November 2019
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Show HN: fffocus – a simple tool that helps you clear your mind before work
5 by gcao | 3 comments on Hacker News.
The url can be found in the first comment. To scratch my own itch, I created a simple tool that should be helpful to many of us who are under constant distractions. If anyone uses this and finds it effective or ineffective, please kindly share your experience. Below are some ways I think it can be put in use: 1. Before we start a work day, we can use it to clear up random thoughts and anxiousness. 2. We can use it regularly to increase our attention span. Note: This was posted several years ago. I only made very minor changes since last time. I'm reposting it and hope to see some feedback on its usefulness. Sorry if it is a waste of your time.

November 30, 2019
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Show HN: Flashcard app to learn the vocabulary of English books/series/movies
2 by vforissi | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Made this app because I was tired of not knowing 50 words/book when I read in English. You can try it on the AppStore searching "Quicky app". For Android user please use the web mobile version at https://quicky.app/. The Desktop version has a shitty responsive design. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are not French, you will want to tell you are to try the features of the app (sorry it's only in French though) I'd love to hear your feedback.

November 29, 2019
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Show HN: Flowshare: Create and Discover How to Guides for Everyday Software
2 by joshi4 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I created Flowshare(https://flowshare.io/) to make creating step by step guides with screenshots and annotations as easy as recording a screencast. As a reader, I find screenshots and text much easier and faster to follow than watching a long screencast. As a creator, recording a screencast is much easier. Flowshare gives you the best of both worlds. You can search existing Guides at: https://ift.tt/35FBxpW Here is an example of one the most popular Guides: https://ift.tt/2OQMIp3 I'm including a link to the chrome extension which is used to create guides: https://ift.tt/37LNtrY Would love to hear any feedback/suggestions.

November 28, 2019
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Launch HN: Scanwell (YC S18) – At-home UTI test with same-day treatment options
2 by stephenlchen | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I’m Stephen, the founder of Scanwell Health (https://ift.tt/35MapG3). We’re a modern diagnostics company, and we’ve created the first at-home UTI (urinary tract infection) test with same-day treatment options. With a lifetime of experience in the diagnostics industry (literally––my family’s business is in manufacturing in-vitro diagnostics, and my first summer job was assembling pregnancy tests), I’ve always been interested in making these tests more convenient and cost-effective. Why start with UTIs? Some studies estimate that up to 60% of women experience UTIs, prompting 10 million doctor visits in the US each year. Getting treatment for a UTI at urgent care costs around $150, while visits to the emergency room can cost over $2000––and one study found that ER visits for UTIs adds $4B a year in unnecessary healthcare costs. By taking the same urine test performed in doctor’s offices, hospitals, emergency rooms, etc. and making it accessible to anyone who has a Scanwell UTI test kit and a smartphone, we’re drastically reducing the time and cost it takes to treat UTIs. Just like a traditional test, ours uses a chemically treated test strip that reacts with the patient’s urine sample. But instead of being read by a urine analyzer in a lab, the Scanwell app uses computer vision to assess the results. Results are provided to the patient in 2 minutes, with the same diagnostic accuracy as a urinalysis performed in a clinic. If the user has signs of a UTI, we’ll directly connect them to a healthcare provider who can prescribe treatment. Our UTI product is FDA-cleared, and we are working to obtain clearances for other tests. One such test is our chronic kidney disease (CKD) test, which is currently being piloted with Kaiser Permanente to improve screening for and monitoring of chronic kidney disease at home. Telehealth continues to grow but the piece that is missing is diagnostics, and that’s what we hope to provide. Whether it’s for detecting acute conditions like UTIs or managing longer term conditions like chronic kidney disease, we believe that the more we can enable at-home testing the more accessible healthcare will be for everyone. We’re excited to hear your feedback and answer any questions you might have about Scanwell. Thanks everyone!

