3u8glot We’ve made a lot of progress since then, enabling app store deployment, payments, ability to add custom code and much more: https://ift.tt/3sqPqa6
New top story on Hacker News: The death of feature engineering is greatly exaggerated
The death of feature engineering is greatly exaggerated
10 by agnosticmantis | 0 comments on Hacker News.
10 by agnosticmantis | 0 comments on Hacker News.
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How are your interviewers being rude to you?
Ask HN: How are your interviewers being rude to you?
28 by readonthegoapp | 21 comments on Hacker News.
I've had people just be not nice to the point of rudeness, people driving while interviewing, people walking on treadmills out of breath, etc.
28 by readonthegoapp | 21 comments on Hacker News.
I've had people just be not nice to the point of rudeness, people driving while interviewing, people walking on treadmills out of breath, etc.
Sunday, 19 December 2021
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Friday, 17 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: California’s AV testing rules apply to Tesla’s “FSD”
California’s AV testing rules apply to Tesla’s “FSD”
23 by camjohnson26 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
23 by camjohnson26 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Thursday, 16 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: If you use Verizon, opt out of “Custom Experience”
Tell HN: If you use Verizon, opt out of “Custom Experience”
226 by beervirus | 88 comments on Hacker News.
I just got this text: > VZ Msg: Introducing Verizon Custom Experience. VZ content & offers are more relevant using web browsing & app usage info. For info or to opt-out: m.vzw.com/CE And all I can say is: fuck that.
226 by beervirus | 88 comments on Hacker News.
I just got this text: > VZ Msg: Introducing Verizon Custom Experience. VZ content & offers are more relevant using web browsing & app usage info. For info or to opt-out: m.vzw.com/CE And all I can say is: fuck that.
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Termius (YC W19) – Share your terminal session like Google Docs
Show HN: Termius (YC W19) – Share your terminal session like Google Docs
8 by rkudiyarov | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi everybody, I’m Roman from Termius (YC W19, HN launch https://ift.tt/3GMvAdt ). I want to share news about a new exciting feature that we wanted to build for a long time. It’s Terminal Sharing. Terminal Sharing enables engineers to get instant help from their colleagues by providing a link to their terminal output updated in real-time. There is also a mode where the viewer can enter commands from their end. When I was getting into programming, some of my biggest problems were: compilation errors or not being able to set up something on a Linux server. One of the ways to get help in such a case is to ask a friend or colleague who has done it before. One more thing, we all remember times (before the pandemic) when teammates could come to your table and check out where you got stuck and often it’s in a terminal window. Unfortunately,it’s often impossible in the post-COVID era when most of the teams work remotely Of course, there is always a way of using a multiplexor like tmux, byobu or screen. However, it’s a bit annoying because you have to deal with access like adding keys or passwords. Then you have to communicate back and forth to see if the person is there. You also need to remember to start those tools before you end up with an issue. And finally, you need to remember to remove the access later. The whole thing is even harder on Windows with Putty. Alternatively, you can use zoom and screen sharing, but it requires dealing with control over the keyboard input, which is quite cumbersome. This is why we built Terminal Sharing in Termius ( https://ift.tt/30vjMN7 ). If you need help from your friend or colleague, then you can create a live session in just a second. You get a unique link to sharein just two clicks. Terminal Sharing is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, no mobile support yet. You and the viewers need only to have the free version of Termius to use basic Terminal Sharing features. We like the idea of giving this feature for free to spread the word about the product and build more advanced, paid, collaboration features for teams later. In terms of the technical implementation, Terminal Sharing uses WebRTC under the hood, and it tries to establish a peer-to-peer connection when possible. WebRTC uses TLS 1.2, which encrypts the traffic. Check it out here: https://ift.tt/30vjMN7 . We’re still testing usability and viability of this feature, so any feedback is welcome. The feature is free, but it requires an account (no subscription required!). Please share your feedback in the comments!
