Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Ask HN: How much does “the idea” matter in a startup?

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AITA for not wanting my in-laws to visit our new baby?

Just to preface, my husband's brother has two kids, and his parents babysit them at least 3 days a week. I feel like this has kind of set the expectation for frequency of visits with grandparents.

I just had a baby on July 10th, and my husband's mom has been over to visit us 5 times since then. I know she means well, but it's very stressful to have a newborn and to feel like I have to entertain also. It would be different if she was offering to help with something (not that I expect that of visitors, but people visiting new parents usually at least offer). She also seems to conveniently always come while he's napping (he naps for 2+ hours at a time at this point), and she leaves once he starts getting a little fussy, which is frustrating because any rest or chores I could get in while he's asleep don't get done.

She texted me yesterday asking to come for a visit today. This is the first week my husband is back at work full time, and I'm trying to get in the groove of a new routine. I wrote her back and told her that I'm really not up for visitors this week because I'm getting settled in, and she freaked out and texted my husband asking what she did to offend me. She hasn't talked to me since yesterday after I wrote her, and she basically implied to my husband that we're being selfish keeping her grandson away from her. AITA here?

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Today I crossed a street, changed a light bulb, and walked into a bar.

My life is a joke.

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What gender pronouns does a chocolate bar use?

Her/she!

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A guy gets hit by a bus and finds himself in front of iron gates. Confused he asks where he is, "Hell," said the devil "but before you get overly concerned, it's not as bad as you think it is..."

"What!!" said the guy, starting to panic. "How can that be, I'm a good person, this can't be right, it can't be!"

"Calm down," said the devil, "the rules for going upstairs are a lot stricter than people realise - and besides, like I said before, it's really not that bad here."

Unconvinced, the guy prepared to object but the devil cut him off.

"Let me give you an example," he said, "what's today? Monday right? Yes Monday. Do you gamble?"

"I gamble a little bit," said the guy, "I play poker with my friends every now and then and always have a bet on the big horse races."

"Perfect," said the devil, "then you're going to LOVE Mondays, Monday is our gambling day. In the morning we play blackjack and roulette, at lunch we bet on the horses, in the afternoon we bet on sports games and at night we play cards. It's really a lot of fun, you're going to LOVE Mondays"

"That does sounds ok," said the guy, "but if it's all the same to you I want to talk to the man upstairs and see..."

"Do you drink?" the devil interrupted.

"Sure," said the guy, "everyone likes a drink every now and then."

"Perfect," said the devil, "then you're going to LOVE Tuesdays, Tuesday is our drinking day. We wake up, have breakfast with amazing Bloody Marys that takes us to an early lunch where we have pizza and beer then drink beer and whiskey all afternoon until dinner time where we have the best wines, followed by port and cognac. A very popular day, you're going to LOVE Tuesdays."

"That does sound pretty good," said the guy, "but..."

"Do you ever do drugs?" said the devil.

"I smoke pot every now and then," said the guy.

"Perfect," said the devil, "then you're going to LOVE Wednesdays, Wednesday is our drug day. Probably our most popular day to be honest. We start off nice and easy with the finest hash, then move on to coke as a nice pick me up, then we go out and do ecstasy and dance and have a great time then we wind the day down with some top notch heroin. And don't worry about the dangers because you're already dead! Yes you're going to LOVE Wednesdays"

"Actually that sounds great" says the guy

"Perfect," said the devil, "are you gay?"

"No I'm not gay," said the guy

"Oh," said the devil, "then you're going to hate Thursdays."

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Ask HN: How much would you pay for adblock in real life?

It seems to me that the "killer app" for AR is adblock in real life. I would personally pay about as much as I would for a laptop(so 400 to 2000 usd). Are there startups working in this space?


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That awkward morning after

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I will make it legal.

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How crucial is technical fit in hiring engineers?

Whether you were on the hiring or candidate side, I'm curious to hear your thoughts/experiences.

Let's say the company uses Node, Angular, and MongoDB:

Candidate #1: Above average Senior-level Engineer with matching background in Node, Angular, MongoDB.

