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www.space.com 13y ago

Green Meteorite May Be from Mercury

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www.slate.com 13y ago

Do Zynga’s troubles mark the end of the latest tech bubble?

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gizmodo.com 13y ago

This Piece of Glass Can Store Data Forever

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lifehacker.com 13y ago

The pursuit of less: Success blurs your focus

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www.ted.com 14y ago

MIT Professor develops liquid metal battery for the grid (15 min TED video)

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kickstumbler.com 14y ago

Kickstumbler: Discover projects on Kickstarter you'd never see otherwise.

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altdevblogaday.com 14y ago

Code-share source-censoring

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you handoff iPhone apps to your clients?

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www.macrumors.com 15y ago

Time Warner seeks judgement to stream Viacom content to iPad

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flourishconference.blip.tv 15y ago

What should you Build?

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www.engadget.com 15y ago

Samsung considers parts of Galaxy Tab 'inadequate', reconsiders pricing

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www.colonyworlds.com 15y ago

UK Plans Close Encounter With Uranus

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www.ac-nice.fr 15y ago

Socrates and a friend talk about the morality of profit

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www.dailymail.co.uk 15y ago

Blue lights keep students alert, improves reading speed, reduces hyperactivity

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www.mercurynews.com 15y ago

Stanford University opens new stem cell building, bucking federal restrictions

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www.edery.org 15y ago

Why create an app for the Kindle?

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www.lostgarden.com 15y ago

First indie game created for the Kindle

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randykepple.com 15y ago

Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Success

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www.sfgate.com 15y ago

The Real Reason Facebook Is Trying To Kill Quora

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www.ludumdare.com 15y ago

Challenge: Make a game, sell 1 copy by Oct 31st

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news.yahoo.com 16y ago

Man who found - and sold - the missing iPhone unmasked

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: What to do with underutilized VPS?

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news.bbc.co.uk 16y ago

New iPhone worm can act like botnet

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www.bu.edu 16y ago

Start-up Ville

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wahrman.fi 16y ago

How the App Store turned a simple idea into a steady income

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www.informationweek.com 16y ago

Apple Tweaks App Store Review Process

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As others have mentioned there is a large Intel fab (and other smaller fabs) in the area. I suspect this gives them insights into the feasibility of success there and also means there is an existing talent pool to draw from. It basically de-risks the investment. There are probably only a handful of likely places to do this - OR, CA, AZ, TX, maybe NY. Intel building in OH is more difficult from a bootstraping perspective.

Archipelago | Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco or REMOTE (US, UK, and Netherlands (NL) only) | Fulltime We recently announced our $34M Series B — you can read more about us at Forbes[1]

Archipelago is a Silicon Valley start-up working to change how risk is insured through a mix of machine learning & human intelligence.

Our founders are tech & finance entrepreneurs with several IPOs and acquisitions under their belts. We have raised several rounds of VC funding and currently employ over a hundred people across the US & Europe.

We have found tremendous product-market fit and are growing rapidly. We are a remote-first culture and have been since before the pandemic.

Our tech stack is Go, React, Postgres, Python, Terraform with a mix of containers & lambdas running on AWS.

https://archipelago.breezy.hr

If you don't see the right role, are looking for something more senior than senior, or just want to learn more - please reach out at: patrick [at] onarchipelago.com

Here are some of the roles we are hiring for right now:

- Senior Devops Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/c4fabae4cf4b01-senior-devops...

- Senior Machine Learning Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/0c85956fb11701-senior-machin...

- Senior Front End Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/c0225515e19201-senior-front-...

- Senior Golang Backend Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/7d7ca9f823d201-lead-golang-b...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaszkutak/2021/04/20/archi...

Archipelago | Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco or REMOTE (US, UK, and Netherlands (NL) only) | Fulltime We recently announced our $34M Series B — you can read more about us at Forbes[1] Archipelago is a Silicon Valley start-up working to change how risk is insured through a mix of machine learning & human intelligence.