8 by rkudiyarov | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi everybody, I’m Roman from Termius (YC W19, HN launch https://ift.tt/3GMvAdt ). I want to share news about a new exciting feature that we wanted to build for a long time. It’s Terminal Sharing. Terminal Sharing enables engineers to get instant help from their colleagues by providing a link to their terminal output updated in real-time. There is also a mode where the viewer can enter commands from their end. When I was getting into programming, some of my biggest problems were: compilation errors or not being able to set up something on a Linux server. One of the ways to get help in such a case is to ask a friend or colleague who has done it before. One more thing, we all remember times (before the pandemic) when teammates could come to your table and check out where you got stuck and often it’s in a terminal window. Unfortunately,it’s often impossible in the post-COVID era when most of the teams work remotely Of course, there is always a way of using a multiplexor like tmux, byobu or screen. However, it’s a bit annoying because you have to deal with access like adding keys or passwords. Then you have to communicate back and forth to see if the person is there. You also need to remember to start those tools before you end up with an issue. And finally, you need to remember to remove the access later. The whole thing is even harder on Windows with Putty. Alternatively, you can use zoom and screen sharing, but it requires dealing with control over the keyboard input, which is quite cumbersome. This is why we built Terminal Sharing in Termius ( https://ift.tt/30vjMN7 ). If you need help from your friend or colleague, then you can create a live session in just a second. You get a unique link to sharein just two clicks. Terminal Sharing is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, no mobile support yet. You and the viewers need only to have the free version of Termius to use basic Terminal Sharing features. We like the idea of giving this feature for free to spread the word about the product and build more advanced, paid, collaboration features for teams later. In terms of the technical implementation, Terminal Sharing uses WebRTC under the hood, and it tries to establish a peer-to-peer connection when possible. WebRTC uses TLS 1.2, which encrypts the traffic. Check it out here: https://ift.tt/30vjMN7 . We’re still testing usability and viability of this feature, so any feedback is welcome. The feature is free, but it requires an account (no subscription required!). Please share your feedback in the comments!
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and counting, unfair treatment
Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and counting, unfair treatment
52 by camhart | 29 comments on Hacker News.
tldr: I launched Truple 4.5 years ago (see https://ift.tt/3IQ7j81). 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://ift.tt/3IQ7j81), 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.
52 by camhart | 29 comments on Hacker News.
tldr: I launched Truple 4.5 years ago (see https://ift.tt/3IQ7j81). 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://ift.tt/3IQ7j81), 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.
Tuesday, 14 December 2021
Monday, 13 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Robust and affordable alternatives to Google Play for app distribution?
Ask HN: Robust and affordable alternatives to Google Play for app distribution?
17 by m_kos | 9 comments on Hacker News.
TL;DR: I am looking for a platform to distribute my dissertation research data collection Android app to ~50 adult study participants in the US. The most important features are the ability to quickly and reliably deliver app updates over one year, safety, affordability, and good UX (participants are non-technical Android users). I don't want to use Google Play Store. To give you some context, for my dissertation project, I need to collect data using a custom Android research app installed on participants' phones for one year. The app requires a lot of permissions and continuously collects a lot of data. My colleagues discouraged me from using Play Store because Google banned their apps for no good reason and with no recourse, even though their research was approved by research ethics and human subject protections committees (IRB). This jeopardized their federally-funded studies and caused issues with their findings. For this reason, I would like to distribute my app to ~50 adult study participants in the US using a different platform. Four features are especially important to me. First, app updates need to be delivered reliably and relatively quickly over one year. Second, there can be no spyware, excessive tracking, unnecessary notifications, nudges to download other apps, and no annoying ads. Third, affordability is important because I would be paying for the distribution from my personal student savings. Finally, I would prefer a platform with good app update UX for non-technical users, including older adults. So far, I have looked into APK Mirror, but according to their policy [1], > If your app is new, doesn't have a proven track record, and not > unique, it will likely not be approved. I have also tried F-Droid, but at least on my Pixel 2 XL, updates of some apps downloaded from F-Droid often fail to install. Would you have any recommendations on what other platforms I could look into? Thank you. [1]: https://ift.tt/3oQcehl...
