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dpaluyon A modern, instant ERD generator for Ruby on Rails apps

I always use ERD while onboarding new members to my team.

Feature requests:

1. Hide/Show models 2. Models search 3. Save presets for future use (for example, creating groups for Payments, Notifications, etc.)

dpaluyon Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It

Using it for over 6 months. Works great, and they remove tracking as well

dpaluyon Show HN: HN Posts on the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict

Is there a similar project on GitHub?

dpaluyon U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate

Without discussing the importance of the topic, why it’s relevant for HN?

dpaluyon Alexey Navalny was sent to prison by Putin for 2.6 years

Vladimir Putin appointed his main political opponent for 2 years and 8 months in prison for failing to Kill him.

The reason: After being poisoned, Navalny was hiding in a coma and escaping justice.

If you think Russia is different from USSR, reconsider your steps while doing any business there.

dpaluyon The Putin's Palace ( $1.4B) – video with ~60M views in 3 days

Text version: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=https:/...

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/ifuXdzgD4CvzBs5f7

dpaluyon The Putin's Palace ( $1.4B) – video with ~60M views in 3 days

https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI?t=3245 (English subtitles available)

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I'm not aware of any fireworks that are capable of combusting in a nuclear pattern (second explosion).

dpaluyon I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Hi Peter,

I’m on O1 visa. But my wife has O3 and doesn’t have a work permit. What’s the correct way to apply for a work permit? What visa should we change to? Thanks

dpaluyon Show HN: Pytorch Text Recognition Tool

How to train this model in other languages?

dpaluyon 6 years of analyzing patients’ heart data revealed 4 behavioral correlations

TL:DR;

1. User engagement drives blood pressure reduction

2. Hypertensive Crisis: Even moderate engagement can help you catch a hypertensive crisis.

3. The strongest correlation between blood pressure reduction and activity level is linked to 10 minutes of walking per day.

4. Users who lowered their blood pressure also reported lower BMI.

dpaluyon Show HN: The Brief, helping Founders to get the VC Meeting

There are fundraising advice videos from top VCs. IMHO, this tool will help many startup founders

dpaluyon Your company name matters, a lot – J. Currier

The language you use is the THING, while building your great company. But, we don't remember it all the time

dpaluyon Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience

Software developers should have experience in the things they need to get their job done. This is not a revelation.

dpaluyon Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

Why they don't use Google Docs to track changes and collaborate?

dpaluyon Introducing BDSM

I like the project. Good job!

dpaluyon EverythingMe open and out

Open Sourced projects are: - https://github.com/EverythingMe/vertex Go API management framework - https://github.com/EverythingMe/meduza A fast data store on top of redis - https://github.com/EverythingMe/teleport Execute Python code in country-specific networking context

and many other...

Great work!

dpaluyon Tell HN: Peter Roberts, immigration lawyer for YC, will do an AMA this Friday

Several startups I talked to, don't have enough knowledge dealing with H1-B applications. As an applicant, how can I help them to make this process clear?

dpaluyon Crowd-Sourcing Indoor Locations – Google Patent

This patent was accepted July 23, 2015. Does it mean Google is mapping our homes/offices with our phones?

dpaluyon Ask HN: What markets should be disrupted?

CRE - commercial real estate

dpaluyon Ask HN: What markets should be disrupted?

The list from Quora:

Agriculture Business intelligence Construction Consumer banking Credit reporting Data informatics Education Finance Grocery Ready to Eat Meals Healthcare Human Resources / Talent Management Insurance Intellectual property Legal services Mattresses Music information News Packaging Payments Politics Remittances Settling Disputes-- Arbitration, mediation, court of peers Shipping Sports Gaming Sports Media Rights Travel Waste management (human waste)

dpaluyon Ask HN: What markets should be disrupted?

I believe that Indian/Chinese restaurants try to provide a quality over quantity. And it's difficult to scale the quality in food market.

dpaluyon Ask HN: What markets should be disrupted?

But Trulia/Zillow provide pretty good information on Urban market. What's missing?

dpaluyon Show HN: Visual Compare of GitHub repos (weekend project)

Yep. We just set few params as a POC. Let us know what kind of params do you care of.

dpaluyon Rails code significant change

There is also a Django example: https://github.com/django/django/commit/c0a2daad78c66def2ce6...

dpaluyon What planning tool did you use for writing business plan for your startup?

Lean Canvas: http://leanstack.com/

dpaluyon My New Strategy for Teaching Kids How to Code

I started teaching kids Ruby on Rails with Nitrous IO virtual web environment and it's pretty good. https://www.nitrous.io/join/ByKc2ypawx0

dpaluyon Ask HN: What blogging platform do you use for your startup?

I will share my experience working with both Platforms.

TL:DR; Non programmers should use Wordpress

When you are working in a small team of developers, and each one can "hack the code" Octopress is a natural environment. You can host it on AWS S3 or Github pages and the setup is simple.

But when your marketing fellows start using it, Octopress is usually too complicated for them. Wordpress is more non-programmer friendly. And it has much more plugins and extensions.

Too summarize it: IMHO, Wordpress would be a better solution, unless you don't plan to hire marketers.

dpaluyon The Cardboard Bike

I agree with you, that the goal is two high, but the general idea of a bicycle made of recycled cardboard looks interesting.