15:[[21401198,{"by":"4mpm3","descendants":356,"id":21401198,"kids":[21402839,21402551,21401979,21405973,21401622,21402881,21402394,21403800,21402446,21403625,21402308,21402407,21404799,21402133,21404473,21409217,21401269,21402866,21401443,21408555,21404494,21408662,21406850,21407312,21406824,21406629,21408054,21406285,21409687,21404705,21402406,21409919,21404648,21404111,21405158,21404216,21402616,21404821,21405401,21406849,21404924,21402709,21406814,21402688,21404783,21403508,21403147,21405837,21402475,21409539,21407047,21404235,21405963,21407986,21404817,21407227,21405450,21402461,21404462,21403122,21407411,21404921,21405884,21404425,21403125,21401507,21402637,21402775,21405876,21402781,21405429,21403390,21404701,21434579,21406424,21405435,21406245,21405682,21404360],"score":516,"time":1572461774,"title":"Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die","type":"story","url":"https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-database-software-that-wont-die-5b09e389c166"}],[21312609,{"by":"afshinmeh","descendants":642,"id":21312609,"kids":[21312965,21312135,21314722,21312516,21321236,21312045,21313099,21312960,21312458,21312359,21314049,21312105,21313025,21313369,21312036,21314653,21314157,21315903,21330323,21314293,21312575,21312031,21312541,21313213,21312341,21312112,21317803,21314145,21313238,21314635,21321624,21313232,21312962,21314647,21312056,21314893,21313692,21318296,21311926,21317231,21314445,21314487,21313154,21315060,21318043,21316539,21312988,21316022,21315413,21317653,21314066,21318155,21326853,21312944,21318518,21315052,21315266,21318387,21317442,21321190,21316374,21319835,21318108,21320992,21312947,21314855,21312904,21326453,21330208,21315708,21313622,21318080,21422654,21328790,21314500,21313016],"score":1368,"time":1571667999,"title":"NordVPN confirms it was hacked","type":"story","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/"}],[21305599,{"by":"kim031","descendants":2,"id":21305599,"kids":[21306266],"score":1,"text":"I have some front-end web development experience. But I'm not very fond of it. Should I go for Python web development framework like flask or choose data analysis. I do have some interest in machine learning. What would be beneficial for my career in the long run? Thanks.","time":1571592747,"title":"Ask HN: Web Development vs. Data Science for a Python Programmer (1 Year)?","type":"story"}],[21298233,{"by":"olooney","descendants":38,"id":21298233,"kids":[21298906,21299790,21299525,21299952,21301202,21300463,21300307,21299031,21301117,21298862,21298666],"score":301,"time":1571489913,"title":"ML From Scratch, Part 1: Linear Regression","type":"story","url":"http://www.oranlooney.com/post/ml-from-scratch-part-1-linear-regression/"}],[21294197,{"by":"jger15","descendants":9,"id":21294197,"kids":[21300614,21297662,21294391,21294236,21319470,21296482,21294300],"score":4,"time":1571425650,"title":"Ask HN: How long is too long when waiting in line before leaving?","type":"story"}],[21285127,{"by":"sellingwebsite","descendants":29,"id":21285127,"kids":[21287693,21286730,21287480,21285263,21285776,21285980,21288436,21287562,21285394,21303358,21285924,21289250,21289826,21285142,21286474],"score":70,"text":"Couple of my favorites:

* https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians - All things history. Quality of discussions are way better than on most other subreddits. Highly moderated

* https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm - bootstrapped businesses

* https://lobste.rs - kinda like HN but for tech only

* https://slatestarcodex.com - it is more blog than a community, but great nevertheless

I used to frequent other communties but these are the ones that stood the test of time","time":1571337749,"title":"Ask HN: Which online communities do you hang out most on?","type":"story"}],[21278171,{"by":"gautamcgoel","descendants":44,"id":21278171,"kids":[21279210,21286682,21279089,21278640,21278559,21278474,21285684,21279973,21278589,21278675,21285043,21296126,21279444,21290213,21278557,21286290,21279997,21282120,21278604,21284075,21303444,21283419,21278820,21283883],"score":31,"time":1571276301,"title":"Ask HN: What are your biggest regrets?","type":"story"}],[21235641,{"by":"ccajas","descendants":24,"id":21235641,"kids":[21235965,21235801,21236048,21235848,21235851,21235819,21255578,21236052,21235684,21236380,21235772,21241497,21237278,21236366,21239414,21240775],"score":54,"text":"How do you move into senior positions, and then lead positions as a remote developer? Is it even possible? As a remote software engineer I have low visibility and do not work with a team of on-site developers so I feel stuck in a holding pattern. Not to mention half the time my roles are temp roles. How do I cement myself as a bigger team player while staying remote, and gradually take on more leadership?","time":1570908791,"title":"Ask HN: How do you move up in professional status as a remote worker?","type":"story"}],[21206819,{"by":"oblib","descendants":1,"id":21206819,"kids":[21207538],"score":4,"time":1570648546,"title":"Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history","type":"story","url":"https://theconversation.com/games-blamed-for-moral-decline-and-addiction-throughout-history-123900"}],[21199655,{"by":"4thwaywastrel","descendants":4,"id":21199655,"kids":[21201144,21205293,21207465],"score":8,"text":"I lead a team that's put a large amount of resources into a greenfield project that's considered urgent for the business.

