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Ask HN: Landing a programming job by virtue of a side project only?
I'd like to pursue developing full-time but have no formal education. I do however have a profitable (~$500 MRR) SaaS in the finance niche and a few dozen freelance reviews from over the years. I plan to continue growing my product, but I believe the upside is limited and marketing isn't my forte, which has lead to my interest in seeking a position with stability where I can focus mostly on coding.

My first step will be to get a public repo up for it, but provided that's done, my questions are:

1) Would you consider someone in my position a candidate for an interview based on a product/repo only?

2) My experience is full stack, LAMP/JS, but all vanilla. Are there opportunities for a developer without framework knowledge, or should I focus on this prior to a job search?

3) I live about an hour from Toronto, Ontario. If I had a choice, a hybrid position where I commute one or two days a week and work the rest remotely would be great. Can this type of arrangement be found outside of senior positions or am I being unrealistic?

Cheers
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The article (which is obviously biased keep in mind) makes the argument that even LTO isn't really long term due to compatibility issues between tape generations - you have to keep migrating your tapes since new machines can't read older tape densities.
YC is so tiny compared to so many things. I don’t think it would be a spat because that to me means China would respond or there would be [serious] rumblings within the ruling party.
Ditto, that's why I hate today MS Access and all that shiny crap.

With a simple TCL TUI interface to some SQLite database, you could do the same stuff even with a built-in help with no effort at all, and running with half of the resources.
Quite. My company is using Go for most new projects, but we have five years of Python code that we can't justify rewriting any time soon. We've been able to add annotations incrementally instead.
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I agree that's a big potential problem, but I don't know what to do about it.

If the response is to attack the legit version, then Chase wins! That's not an acceptable outcome either.
Rephrase it as "Which companies do you asses have the security practices necessary to adequately protect your health data?" and this makes sense.

Adding: To be fair, it probably more strongly correlates with "Which technology companies have you heard of?"
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Breaking ties is not only between equal numbers of people. It can be between one person with a very strong point of view and five others that oppose that decision.
It makes attacks much more limited. You need physical access to whatever machine you're attacking, versus being able to distribute code to millions of machines at once over the internet. That matters a ton.
Thanks. Ripe old age of 36 too. I'm optimistic though.
Yes, this should be a major concern, especially since CTs are used to detect abnormalities. It's very likely that the vast majority of the training data will be what is considered 'normal' for any given part of the body.
I recently read that Uber/Lyft keeps even 75% of money for themselves. I wonder if there is an opportunity for third large ride-sharing app where business model would be based on bidding and company would keep much lower fee, just to cover overhead. So you want to go from point A to B, all local drivers are contacted and they have 45 seconds to bid who would charge less. Requester would see how much sorted by less $ and also ratings so he/she can chose someone more expensive but with better ratings.

Such model would kill Uber/Lyft overnight - they would not be able to adjust to that model because then their stocks would be cut down 95%. However, it is a win-to-win situation to both drivers and ride-takers - drivers get paid more and more stays in their pocket, while takers can chose if the ride is affordable, and at over 50% cheaper than what Lyft/Uber charge, it sure would be!
Rotate through several thousand to several hundred thousand noncontiguous, geographically distributed, residential IP addresses

How are they getting residential IP addresses, compromised PCs?
I’m assuming this is not ALL single use plastic?

Replacing sterile plastic packages for medical devices (for example) would be incredibly challenging.
What do hi-res monitors have to do with anything...?

Of course there's been third-party software to do that forever.

But my Mac didn't come with it. It's so basic it should be integrated fully into the OS.
If you can’t scrape together a few grand to buy a new tool for your job in five years the shiny thing probably isn’t for you
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Absolutely none of the things you listed are anything close to "basic". Those are things that newsrooms full of talented and well-coordinated professionals regularly get wrong, let alone software algorithms. You're listing massive, completely unsolved problems and acting like they're table stakes.
I have nothing better to say than clever marketing for the two sponsors and nice website design.
Does MSC1228 speak about zero-trust initiatives?
We're obviously very aware of this risk, and one approach is to try (as the Foundation) to steer uptake as best we can to ensure that no single 800lb gorilla ends up adopting Matrix and smothering it with love(?), even if they have the best intentions. So if Google did suddenly start using Matrix, we'd do everything we possibly can to ensure that at least one of Microsoft/Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Samsung/etc jumped on board too, to try to balance things out and ensure that the value of participating in open network outweighed the risk of proprietary extensions leaking in.