17 by m_kos | 9 comments on Hacker News.
TL;DR: I am looking for a platform to distribute my dissertation research data collection Android app to ~50 adult study participants in the US. The most important features are the ability to quickly and reliably deliver app updates over one year, safety, affordability, and good UX (participants are non-technical Android users). I don't want to use Google Play Store. To give you some context, for my dissertation project, I need to collect data using a custom Android research app installed on participants' phones for one year. The app requires a lot of permissions and continuously collects a lot of data. My colleagues discouraged me from using Play Store because Google banned their apps for no good reason and with no recourse, even though their research was approved by research ethics and human subject protections committees (IRB). This jeopardized their federally-funded studies and caused issues with their findings. For this reason, I would like to distribute my app to ~50 adult study participants in the US using a different platform. Four features are especially important to me. First, app updates need to be delivered reliably and relatively quickly over one year. Second, there can be no spyware, excessive tracking, unnecessary notifications, nudges to download other apps, and no annoying ads. Third, affordability is important because I would be paying for the distribution from my personal student savings. Finally, I would prefer a platform with good app update UX for non-technical users, including older adults. So far, I have looked into APK Mirror, but according to their policy [1], > If your app is new, doesn't have a proven track record, and not > unique, it will likely not be approved. I have also tried F-Droid, but at least on my Pixel 2 XL, updates of some apps downloaded from F-Droid often fail to install. Would you have any recommendations on what other platforms I could look into? Thank you. [1]: https://ift.tt/3oQcehl...
Sunday, 12 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?
Ask HN: Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?
35 by hn_throwaway_99 | 29 comments on Hacker News.
I ask this (as truly an open question, without knowing the answer) because of 2 recent posts on HN that got flagged, one a thought-provoking article by a Yale student titled "Abolish Yale", and the other about the California proposal to use the recently-novel "citizen deputization" legal techniques pioneered by Texas, but this time to restrict assault weapons. The reason I ask this is because there appear to be a growing collection of topics that are interesting and deserving of debate, but because they are hot-button issues they often devolve into flame wars. I've been on the other side of this as well, where I commented that I flagged a DEI-focused article because, while I thought the topic itself was interesting, it seems comment threads on DEI topics always devolve into uninteresting flame wars, and that I rarely learn something new from these threads. I didn't feel that about the 2 topics today that got flagged - indeed, there were a bunch of comments that let me to going down Wikipedia rabbit holes and I learned a ton, and for both of these topics the first I heard about them was on HN. So my question to the HN community is whether you think there is some way (e.g. feature changes, "sub topics", etc.) to host these topics that seem fundamentally relevant to the HN audience, but which are so difficult to have debate about without getting flooded by low quality comments?
35 by hn_throwaway_99 | 29 comments on Hacker News.
I ask this (as truly an open question, without knowing the answer) because of 2 recent posts on HN that got flagged, one a thought-provoking article by a Yale student titled "Abolish Yale", and the other about the California proposal to use the recently-novel "citizen deputization" legal techniques pioneered by Texas, but this time to restrict assault weapons. The reason I ask this is because there appear to be a growing collection of topics that are interesting and deserving of debate, but because they are hot-button issues they often devolve into flame wars. I've been on the other side of this as well, where I commented that I flagged a DEI-focused article because, while I thought the topic itself was interesting, it seems comment threads on DEI topics always devolve into uninteresting flame wars, and that I rarely learn something new from these threads. I didn't feel that about the 2 topics today that got flagged - indeed, there were a bunch of comments that let me to going down Wikipedia rabbit holes and I learned a ton, and for both of these topics the first I heard about them was on HN. So my question to the HN community is whether you think there is some way (e.g. feature changes, "sub topics", etc.) to host these topics that seem fundamentally relevant to the HN audience, but which are so difficult to have debate about without getting flooded by low quality comments?