November 26, 2019
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Continue reading 21 cars and motorcycles from Paul Walker's collection are headed to auction

21 cars and motorcycles from Paul Walker's collection are headed to auction originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 23 Nov 2019 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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November 23, 2019
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Launch HN: Berbix (YC S18) – Instant ID checks to fight fraud and stay compliant
8 by ericlevine | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi everyone! We’re Steve and Eric, the founders of Berbix (https://www.berbix.com). We make it easy to instantly verify photo IDs. Our goal is to empower platforms to accurately identify their users while being responsible stewards of sensitive information. Today, we’re launching our self-service ID checks (https://ift.tt/2qxPs2k) to organizations of any size that need to answer the question: Are you who you say you are? We’re taking a privacy-first approach to identity verification. Your government-issued photo ID is one of the most sensitive pieces of information you own, and sharing it with a company online can be terrifying. We’ve invested significant effort up front to try to do this the right way by punching above our weight from a security perspective, ensuring all images that ever leave our system are aggressively watermarked, and enforcing short retention policies to automatically purge data. We aren’t currently—nor do we ever intend to be—in the business of selling personal data. Unless you’re a credit card processor, everyone knows that you’d be crazy to collect credit card numbers directly without using a system like Stripe because of PCI compliance. But there’s no equivalent standard for identity documents. It’s still the wild west when it comes to best practices around this extremely sensitive data. Companies inevitably will need to collect this data, whether to comply with regulations to verify age, confirm the identity of a GDPR or CCPA request, or deter fraud on a marketplace. It may come across as self serving, but we’d rather have a privacy-oriented company collect that data on their behalf. Much of our perspective in this space was informed by our past experience. We were the product and engineering leaders of the Trust & Safety team at Airbnb for several years where we were tasked with stopping all bad things from happening on Airbnb—both online and offline. This was a challenging problem as it included your typical online fraud like chargebacks, account takeovers, and wire scams in addition to much more novel offline risks like property damage and personal safety issues. We delineate between “premeditated” bad actors who come to a platform with the intent to cause harm and “opportunistic” bad actors who would swipe a $20 bill on a nightstand, as an example. Certain techniques may work well against one group, but not the other. One effective means to fight both groups of bad actors is to check a government-issued photo ID. Premeditated bad actors will often find another platform with fewer protections, and the opportunistic bad actors will think twice before doing something malicious in the moment if they know their ID has been checked. Historically, checking IDs online has been hard. It required a 5-figure contract with a legacy ID verification provider, would take minutes or more, and the quality of the data returned left a lot to be desired. We knew there had to be a better way, and so we started Berbix. Our product returns a result in 2 seconds or less and leverages the machine- and human-readable components of a photo ID to maximize accuracy. We’ve designed Berbix in a way that we, as developers, would want to use it (https://docs.berbix.com), with backend API libraries that make an integration simple and intuitive. We offer client-side SDKs for a number of platforms including React, iOS, Android and more (https://ift.tt/2KGJsvh). We make integration simple enough to be completed in a matter of minutes, while also providing flexibility to offer custom configurations if desired. Using our API, you can request the information you need to verify your users, while isolating your servers from ever handling the sensitive user-submitted ID images directly. We’d love feedback from the HN community. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

