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Ask HN: How do I hire someone for work I am not familiar with (web development)?
I run an online business based on a few separate websites: MailChimp for email marketing, FastSrping as a payment processor, WordPress + plugins for the product websites.

These all communicate mainly through HTTP POST with a few lines of PHP code.

I now need to automate some more tasks. I could write the code myself, as I did in the past, but I am not an expert when it comes to web technologies (I have worked almost exclusively on iOS for the past decade) and it would take me ages.

So I decided to hire someone on a contract basis to get the job done, but I realized I don't know how to proceed.

Do I hire a PHP developer? Or it's better to use some other language/technology? (Python? Ruby?)

What I need does not require only code, but also a rudimentary web interface with which I can interact and a database to keep some data.

Should I find someone that does both? Or are these separate roles? What about security?

How would you proceed?
Guessing about 10 times the number of locations.

More like 20x.

FTFA: last year CVS and Walgreens each had close to 10,000 stores in the US, while Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods each had fewer than 500 locations.
hm interesting, from memory it was a bit of glorifying the history of the iphone and its innovation, so maybe they hid how user felt. But to me it felt like real great work...
In my experience, unless you extensively customize bash, you won’t notice the change except to be pleasantly surprised by a few bits nicer UI. At the poweruser end, zsh is more configurable and dramatically nicer to configure (and documented a bit better).

For the most part, bash scripts work without modification in zsh.
Most current plans don't use ships as the basis of a seasteading at least not currently. Most designs that have actually been tried are something like this [0] spar platform reminiscent of the RP Flip [1] which is extremely stable passively in waves. They have very small cross sections to the waves so mostly just bob up and down with the motion of the waves. We already know how to build these pretty large (see oil rigs).

[0] https://ocean.builders/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/spar.png

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP
Some parts of mutt look like unmaintained and on life-support. I've seen the GPG interface code and it's full of deprecated code (e.g. PKA support) or subtle bugs.
Peter Max was responsible for the designs from one of my favorite games, Parappa the Rapper. Hearing that he has dementia saddens me, hearing that he's the victim of Stan Lee style elder abuse pisses me off.
The part that irks me is that we still allow companies which preach human rights in Western countries to not only turn a deaf ear to the abuses of China's past and present but to continue manufacturing there without quarrel.

Each time their CEO's get up to preach about human rights they need to be challenged on their activities in China. China to them is a profit center and nothing more.
I mentioned modern glue to my scientist friend and he said "you know about UV cure adhesives, right?" and that's when I realized glue was everywhere.
Until they get bought out by a larger company.

See Onova....
That might not be the only factor.

The SEC commonly investigate how much of a douchebag the owner is.
Thats under the assumption that without Tesla they'd make electric cars which is a bad assumption because they are building their biggest competitor which is their worse nightmare.

A more likely idea would be that without tesla they'd just pay the taxes or lobby for them to be lower citing the fact that they can't hit the goal like they have been in other places like the EU.
Woah, that's a really thoughtful feature. Is there somewhere I can find all of the, like, rules of HN similar to this one?
I think both of you are right. We need a smaller existing type of government, and we need a bigger new type of government, which is more answerable to the people.

Consider, for example, the police force. They are not customer (inasmuch as you can call the voter/taxpayer a customer) oriented force; they are a subjugation force. They carry sticks around, which they wield with gay abandon. Many of the forms of power in the current system are meant to keep the people down and subservient.

To continue this example: what we need are fewer state-level (where "state" is the region in question) police, and more local (city-level or district-level) police. We need more power on quality-of-life issues devolved to the local bodies, and less with the state or the feds.
Whether or not he meant to his comment illustrates the problem perfectly: those with the means to do so can eat healthy food and absorb the cost/time/distance inherent in that, those that cannot will suffer and chose whatever they can get. Good healthy food at a sustainable price is hard to come by in the US. There are food deserts everywhere. Good food is treated clearly as a lifestyle luxury. Let them eat cake indeed.
China Loses Zen: AMD Halts Technology Transfers of x86 IP
I didn’t even realize I needed to justify periodically buying food there until I read this thread. As if their success somehow means there’s something nefarious going on or they’re taking advantage of people. There’s a CVS everywhere.
I prefer the Econtalk interview with the author: http://www.econtalk.org/david-epstein-on-mastery-specializat... (there's a transcription below, if you prefer reading)
Stadia Connect Teaser Trailer 6.6.2019 – Pricing, Game Reveals, Launch Info
Instant Quantization of NN's Using Monte Carlo
But that's the point. They did do with LCD what, before, was only possible on OLED. That's the claim, anyway.
And would reducing the “tax” - what normal businesses call distribution expenses - to 10% change the equation?
I wouldn’t even say there are no rules. Apple doesn’t like GPL v3 so they don’t update some of the utilities in MacOS — it’s their choice and they bow to the rule.
What was their specific rejection reason? Generally the rule is you can offer a service paid for elsewhere if you don't link to it and don't tell people you can pay elsewhere.

