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eric_khunon Ask HN: Any (tech) black friday deals you'd recommend?

https://leavemealone.app

Using it and recommending it: unsubscribe to emails with one click. Also Privacy-focused.

50% off all packages with the BLACK_FRIDAY code!

eric_khunon Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

wow that's amazing!

I can't see the link between quizzes and pinterest. Mind giving more details? on why you are there? :)

eric_khunon In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail

Thanks!

- how many subscribers do you have now? - what was the most efficient marketing channel?

eric_khunon Why you should have a side project

OP here ,

> full time job working long hours its unrealistic to spend much time on any side project.

Something I don't mention in the post is you should focus to reduce time you are working for "others". I feel not great when my friends tells me they stay at work because it's written in their contracts and they have nothing to do. Also when I hear 50+ hours a week (that I do at rare occasions), it gives me chills. It's about company culture and if they're focus in work life/balance or not. Some companies try concepts like the 4 days work week that I think amazing!

> Its much healthier to try to spend time with friends and family, or hobbies. If you have young children there is little chance.

I agree! I don't have a wife or children, but I'm sure if I had, I'd also spend time with them :)

eric_khunon Why you should have a side project

Thanks! it was done with mapbox :)

eric_khunon Why you should have a side project

Thanks, lucideer. OP here. You're correct! I believe that who want to have more opportunities early in their career will benefit from a side project. It can only add value.

And I also agree with mumblemumble, that later on, you might want to focus on some specific skills and make better what you already knows to sell yourself as a specialist, and that's where you can make $$$?

just my 2 cents

eric_khunon Realtime Tokyo 3D train map using open API

This is neat!

- Which API would you recommend to get accurate transit information data for the Tokyo or any other city ? Google API Directions does not gives out the transit information for Tokyo for licensing reasons

- Is there any article talking about and path optimisation including time constraint? I've done something homemade (a mix of bird flight distance and time to destination) it looks "okay" but I'm sure can be better.

I've just built a tool to calculate directions to POIs during a long flights layover [1] but those data are not great so far...

[1] https://travelhustlers.co/layover-in/

eric_khunon Realtime Tokyo 3D train map using open API

Google API Directions does not gives out the transit information for Tokyo for licensing reason unfortunately :(

eric_khunon Tools I Recommend for Building Geospatial Web Applications

- Which API would you recommend to get accurate transit information data?

- Is there any article talking about and path optimization including time constraint? I've done something homemade (a mix of bird flight distance and time to destination) it looks "okay" but I'm sure can be better.

I've just built a tool to calculate directions for long flights layover [1], but the Google Maps API Directions sometimes lack of those data (Tokyo/Singapore/Istanbul for example). Any recommendations appreciated!

[1] https://travelhustlers.co/layover-in/

eric_khunon Escape rooms are big business

Nice! I have a couples of questions if that's okay :)

1- Are you making profit? How long did that take you to be profitable?

2- In what do your spend money? Mind sharing a breakdown?

3- Who is your typical customers? Do they come back? How do you reach them?

eric_khunon Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware (2018)

Is anyone found a stylus that works with the macbook's trackpad? The usecase is to be able to draw some diagrams during video calls/screencasst.

Trying to avoid the wacom/tablet path to keep it lightweight :)

eric_khunon Show HN: Bild – A collection of parallel image processing algorithms in Go

Question related to this topic, about video encoding: We are spending quite a bit of money on Amazon ElasticTranscoder for video encoding. Wondering if anyone had experience or advices to selfhost that kind of service? Any project I should consider for a proof of concept?

eric_khunon DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps

Talking about maps, is anyone has a "Direction API" cheaper than Google maps? Google maps is excessively expensive ( 5USD per 1000 queries [1] ) for my side project. I'm trying to get an estimate time (driving and public transport) between 2 places in large city.

Any suggestions welcome!

[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/billing/understanding-cos...

eric_khunon One In Five Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout (2018)

Wondering if there is any stories backed by metrics on successful businesses that switch from a 5 days work week to 4 days

eric_khunon Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship

Taiwan, is trying really hard to attract foreign talents. If you're interested, check their Golden Card Permit. It's a visa+redisent card allowing you to stay and work for anyone there up to 3years. The only requirement is to justify of a salary of 160k NTD/month(~USD 5210/month), anywhere in the world, if you don't earn that, try the skills application[1].