November 21, 2019
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Launch HN: InsideSherpa (YC W19) – online courses to train then hire students
1 by pasharayan | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN community! We’re Tom and Pasha, co-founders of InsideSherpa (https://ift.tt/2DbMhSm). Our website hosts online courses (which we call ‘virtual experiences’) that allows any college student to learn from top corporates for free, and then get hired by them. These courses are created by companies like JPMorgan Chase [1], General Electric [2], Deloitte[3], Citibank [4] and Latham & Watkins [5]. There are many talented, and determined college students who get overlooked during the hiring process because of arbitrary measures like what university they went to, how their resume was written, or by not having any connections into a company. Tom and I saw this in our corporate careers - we used to work in law and big 4 accounting - and spent a lot of free time helping disadvantaged students improve their resumes. We found that with a bit of editing, skill-building and some exposure to people from big companies, we could increase the likelihood that someone would get an interview and land a job at a big organization. After doing this process manually day-in and day-out we thought there had to be a way to improve employment outcomes for students, at scale! So we started InsideSherpa and decided to take a student-centric approach to understanding the recruitment process. To do this, we talked to tons of students and found consistent anxieties arose: 1. Students were anxious about choosing a career for the next 5 years of their life (and do it in a risk-free manner) 2. Students weren’t sure if they had the skills to be useful to employers (usually when they actually did have the skills) and 3. Many students felt like the big companies were so inaccessible to them they didn’t even consider applying at all. On top of this, we’ve found many large companies tend to only visit a tiny percentage of the campuses in the US. This meant many talented students we met, in more isolated or non-target universities, weren’t even getting a shot to apply for a job. To solve these problems, we created our “Virtual Experience Programs”. These are like an online course, but instead of teaching you theory, like they do at college or in MOOCs, you receive tasks that simulate what professionals do in industry. For example, one task in our JPMorgan Chase Software Engineering program is to quickly update a Python script to find the average of two financial data feeds - something junior software engineers actually do with traders. Other tasks on our platform allow students to build practical skills in law, mechanical engineering, management consulting and investment banking. By doing the Virtual Experience Programs, students can get their name and profile onto a CRM that our partner clients are using for early-talent reachout and hiring. JPMorgan Chase prioritizes its Virtual Experience participants for review in the application process for software engineering summer internships and full-time roles. Students can always opt-out of sharing their data with any firm at any time as well. Our programs are free for any college student to do. We make money by charging employers rather than students. Employers love what we do as it allows them to reach out and find college students who genuinely want to pursue a career in their field, no matter who they are or where they are. We’d love to hear your thoughts on how we can make the hiring process better for college students! [1] The JPMorgan Chase Software Engineering Virtual Experience: https://ift.tt/2razTxL [2] General Electric Program: https://ift.tt/2rgn70r [3] Deloitte Program: https://ift.tt/2LuJtUm [4] Citibank Program: https://ift.tt/2r7v747 [5] Latham & Watkins (Law) Program: https://ift.tt/2r9c0qc

November 20, 2019
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Show HN: A complete re-thinking of the desktop productivity app
7 by jetlej | 0 comments on Hacker News.
We created Slash (https://getslash.co/hn) after realizing that todo list apps are hopelessly broken. They're great at making lists, but offer you no help in crossing them off. In fact, they often create even more stress when you're staring at a list 100 items longs. Slash is a task "do-er" that helps you CRUSH your list by focusing on one task at a time. Quickly enter your tasks, hit 'Start', and the window shrinks down to a small always-on-top window that shows your current task and how long you've been working on it. When you're done, hover over the task name and click 'Done'. Then you get a random ""You're awesome"" GIF, and the option to start the next task, or take a break. The idea is that you create your list once in the morning, and then never have to choose what to do next. It also bakes in a ton of other productivity tools like: - Pomodoros (20-30 minute work periods with 5 minute breaks) - Eisenhower Matrix (Tagging tasks as urgent/important for automatic prioritisation) - Timed Tasks (Type in 'Do _______ for 20 minutes' and the task will start with a 20 minute countdown) - Time Tracking (Check out the analytics dashboard to see what you spent the most time on, your most productive days + hours, etc) - Integrations with Trello, Asana, Todoist, etc. -- Coming soon! (Import your tasks from a list app, and get them done in Slash) Our mission is to help people get more done, and actually move closer to their dreams. We'd love your feedback to help us better the app and enable a world of smaller todo lists :) P.S. If you like the app, we'd love an upvote on Product Hunt! https://ift.tt/2pELyEA