6 months in and we're having endless trouble with technology choices we made early on. Have you ever faced a similar decision to either stick with or throw large parts of a project? If so what did you choose and how did it turn out?","time":1570590784,"title":"Ask HN: Ever had to abandon large parts of a project 6 months in? How'd it go?","type":"story"}],[21199202,{"by":"startuplife01","descendants":12,"id":21199202,"kids":[21199804,21204829,21199786,21199314,21199430,21202925,21209340,21201073,21207441,21199475],"score":16,"text":"I worked it for 8 months. I've now completely exhausted my savings. Our product is live but the growth is super slow. There is no way I can see it reaching product market fit. Investors are not interested with such low numbers.

I am a product guy with moderate level tech skills.

Should I keep the startup on my resume (with reason for shutting down + lessons)? Or should I leave it out from my resume and instead add the product we built as a 'project'?

I'm looking at product management jobs or software engineering jobs.","time":1570585704,"title":"Ask HN: How to get a job after a failed startup?","type":"story"}],[21198474,{"by":"rutumulkar","descendants":4,"id":21198474,"kids":[21198482,21198676],"score":3,"text":"Introducing Hunchera (https://hunchera.com) to help people do Natural Language Processing and create ML models on their spreadsheets - without requiring a data scientist or a developer.

One can do support ticket classification, customer feedback classification and other internal things automatically with a spreadsheet.

If you are interesting in trying it out - send me a note - rutu@hunchera.com","time":1570577959,"title":"Show HN: ML on your spreadsheets – without code","type":"story"}],[21169212,{"by":"luu","descendants":83,"id":21169212,"kids":[21195175,21198083,21197407,21196203,21195700,21197762,21196311,21195150,21196609,21195970,21199000,21197517,21195348,21196470,21195780,21198620,21198120,21197812,21195858,21196787,21195315],"score":316,"time":1570325303,"title":"How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017)","type":"story","url":"http://www.elidedbranches.com/2017/01/how-do-individual-contributors-get.html"}],[21187231,{"by":"throwaway909090","descendants":33,"id":21187231,"kids":[21187851,21187558,21187753,21189006,21189897,21188874,21188819,21189847,21187917,21188242,21199183,21189607,21187478,21215682,21187872,21187292,21189226,21188340,21194769,21187277],"score":59,"text":"Looking at my career, I held my first job for almost 5 years until I burned down and quit with a 2 day notice.

From there, it was downhill. Next job was 3 years, then 10 months, 12 months. Seemed to recover briefly and held another job for 2 years until burning out again. Previous job was only 8 months at a NGO doing really important work.

I've been at my current job for 6 months now and I couldn't get out of bed to do the work (I've been working from home for the past 5 years). This is what leads me to post here.

I've been diagnosed with depression a few times and I'm currently on SSRI's and feel okay.

So hanging jobs doesn't help, getting treating doesn't help.. I'm burning out again.

I love what I do (DevOps) but I'm coming to the conclusion that I don't work well with others. They start to drive me crazy and then I only have indifference towards the work.

Any advice? I'm feeling like I should quit IT.","time":1570492050,"title":"Ask HN: How to cope with burnout every 6 months?","type":"story"}],[21162348,{"by":"remotecontract","descendants":18,"id":21162348,"kids":[21163341,21162726,21162911,21162528,21162952,21163584,21163160,21164356,21162668,21162642,21189424,21168339,21171066,21174717],"score":18,"text":"I have 10 years of development experience and have been doing contracting remotely for like 5 years now. I get most of my work through an agency at a rate of $100 / hour.

Nearly every day some recruiter emails me about a job opportunity. I am not really interested in switching since my arrangement is flexible and comfortable, but just for kicks, I always reply that I am available as a remote contractor at a rate of $130 an hour.

