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Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by el_dev_hell »

mwattsun wrote: post #269
philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

I was in a similar circumstance. I drove a city bus in Las Vegas for a year. The experience opened my eyes to many things and changed my life in good ways.

I'm considering something similar (although probably not as large of a lump sum). I want to spend a year~ as a bartender.

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Post by MrDunham »

lettergram wrote: post #144
MrDunham wrote: post #139

Love the thread! Been building a bio and neuro feedback controlled "Temple Run" like game that runs entirely in the browser (Web Bluetooth to hook into a Muse EEG and a heart rate monitor, 4 channels running FFTs, WebGL, etc). I really wanted a fun way to get me to use EEG training for focus and managing anxiety/stress. So... here we are. Pretty close to Show HN ready. Thinking I might post one if anyone thinks it so…

Would be awesome! For fun, I built something similar where you could control fire in an open world. Basically learning to control powers. Would love a show HN! We also tried a Kickstarter for some more personal help stuff. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/synaptitude/thinksuite-... Question — how (if anything) do you correct for head movement? That’s the big challenge I’ve seen with accuracy, we had some algorith…

Thanks for the feedback! I’ll email you directly because the head movement thing sounds really interesting.

Short answer to your question… I don’t/I cheated. I was inspired by my friend who launch the successful Kickstarter “throw trucks with your mind”. His feedback for corm/focus algorithms and training was to group and average a few seconds of data.

So I run my FFT‘s every (doing this from memory, might be slightly off) 50 ms looking back about a half a second. Then run it through the calm, focus, and anxiety algorithms I wrote. Lastly I average over 5 seconds to reduce wild fluctuations/“death spirals” (users freak out mentally when they see calm: 80 -> 0 -> 50 -> 2) and spit that out to be user facing.

So it sort of smooths over blinks/head movement/etc.

At least, I think so. Will DM and thanks for the feedback!

(And I’d love to see the control fire thing - I did something similar where you can levitate, high jump, slow fall, etc. I just suck at/have never really done game design so it stalled out.)

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Post by cyberlurker »

splintercell wrote: post #785
cyberlurker wrote: post #333

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The price is probably similar to what the employer pays. It just gets hidden because everyone only pays attention to what comes out of their paycheck. I know a past employer paid $2000 for me per pay period. Health insurance is bullshit obviously. the costs are hidden and definitely suppress what our wages could be. A government solution would be hard pressed to be worse.

I don't think anyone really thinks that health insurance plans cost $200 vs individual plans being $1400. Just the implication is ridiculous. Our problem wasn't the price, but the coverage. I know my BIL pays $2200 (total, including what his employer pays) and gets excellent plan for him and his wife, whereas us paying $1400 (and this was the same case with the more expensive plans too, coverage didn't change a bit,…

Oh this is true of insurance everywhere but especially in NYC. Dental, Vision, legal, whatever. Every time (in NYC) I tried to make use of insurance I had limited choices and they were often bad.

In other parts of the country I’ve had more success using insurance.

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Post by XCSme »

I am creating a self-hosted analytics platform: https://www.uxwizz.com I am currently focusing on making installation as easy as it can be by creating various containers/one-click apps for different hosting companies/platforms.

Working on my project I actually often end up looking at job opportunities when times are tough, but then I realize it's just me looking for an easy way out and then go back to working on my business.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by truly »

barrenko wrote: post #700
truly wrote: post #537

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Hi! It is in my plans for the future. I'm currently concentrating on sorting and searching algorithms. What exactly in bitwise operations would you find interesting?

Well I'm mostly concerned because I am planning to interview soon, and I struggle with them.

Good luck with your interviews!

Unlikely for me to have videos in time for your interviews, though. I'm sure however that you can find other sources on the internet to learn. What have you tried?

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by david927 »

hidden-spyder wrote: post #797
david927 wrote: post #5

Could we make this a monthly post, just like the Who's Hiring one? I miss that aspect of HN.

Emailing dang requesting for this to be made a monthly post might help us.

I'll just start posting it at the same time as the Who's Hiring each month.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by sweuder »

idontevengohere wrote: post #350
caditinpiscinam wrote: post #342

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I'm an aimless 24 year old as well. I often feel sad that the friends I have aren't very interested in the programming / tech things I like to think about. I'm hoping to find some meetups or other communities where I can build those relationships in person

I'm an aimless 24 year old as well. I love programming! How about we start a Discord - club for aimless 24 year olds....

I made it, come on down:

https://discord.gg/RqGGD5vP

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by sweuder »

Sytten wrote: post #362
idontevengohere wrote: post #350

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I'm an aimless 24 year old as well. I love programming! How about we start a Discord - club for aimless 24 year olds....

Might actually work, also 24 and a bit clueless.

I made it, come on down:

https://discord.gg/RqGGD5vP

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