November 20, 2019
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Launch HN: Convictional (YC W19) – Supplier Network for Retailers
3 by ChrisGrouchy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, We’re Roger and Chris, co-founders of Convictional (https://ift.tt/35bqMeK). Convictional makes it possible for online retailers to find, onboard, and integrate with third-party suppliers. We do this by connecting them to a network of suppliers that manage the inventory and ship those products directly to the end consumer on their behalf. The idea behind Convictional starts when Roger worked at GNC, a large natural health products retailer, at the age of 17. One of the biggest challenges was onboarding. As a retailer, you either buy inventory or dropship from third-parties. They decided to expand their catalog by selling some products that were shipped directly by the supplier. To do this, GNC required both sides to implement EDI (an old school, pre-internet data format for exchanging information between business systems) or manually exchange flat files for things like inventory, orders, and product information. We only got a fraction of the total vendors we wanted to onboarded because of this. A few years later, we met while working together at Shopify on B2B. There, we saw that the challenge of onboarding third-party brands still existed for retailers, and people were experiencing the same pain trying to use EDI to get it done. Online retailers also didn’t know how to find third-party brands to work with or struggled to dropship with existing partners. Convictional’s product is an app and API that syncs product information, inventory, orders, fulfillments, and payouts between online retailers and all of their suppliers. We do this by integrating with the systems used on both sides through an API or pre-built connectors to ecommerce platforms like Shopify. We later added a way to find suppliers after online retailers told us that they also wanted to access a network of connected third-party brands. Specifically, we’re using a generalized data model in the middle with a bunch of mapping, transformation and transmission steps on each side. Similar to what EDI does but much easier to set up. The goal is to turn what today requires a 6 month IT project into an email invite and an app install. It’s an industry that has existed since the 60s, and it’s probably the last major software industry that touches commerce but has not meaningfully been updated. To do this we developed our own queueing system in Go that can map events from buyers and sellers, transform them from the source format into the destination format, validate and apply a bunch of domain-specific business logic to make sure what crosses the bounds of buyers and sellers actually makes sense, and then send those into another queue that passes it to their partner. We basically have to control the state of three systems for each transaction. Before us, it could take up to 24 hours to know whether that loop succeeded or not but we’re able to do it within a few seconds. There are a lot of real life things that enables, but mostly it enables a good experience for the buyer’s ultimate consumers and less inventory for both sides.. Our belief is that online retailers will be less inclined to take on inventory. That’s why we started by building the tooling necessary to automate dropship. Over time, we’ll launch tools that can enable more forms of B2B trade in a way where regardless of IT skills, both sides can have systems doing their purchasing and selling for them. Today large companies enjoy significant advantages through this integrated approach, and soon every buyer and seller can too. Brands and suppliers can join our seller network for free. If you make or sell physical products on an ecommerce platform, consider joining. For online retailers, we charge a flat monthly fee and a percentage of GMV, depending on volume and which work gets outsourced to us. If you have questions, we’ll be here to answer them. We’d love any feedback, ideas, and/or EDI horror stories that you may have as well. Thank you.

November 19, 2019
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Continue reading Replica 1966 Ford GT40 MKII used in ‘Ford v Ferrari’ heads to auction

Replica 1966 Ford GT40 MKII used in ‘Ford v Ferrari’ heads to auction originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You don't need to be a motor racing fan to watch "Ford v Ferrari" because the battle to win is played out as much between the men making the cars as those behind the wheel. Starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale, the movie opening on Friday in U.S. theaters is based on the little-known true story of the American and British car designers and engineers who built the Ford GT40 to take on Italy's fabled Ferrari team at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race. Bale dropped some 70 pounds (31 kg) from hi

Continue reading Damon and Bale call 'Ford v Ferrari' a story of friendship 'told at 230 mph'

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Cops might do well to position their speed traps near movie theaters wherever the new film "Ford v Ferrari" is playing. This infectious and engrossing story of the 1966 showdown on a French racetrack between car giants Ford and Ferrari is a high-octane ride that will make you instinctively stomp on a ghostly gas pedal from your movie seat. The first three-quarters of "Ford v Ferrari " sets the stage for the furious 40-minute restaging of the exhausting Le Mans race — a 3,000-mile, 24-hour slal

Continue reading 'Ford v Ferrari' Movie Review | the 1966 Le Mans drama on the big screen

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The comparisons are unhelpful and hopeless, but that makes them no less ugly. This week, a list of Chelsea’s club fine system went viral on social media. Players are fined £20,000 if they are late for training, and £500 for each minute of a team meeting they miss. At the other end of the Football League ladder, Macclesfield Town are struggling to survive. Turn up eight minutes late to a Chelsea team meeting and you could cover Macclesfield’s weekly losses.

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Show HN: Cleanest Linux Productivity and Development Environment Using Manjaro
2 by soygul | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello all, I've just published a guide for a clean Manjaro Linux based productivity and development machine. If you want to check it out: * YouTube (video with narrative + examples): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A8rwX2J2HA * Article: https://ift.tt/2O8ld9Z Outline of the video and the article: * Why use Linux? * Why NOT to use Linux? * Comparison to Mac and Windows * Package Manager Comparison * Manjaro: Pamac * Mac: Homebrew * Windows: Chocolatey * Why Manjaro? * Hardware Setup * OS and App Installations * Use Case Example: Software Development * Use Case Example: General Productivity All feedback is welcome.

November 13, 2019
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