Mux (YC W16) is hiring to build the best video streaming API
1 by jon_dahl | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?
Ask HN: How to overcome fear of flying?
12 by flyingquestion | 17 comments on Hacker News.
I'm in my early 40's and have traveled a lot during my 20's and 30's. I think I was always a little bit nervous about flying, but never enough to make me really anxious. A few years ago, on a short flight to NYC, the plane went through a sudden turbulence. It was strong enough to send 2 flight attendants to the floor. It probably lasted 10-20 seconds and, during those seconds I thought we were going to crash because I had never experienced turbulence that strong. Since then, I started to develop fear of flying. Even though I have flown since then, each time it has made me more anxious. Now I actively avoid flying. After some introspection, I realized that I'm more afraid of the moments preceding the crash than actually dying. This fear got worse after I had a daughter because now I also picture how the last moments would be if she was by my side on a falling plane. Rationally, I do know how infrequent plane crashes are, and how driving is more dangerous, but at the end I convince myself that the best way to not die on a plane crash is to not get on a plane. Since flying is not required for work, and I've already seen most of the world, it's not hard to convince myself that I don't need to get on a plane. The last few times I've flown, I used a mental trick to help me get through it. I read that the odds of a plane crash is 1 in 1.2 million, so I used a random number generator to generate a number between 1 and 1.2 million, and then tried to guess what that number was. That gave me some relief but didn't completely stop the bad thoughts. How do I overcome my fear of flying?
12 by flyingquestion | 17 comments on Hacker News.
I'm in my early 40's and have traveled a lot during my 20's and 30's. I think I was always a little bit nervous about flying, but never enough to make me really anxious. A few years ago, on a short flight to NYC, the plane went through a sudden turbulence. It was strong enough to send 2 flight attendants to the floor. It probably lasted 10-20 seconds and, during those seconds I thought we were going to crash because I had never experienced turbulence that strong. Since then, I started to develop fear of flying. Even though I have flown since then, each time it has made me more anxious. Now I actively avoid flying. After some introspection, I realized that I'm more afraid of the moments preceding the crash than actually dying. This fear got worse after I had a daughter because now I also picture how the last moments would be if she was by my side on a falling plane. Rationally, I do know how infrequent plane crashes are, and how driving is more dangerous, but at the end I convince myself that the best way to not die on a plane crash is to not get on a plane. Since flying is not required for work, and I've already seen most of the world, it's not hard to convince myself that I don't need to get on a plane. The last few times I've flown, I used a mental trick to help me get through it. I read that the odds of a plane crash is 1 in 1.2 million, so I used a random number generator to generate a number between 1 and 1.2 million, and then tried to guess what that number was. That gave me some relief but didn't completely stop the bad thoughts. How do I overcome my fear of flying?
New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: JITX (YC S18) – Automating Circuit Board Design
Launch HN: JITX (YC S18) – Automating Circuit Board Design
2 by DHaldane | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We're Duncan, Austin, Jonathan, and Patrick, the founders of JITX ( https://jitx.com ). Today, every circuit board is manually designed by skilled engineers. JITX is automating circuit board design with AI that designs optimized boards in hours instead of weeks. This all started for us while we were still at UC Berkeley. Duncan and Austin were PhD students and constantly designing robots to test new ideas. We realized we had to start from scratch every time we started work on a new robot. All that work had to be thrown away, because you can’t reuse hardware designs like software. We wanted a way to design robots faster; we wanted a way to design better robots! At the same time Patrick and Jonathan were building Chisel, an automated tool for digital logic design. The roboticists saw Chisel and got inspired. Patrick and Jonathan saw how people design circuit boards and were horrified. We hit it off and decided to solve the problem — we would make circuit board design more like software development: agile, flexible, reusable, fast. Our core technology is inspired by the technology used for designing computer chips. The introduction of Hardware Description Languages (HDLs, e.g. Verilog) in the 80s, revolutionized chip design. Instead of manually drawing the shapes that make up the circuit, engineers would instead express the intended behaviour of their circuit using code, and then have algorithms automatically translate that code into the necessary copper shapes. This workflow is what makes possible the billion-transistor chips we see today. We bring the same workflow to PCB design. Circuit board design is a multidisciplinary challenge, and we have to factor in electrical engineering (circuit design, RF design, signal and power integrity), mechanical engineering (thermal, vibration), and manufacturing (cost optimization, DFM/DFA/DFT). Unsurprisingly, almost every subproblem is computationally intractable, so we use clever representations and heuristics to arrive at good solutions. There are a million details to keep track of across all of those disciplines, and it’s high time we get computers to do the bookkeeping. To give you an idea of our workflow, here’s a link to the first demo we ever recorded: https://youtu.be/ra0SWTrLzhs . It’s rough and out of date (new demo here: https://youtu.be/lYrY7iskgng ), but it helped us get into YC and shows the key ideas. Cliff notes: we describe circuit boards with a domain specific programming language, and then compile that language into hardware designs (and simulations, and schematics, and documentation, and manufacturing outputs). You describe what you care about at a high level, and then the system