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Genuine question, curious for answers. People often say "The best founders are able to attract the best talent because they offer options. They also are able to attract them at a f…

I would suggest that with the current rise of AI/ML startups, people would be working on artificial emotional intelligence.

To add a bit of insight: most Payment-Service-Providers actually pay big retailers to be listed on their site, as it improves trustworthiness and brand awareness. So the Amazon dea…

What percentage of that is phone and computer related? If you were unable to visit particular sites (maybe during particular timeslots), how much would that solve the problem? What…

Related to this HN post on how to overcome instant gratification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751439 I find myself a lot of times that I go to bed 1 or 2 hours too late,…

Really good advice. I tried blocking some sites but whenever my 'bad side' comes up again, I always find a way to get around the block and visit the site anyway. Any recommendation…

Hi HN, We're two founders from The Netherlands without virtually any money looking for a night to stay in or around Palo Alto from Monday to Tuesday this week. We have our intervie…

I want to run an experiment with a user cohort, basically telling them that we've developed some feature and order them to 'unlock/activate' it by hitting a button in the email. Th…

San Francisco seems like a terrible place to open up anything to do with bicycles. Everyone will just ride down the hill, park the bike, and get an uber later. Some poor asshole wi…

At least PowerShell is taking over as the default. Should have been changed back in Windows 7. Copy & paste with Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is what made me switch to PowerShell.

Florin | Product developer | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Full time | Onsite | Want to shape the future of value transfer with a small, young and ambitious team in Amsterdam, and a…

The question is pretty straightforward: I'm exploring my options to move to a new startup and I'm wondering if anyone knows any engineering team that has awesomely smart people/tea…

Interesting, how did you turn out? And how did you turn out different from other people (with a mentor)?

I am excited to dive into FP, however, there doesn't seem to be a 'good' language yet. I noticed that oCaml is running up but that's still a bit too much 'scientific' as you might …

How should one go about 'training' that? Is it experience, or are there books etc? I'd love to dive into that.

I'm a junior dev working for freelance clients and working on my own projects. I've noticed that in the recent couple of months, I've not progressed as well as I hoped I would. Yes…

I'm working on an app with some non-technical people and I noticed that I find it really hard to keep people in the loop of what you've been doing. I want people to understand what…

I've dealt with the same problem as you have. In high school, I picked up programming and before I knew it, I was programming almost all of the time. It's great to be able to have …

Yeah, thanks for clearing that up for me. Obviously, you can't rank 'programmers' on a linear scale, but you can rank programmers that are suitable for your type of work on a linea…

Pretty straightforward question and I'm actually asking myself this pretty often. How do you hire people that are better?

I vote for quality as well as agreement. If a comment makes sense and is explained well, but I don't agree with it, I'm still very eager to vote it up. I also doesn't make sense to…