Our founders are tech & finance entrepreneurs with several IPOs and acquisitions under their belts. We have raised several rounds of VC funding and currently employ over a hundred people across the US & Europe.

We have found tremendous product-market fit and are growing rapidly. We are a remote-first culture and have been since before the pandemic.

Our tech stack is Go, React, Postgres, Python with a mix of containers & lambdas running on AWS.

https://archipelago.breezy.hr

If you don't see the right role, are looking for something more senior than senior, or just want to learn more - please reach out at: patrick [at] onarchipelago.com

Here are some of the roles we are hiring for right now:

- Product Designer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/5daa32f7053501-product-desig...

- Senior Devops Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/c4fabae4cf4b01-senior-devops...

- Senior Machine Learning Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/0c85956fb11701-senior-machin...

- Senior Front End Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/c0225515e19201-senior-front-...

- Senior Golang Backend Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/7d7ca9f823d201-lead-golang-b...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaszkutak/2021/04/20/archi...

Archipelago | Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco or REMOTE (US, UK, and Netherlands (NL) only) | Fulltime We recently announced our $34M Series B — you can read more about us at Forbes[1]

Archipelago is a Silicon Valley start-up working to change how risk is insured through a mix of machine learning & human intelligence.

Our founders are tech & finance entrepreneurs with several IPOs and acquisitions under their belts. We have raised several rounds of VC funding and currently employ over a hundred people across the US & Europe.

We have found tremendous product-market fit and are growing rapidly. We are a remote-first culture and have been since before the pandemic.

Our tech stack is Go, React, Postgres, Python with a mix of containers & lambdas running on AWS.

https://archipelago.breezy.hr

If you don't see the right role, are looking for something more senior than senior, or just want to learn more - please reach out at: patrick [at] onarchipelago.com

Here are some of the roles we are hiring for right now:

- Product Designer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/5daa32f7053501-product-desig...

- Senior Devops Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/c4fabae4cf4b01-senior-devops...

- Senior Machine Learning Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/0c85956fb11701-senior-machin...

- Senior Front End Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/c0225515e19201-senior-front-...

- Senior Golang Backend Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/7d7ca9f823d201-lead-golang-b...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaszkutak/2021/04/20/archi...

Archipelago | Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco or REMOTE (US, UK, and Netherlands (NL) only) | Fulltime

We recently announced our $34M Series B — you can read more about us at Forbes[1]

Archipelago is a Silicon Valley start-up working to change how risk is insured through a mix of machine learning & human intelligence.

Our founders are tech & finance entrepreneurs with several IPOs and acquisitions under their belts. We have raised several rounds of VC funding and currently employ over a hundred people across the US & Europe.

We have found tremendous product-market fit and are growing rapidly. We are a remote-first culture and have been since before the pandemic.

Our tech stack is Go, React, Postgres, Python with a mix of containers & lambdas running on AWS.

https://archipelago.breezy.hr

If you don't see the right role, are looking for something more senior than senior, or just want to learn more - please reach out at: patrick [at] onarchipelago.com

Here are some of the roles we are hiring for right now:

- Senior Devops Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/c4fabae4cf4b01-senior-devops...

- Senior Machine Learning Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/0c85956fb11701-senior-machin...

- Senior Front End Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/c0225515e19201-senior-front-...

- Senior Golang Backend Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/7d7ca9f823d201-lead-golang-b...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaszkutak/2021/04/20/archi...

Archipelago | Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco or REMOTE (US, UK, and Netherlands (NL) only) | Fulltime We recently announced our $34M Series B — you can read more about us at Forbes[1]

Archipelago is a Silicon Valley start-up working to change how risk is insured. Our platform enables property owners, brokers & insurers to manage & underwrite risk, through a mix of machine learning & human intelligence. Our founders are tech & finance entrepreneurs with several IPOs and acquisitions under their belts. We are headquartered in San Francisco, have raised several rounds of VC funding, and currently employ over a hundred people across the US & Europe.

Our tech stack is Go, React, Postgres, Python with a mix of containers & lambdas running on AWS.

https://archipelago.breezy.hr

Here are some of the roles we are hiring for right now:

- Senior Machine Learning Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/0c85956fb11701-senior-machin...