Candidate #1: Excellent Senior-level Engineer, but background is mainly in Ruby, React, and Postgres.

And please contribute any other of the countless permutations! Would it be a different situation for Python-to-Java (or vice versa)?

Thanks!


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A white guy, a black guy, an Indian, an Asian women and a girl in a wheel chair walk into a bar

They are celebrating being on the cover of a middle school math book

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I'm done dating demons.

They're too possessive.

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Funding Public Goods: Six Solutions

Article URL: http://freenation.org/a/f21l4.html

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Never look at monthly payments. Negotiate on the final price.

This happens everywhere I go. Car dealership, "So what do you want your monthly payment to be?" Insurance agent, "Great so your downpayment is $XX and your quarterly payments are $XX" etc..

Um, I want to know what the final out the door price would be?

"Well tell me what you can afford and I'll see if we can make this work for you. So how much are you looking to pay a month?"

Why is this bad? Because you cannot compare apples to apples with just a monthly payment. Sure they can make your monthly payment super low and just extend your term to forever so they make more money. Or for insurance purposes you cannot compare that policy vs another one.

Also you should know the true cost of the items you are buying. Sure those $150 airpods at 5 bucks a month on your credit card is easy to afford. But once you factor in that 22% interest rate over how long it takes to pay it off were they REALLY worth the $180+ you just paid?

I feel like majority of uninformed consumers should be considering the true cost of items vs they I can afford that monthly payment mindset. No wonder people live paycheck to paycheck thinking they cannot afford to have an emergency savings because all of their money is going towards those monthly payments.

Wait emergency savings? I don't need that, I have available credit on my credit cards!

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Good-bye Daddy

A Father put his 3 year old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which ended by saying, "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma and good-bye Grandpa."

The father asked, 'Why did you say good-bye Grandpa?'

The little girl said, "I don't know daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do."

The next day grandpa died. The father thought it was a strange coincidence.

A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers which went like this, "God bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy and good-bye Grandma."

The next day the grandmother died.

"Holy crap" thought the father, "this kid is in contact with the other side."

Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say, "God bless Mommy and good-bye Daddy."

He practically went into shock. He couldn't sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office.

He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch and watched the clock.. He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay.

He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch and jumping at every sound. Finally midnight arrived; he breathed a sigh of relief and went home.

When he got home his wife said, "I've never seen you work so late. What's the matter?"

He said, "I don't want to talk about it, I've just spent the worst day of my life."

She said, "You think you had a bad day, you'll never believe what happened to me. This morning my boss died in the middle of a meeting!"

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Show HN: I made a presentation design tool

Article URL: https://app.sizle.io/

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I drew Alexei from Stranger Things 3

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The Power of Serverless: Part 1

Article URL: https://elazizi.com/the-power-of-serverless-part-1

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Sunday, July 28, 2019

OpenWebTorrent – An open webtorrent tracker project

Article URL: https://openwebtorrent.com/

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Ask HN: World Internet Conference – Valuable?

I had never heard of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China. We've just been invited with a scholarship, and wondered if anyone had been and what they felt of the experience?


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Season X Teaser

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Girl Gets Stuck In Swing

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Laravel Introduces New Serverless Product Vapor

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A man goes to a diner and orders a grilled cheese sandwich and a glass of room temperature sweet tea.

When his food arrives he takes a sip of the tea but finds it to be scorching hot.
"Ow!" yells the man, "I asked for this to be room temperature!"
"It is, sir" says the waiter "The kitchen is on fire."

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Saturday, July 27, 2019

Strč Prst Skrz Krk

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Safety is adorable

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Amazing Panflute Music

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Ask HN: Modern medical/elderly alert services?

Is anyone working on a new and improved medical alert system for older folks in the US? What's out there now seems expensive for what the services are. And the services feel a little used car salesman-like.

I live in a rural area and so relying on a mobile phone is not necessarily the best option AND landlines are common here.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Thanks!


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Lil pupper help dig

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There was an idea...

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