I have apps on my phone that accept payment only on the web.
Yeah, different priorities. Sport climbing you're trying to minimize hassle, and can do it frequently enough to be confident tying a secure bowline. I get to play with ropes maybe every other month between training and actual incidents. That's infrequent enough that sticking with a simple, bomb-proof knot like the figure-8 is the safer bet.

Like you said, the figure-8 excels in strength (which matters more in rescue, since you're often dealing with loads heavier than a single climber), and has the added advantage of being easily inspected. I can look at a figure-8 someone else tied and have a high degree of confidence very quickly; I feel like that's harder with the bowline (since it's asymmetrical, etc).
Baboons are pretty terrifying, they wouldn't make a very good service animal if you expected to be around other people.
FishShell website has a certificate issued by github.com
FishShell website has a certificate issued by github.com and sets cookies for jquery.com
https://fishshell.com/
A Topology Layer for Machine Learning (Stanford)
Exactly! If you circle back around to his original objection the same argument can be made... "You use strcpy every day but you don't know exactly how it's implemented?".

That's the whole damn point of abstraction layers and his example of not knowing the details of the HTTP protocol is just as arbitrary as anything else.
I wonder if more colons in the title improves grades further: "The Broadcast MAC Address: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF"

Edit: On second thought, I think there might be some secondary psychological effects with that title that might harm the grade after all.
In my opinion, I think most humans strive to be generalists but our economic system typically incentivizes specialists. It makes sense because from a systems perspective, the more specialized a component in my system is, the more efficiently it will perform its task leading to potential overall efficiency improvements. Assuming that machine doesn't need to adapt/evolve much or that specialized components for future adaptions are easy to obtain, it's a net positive effect. Businesses are no different than such a system (of people and their processes) so businesses reward specialist labor more because that labor rewards them more by supplying low cost solutions to consumers. Trying to find rewarding positions for generalists these days can be quite the challenge.

Unfortunately, I find this approach sort of flies in the face of human nature or perhaps just my nature and anecdotes. I enjoy digging down into subjects and fields well beyond a surface skim, but I find digging to the depths gives me little satisfaction. I start to get a bit of diminishing returns of enjoyment as the more depth I desire, time investment begins to increase (in a non-linear fashion). I would also add that in many areas I've studied, you reach a point where the information and knowledge is no longer certain and then various opinions begin to branch out from experts in the field and I find this is usually a good stopping point.

As such, most subjects reach a point where I decide it's time for something new: I've learned many of the important aspects and if I need them at some point or have new found interest, I have a great starting point.
Sadly, I don't think so. The best source I know of is https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented, but it's missing a lot of stuff like that bit about the reply button.

I learned about the reply button because I too was once wondering why it sometimes doesn't appear, and I Googled it.
And there should be 10% discounts in cheap electronics store and sales in toy stores. /s
Video games aren't corrupting young minds – they may be building them
My metric is always, "Does your truck still look new after you've been driving it for awhile?"

It fails for the towing use-case, but I feel like if your truck isn't being abused you probably aren't using its hauling or off-road capabilities to any significant degree.
Netflix removed in app subscriptions. It is still on the app store. Fairly sure your company is wrong about this, or the reviewer made a mistake.
Convenience. Grocers should take note.

In Canada the corollary is 'Shoppers Drug Mart' and ever since they merged with the national grocer chain, I can get >50% of my groceries i.e. milk, bread, cheese, meat (I mean none of it is super high quality but often good enough) because it's across the street! And there is no lineup.
I suggest no falsifiable criteria at this time and I likely never will. I merely point out intellectually interesting plausibility. If you restrict all of your consideration to only those things you already know how to prove or disprove, I think you severely limit ultimate discovery. Sure, you want to strive for determining truth, but I think it starts with curiosity, brainstorming, and inspiration. By the way, even snakes have figured out how to fly, or at least glide pretty well (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_snakes).
>> This seems highly related to proof of work algorithms in blockchain systems. Working out which events happened and at what time.