No recruiter has ever wanted to move forward or hear more. Why not? Is it the remote thing, or the contractor thing, the way I am responding, or what?

It seems like a lot of contracting happens in the industry, and overall contracting seems like a great way to bring someone on risk free, before trying to convert them to a full time employee (although I never go for this). What is it about offering back a remote contract that makes the recruiters run for the hills?","time":1570227129,"title":"Ask HN: Why are recruiters not interested in contractors?","type":"story"}],[21156527,{"by":"EndXA","descendants":249,"id":21156527,"kids":[21157144,21162485,21156850,21156983,21157069,21157401,21156860,21156966,21157293,21157019,21157306,21159769,21163165,21161218,21156943,21161433,21163119,21163869,21163866,21157165,21156875,21161151,21157483,21161215,21157761,21159835,21161784,21156843,21157405],"score":205,"time":1570187736,"title":"Unsteady income in young adulthood linked to thinking problems in middle age","type":"story","url":"https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/2750"}],[21157762,{"by":"spac","descendants":2,"id":21157762,"kids":[21162977,21160069],"score":7,"text":"Hi HN. I am curious to hear your war stories about AI, ML, NLP projects that you have witnessed fail in your organization and why.

I think it's time to unearth the failures as much as the successes, and am curious to others experiences.","time":1570197692,"title":"Ask HN: What's your AI failure story?","type":"story"}],[21156402,{"by":"lewisflude","descendants":17,"id":21156402,"kids":[21157987,21160877,21157168,21163008,21164981,21159187,21157558,21156601,21157959,21183237,21160340,21160058],"score":19,"text":"I'm a developer and I need some help with being the best I can be mentally, but I'm not sure where to get it.

By "mentally" what I mean is I feel anxious, absent minded or otherwise less effective than I feel like I can be (and have been in the past).

I'm generally a happy person, confident in my technical abilities but I feel really held back by my mental state sometimes. It's so hard to talk about mental health, because so much of it is qualitative and everyone's experience is different.

I'm not sure where to find help. Ideas I've had are going into therapy or finding some sort of mentor/sounding board. I'm looking for suggestions, because I thought there must be people out there in the community who have had similar experiences.

If anyone out there has any thoughts/recommendations/advice then I'd really appreciate it!","time":1570185767,"title":"Dealing with anxiety, absent-mindedness, ineffectiveness as a developer","type":"story"}],[21153063,{"by":"starpilot","descendants":97,"id":21153063,"kids":[21153540,21153430,21153444,21153458,21153585,21162873,21153434,21153983,21153667,21153612,21153584,21153760,21153630,21153806,21154438,21153683,21153582,21153477,21153500],"score":42,"time":1570142772,"title":"Stockton residents got $500/month basic income, spent on food, clothing, bills","type":"story","url":"https://ktla.com/2019/10/03/stockton-residents-who-received-500-a-month-in-basic-income-experiment-spent-money-on-food-clothing-and-bills/"}],[21144635,{"by":"eanthy","descendants":14,"id":21144635,"kids":[21145460,21162087,21154034,21147950,21163542,21149729,21153542],"score":10,"text":"I've been a Java dev for 3 years now and I'm genuinely so sick of it. I want to go into Python but when recruiters see Java on my CV/Profile they wouldn't even consider me for Python. Also no way am I getting a pay cut and playing into recruiter's game for starting a different tech because it's not like I was a barista before that and going into programming... What is the best way to transition my career? I already do Python projects in my spare time and tell recruiters I'm looking for job that has both Java and Python so that I can gain experience while doing what I know.","time":1570088715,"title":"Ask HN: How to transition career from one tech to another?","type":"story"}],[21152049,{"by":"TXV","descendants":24,"id":21152049,"kids":[21152350,21153204,21153114,21152119,21155101,21153033,21154715,21163184,21156790,21152557,21159267,21153520,21153351,21160577],"score":28,"text":"$16","time":1570135857,"title":"Ask HN: How to effectively deal with recruiters?","type":"story"}],[21133211,{"by":"hhs","descendants":84,"id":21133211,"kids":[21133278,21133325,21133336,21133428,21133525,21133303,21133411,21133450,21133405,21133301,21133416,21133625,21133511,21133312,21133379,21133818,21133615,21133685,21133388,21134825,21133604,21133479,21133273,21133634,21134663,21133427,21133520,21133382,21133727,21133327],"score":174,"time":1569986762,"title":"Working all night is not 'a badge of pride'","type":"story","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49891179"}]]

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created:	April 23, 2019
karma:	46
about:	“i woke up one day and realized - at what point should you ever stop trying?”