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Ask HN: How to efficiently import Excel/CSV files 3 by leahcim | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have this recurring problem at my startup that I'd like to solve. Our clients give us an Excel/file and I need to 1) match the columns 2) clean up the data 3) return errors (if any) 4) import each row into my database It's very difficult given that so many things could go wrong. I have already invested a lot of time in building a file parser with column matcher but the results aren't there yet. Do you know of any API / widget that would allow me to offer this on my website with minimal code?

Ask HN: Most hassle-free Linux distro? 2 by brundolf | 0 comments on Hacker News. Whenever I try and use Linux as a dev environment I find myself repeatedly distracted by small issues here and there that I have to take an hour to research and solve. Despite that, the idea of having a Unix dev environment on my desktop machine continues to hold appeal. So, what's the most straightforward, "just-works" Linux distro out there today? Historically I've used Ubuntu which isn't terrible but never stops requiring a bit of fiddling here and there. I've heard good things about PopOS, Elementary, and Mint, but I've never tried to use any of them for real work.

YouTube Is Down for Everyone 22 by byteshock | 11 comments on Hacker News. Videos are not loading at all. People all around the world are experiencing issues. Check the Twitter tag below. Could this be a global outage of YouTube? Down detector: https://ift.tt/2vNjUIi Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/youtube

YouTube Video playback is down 9 by metmac | 0 comments on Hacker News. Go to any youtube video and watch the network requests to redirector.googlevideo.com hang. i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3VcGKv9Cfw

Ask HN: PhD vs. job @Google vs. starting a startup 5 by tanonaway | 1 comments on Hacker News. In a few months, I will be finishing up my master's degree in computer engineering from a fairly well-considered European university, and I am finding it hard to decide what to do after that. At some point in my life, I want to found a startup, but I don't know if this is the right time for me. The main thing stopping me from founding one right now is that I don't feel at the edge of some field; I don't feel like "I'm living in the future," like a good startup founder should[1]. Side note: thank you YC for the amazing curriculum you put together in Startup School for Future Founders[2]. As the title suggests, I have three possible paths that I would be equally interested in following: - Ph.D.: - Pros: - This seems the best option to get at the edge of some technology; - getting paid to study what I am most interested in sounds great; - Cons: - Academic bureauc...

YouTube Down 2 by hi5eyes | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is banning end-to-end encryption feasible? 4 by mikepechadotcom | 1 comments on Hacker News. More and more countries are planning to ban end-to end encryption, or at least forcing companies to backdoor it. But is this even feasible? Does a E2E-encryption method/technology, which can have a backdoor exist? And if not, with which technology are governments planning to do it?

Ask HN: What technologies would you use to “solve” voter fraud? 4 by ethanpil | 5 comments on Hacker News. The recent US election is on the minds of a lot of people. No matter what side you stand on or who you voted for, or if you do or don't believe there is widespread fraud, one thing I think the HN community can agree on is that the technologies exist to make vote privacy and integrity more certain that it is now. What toolsets, technologies and workflow would you apply here and how?

Ask HN: Do you have a dedicated home office space? 3 by Riphyak | 0 comments on Hacker News. Top 2 issues Americans complain about when working from home are distractions from other family members and inadequate workspace. I believe most folks here are like me - means been working from home before it became common place. Mind sharing how you solved this problem? Thanks!

Ask HN: How can I make my startup's website ethical? 3 by ducul_sfant | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am building the website for my startup and I think it's very important we pay a little bit more attention to the ethical side of how we do business. We're a very small team of 3 co-founders and the other 2 have been very supportive of me pushing in this direction. I'm already committed to a few things: - Not to use Facebook Pixel for marketing or any other similar social media mechanism - Not to use Google Analytics and switch to a self hosted alternative - Avoid any design dark patterns - Don't store any data that is not absolutely essential and for the data that we store, always ask for permission clearly and using clear language What are other mandatory items that I should add to this list and commit to?

Ask HN: As a programmer, how close do you work with a UX team? 2 by bobnarizes | 0 comments on Hacker News. At our company we have no easy access to a UX team, thing that I am starting to strongly request. Can you share your experiences, how involved is UX into development?

Ask HN: Should US have dual currencies: domestic digital and international fiat 2 by jelliclesfarm | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is Apple tracking what I share? 2 by maxekman | 0 comments on Hacker News. Do they track for example the URLs I share from Safari on iOS? If so what do they use the stats for?

Unicode 13 sextants advances state-in-the-art terminal rendering 4 by dankamongmen | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm the author of a blingful TUI/character graphics library by the name of Notcurses. One of the core competencies of Notcurses is rendering images and video to a terminal (without undue shrinking of the font). Leaving aside asymmetric rendering such as that performed by caca (see Notcurses documentation for an explanation of why I don't think this a good general approach), common symmetric rendering techniques include spaces and Unicode half blocks ( and ). This last method is employed by tools like viu and mpv's TCT output, and can be considered the general "state of the art". Notcurses had already gone past this with its Quadblitter, making use of Unicode 3.2's quadrant blocks to map 2x2 pixels to a terminal cell. With the advent of Unicode 13's Legacy Computing Symbols (and rollout of font support for them), a powerful new symmetric blitti...

Ask HN: Tell Professionals What to Do 2 by kadonoishi | 0 comments on Hacker News. It's a commonly-voiced concern that jobs are bullshit. The community could take specific needs and connect them to specific bullshit jobs, telling fellow professionals what they should be doing instead. Why do we not do this?

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell 7 by folli | 0 comments on Hacker News. It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.

Ask HN: How to deal with an abusive co-worker? 5 by lessthanseventy | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm at my wit's end and am not sure what is the best way to proceed. I have been working at my current job for about 7 months. I am the front end developer for a chain of retail outlets in Denver. I work on our website, our customer facing kiosks, and our POS systems. There are only two other developers and one of them has become a nightmare and is making it impossible to work there. I have been verbally abused, belittled, blamed for things that weren't my fault, had my accomplishments diminished and taken credit for. The guy is well known for this kind of behavior. I'm not the only person that has had a problem with him but it's just excused as "the way he is." After yet another round of it I sent screenshots of our conversation to our boss and was told "that's just how we communicate around here. He told me to go fuck myself just last week." ...

Ask HN: Why Pinterest's market cap is 15x Yelp's? 3 by cft | 3 comments on Hacker News. Pinterest's market cap is about 30bn, but Yelp's is 1.5bn. That's 15x. I know many people who regularly use Yelp, but I know of zero users of Pinterest. At the same time I read stuff like https://ift.tt/2BvVhm8 which tells me they are essentially Google-bombing. Is there traffic real?

Ask HN: The state of Firebase alternatives in 2020? 7 by kgraves | 2 comments on Hacker News. Looking for a Firebase alternative that is ideally production ready and open source. Has there been any strides in this area and what is the current state of them in 2020? Thanks.