- Lead Front End Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/cf82a86231bd01-lead-front-en...

- Senior Front End Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/c0225515e19201-senior-front-...

- Senior Golang Backend Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/7d7ca9f823d201-lead-golang-b...

- Senior Full Stack Engineer https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/eeab81a76c8e01-senior-full-s...

- Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) https://archipelago.breezy.hr/p/00fe348ff5d501-senior-softwa...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaszkutak/2021/04/20/archi...

Sorry you're feeling discontent. I've written some advice on this in the past and am linking to it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843266

No matter where you go and what you end up doing, businesses ebb and flow and your interests and motivations will also change and you will find yourself here again.

The key is for you to build an internal toolset (mental, emotional) to assess and proactively work towards your goals.

You mentioned that you would rather be outside, meeting people and creating things - there are absolutely jobs that incorporate both software and these other aspects - think of things like greenhouse automation (outside) or positions writing software for coffee shops or ?? There is an entire world of software.

Good luck!

Some ideas:

Could you turn it into a white label app and sell it to businesses for their own internal use or to other entrepreneurs?

Could you find a niche that needs this sort of app with certain features tailored to their needs. Example: Auction software (general idea) made specifically for buying/selling live aquarium fish (custom/niche).

I'd really like to see topic-based threads of submissions here, or tag-based grouping. Even if this lives at the top of the active topics list, it would consolidate and give other topics room on the front page.

I believe there are ways to both accommodate extensive discussion on the breaking / on-going news as well as keeping space for the core HN topics (hacking, CS, entrepreneurship, etc).

I agree about not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, however what prevents other Uber-like competitors from popping up to compete with the evil-Uber you describe?

How do you capture the market in taxi rides in an unregulated market? It isn't like a telecom where there is only so much physical infrastructure.

My advice is to focus on learning aspects of software engineering at the expense of learning computer science.

Specifically I would focus on: requirements engineering, software architecture, software testing, and software deployment... Working with people (communication, management, working with non-technical customers), processes for developing software, and how to measure and analyze the software product and the software process[1]

[1] http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~djanzen/secsdiff.html

Thanks! I've never played minecraft, I was just wondering if maybe the distinction is between sandbox and simulation? I'm probably getting the terms wrong but the games do seem very different in their goals and how they engage the player.

Around the end of summer there was a post on just this topic. I can't find it now but it had really solid practices in this area. If anyone remembers it / finds it I'd love to be able to read it again.

I think the best reason for wanting to do this is that the rover's top speed is around 2in / second, it requires significant man power on the earth to drive/control, and they have a limited toolset with few ways to augment what it starts with. Over the course of 6 years the two rovers had only covered 13 miles collectively.

All of these things can be overcome with time, money, science, engineering, etc.

In the short term, for a relatively large amount of money -OR- the acceptance of deaths, we can put a human on that same surface who can cover miles per day, autonomously explore and discover, use new tools as soon as they arrive, can deal with unexpected circumstances, and make suggestions about what would be useful to have to do more science/work.

All that said - it is hard issue and I think it more likely a commercial effort will send a human before the government.

Also back to front is usually done in cohorts - not a truly sorted stream of people. You end up with the people in seats 36 waiting to get around people in seats 32 just because they are in the same group.

I'm seeing lots of comments talking about how they will bring all this platinum down and it won't be worth anything but not very many people talking about using platinum as a raw material for something worth far more than just platinum.

What if Planetary Resources creates a lab to have the world's best researchers across a variety of fields be able to invent with a nearly unlimited source of free platinum?

Could they make a product that is worth more than the raw platinum (or whatever else they pull down)?

Most interesting part to me: "Production of 100 watt bulbs has ceased in the US and Europe. Production of 60 watt bulbs has been stopped in Europe and is being phased out in the US. From 2014, incandescent bulbs of 40 watts or above will be banned in the US."

I had no idea - better stock up now so I can sell them on ebay in ten years!