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Wow, thanks so much for pointing this out. I spent a day or two getting things mobile-responsive, but I couldn't figure out why certain mobile browsers didn't display the site as I intended. I added a little thank you in the README: https://github.com/iechevarria/iechevarria.github.io
I'd like to see the probability changes,not just as percent change but as decimal values. The problem with reporting 17% this and 67% that is that even with a 67% increase in one group it could still be less than the 17% of another. This could help distinguishing things that are less bad vs being positive depending on where it falls in the p-range.
Thank you!

The ability to change things is one of the nice things about personal websites.

I am enjoying exploring kickscondor.com
Harmful gender stereotypes are a negative for all of us together, for sure.

See for example, your own gendered language on who does the "hard job" and who makes a "free choice".
Many years ago. At the time, it didn't seem like they were set up for it. Time to ask again. Other options include Harvard (but I've encountered town-and-gown "oh, not Harvard!" sentiment), Boston Athenæum, and Boston Public Library?
Yes, but Kant was not incentivized to write in a certain way by some performance graph in Google Analytics.
And how did Google get popular despite Microsoft owning the OS? And for that matter, IE? My point is, people tend to use software they like. The reason Linux Desktop, despite decades of evangelism, hasn't taken off is that people don't like it. It's that simple, but the evangelists keep deluding themselves because making it better will require them to do hard things, like work together.
Right. You could say that your employer "gave" you a cubicle or a parking spot, but that would not imply that the cube or the parking spot actually became your personal property.
I work with industrial electrical systems so I see a lot of how things are done "the right way". The amount of horrible bullshit that I've seen in houses that's been done by licensed electricians is staggering. I'd wager for every one dodgy install done by a DIYer, there's an entire house that's been wired in the laziest spaghetti style by a 17-year-old sparky's apprentice and ticked off without even eyeballing it by the main contractor.
You will still benefit from your past experience. Novices don't know what to pursue, so they waste a lot of time. You're past that, you have the luxury of just knowing which fluff to ignore.

As to how to get back into it: it's the same way as you get into any other non-trivial field. Starts working on a small but concrete problem, and then just build from there. That's the only way to accomplish anything non-trivial.
Drama can theoretically succeed on an even smaller budget. Consider "12 Angry Men", which is practically a stage play. Single set (with very minor exceptions), minimal props, mostly just talking, and it's a critically acclaimed film. And there are plenty of unknown actors and writers who think they could be great if they got the chance, and they can't all be wrong. Maybe someday we'll get something just as good made on a zero budget with phone cameras and natural lighting.
We did something like this in 8th grade, 30 years ago: write instructions for tying a shoelace.
What does it mean to "contract an outsourced CISO" to a researcher who reported through a bug bounty program? What's an "outsourced CISO"?

I think it's unlikely that "CISO" is the word you want to use in your copy.

How are you vetting researchers? I logged in as a researcher, and it looks like it works just like H1 works: there are public bounties, and private ones for which admission is gated by performance on the public bounties.

It is not the case that H1 typically costs six figures; typical costs for a startup on H1, with triage, are low five figures.

We manage bug bounties for several of our clients (we run outsourced security teams for startups). If there's a problem we have with bounties, it's not getting enough submissions from them. Triage can be annoying (I kind of enjoy it), but we do full-scope penetration tests for each of our clients, and it's noteworthy how much more a real pentest finds than a bounty program. There are different incentives, different information available, and different kinds of work result.

(There are things bounties do better, too; bounties are good for finding oddball XSS and CSRF problems, and good at corner-case web hygiene stuff).

How are you attracting talent? I don't really understand the business model. Bounty researchers already have a bunch of platforms they can use if they want to do bounty-type scanning. Why are they using yours?
These market capitalizations do not seem sane to me.. that's 3,076 dollars for every us citizen, including all the kids. I think this might be the moment the stock market jumped the shark.
Maybe because so often that 'simple code' is only simple because the author is suffering from a combination of naiveté and Dunning-Kruger. Trivializing problems makes you a danger to your team, your company. Not an asset.

Deep object cloning/inspection, URL parsing/generator. Date arithmetic. Locking. Caching. Testing. Templating. I've had to rip so many of these out for being fundamentally unworkable and often wrongheaded solutions to already solved problems that it's become a cliche in my career.
> Just ask them to do i++ and never stop. That is also infinity.

Thinking back to that bug last week, where someone forgot that you can't just compare ever-incremented sequence numbers with 'x < y'... Maybe we don't want to encourage that idea :)
Yeah I totally get that. But there are cases where people are not as rational and competent as anyone else.