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: RemoteLy – Receive curated remote jobs directly in your email
Show HN: RemoteLy – Receive curated remote jobs directly in your email
13 by standard09 | 5 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/3lINqpo Looking for next remote job? RemoteLy will hand curate jobs from 100s of sites, job boards, etc. directly in your email :) Personal backstory - I am Kumar, based in Bangalore, India. I have been looking for remote job (but not into developer/technology, but in other fields like marketing/analytics etc), however it was difficult to search so many sites on daily/weekly basis and then collating the same information and re-searching it again on every week for new jobs. To solve this, was searching if any similar tools available online. There are few but unfortunately only caters to [Tech] fields only and that too give limited info, so having my current job searching need in mind, have build 'RemoteLy' RemoteLy enriches the information about the role/company beyond the description, it provides information about : - Job Location (Remote US, Remote EU, Remote Anywhere) - $ Salary Range - Skills (Developer - Python, PHP, etc) - Visa offered (Y/N) - Equity offered (Y/N) - company's social media profile (like twitter, LinkedIn etc) Company Funding Details - $ funded - $ funding round (YC, Seed, Series A, B, C) Have built this using all NoCode tools only (i.e. Softr, Airtable, Tally Forms & Gumroad) 20% discount on annual plan for HN users/readers - code -- 'hn20' I look forward to your feedback, and questions on RemoteLy! also, reachable for any questions, etc DM on Twitter.
13 by standard09 | 5 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/3lINqpo Looking for next remote job? RemoteLy will hand curate jobs from 100s of sites, job boards, etc. directly in your email :) Personal backstory - I am Kumar, based in Bangalore, India. I have been looking for remote job (but not into developer/technology, but in other fields like marketing/analytics etc), however it was difficult to search so many sites on daily/weekly basis and then collating the same information and re-searching it again on every week for new jobs. To solve this, was searching if any similar tools available online. There are few but unfortunately only caters to [Tech] fields only and that too give limited info, so having my current job searching need in mind, have build 'RemoteLy' RemoteLy enriches the information about the role/company beyond the description, it provides information about : - Job Location (Remote US, Remote EU, Remote Anywhere) - $ Salary Range - Skills (Developer - Python, PHP, etc) - Visa offered (Y/N) - Equity offered (Y/N) - company's social media profile (like twitter, LinkedIn etc) Company Funding Details - $ funded - $ funding round (YC, Seed, Series A, B, C) Have built this using all NoCode tools only (i.e. Softr, Airtable, Tally Forms & Gumroad) 20% discount on annual plan for HN users/readers - code -- 'hn20' I look forward to your feedback, and questions on RemoteLy! also, reachable for any questions, etc DM on Twitter.
Monday, 6 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Advent of Code 2021 using SQL (PostgreSQL-flavored)
Advent of Code 2021 using SQL (PostgreSQL-flavored)
28 by craigkerstiens | 4 comments on Hacker News.
28 by craigkerstiens | 4 comments on Hacker News.
New top story on Hacker News: Amount of Covid found in the wastewater in Boston
Amount of Covid found in the wastewater in Boston
38 by simonebrunozzi | 13 comments on Hacker News.
38 by simonebrunozzi | 13 comments on Hacker News.
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What should founders do to protect against inflation?
Ask HN: What should founders do to protect against inflation?
8 by munirusman | 2 comments on Hacker News.
As of Oct 2021, the inflation rate is 6.2% and it can get worse. In this unusual environment, what should founders do to protect their personal savings and startup cash from the inflation while also maintaining liquidity?
8 by munirusman | 2 comments on Hacker News.