solves for everything you don’t specify. For example, we request a board with BLE and a microphone, and the system selects matching key components from the library, solves for power supplies and component values, sources all the parts (thanks Octopart!), assigns pins, plans out placements, routes traces, and then exports a KiCAD project (board + schematic), and manufacturing outputs (BoM, Gerbers, etc.). If you care about the shape of the board, add it as a constraint; if you care about the position of a component, add it as a constraint; if you know which BLE chip you want, add it as a constraint. Design tools should be smart enough to solve for the million details you don’t care about, and optimize your design for what you do care about. We started JITX to give everyone ready access to professional-quality boards, and today JITX runs as an electronics design contractor. You tell us what a circuit board needs to do, we use our tools to design the board, fab it, and get it back to you. We already do this faster than humans can, and our speed depends on the design. For product and proof-of-concept boards, JITX is on average 3x faster and also cheaper than human contractors. Test fixtures and connector-based boards are almost fully automated, and we have already hit 24-hour turnaround times on designs. We’re not the first ones to think about better tools for circuit board design, but we are the first to use this approach. We know from experience that this is the way to go, and honestly we can't imagine a future where this tech doesn’t exist. We’re just racing to be the first ones to build it! - Duncan, Austin, Jonathan, Patrick PS: If you want to see the last robot we built before starting JITX, you can check out Salto here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dJmArHRn0U .
2 by DHaldane | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We're Duncan, Austin, Jonathan, and Patrick, the founders of JITX ( https://jitx.com ). Today, every circuit board is manually designed by skilled engineers. JITX is automating circuit board design with AI that designs optimized boards in hours instead of weeks. This all started for us while we were still at UC Berkeley. Duncan and Austin were PhD students and constantly designing robots to test new ideas. We realized we had to start from scratch every time we started work on a new robot. All that work had to be thrown away, because you can’t reuse hardware designs like software. We wanted a way to design robots faster; we wanted a way to design better robots! At the same time Patrick and Jonathan were building Chisel, an automated tool for digital logic design. The roboticists saw Chisel and got inspired. Patrick and Jonathan saw how people design circuit boards and were horrified. We hit it off and decided to solve the problem — we would make circuit board design more like software development: agile, flexible, reusable, fast. Our core technology is inspired by the technology used for designing computer chips. The introduction of Hardware Description Languages (HDLs, e.g. Verilog) in the 80s, revolutionized chip design. Instead of manually drawing the shapes that make up the circuit, engineers would instead express the intended behaviour of their circuit using code, and then have algorithms automatically translate that code into the necessary copper shapes. This workflow is what makes possible the billion-transistor chips we see today. We bring the same workflow to PCB design. Circuit board design is a multidisciplinary challenge, and we have to factor in electrical engineering (circuit design, RF design, signal and power integrity), mechanical engineering (thermal, vibration), and manufacturing (cost optimization, DFM/DFA/DFT). Unsurprisingly, almost every subproblem is computationally intractable, so we use clever representations and heuristics to arrive at good solutions. There are a million details to keep track of across all of those disciplines, and it’s high time we get computers to do the bookkeeping. To give you an idea of our workflow, here’s a link to the first demo we ever recorded: https://youtu.be/ra0SWTrLzhs . It’s rough and out of date (new demo here: https://youtu.be/lYrY7iskgng ), but it helped us get into YC and shows the key ideas. Cliff notes: we describe circuit boards with a domain specific programming language, and then compile that language into hardware designs (and simulations, and schematics, and documentation, and manufacturing outputs). You describe what you care about at a high level, and then the system solves for everything you don’t specify. For example, we request a board with BLE and a microphone, and the system selects matching key components from the library, solves for power supplies and component values, sources all the parts (thanks Octopart!), assigns pins, plans out placements, routes traces, and then exports a KiCAD project (board + schematic), and manufacturing outputs (BoM, Gerbers, etc.). If you care about the shape of the board, add it as a constraint; if you care about the position of a component, add it as a constraint; if you know which BLE chip you want, add it as a constraint. Design tools should be smart enough to solve for the million details you don’t care about, and optimize your design for what you do care about. We started JITX to give everyone ready access to professional-quality boards, and today JITX runs as an electronics design contractor. You tell us what a circuit board needs to do, we use our tools to design the board, fab it, and get it back to you. We already do this faster than humans can, and our speed depends on the design. For product and proof-of-concept boards, JITX is on average 3x faster and also cheaper than human contractors. Test fixtures and connector-based boards are almost fully automated, and we have already hit 24-hour turnaround times on designs. We’re not the first ones to think about better tools for circuit board design, but we are the first to use this approach. We know from experience that this is the way to go, and honestly we can't imagine a future where this tech doesn’t exist. We’re just racing to be the first ones to build it! - Duncan, Austin, Jonathan, Patrick PS: If you want to see the last robot we built before starting JITX, you can check out Salto here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dJmArHRn0U .