I'll not talk about all the positive things about Taiwan, just read the other comments.

[1] https://foreigntalentact.ndc.gov.tw/en/

eric_khunon Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship

is anyone interested in an hn meetup in taipei? found it hard to like-minded tech focused people, talking English, that dont mind a beer from time to time, and would like to talk about the last google cloud downtime or it's current side project

eric_khunon Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes

anyone got recommendation on how to properly set CPU limits?

I've set limits about 2x higher than the max cpu usage, but still seeing some throttling, what cause performance degradation. I've ended up setting deployments without limits to avoid throttling but that's definitely not nice if one pod goes crazy for a reason ...

eric_khunon Hacker News Meetups

anyone in taipei?

eric_khunon How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017)

Is the ETS cache system can be used by something else than elixir?

eric_khunon At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work

1/ What will be the impact for US economy? Are we already see any economic impact?

2/ Are people who showed up at work will get paid for those past weeks?

eric_khunon Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 1: The Wild World of WebRTC

We've tried several video conference solutions. Google hangout was nice for up to 10 people. Then it get really slow and the quality of the video decrease. It also do not work in China (need a VPN).

By far, the best one is Zoom. It can easily handle with a really great quality 25 people on 1 page, in a conference with 80+ people. It also works smoothly for people in China (without VPN). Anyone has any know the magic behind their tech?

eric_khunon Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

Ah this might work! But this makes you to be legally attached to someone, what isn't great I guess :(

eric_khunon Japan Is Giving Away 8M Abandoned Houses

What's the easiest path to get a visa in Japan without being attached to a company?

eric_khunon Amazon Managed Blockchain -Easily create and manage scalable blockchain networks

I'm in the early stage building https://nodablock.com/ that is pretty similar to Amazon Managed Blockchain. Excited to see them coming into that space!

eric_khunon Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?

shoot me an email ! eric [[at]] nodablock . com

eric_khunon Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?

On a "DoThingsThatDontScale" mode now for https://nodablock.com . Customers contact me by email or I find them via conferences. They tell me the plan they want or their usecase. I then deploy manually the blockchain node they want, send them by email the API key and endpoint and invoice. Didn't automate yet until I figure out what most of the people want. (Happy to get any feedbacks too)

eric_khunon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)

Buffer | Mobile Product Designer, Product Engineer, Front-End Engineer | Full-time | Remote (anywhere on earth) | $78k-$114k (adjusted to your cost of living and XP).

• We Value clear communication, transparency, open-mindedness, empathy and patience are just a few of Buffer's cultural values. We are looking for a person who understands this culture and will thrive within a team of people passionate about self-improvement, honesty and openness.

• Apply here if you think you'd suit! http://journey.buffer.com

eric_khunon vTaiwan: An experiment in participatory governance

Talking about Taiwan, they're trying really hard to attract foreign talents. If you're interested, check their Golden Card Permit. It's a visa+redisent card allowing you to stay and work for anyone there up to 3years. The only requirement is to justify of a salary of 160k NTD/month(~USD 5210/month), anywhere in the world, if you don't earn that, try the skills application[1].

And about the article, they are now requesting feedbacks from the public for the next immigration bill [2], that will make even easier to apply fo the visa.

[1] https://foreigntalentact.ndc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=128B875DE9C...

[2] https://join.gov.tw/policies/detail/1b688f9c-5f05-47ce-ab56-...

eric_khunon Bulma – Flexbox CSS framework

well, it's now a lot better! thank you :)

eric_khunon Bulma – Flexbox CSS framework

Just started a landing page for a side project today with bulma: https://nodablock.com/

I'm not a frontend/design guy at all, and remember CSS as something really troublesome just to center things... With bulma, I didn't touch a line of css, and had something responsive without thinking much! I'm really satisfied with the results and the time spent to do it (about 2 hours). What's also great is that it helps keep the design consistent. Hopefully it will stay as good with the main dashboard I'm building. It definitely gave a boost to my ego, and makes me even more excited about pursuing the project!

Any feedbacks on how to improve that?