Ask HN: What courses would you like to see in Udemy?
I've been thinking about creating a course around software programming. What gaps do you think need to be filled?
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Re:Ask HN: Programming Language to Code on Mobile
on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:46AM (#25917117)
Coding on your phone? This sounds terrible.
Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted against electi...
on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:59AM (#25916429)
I'd rather see Google make donations to the education system. We've seen that there are limits to money in politics. Once you get past a certain point, what we really need is a strong educational system so people can make rational decisions.
Re:Show HN: Learn about computer science one paper at a time
on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:36AM (#24960564)
Id be more inclined to provide my email if I could see previous weeks newsletter
Re:Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model
on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:40PM (#24559618)
I feel like our era of technology is being monopolized or it's preventing equal access. Software can no longer be developed with a couple of people and make a large impact. VC money is designated to a certain group of people. This isn't what technologist wanted to create. We hoped that technology would create tens of thousands of small impactful teams, not a handful of oligopolies.
Re:My best SEO tactic so far
on Saturday August 15, 2020 @08:56AM (#24168516)
I really enjoyed the section about working with the search engine and how we typically use search. Naturally, when we come across a problem we search to find solutions. When your problems are generic, it's easy to find an article that gives you an exact answer, but the deeper problems that you work on or the more specific they are, the less likely you'll find an article you can follow to fit your needs. That's where it's important to form models and sharpen tools for inference. It's more likely that you'll have to read a handful of articles and take segments from each article to formulate an answer.
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:28AM (#23997293)
You have to think of it in a deeper context than it being binary. It has very similar properties to oil. It's also fixed, but technology has done some phenomenal things to extract more of it with greater efficiency. The same is true for land and housing. UBI, self driving cars, and a greater shift away from working in offices are all going to change how we live and the type of land we will want to live on.
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:22AM (#23997247)
Here are some of my counter points:
1. People in the comments below have addressed this. Not really sure how this creates a greater power divide than the current system. Having money allows individuals choices. 2. Again, providing people with money will allow them to have more choices. If housing becomes too expensive in my county, I now have a greater degree of freedom to move and this creates more competition for rental rates. 3. This is one that I feel like most people miss the forest for the tree. You're right, it's going to happen. I just don't think that a portion of bad actors in the system should prevent that massive benefits it can create for the people in society that will spend it in more productive ways. I've heard arguments of how it will create disincentives in society. That people will choose to no longer work. But when I ask the exact same people that pose that question if they would stop working if they had $14,400 provided to them every year, the answer is unequivocally, no. If you're looking for policies that solve all problems, you're not going to find any.
Re:Teach Yourself Computer Science
on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:50AM (#23589872)
Just going to drop this link here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23564832
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone want to join a group to “Teach Yourself CS”?
on Thursday June 18, 2020 @11:22PM (#23570633)
I'm surprised I didn't get one comment on this post!
Ask HN: Does anyone want to join a group to “Teach Yourself CS”?
I've been looking at https://teachyourselfcs.com/ and wanted to get people together to go through the material as a group. If someone is already familiar with the body of the work, it would be great to have some mentors.Slack Channel: https://join.slack.com/t/teachyourselfcs/shared_invite/zt-f80pmv4z-bdeyPwQq2DH9I4_Ya9IMnQ
Ask HN: Have you incorporated ML/AI into your startup for easy wins
What are some simple implementations of machine learning that people have used at their company that has resulted in a large win? I'm hoping for non-obvious answers like a recommendation system for their users.
Ask HN: How to be competitive in a remote world
If companies are going to shift their focus to remote work, I'm curious what we can do as software engineers to remain competitive in a global landscape.
Re:Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance
on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:07AM (#23167000)
I think this is a situation where employees need to leave the company. We vote with our choices. If we don't deem this to be appropriate, we must respond in kind. It's not simple and not everyone has the choice, but for those that can, should.
Re:Career advice for people with bad luck
on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:24PM (#22970650)
Lots of good points about living below your means. Also define what you want. I'd hate for someone to live a safe and secure life and minimize risk only to get shafted by the system in the end. Some risk is worth taking. Taking on debt in certain situations is worth it. You just need to get aware of life in the event of failure and take that into consideration.
Re:Technical Writing Courses
on Sunday March 22, 2020 @03:53PM (#22658022)
Alright, I stand corrected.
Re:Technical Writing Courses
on Sunday March 22, 2020 @09:57AM (#22654956)
added a lot of value there
Re:If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (2011)
on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:50AM (#21544350)
The article brings about some really good points. I find myself sitting down and studying without deliberate intent, which leads to countless wasted hours in my life. I think this is in part because you need to have some fundamentals down in order to actively learn, but mostly because it's just that much more work to actually do the core work.
Re:Economics Needs a Post-Crash Revolution
on Sunday October 27, 2019 @09:19AM (#21369513)
I think it would be more correct to say that we have cyclical crises because of debt, which is a function of growth.
Re:'We Were Wiped Out’: New Yorkers Preyed on Chicago Cabbies
on Saturday October 05, 2019 @11:24AM (#21166024)
What I don't understand, is why someone would be willing to buy 15 medallions at an "inflated price." My point being, you should have some basis on the PV of cashflows you can generate with each medallion. It doesn't seem like an extremely complicated financial problem in my eyes. At some point, you're cutting into any investment return you receive through cash flow and you're now expecting your returns to be generated through the appreciation of the medallion. That's probably where I would stop and think, I don't need to buy 15 of these things.
Ask HN: What are things I can learn within 1 hour that will make me a better SE?
I'm a self taught developer that has been working in the industry for a couple years now. I was pursing a part time master in CS but decided to take time off from the program due to the time commitment. I have about a solid hour each day that I want to allocate to learning new things that will make me a better developer. What should I learn? Also how can I break down larger concepts into chunks...
Re:Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healt...
on Sunday June 09, 2019 @09:27AM (#20139042)
I didn't even realize that the companies mission was to create a product that was "healthier." I always assumed that it was to create something that was more sustainable...
Re:The history and opportunity of the modern mortgage [video]
on Sunday June 09, 2019 @09:25AM (#20139021)
You're not going got be able to find that type of knowledge in a couple of books. I used to work as an analyst programming mortgage prospectus documents and the one thing I learned is the system is purposely obfuscating and there are several incentive systems to keep this information private.
Re:Japanese railway company starts testing 249mph bullet train speeds
on Saturday May 11, 2019 @10:13AM (#19886260)
I don't even care what it looks like. When I see a nation investing in high speed rail, it makes me frustrated that we are lagging so far behind with transportation.
Re:IQ Matters Less Than You Think
on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:28AM (#18140775)
It seems a bit nieve to think that you need to have an above average IQ to make it into Middleclass society.
Re:Ask HN: How do you organize/track your personal goals?
on Sunday July 22, 2018 @09:55AM (#17586753)
I take a video of myself each morning talking about what I want to get done that day. At night I watch the video, take a mental note of what I need to work on the next day based on what I did and didn't accomplish that day. Repeat.
Re:Show HN: Travel spontaneously on a budget
on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @10:59AM (#16745239)
I would like a feature where I could add a group of people that are traveling from different areas.
Re:Show HN: Travel spontaneously on a budget
on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @10:58AM (#16745224)
I've always wondered this myself. Wouldn't travel companies want to open this information up? It seems like it would be a good use of price discrimination.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:33PM (#16741442)
Do you guys take on interns?
Re:Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market
on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @03:25PM (#15917355)
It looks more like a photo piece than anything else. I'm not sure why they chose to use that in the photo op, but I highly doubt they're creating their own batteries this way.