I've a good friend with Bipolar. 99% of the time they are as rational and competent as anyone I know. But there are times when they get manic. During that phase everything is amazing they are amazing and every decision they make is brilliant.

Only you know that in a couple of weeks that the depression is going to hit and if you don't help will have done things that they regret. Things that lead them to getting fired, spending too much money etc. And you're going to feel super guilty trying to comfort that person if you didn't do everything you could to stop them.

If in that manic phase they decide you're only gas lighting them, they wont listen. You just have to sit back and hope it doesn't get too bad. Hope that they don't wipe out everything they spent the last 5 years investing in.

I don't really care what label you use. But there are professionals that can help. Even in a non manic state my friend wont go beyond the GP. They've been on the same medication for decades. There must be more that can be done. More than just going back for a repeat prescription from a GP that has never been told how bad it gets.
When vendors are that annoying I usually just go full disclosure.

I found some privilege escalations on some small cloud providers though that went as far as ignoring my mails to their listed security@.... e-mail, or yeah, not having a contact listed at all.

Not quite sure what to do with those. Posting these to a full-disclosure list? They're too small nobody's going to care, until someone does and steals customer data. Might as well just ignore it until someone else discovers it and steals customer data?
Thanks! I went with left-right arrows because that's pretty much the standard for fine art photographers and I did scrolling on the code page because I suspect that developers would get frustrated with the lack of information density. I feel weird that the photos are the odd page out, but I struggled with finding an alternative when I made this.
It would paint a more complete picture of who they are. Better yet, a personal diary or collection of letters (an autobiography gives too much room for the author to lie).
I'm the scrum master on a team where most members are very geographically spread out, and the standup is great. It's time for everyone to have that direct social connection.

But I don't ask about ticket status. We just ask about what they did yesterday, and what they're up to today. And I mostly ask that if they aren't doing something already captured in a ticket, make another one, so we have a record of issues taking up our time. You want to do some tech debt reduction? OK, but keep it unambiguous - "tech debt" is too generic.

The standup typically exposes important issues, like how team members are siloing off from each other. And then we can easily sit down and notice "hey we need to sync up". A lot of ad hoc conversations appear right after standups, that wouldn't have just happened, because people don't often spend their time reading through the comment section on open tickets.

It's really a gut check that yes, the team is indeed working together. If your team's standup is just some regular robotic process of repeating status already captured in tickets... WTF; I'd say you've got serious leadership problems.
It is not a stretch, racism exists of course.

But as you say, it is on average. And you are entirely basing this assumption on the external skin//gender attributes. When you are doing decisions on the "Average" of a specific group, you are misrepresenting people that do not fit in the stereotype.
To my knowledge, there have been at least 4 other attempts to have sane application distribution on Linux over the years:

Application Bundles (GNUStep), AppDirs (ROX), Flatpak (formerly xdg-app), and AppImage (formerly Klik).

But Canonical invented a fifth anyway. Forgive me if I'm skeptical that change will actually occur this time.
Đối tượng được đăng ký Cao đẳng Kỹ thuật Vật lý trị liệu Hà Nội 2018?
The build quality here is as good as it gets for multifamily, IMO.
Ethnic cleansing makes a comeback – in China
People need to stop using the word "worth" as replacement for "market capitalization". Really, whole idea of multiplying stock price with number of stocks to compute "worth" is absurd (if you imagine Apple releasing more stock or buying back all of it, the prices won't change linearly).

Ultimately what matters is current revenues and profits not the future estimate of revenues and profits by bunch of casino gamblers. If you just look at revenues, Apple is ahead but by not absurd amounts. For example, AT&T had revenues of $39B while Apple had $53B. The combined revenues of only AT&T and Disney is more than sufficient to beat Apple.
The reverse of this, however, has impacted our hiring process in the past. We never really looked for things from someone's portfolio or personal website as a way to judge their skill level, but we have been much more critical on some prospects due to their personal site.

I won't personally judge harshly if it's not prominently displayed on linkedin, or easily searchable. But we've had several candidates that had links to their personal website on linkedin, or even in their resume, and they were ATROCIOUS. I just find it crazy that someone would advertise a personal website that was poorly written. If it's a personal project you don't work on much, then don't show it off on your professional resume.

But I agree with your initial point, we never really used portfolio sites to determine if they were worth hiring.
thaumaturgy has excellent advice, and I just want to add a few things.