This is not a byzantine algorithm so it's got nothing to do with proof of work.
Camera captures innovative drag sail deployment in space
Gallon of milk, whole foods 365 brand: 5.99

Price at kroger/safeway: 1.99
Of course, none of those things are something I expect a faceless suit to do any better at.
It had never occured to me to call it a fun book. Brilliant, without question. But not fun. There are definitely some excellent jokes in it, but they are more deeply sardonic rather than fun.
No because that would assume they would make those cars without tesla. The more obvious future without tesla would they'd still produce the cars. There'd be no big america EV company. And they'd lobby to lower the tax burdent citing the inability to hit emission target. You can't for consumers to want Evs from thse companies.
If it was, it isn't at all clear from the data. Model S and Model X slowed dramatically, and that part might be indicative of a real problem with those two models. Model 3, OTOH, appears to be growing steadily right now.
California has had dozens of earthquakes in the past few weeks... no damage at all.

This article is inappropriately titled. The US lags on retrofitting older buildings to newer standards but that's only because we're don't tear our buildings down every 3 decades like they do in Japan.
Well until SNAP[1] is blocked from being spent on snacks and sodas these sites will always be in use. The list of foods that are acceptable encourage these stores to focus on the high profit side of the list which equates to what many would see as pure junk.

Plus in some areas you cannot get a grocery in due to zoning or regulatory agencies which can increase the costs of worker and compliance needs beyond normal. There are many rules regarding handling of produce and raw foods that drug store type sellers never have to meet.

[1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligible-food-items
I can pretty much guarantee a beat up old FWD car will tackle pretty much all towing and farm driving (having lived and worked on a farm). For the really gritty stuff on the farm you have your tractors and earth movers and whatnot.

What makes the biggest difference is the tyres you have on a vehicle are suitable for the terrain you are using them in.

In the US, Australia, Canada etc - pick up trucks or utes are just a symbol of working class just as much as Tesla and Prius's are for the green-friendly crowd.
Most Linux distros already have scdoc available:

https://repology.org/project/scdoc/badges

It's not designed to be installed from pre-built binaries. It requires some other stuff to be set up on your system, too. It's designed to be friendly for distros to package instead. If you want to install it from source, use the Makefile like everything else.
That's not really relevant. masklinn is contrasting periodic polling schemes like yours with using IDLE.
Node.js – v12.4.0
That video has some flaws which are covered in this helpful article from Phil Plait https://slate.com/technology/2013/03/vortex-motion-viral-vid...
Unlike what this review seems to imply, the author of the book doesn't actually discount that concept - he says it's true for a certain kind of activity, one with reliable feedback, such as programming. Quote from the interview I linked:

"The way that chess works makes it what's called a kind learning environment. So, these are terms used by psychologist Robin Hogarth. And what a kind learning environment is, is one where patterns recur; ideally a situation is constrained--so, a chessboard with very rigid rules and a literal board is very constrained; and, importantly, every time you do something you get feedback that is totally obvious--all the information is available, the feedback is quick, and it is 100% accurate. Right? And this is chess. And this is golf. You do something: all the information is available; you see the consequences. The consequences are completely immediate and accurate. And you adjust accordingly. And in these kinds of kind learning environments, if you are cognitively engaged you get better just by doing the activity. On the opposite end of the spectrum are wicked learning environments. And this is a spectrum, from kind to wicked. Wicked learning environments: often some information is hidden. Even when it isn't, feedback may be delayed. It may be infrequent. It may be nonexistent. And it maybe be partly accurate, or inaccurate in many of the cases. So, the most wicked learning environments will reinforce the wrong types of behavior."
Interview on ”Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way”
I'd seek out web generalists, and ask them the same questions you just asked us. The person you want is the one who can give you good answers.

Personally, I'd stick with PHP because you are on Wordpress. Most of your architecture is already defined by that choice. Adding or moving to something newer and shinier will make your system more complex, and ultimately make life harder for you.

But again, anyone that you would want to hire should be able to tell you that, so ask them.
> It leads to deviant behavior by public companies

From my experience, having majority shareholders don't lead to "deviant behavior" any more than companies with no majority shareholder. In fact, one could argue that many of the ugly collective action problems facing the world today stem from organizations in which nobody has the power to veto unethical policies.

I think the problem here is that Zuck can veto. I think it's that Zuck is unethical.
Being able to root the device is pretty important for security research. It's much harder to do an in-depth analysis of a system without root access.

Apple products have had plenty of bugs leading to security issues, and I'd rather make it easier for researchers to discover these.
I think the Federer and Woods anecdote is not really pertinent. A true generalist doesn't want to be the best; they just want to achieve above average proficiency, or below average mastery. Examining people like Putin, Leibniz or Ben Franklin might be more worthwhile.
I had to stop buying at CVS because of this, it was driving me crazy. I would pick up some over the counter medication and it'd ring up for an extra 5 or 10 bucks. Just walked out one day and now I get my medications at walmart or my closer neighborhood pharmacy.
Enterprise distribution is meant just for internal use of the company using it and distributing to customers via that method is exactly why Facebook and Google had their Apple enterprise services disabled a few months ago (although I’m sure they resolved their issues with Apple to get them enabled again)
Sounds like it works perfectly. A huge new all america car company is reaping large benefits while research and developing world class EVs up and into the point it kills off some of the legacy automakers.
I don't believe on implementing the easy features first. If you implement the hard features first, its smooth sailing for the rest of the project!