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Trump offers to meet with Iranian President Rouhani with “no preconditions”
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New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18)- Communicate changes to any site without writing code
Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18)- Communicate changes to any site without writing code
2 by bmaho | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! We're Jono and Brendan, the founders of Toybox (YC S18). Toybox lets designers, marketers, and copywriters communicate changes to developers on any website, without having to write code. These changes get annotated as CSS edits so engineers can understand, reply, and implement the fixes ( https://ift.tt/2K99Evv ). For years Jono and I have struggled to communicate changes with one another during the development cycle. As a UX designer and Jono as a full-stack engineer, we spend hours going back-and-forth, trying to make small but important tweaks to sites. This was by far the most frustrating part of our jobs, driving us to try to solve this age-old problem. While learning about the development to design handoff, we’ve come across some common challenges teams face. First, not all companies have sophisticated or easy to deploy staging environments to quickly share works-in-progress. Second, some designers make tweaks using Chrome Inspector, but these changes don’t persist and are recorded nowhere near the relevant web page. Lastly, the majority of these conversations are happening in unofficial and unformalized spaces, making it easy to dismiss and disregard. The first problem we attempted to solve was creating a way to share web pages without a staging environment. To do this, we built a chrome extension that collects and sends the rendered DOM of the current page to Toybox. People write HTML and CSS in creative ways, so making sure we accurately re-render the captured page within Toybox has consistently been a fun and difficult challenge (looking at you CSS in JS...). We built Toybox in a way that doesn’t require prior front-end knowledge to use. We created an inspector that makes any page feel like Squarespace—a universal WYSIWYG of sorts. As you make tweaks, those edits get saved as CSS allowing a developer to contextually review where on the page a change was requested and the relevant code required to resolve that change. To see it in action, we made a demo of Hacker News here: https://ift.tt/2LTNVg1 We're excited about the possibilities of having a rendered web page within Toybox. We’re currently testing the concept of style and component linting. Instead of the rules being tabs vs. spaces :) we can lint for incorrect uses of color, accessibility, typography, button styles, and so forth by using design files or style guides as inputs. With the rise of component libraries and design systems, we’re excited to further automate these QA efforts and make this communication channel even smarter. We’d love to hear your feedback and personal experiences when it comes to this phase of the development process. You can try Toybox for free here: https://ift.tt/2K99Evv Thanks, Brendan & Jono
2 by bmaho | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! We're Jono and Brendan, the founders of Toybox (YC S18). Toybox lets designers, marketers, and copywriters communicate changes to developers on any website, without having to write code. These changes get annotated as CSS edits so engineers can understand, reply, and implement the fixes ( https://ift.tt/2K99Evv ). For years Jono and I have struggled to communicate changes with one another during the development cycle. As a UX designer and Jono as a full-stack engineer, we spend hours going back-and-forth, trying to make small but important tweaks to sites. This was by far the most frustrating part of our jobs, driving us to try to solve this age-old problem. While learning about the development to design handoff, we’ve come across some common challenges teams face. First, not all companies have sophisticated or easy to deploy staging environments to quickly share works-in-progress. Second, some designers make tweaks using Chrome Inspector, but these changes don’t persist and are recorded nowhere near the relevant web page. Lastly, the majority of these conversations are happening in unofficial and unformalized spaces, making it easy to dismiss and disregard. The first problem we attempted to solve was creating a way to share web pages without a staging environment. To do this, we built a chrome extension that collects and sends the rendered DOM of the current page to Toybox. People write HTML and CSS in creative ways, so making sure we accurately re-render the captured page within Toybox has consistently been a fun and difficult challenge (looking at you CSS in JS...). We built Toybox in a way that doesn’t require prior front-end knowledge to use. We created an inspector that makes any page feel like Squarespace—a universal WYSIWYG of sorts. As you make tweaks, those edits get saved as CSS allowing a developer to contextually review where on the page a change was requested and the relevant code required to resolve that change. To see it in action, we made a demo of Hacker News here: https://ift.tt/2LTNVg1 We're excited about the possibilities of having a rendered web page within Toybox. We’re currently testing the concept of style and component linting. Instead of the rules being tabs vs. spaces :) we can lint for incorrect uses of color, accessibility, typography, button styles, and so forth by using design files or style guides as inputs. With the rise of component libraries and design systems, we’re excited to further automate these QA efforts and make this communication channel even smarter. We’d love to hear your feedback and personal experiences when it comes to this phase of the development process. You can try Toybox for free here: https://ift.tt/2K99Evv Thanks, Brendan & Jono
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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is likely to improve with 10/7nm CPUs?