First, having your basics covered is huge. You can optimize how you use that money by improving your cooking skills and making healthy, delicious meals at home. This will be a major boost as you work on everything else. You'll not only save money and get healthier: you'll have something luxurious to look forward to with every meal, once you have the skills.

Two, if you have some basic coding skills, you should be able to find freelance work online through Upwork or whatever. The pay isn't great, but it will help you to grow your skills, learn how to work with clients, and maybe most importantly, build your confidence. You might not believe you can be a professional programmer right now, but you will after getting paid for several jobs where the client came away satisfied.

Third, always take care of your mental health and make it a priority. Particularly if you're getting stressed out about work and have imposter syndrome when working your first few client jobs. Remember that your health is non-negotiable. Do the work as well as you can, don't beat yourself up about struggling, and don't let fears take root too deeply. If you do your best, most clients will be happy. The ones that aren't happy probably wouldn't be happy with anyone.

Good luck. You can do this. Take care of yourself.
When I was 12 the VIC-20 was released but I rocked a TRS-80 Model 1.
If you want to laugh at French public transport, the correct unfair stereotype is worker strikes, not slow speeds.

Speaking as an occasional tourist, French intercity trains are pretty damn great. Most have top speeds of 300 km/h (190 mph) or higher and achieve these speeds in normal service. Compared to anything you'll find in US or UK, it's incredible.

Being able to travel between major cities by high speed train makes short journey air travel outdated. Paris to Marseille is 775 km (481 mi) which takes 7.5h to drive on fast motorways, 3–3.5h by high speed train, and just 1.5h to fly... but then add on ~1h of travel to and from airports and ~1h of navigating/waiting at airports; a whole lot of effort (and cost) and it's no faster overall.

Whereas the train has big seats, giant windows with an interesting view, wifi, cellular coverage, 230v power, access to all of your luggage. Spend the whole 3 hours relaxed and arrive right in the centre of town rather than a stupid airport in the middle of nowhere.
> How sad.

I recall them as saying it was mostly "other" families. A complexity that put it way over effort budget for me.

> At least one can photograph the pages with a phone,

:) Year 2000. Thus the pieced-together flatbed scans.
Jzip?
http://jzip.sourceforge.net/
> I don't find value in anything that agile offers, can I just throw it out entirely by your argument?

Yes, of course?

But I think you might be confused about what agile is, going by your remark about processes that agile imposes. There are none. Agile is about certain values, and people have come up with various processes that try to incorporate those values. This fails sometimes, mostly because different teams require different things in their process.

But ultimately, since it is about values, if those values are not shared by a company (or at least your division) and management it's going to turn into process for process sake. You're screwed, but it's not agile that screwed you.
Just a heads up, your Simon Says project on your personal page doesn't seem to work properly (Chrome on Windows). Every time I click start, and then try to follow it, it just resets.
That’s me, indeed. I haven’t touched the site in forever. Should probably move it to github.
مشاهدة فيلم Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom 2018 مترجم – سينما فور اب
Love it. Been using it for a while. Super simple and motivates me with every new tab
I recently saw a study where adults were assigned to drink 1 drink per day or 0 drinks per day, for years, with the drinks subsidized.
As a non-drinker myself, I think this might have a lot to do with lack of sleep.
I’ve found exactly zero people who recognize the name “Rincon Hill,” including Bay Area natives. I get stuck describing it as “east of SOMA, south of the Financial District, kinda near the Ferry Building and Salesforce Tower” before people recognize what I’m talking about. So I don’t mind the initiative to give it a single crisp name.
Am I just grotesquely cynical that my first thought was “Pai liked this because it hurts AT&T and Comcast, not his paymasters at Verizon.”?

Still, good news whatever the reason. Competition is desperately needed here, even if it’s only going to be between three or four major options.
Cube wasn’t a shitty film, though. It was clever, and had a strong meaning, and was made on a shoestring budget.
Walmart has some nice TV's.
Nope I would not say. Regulation has increased, they go through stress tests, and historically they are undervalued right now. Take Bank of America which has a P/E 14.75 and 1.92% divy yield. Again, I am bullish, which I have noticed is not the general sentiment here on HN. I recognize and fully acknowledge I could be completely wrong, but the bears have been calling for a recession and market collapse ever since Trump took office. Eventually of course there will be a correction (though we've already had a few micro-corrections this year). It is much easier to be a bear and negative, because eventually they'll be right. They just have to keep preaching doomes day and wait it out. Long term though, show me a better way to get return on capital than the market.
Birds Learn Safety from Other Kinds of Birds
Ask HN: Is there anywhere besides Shenzhen that can build a touchscreen device?
Is there anywhere else in the world besides Shenzhen, China that can build a complete modern touchscreen device?