If you would like to keep track of specific features, check out the bug tracker:

https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc2
I worked at a medical imaging company in Toronto in the 80's and 90's. Therac-25 was very much top of mind for all companies in our industry and changed everything from how we did Design, Development and QA to how the FDA reviewed and approved devices running our software.
> or publish definite statements about how this theory finally "disproves" competing theories. But again, this applies in any area of science.

Which competing theory does evolution disprove?
I'd like to add that "innate talents" are probably fundamental brain skills.

I work in education and there is a strong tendency to now focus on developing cognitive skills which help you to learn something instead of learning something and hoping that this will develop the cognitive skills.

I guess with sports or other mechanical skills (playing an instrument?) it must be a similar thing.
Here is a paper that uses meta-learning for quick imitation learning in robots that works across domains:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01557

The main sell is that it allows the robot to quickly generalize to new domains (surroundings and objects being manipulated), albeit not tasks.
Agreed, which is why I attempted to make the original statement grey and not black/ white. Skittishness around discussing items is a form of self-censorship.
In other news "Apple’s privacy reputation at risk with new iTunes class-action lawsuit"

> The plaintiffs allege that a third party can purchase a list of iTunes customers based on different demographic requirements, like a list of unmarried people who have a taste for a particular genre of music:

> The lawsuit further alleges that the third-party beneficiaries of this listening data match it to other sensitive personal information gathered about iTunes users from various sources, and then resell that information on the open market.

[1] https://thenextweb.com/business/2019/05/27/apples-privacy-re...
So they should fit their data to your bias? There are no red/blue states, just people. Party political pidgenholing is vile and needs to leave HN.
Oh trust me, I'm well aware of "VPN providers". Just checkout luminati.io . See how they offer an SDK so "You can offer the user a choice between advertisements or a bit of background data usage"? I asked, and they are only interested in partners with 100k active users a month. Right, like a legitimate company with that many users is going to use luminati.

Or oxylabs.io who I think owns luminati?

I'm also aware that many of the VPNs are owned by the same parent companies.

And also that VPNs are ridiculously over marketed. They don't "add security" for most people, they just move who you're trusting from your ISP to the VPN company. Right, like I want to trust a company registered in Panama with no other existence outside of this year not to sell my data.

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tl;dr - I don't trust any of them. If I want a "VPN" I just ssh-tunnel into a VPS from an established company that I purchase with a different account. Could the VPS provider do fishy stuff? Sure, but I trust them a lot more then these "VPN" providers.
I don't think that's exactly right. Energy prices are broken down to generation and transmissions costs. The transmission costs remain regulated, but generation can charge a market price.

Regulated transmission prevents other providers from creating redundant infrastructure in a deregulated environment. Deregulation is possible not because of regulated infrastructure but in spite of it. I.e. Deregulation could still exist without regulated transmission but it was deemed to be in the public interest to reduce redundant infrastructure.

Incidentally, the 'public interest' has been one of the claims of moving to a deregulated market, with the thought that this would provide lower utility costs. However, this hasn't always worked out:

https://fuelfix.com/blog/2016/06/08/deregulated-texas-electr...
Writing Code for NLP Research
I'm in the US, but it's terrifying trailing behind someone doing 30mph in the acceleration lane trying to merge into 70mph+ highway traffic. I don't understand their mindset, or if they realize how dangerous that is.
Costco pizzas are $10 and over 4000 calories, eat one of those a day and if you don't get fat then you probably have a tapeworm in you or something. Or you're Michael Phelps during training season.

... or me at 18. Damn I miss that metabolism.
Some other commenters point out how there is plenty of evidence and archival footage of the event, but that's all available here in the west - how much of that can be found in China itself? One of the major goals of the Chinese internet censorship is to hide all references to the event; I don't know how effective it is, but I wouldn't be surprised if the generations born afterwards don't know about it, and eventually (within China at least) it'll be lost entirely.

I mean the US likes to forget it had concentration camps for the Japanese after Pearl Harbor.
Finally I've found at least one coment related to this point. Everyone seems so atonished because of a new alternative for monetization, they forgot that privacy is a right that tech companies must fulfill. We are running fast towards a content distopy.
The Process: Transforming SpaCy's Docs (2018)
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