17:[[11699518,{"by":"ddxv","descendants":31,"id":11699518,"kids":[11702897,11700065,11700009,11699565,11715435,11700113,11703094,11700124,11699559,11699796,11700099,11699952,11699713,11699849,11703655,11702738,11701815,11703006,11714199,11701626,11704666,11700120,11699910,11702925,11705928],"score":38,"time":1463288570,"title":"Ask HN: What good books have you read in 2016?","type":"story"}],[11326011,{"by":"oliversisson","descendants":224,"id":11326011,"kids":[11326718,11329246,11329482,11326696,11326639,11327002,11327222,11327105,11326333,11326601,11336934,11326813,11326771,11328305,11330524,11326432,11326796,11326522,11326612,11327094,11327824,11327194,11326460,11326376,11326700,11332445,11326885,11328619,11326485,11332364,11327497,11350867,11327752,11335638,11326919,11327988,11328511,11342309,11329980,11326557,11329404,11326677,11329432,11326491,11329412,11326916,11327734,11327072],"score":958,"text":"I recently updated my AngelList profile and they emailed my employer, pretending to be me, to "confirm" the project I'd added. How can they think this is a good idea?","time":1458530662,"title":"Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile","type":"story"}],[11161199,{"by":"J-dawg","descendants":11,"id":11161199,"kids":[11161674,11161432,11187150,11161673,11161227,11163120,11161284],"score":51,"text":"'Ask HN' questions have only a few minutes to gain traction before they fall off the front page of 'new', otherwise they never make it to 'ask' and basically disappear.

I feel like this sink-or-swim system works just fine for regular posts, but for 'Ask HN' posts it can be frustrating to see them disappear so quickly. Especially when you consider that more time is invested into asking a question than posting a link.

Should 'Ask HN' posts be allowed to stick around a little longer somehow? One solution would be to give them their own separate 'new' page.","time":1456253045,"title":"Ask HN: Does HN move too fast for 'Ask HN'?","type":"story"}],[11111557,{"by":"mattchue","descendants":31,"id":11111557,"kids":[11112116,11112161,11111572,11114342,11113587,11119775,11111885,11114058,11111670,11116236,11111798],"score":17,"text":"I've seen sites like Hired or Triplebyte that are supposed to put you in touch with potential employers, but they seem more geared towards people with a lot of experience. I'm a new developer, mostly focusing on the front-end and I'm trying to get a feeling for where my skill level is at with respect to the rest of the field. I have a little less than two years experience. I've been struggling getting responses or meaningful feedback from the places I have applied to, but I believe a recruiter would be able to give me some insight as to what I need to be a more enticing candidate. What is the best way to find or get in touch with a recruiter?

Thank you!","time":1455644077,"title":"Ask HN: How do I contact a recruiter?","type":"story"}],[11081598,{"by":"hanniabu","descendants":10,"id":11081598,"kids":[11081892,11082230,11081623,11081902,11082401,11081748,11082018],"score":7,"text":"Everybody's been buzzing that Sublime is being worked on again, and just a few days ago I started getting a notice about an update. I'm quite content with everything it has now though and sometimes 'upgrades' make for a less enjoyable experience.

Has anybody that has updated noticed any drawbacks/downsides/nuisances that didn't exist prior to updating?

EDIT: Just to clarify, I already have ST3,and am wondering about the recent update.","time":1455212444,"title":"Ask HN: Any drawbacks to Sublime Text 3 update?","type":"story"}],[11043176,{"by":"johnnycarcin","descendants":8,"id":11043176,"kids":[11043555,11046576,11050408,11043261,11046677,11043855],"score":2,"text":"A goal for my family this year is to donate much more to non-profits that we feel match-up with our beliefs. For those of you who donate on a consistent basis, how do you select which orgs you give to? How do you know that they are actually helping and staying true to what they advertise?

Do we just have to put our faith in the non-profit and hope that they are actually doing what they say?","time":1454694703,"title":"Ask HN: How do you know your donation is making a difference?","type":"story"}],[10894301,{"by":"devspaper","descendants":14,"id":10894301,"kids":[10894335,10894484,10894776,10894779,10894811,10894469,10895040,10904980,10895254,10895142,10894839,10894492],"score":5,"text":""There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."\nYeah,after 5 years coding,I still do,how about you?\nI wish there is a tool out there helps me naming variables and functions.","time":1452694074,"title":"Coders,do you still have problem naming things?","type":"story"}],[10864752,{"by":"AConsultant","descendants":13,"id":10864752,"kids":[10864874,10865004,10865387,10865376,10866074,10865203,10869086,10871232,10880452,10865377],"score":9,"text":"I'm a new grad with a degree in finance, but I love programming and tackling challenging, weird and new problems. I'm about 6 months into working for a big consulting firm, but I can already tell that it's not going to work long-term - I don't like super-structured hours, relatively limited freedoms and a big hierarchy. I'm very interested in starting working for a very small company or startup.