Ask HN: What is likely to improve with 10/7nm CPUs?
3 by gameswithgo | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I've done a bit of googling and haven't found any clear, non marketing explanations of this. When Intel and AMD start shipping 10nm CPUs, what is likely to improve? Will clock rates go up any? Will power use go down? Or will we simply be able to cram more cores onto a cpu? Can L1 cache size increase?
3 by gameswithgo | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I've done a bit of googling and haven't found any clear, non marketing explanations of this. When Intel and AMD start shipping 10nm CPUs, what is likely to improve? Will clock rates go up any? Will power use go down? Or will we simply be able to cram more cores onto a cpu? Can L1 cache size increase?
New top story on Hacker News: A Desktop App Idea That You Can Develop and Even Sell
A Desktop App Idea That You Can Develop and Even Sell
3 by nickjj | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I often hear people saying they don't know what to build, so here's a desktop application idea that solves a real problem for people who create screencast style videos. Rather than explain it, I've demonstrated the problem on video (~3min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUmGFiAZA0s The TL;DR is when your desktop resolution > recording resolution you lose a lot of common Windows functionality and have to manually pixel align windows inside of recording tool constraints. I'm sure there's Windows APIs and methods to restrict windows operations to a customized rectangle, and that's the app you could potentially build.
3 by nickjj | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I often hear people saying they don't know what to build, so here's a desktop application idea that solves a real problem for people who create screencast style videos. Rather than explain it, I've demonstrated the problem on video (~3min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUmGFiAZA0s The TL;DR is when your desktop resolution > recording resolution you lose a lot of common Windows functionality and have to manually pixel align windows inside of recording tool constraints. I'm sure there's Windows APIs and methods to restrict windows operations to a customized rectangle, and that's the app you could potentially build.
New top story on Hacker News: Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003) [pdf]
Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (2003) [pdf]
3 by catchmeifyoucan | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by catchmeifyoucan | 0 comments on Hacker News.
New top story on Hacker News: In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable
In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable
43 by throwaway5752 | 13 comments on Hacker News.
43 by throwaway5752 | 13 comments on Hacker News.
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What “dumbphones” are available and viable in the US?
Ask HN: What “dumbphones” are available and viable in the US?
56 by msftie | 48 comments on Hacker News.
There’s an increasing interest in “dumbphones” these days, but it seems that options for a basic phone are fairly limited in the US market. If you have switched, what did you switch to? If you’re looking to switch, what are you considering?
56 by msftie | 48 comments on Hacker News.
There’s an increasing interest in “dumbphones” these days, but it seems that options for a basic phone are fairly limited in the US market. If you have switched, what did you switch to? If you’re looking to switch, what are you considering?
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition?
Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition?
149 by throwaway334455 | 49 comments on Hacker News.
I run a one-person company in the cloud / ops space and over the past year have gone from $0 to $200k in annual recurring revenue. I have not taken any funding. The major cloud providers (aws, google, azure) are starting to expand to my product space, however, and I'm increasing concerned with my long-term prospects. I think it might make sense to pursue acquisition/aqui-hire, while my product and expertise can still add value to these cloud providers. I would really appreciate advice from the HN community on how to achieve the best possible outcome, including how to proactively pursue acquisition/aqui-hire at a large company. Thanks!
149 by throwaway334455 | 49 comments on Hacker News.
I run a one-person company in the cloud / ops space and over the past year have gone from $0 to $200k in annual recurring revenue. I have not taken any funding. The major cloud providers (aws, google, azure) are starting to expand to my product space, however, and I'm increasing concerned with my long-term prospects. I think it might make sense to pursue acquisition/aqui-hire, while my product and expertise can still add value to these cloud providers. I would really appreciate advice from the HN community on how to achieve the best possible outcome, including how to proactively pursue acquisition/aqui-hire at a large company. Thanks!
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Sunday, 29 July 2018
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What to do about dogma in a company culture?