As of Oct 2021, the inflation rate is 6.2% and it can get worse. In this unusual environment, what should founders do to protect their personal savings and startup cash from the inflation while also maintaining liquidity?
Sunday, 5 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
39 by bryanrasmussen | 29 comments on Hacker News.
39 by bryanrasmussen | 29 comments on Hacker News.
New top story on Hacker News: How to make any immutable data structure distributed
How to make any immutable data structure distributed
10 by pierremenard | 1 comments on Hacker News.
10 by pierremenard | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Saturday, 4 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Dependency Graphs for Cloud Services?
Ask HN: Dependency Graphs for Cloud Services?
13 by machinerychorus | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Are there any dependency graphs for cloud services? This seems to be pretty important info for determining how a system will degrade. For example, if Google Cloud Storage is down, will Google Artifact Registry go down? and if GAR is down, will Cloud Build be down? I have heard that there are "tiers" of services, with services in a given tier only using services from lower tiers, but I haven't been able to find any info on this, even unofficial blog posts or third party analysis. Does anyone know where I can find this info? Or have tips for figuring it out myself?
13 by machinerychorus | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Are there any dependency graphs for cloud services? This seems to be pretty important info for determining how a system will degrade. For example, if Google Cloud Storage is down, will Google Artifact Registry go down? and if GAR is down, will Cloud Build be down? I have heard that there are "tiers" of services, with services in a given tier only using services from lower tiers, but I haven't been able to find any info on this, even unofficial blog posts or third party analysis. Does anyone know where I can find this info? Or have tips for figuring it out myself?
Friday, 3 December 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Your eBay account has been suspended
Your eBay account has been suspended
37 by quisquous | 11 comments on Hacker News.
Got an email from eBay this morning: " Hello brokeninfinity, We wanted to let you know that your eBay account has been permanently suspended because of activity that we believe was putting the eBay community at risk. We understand that this must be frustrating, but this decision was not made lightly and it’s important that we keep our marketplace safe for everyone. Learn more about how and why accounts can be suspended... " I'm a long time, infrequent eBay user, mostly buy stuff, 331 stars, 100% feedback rating. Haven't used eBay recently, no idea what just happened. Maybe someone was trying to hack my account? The suspension email has no reply address. I tried contact eBay through their web chat, and they say 'Sorry Scott, live support's currently unavailable.' I guess I'll stop using eBay now. The summary execution with no explanation and no escalation path and no appeal is not endearing. Count me added to the chorus of folks calling for regulations that will eliminate this sort of abusive behavior against consumers. We need some sort of 'due process' required of companies that operate above a certain scale. I mean, I shudder to think of the position I would be in right now if I depended on eBay for anything important. Thank goodness for me that I do not, but not everyone can say the same. What do you think?
37 by quisquous | 11 comments on Hacker News.
Got an email from eBay this morning: " Hello brokeninfinity, We wanted to let you know that your eBay account has been permanently suspended because of activity that we believe was putting the eBay community at risk. We understand that this must be frustrating, but this decision was not made lightly and it’s important that we keep our marketplace safe for everyone. Learn more about how and why accounts can be suspended... " I'm a long time, infrequent eBay user, mostly buy stuff, 331 stars, 100% feedback rating. Haven't used eBay recently, no idea what just happened. Maybe someone was trying to hack my account? The suspension email has no reply address. I tried contact eBay through their web chat, and they say 'Sorry Scott, live support's currently unavailable.' I guess I'll stop using eBay now. The summary execution with no explanation and no escalation path and no appeal is not endearing. Count me added to the chorus of folks calling for regulations that will eliminate this sort of abusive behavior against consumers. We need some sort of 'due process' required of companies that operate above a certain scale. I mean, I shudder to think of the position I would be in right now if I depended on eBay for anything important. Thank goodness for me that I do not, but not everyone can say the same. What do you think?
Thursday, 2 December 2021
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