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Friday, May 17, 2019
New ask Hacker News story: Idea Validation: A side project management tool
Idea Validation: A side project management tool
2 by sgdheeban | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Please help validate the following idea with your feedback. This will save me a lot of time. Thanks a lot in advance. A toolkit that enables the customer to easily hire with confidence & stick with the best freelancer, get regular updates, track progress of the project, and replace freelancers if needed. Our typical customer is someone who needs assistance on his/her side project. The tool also helps the freelancer to find new leads and help with maintaining the customer relationship through purpose built tools. This is a SaaS product charging $10 per month per freelancer. Free for the customer. #idea-validation Please comment both the positives and negatives about this approach. Thanks.
2 by sgdheeban | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Please help validate the following idea with your feedback. This will save me a lot of time. Thanks a lot in advance. A toolkit that enables the customer to easily hire with confidence & stick with the best freelancer, get regular updates, track progress of the project, and replace freelancers if needed. Our typical customer is someone who needs assistance on his/her side project. The tool also helps the freelancer to find new leads and help with maintaining the customer relationship through purpose built tools. This is a SaaS product charging $10 per month per freelancer. Free for the customer. #idea-validation Please comment both the positives and negatives about this approach. Thanks.
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Would you like to receive or provide mentorship?
Ask HN: Would you like to receive or provide mentorship?
4 by dskang | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Would anyone be interested if I created a directory of mentors across tech who you could reach out to in order to have 30-minute chats over coffee, tea, boba, phone, etc.? You could chat with people to get career advice, explore different roles and companies, and discuss fun questions like "What are the ethical implications of working in an industry that affects the lives of billions of people around the world?" and "Should I sell everything I own to buy bitcoin?" If you're interesting in receiving mentorship and would like to get updates about this project, you can fill out this form: http://bit.ly/2VrXDXn If you're interested in providing mentorship, please fill out this form (http://bit.ly/30hEtqS) and I'll reach out with next steps. The only qualification required to be a mentor would be having experience working full-time in tech. Since people will reach out to you based on your background, you don’t need to worry about whether you have enough experience to be a “mentor” — you can view the chats as sharing your experiences and perspective rather than giving The Best Advice Ever. Thanks! I'd like to gauge interest before investing more time into this (planning to build this out if I get > 100 interested mentors).
4 by dskang | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Would anyone be interested if I created a directory of mentors across tech who you could reach out to in order to have 30-minute chats over coffee, tea, boba, phone, etc.? You could chat with people to get career advice, explore different roles and companies, and discuss fun questions like "What are the ethical implications of working in an industry that affects the lives of billions of people around the world?" and "Should I sell everything I own to buy bitcoin?" If you're interesting in receiving mentorship and would like to get updates about this project, you can fill out this form: http://bit.ly/2VrXDXn If you're interested in providing mentorship, please fill out this form (http://bit.ly/30hEtqS) and I'll reach out with next steps. The only qualification required to be a mentor would be having experience working full-time in tech. Since people will reach out to you based on your background, you don’t need to worry about whether you have enough experience to be a “mentor” — you can view the chats as sharing your experiences and perspective rather than giving The Best Advice Ever. Thanks! I'd like to gauge interest before investing more time into this (planning to build this out if I get > 100 interested mentors).
New ask Hacker News story: How Radiation Is Different from Every Other Hazard
How Radiation Is Different from Every Other Hazard
3 by mimixco | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Nuclear is a hot topic on HN and its dangers are often compared to pollutants from solar plants, etc. But these comparisons simply cannot be made and here's why. The matter that makes up our world, including chemcials, heavy metals, drugs, and other poisons operates at the molecular level. To be poisoned, you must ingest them or make contact with your skin. Radiation, however, operates below that, at the subatomic level. It results when an atom has an unstable internal arrangement. Radioactive elements continually shed particles which contact or pass through other materials at a distance. The most powerful and dangerous kind, gamma radiation, is emitted by plutonium, a byproduct of all nuclear power generation. Gamma particles have enough energy to pass through your body and into other objects. Gamma radiation is powerful enough to damage DNA chains and disrupt cell growth, which is how it creates cancers and congenital disorders. When a gamma particle hits other kinds of matter, it can cause that matter to also become unstable and begin shedding particles. This is how materials become radioactively contaminated. Lead is toxic, but you can hold a toxic amount of lead in your hands and experience no ill effects. Lead doesn't "reach out" into space and begin hurting people at a distance, and it doesn't turn other materials into toxins. It is this fundamental difference between subatomic particles which travel of their own accord, penetrate other materials, and turn them toxic that separates radioactive hazards from every other kind of danger. And now you know. BTW, the reason lead is used as a radioactive shield is that it's too dense to allow many gamma particles to penetrate. Atoms are internally "quantized" with only certain spots open for penetration, and lead has the fewest of these. It's not totally impervious, however, which is why nuclear medicine and nuclear plant operators receive higher doses than the general population.
3 by mimixco | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Nuclear is a hot topic on HN and its dangers are often compared to pollutants from solar plants, etc. But these comparisons simply cannot be made and here's why. The matter that makes up our world, including chemcials, heavy metals, drugs, and other poisons operates at the molecular level. To be poisoned, you must ingest them or make contact with your skin. Radiation, however, operates below that, at the subatomic level. It results when an atom has an unstable internal arrangement. Radioactive elements continually shed particles which contact or pass through other materials at a distance. The most powerful and dangerous kind, gamma radiation, is emitted by plutonium, a byproduct of all nuclear power generation. Gamma particles have enough energy to pass through your body and into other objects. Gamma radiation is powerful enough to damage DNA chains and disrupt cell growth, which is how it creates cancers and congenital disorders. When a gamma particle hits other kinds of matter, it can cause that matter to also become unstable and begin shedding particles. This is how materials become radioactively contaminated. Lead is toxic, but you can hold a toxic amount of lead in your hands and experience no ill effects. Lead doesn't "reach out" into space and begin hurting people at a distance, and it doesn't turn other materials into toxins. It is this fundamental difference between subatomic particles which travel of their own accord, penetrate other materials, and turn them toxic that separates radioactive hazards from every other kind of danger. And now you know. BTW, the reason lead is used as a radioactive shield is that it's too dense to allow many gamma particles to penetrate. Atoms are internally "quantized" with only certain spots open for penetration, and lead has the fewest of these. It's not totally impervious, however, which is why nuclear medicine and nuclear plant operators receive higher doses than the general population.