Ask HN: What to do about dogma in a company culture?
5 by jamesku | 0 comments on Hacker News.
The million dollar question. This is no doubt a problem that almost every developer has, that they've somewhat come to accept as normal. I'm just curious to see if anybody has any answers. For example, the company I'm employed at now is all over React Native as being the savior of everything. While I think that it's a good platform, I'm also cautious of investing all of our energy into it, instead of diversifying, and ignoring advances made in platforms more conducive to AR, ML, and WebAssembly. I know that favoring CRUD apps over missing the boat in AR, ML, and WebAssembly, is in the company's best interest. But it's neither going to be in mine or the company's best interest if we invest all of our energy into 1 platform and 2 years from now have an "oh crap" moment where we realize we're too far behind. Dogma is extremely dangerous for this reason. What is the most diplomatic yet assertive way to combat it?
5 by jamesku | 0 comments on Hacker News.
The million dollar question. This is no doubt a problem that almost every developer has, that they've somewhat come to accept as normal. I'm just curious to see if anybody has any answers. For example, the company I'm employed at now is all over React Native as being the savior of everything. While I think that it's a good platform, I'm also cautious of investing all of our energy into it, instead of diversifying, and ignoring advances made in platforms more conducive to AR, ML, and WebAssembly. I know that favoring CRUD apps over missing the boat in AR, ML, and WebAssembly, is in the company's best interest. But it's neither going to be in mine or the company's best interest if we invest all of our energy into 1 platform and 2 years from now have an "oh crap" moment where we realize we're too far behind. Dogma is extremely dangerous for this reason. What is the most diplomatic yet assertive way to combat it?
New top story on Hacker News: Deep in Italy, One Man’s Surrealist Mini-City Sleeps
Deep in Italy, One Man’s Surrealist Mini-City Sleeps
3 by bryanrasmussen | 0 comments on Hacker News.
3 by bryanrasmussen | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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07/29/18 9:37 AM
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07/29/18 9:37 AM
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?
5 by pastaking | 5 comments on Hacker News.
When I browse HN, I usually pick out a few articles I want to read from the front page, then email the links to myself to read later. This method works out pretty well for me. I’m wondering if people have other strategies that work better?
5 by pastaking | 5 comments on Hacker News.
When I browse HN, I usually pick out a few articles I want to read from the front page, then email the links to myself to read later. This method works out pretty well for me. I’m wondering if people have other strategies that work better?
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are the best SAAS options to set up an online store?
Ask HN: What are the best SAAS options to set up an online store?
4 by anujkk | 1 comments on Hacker News.
A friend of mine has a designer garment & jwellary business and she wants to setup an online store. I think instead of using a custom made or open source option it is better to use a SAAS provider for a couple of years to see how it goes. So, who are the best SAAS e-commerce providers right now in terms of features & quality of service?
4 by anujkk | 1 comments on Hacker News.
A friend of mine has a designer garment & jwellary business and she wants to setup an online store. I think instead of using a custom made or open source option it is better to use a SAAS provider for a couple of years to see how it goes. So, who are the best SAAS e-commerce providers right now in terms of features & quality of service?
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
11 by gravy | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Doesn't have to be tech related.
11 by gravy | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Doesn't have to be tech related.
New top story on Hacker News: The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine
The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine
105 by souterrain | 15 comments on Hacker News.
105 by souterrain | 15 comments on Hacker News.
New top story on Hacker News: A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video]
A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video]
92 by CaliforniaKarl | 49 comments on Hacker News.
92 by CaliforniaKarl | 49 comments on Hacker News.
New best story on Hacker News: Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative
Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative
422 by tonteldoos | 97 comments on Hacker News.
422 by tonteldoos | 97 comments on Hacker News.
Saturday, 28 July 2018
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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Have we hit peak JavaScript?
Ask HN: Have we hit peak JavaScript?
2 by dosy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
There was a peak .NET, peak Java, and peak C++. JS adoption has exploded, but the language is nearly mature (with TS unlikely to be merged into TC-39 except as optional extra.) Web-Assembly, Rust, Go, are all new and, as much as I enjoy JS, better languages. Not to mention indomitable C. Is JS as universal platform an idea whose time has come, or whose time has passed?
2 by dosy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
There was a peak .NET, peak Java, and peak C++. JS adoption has exploded, but the language is nearly mature (with TS unlikely to be merged into TC-39 except as optional extra.) Web-Assembly, Rust, Go, are all new and, as much as I enjoy JS, better languages. Not to mention indomitable C. Is JS as universal platform an idea whose time has come, or whose time has passed?