I know some devices are "made" in Taiwan and India, but I get the sense they are just assembling from parts built mostly in China.

Is there anywhere else in the world that has the capability and ecosystem to support putting together a full modern touchscreen device, or has this capability been concentrated to one single region on the entire planet?
I haven't yet needed to use a constructor in a HOF. And in the event I do, I can just wrap it in a lambda. But I see your point, it feels cleaner to just not have the new keyword. But without it, you have no guarantee that the function is going to return a new object, it could return anything it wants. At least this way we have a little more safety from monkey patching or programmer error.
Sure, but a reputable source actively tries to mitigate bias. Not to mention, Wikipedia is supposed to be a repository of factual information as opposed to news publications that often deliberately focus on their own opinions rather than facts - not that editorials are inherently bad, just that news publications are distinct from encyclopedias.
Good article. If you have a good team, you don't need agile or other methodologies. These frameworks have always been the crutch of bad managers, or MBA types who want to corral "those developer people." Now, can agile/scrum/ninjitsu/rockstarism transform a bad team into a competent one? I don't know - I don't work with bad teams.
A police officer shot an armed homeowner during a break-in. Who's at fault?
I don’t know if this would make any sense to kids, it certainly doesn’t to me.

If infinity + 1 exists, then that number would be infinity. It’d be more accurate to say that Infinity + 1 = NaN
Must not sleep. Must warn others.

Requiem for a Dream falls into that first category as well for me.
a military briefing is different from teaching. A military briefing should be communicating things the generals already understand.

teaching is a process of lying is kind of provocotaive, but teaching is a set of progressions, each progression necessarily leaves the edges blury while trying to make one aspect clear.
Moxie (of Signal fame) described the transformation in accessibility made by the introduction of plastic boats better than I could ever hope to in his documentary Hold Fast 2007:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwbHYOFD-4&t=2m30s
It can also be purely rehabilitation for the image, as in the case of Alfred Nobel and his prize. How many people know about the Nobel Prizes? How many know how Nobel made his money?
Yep this is the exactly right and obvious interpretation.
"For example, we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline's homepage when the airline's name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine."

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If you go and search "Delta" today on Google, the top result is an advertisement for Delta that points to delta.com.
Ask HN: Which cloud behemoth is best for individual learning?
I want to get familiar and comfy with cloud concepts like auto scaling, serverless functions, and all that. Which cloud platform is the best all around for learning: AWS, Azure, or GCP? I’d like to take into consideration the cost at low scale (spending double digits per month is fine, probably), the quality of documentation and tutorials, and the breadth of services. How do the three cloud providers stack up for hobbyists, students, and such?
Ian Keough (@ikeough) is the founder of Hypar. He writes code from his garage to automate the generation of the built environment to help stakeholders make better decisions faster. Trained as a fine artist and architect—and known as The Father of Dynamo—Ian believes efficiency breeds quality and automation yields better, higher-quality products. This episode uncovers the Ian Keough beyond Dynamo—including his life habits, tactics to get into the flow state and avoid distractions, and his new adventure to disrupt the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.
I was under the impression that this is far from a new development in China? More broadly as we’ve seen in Myanmar and elsewhere, this is no comeback, it’s just... how people treat each other when they can get away with it.
Appealing Fictions
Nowhere near a professional, but my K-30 has been going strong for years and years for my touristy needs. Not quite as big a selection of lenses, but unless you need something very specific you can find one, and they are quite good. Even an old Soviet Helios with a K-Mount adapter works perfectly, and I think ergonomics and build quality is somewhat better than in a same-priced Canikon.
It’s not a service I use but my local Walmart is pushing curb side pickup of online orders. So is one of my local grocery chains. It isn’t really a use case that appeals to me and I don’t much like Walmart for food shopping anyway. But that addresses your specific complaints.
I upvoted because I partly agree - if you're good you don't need these various methodologies. However, I'm curious - do you think these processes can actually convert a bad team into an ok one?
I will take your recommendation and not trust you.
I’m strongly in the full disclosure in that situation camp. At the very least, if you fully disclose the vulnerability and the company ignores it, it serves as a warning to their customers about what they are at risk of.
Ah, I'd missed that bit.
Wow, great to see Mark Sibly still knocking out good stuff. I loved his games on the Amiga and Blitz was fantastic.
Though less literally accurate, I prefer the translation:

> Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.