When is too early to start applying for new jobs? How do I go about interviewing if I'm not sure that the startup I'm interviewing at is right for me and I don't want to leave my current job if it's not? What's your advice?","time":1452260927,"title":"Ask HN: When is it too early to leave your first job?","type":"story"}],[10833032,{"by":"zachlatta","descendants":17,"id":10833032,"kids":[10833182,10833649,10836593,10839821,10845443,10839933,10839026,10833439,10843267,10836007,10837311,10833346,10839003,10833466,10854941,10840256],"score":8,"text":"My New Year's resolution is to read one book every week this year. I'm currently wrapping up \nThe Man In The High Castle and just finished Ponzi's Scheme (I loved it, thanks \t\nicehawk219 for the recommendation).

I'm looking to fill up my reading queue. What's one book you've recently read and enjoyed?","time":1451862515,"title":"Ask HN: What's one book you've recently read and enjoyed?","type":"story"}],[10801502,{"by":"option_greek","descendants":105,"id":10801502,"kids":[10801580,10801761,10801639,10801659,10801812,10801613,10801918,10801679,10801989,10801964,10803958,10801979,10802223,10802017,10801781,10801914,10801795,10801658,10803325,10801892,10805797,10801886,10802038,10802247,10803407,10801932,10802272,10802018,10801991],"score":46,"time":1451316441,"title":"Our sons' student debt is delaying our retirement","type":"story","url":"http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/30/retirement/student-debt-delaying-retirement/index.html"}],[10779330,{"by":"smaili","descendants":16,"id":10779330,"kids":[10779443,10781433,10779429,10780611,10780624,10782199,10790107,10781900,10784884,10781760,10793830,10779398,10796923,10779362,10784090],"score":16,"time":1450808340,"title":"Ask HN: How do you make something people want?","type":"story"}],[10774840,{"by":"arjitkp","descendants":5,"id":10774840,"kids":[10777777,10776053,10774859],"score":8,"time":1450745695,"title":"Ask HN: How long it took you to master a foreign language and how do you do it?","type":"story"}],[10627484,{"by":"spinningarrow","dead":true,"id":10627484,"kids":[10627574,10627928],"score":8,"time":1448463631,"title":"“Clock boy” Ahmed Mohamed wants an apology–and $15M","type":"story","url":"http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/clock-boy-ahmed-mohamed-wants-an-apology-and-15-million/"}],[10548725,{"by":"sauldcosta","descendants":3,"id":10548725,"kids":[10548787],"score":9,"text":"$18","time":1447270739,"title":"Show HN: Codey ― A chatbot for learning to code","type":"story"}],[10539958,{"by":"ponyous","descendants":10,"id":10539958,"kids":[10540458,10541601,10545275,10540180,10540256,10541873,10542052,10549237,10541927],"score":9,"text":"I never fully understood how to use Twitter, but I have been trying to use it a bit more lately... But the whole experience is confusing.

How I do it:

I search for hashtag, then I am presented with top tweets, which are mostly tweets by established companies/pages. But I don't really want to see those so I head to Live section, because I want to see tweets by actual People. In Live section I usually have to mute some bots to get to actual content. (And Mute doesn't really work as it should unfortunately)

I do not use twitter to keep in touch with real-life acquaintances, because I cannot filter my feed easily. Yeah I know I can use lists, but I don't really want to go over all the people I follow and put them into a designated list... (I learned about lists way too late to use it effectively in my opinion.) Maybe Twitter needs some AI to curate lists for you?

I want to understand how you people use Twitter and how you benefit from it.","time":1447170077,"title":"Ask HN: How do you browse Twitter?","type":"story"}],[10531692,{"by":"DrScump","descendants":31,"id":10531692,"kids":[10536577,10537110,10537834,10537713,10537096,10536877,10537324,10537144,10537521,10545838,10537951,10537287,10537236,10536679],"score":134,"time":1447051585,"title":"Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (1959) [video]","type":"story","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ZHsk0-eF0"}],[10533862,{"by":"lenkendall","descendants":2,"id":10533862,"kids":[10534076],"score":1,"time":1447085942,"title":"Ham Horn (Rap Air Horn) Inexplicably Now Has 1M Users","type":"story","url":"https://ad.apps.fm/dgZm1nM2OzfXyxC95vfhwvE7og6fuV2oOMeOQdRqrE0eF5wfWReAnQlzrC6Nup6Tv-kU6j2I-i8SoZchHroMLqN4kIjTIAa__xV36veuXtE"}],[10532543,{"by":"randomname2","descendants":30,"id":10532543,"kids":[10533578,10533675,10534162,10533303,10533544,10533353,10534003,10532992,10541418,10535419,10532909,10532861,10532955,10534203,10532823,10533388,10554510,10552571,10534502,10532947,10534025,10537724,10533483,10533192,10537640,10533016],"score":41,"text":"What were the best books you read this year?","time":1447070586,"title":"Ask HN: Best books you've read in 2015","type":"story"}],[10462820,{"by":"sanosuke","descendants":10,"id":10462820,"kids":[10462980,10466813,10470397,10463078,10466032,10462887,10480033],"score":3,"text":"I'm only interested in taking a look at the Swift programming language. And there is some articles saying that it will become Open Source later in this year. So I don't know if it is a good investment, Apple computers are expensive for my pocket.","time":1446005773,"title":"Ask HN: Do you think it is a good idea to invest in an Apple Computer?","type":"story"}]]

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