But in the end, the onus is on us to make sure there's enough stuff of value in the wider open network that the idea of someone using the protocol to try to create a walled garden is laughable and clearly missing the point - much like running a private email network is somewhat missing the point, or for that matter a walled garden like the web content on old-school AOL.

Hopefully we're on the right track to ensure there's enough stuff of value on the public Matrix network to make participation in it a no-brainer.
No, they're still investigating what the exceptions should be but they are aware that there should be some.
Well, with third-party tools for sure.

But macOS certainly doesn't come with that. I've got to manually drag the windows and edges and everything.
I really dont know how well that will work against a dedicated attacker.

I am much more confident in ReCAPTCHA of stopping bots compared to any roll your own solution.

I dont want to hope that an alternative is good enough for my needs. I want the best when it comes to protecting my site.

Any alternative needs to have a proven track record and support to make consider replacing ReCAPTCHA.
Why doesn't the city just run it's own scooter/bike share? Seems like it would exist in the same domain as things like MUNI and in theory would allow the city to make a profit instead of LYFT/UBER etc.
Apple makes a consumer “Pro” laptop: We want real pro machines!

Apple makes an actual Pro tower with pro features: It’s too expensive!
Haha.

Also, I don’t remember if this is against HN protocol, but almost every comment of yours is marked dead for the past 3 months except for like 4.
Matrix really is an awesome clinet/service. Really glad this Matrix exists and allows for security and privacy.
sobering run down of the realities when living on mars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKGREZs6-w

The layers of soil we'd have to cover our buildings in really got me!
The difference is that was just social pressure SA is still a US ally. China is not and given elections are coming up China will a huge talking about and looks to be approaching war on drugs level brinkmanship.
You can go much, much bigger, like a petabyte at a time... https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
That was easy. Thank you for creating this!
So we just reworded some of the site, but agreed it needs more love. We're (hopefully) much better at writing communication protocols than describing them to a broad audience.

Proposals for changes are very welcome (although we can't guarantee we'll accept them verbatim); the new site lives at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org. PRs welcome.
Unfortunately, this sort of ignores that many academic departments are often crippled by overwhelming internal politics, and they rarely scale beyond a few dozen people at most. Moreover, many academicians within a department often work on completely separate projects requiring little or no coordination of any kind. This is dramatically different from what is encountered in many commercial organizations and companies.

My experience is that flat structures in large commercial enterprises usually reproduce stratified structures embedded within them, and they actually enhance the degree of stratification by obscuring who makes decisions and creating unassailable cliques.
I think I'm doing the opposite, and saying that on-demand hailing of cabs without subsidy was and, when subsidies collapse, likely will be a lot worse than people think they'll be.
Chinese investment is being scrutinized in real estate too. The govt has been forcing chinese companies to sell various big investments.
I cycle around SF constantly. However, I am very reluctant to actually leave my bike anywhere as it will more than likely get stolen. That is the reason I will use a bike share at times.
I may change my mind in a decade or so, but I don’t understand the appeal of voice interfaces.

I love silence and hate screaming. If there’s something that I want to listen to is good music, not my own voice or synthesized answers.

If you think you hate the clicking of your colleague’s mechanical keyboard, imagine how an office would sound in a voice driven computing world.

Besides, it seems a lot more tiresome to speak for extended periods than to just type. I’d probably need a bottle of water every hour.
I mean of course there is some trade off...the question is whether the trade off makes sense for you.

The comparison doesn't make sense because there's no traditional bank that would let you buy a $1m house with a $10k down payment.
If you use as blocking and privacy extensions or live in a "suspicious country" it's still slow loading and multiple pages of images.
The only way I see this being useful is if you do this for one or more elements as well as encrypt the name of every input element and also randomize the layout enough that they can't easily use CSS selectors or regular expressions to fine the relevant inputs by page location.

I can and have defeated forms that tried to do all of those things very easily in the past.

Keep in mind that if you randomize across a few variations (i.e. 4-5 page layouts), that's easily discerned if you pull the page source down 20-30 times, doa complex diff, scrub out obviously random strings, and check the total unique variations you're seeing.

That may seem like a lot of work, but consider that if you don't do it all at once, but instead roll out small change after small change, the person or people using it are not weighing to cost to do everything required to bypass it compared to finding another open mail form, but the cost to bypass just the new fix you put in place. Also, they might think it's fun doing so...

And on the site dev's side, they can just choose to outsource it to a CAPTCHA (not that there aren't services to easily bypass CAPTCHAs at scale at sub-cent per CAPTCHA rates, see https://anti-captcha.com/).

Note: To forestall any assumptions, I wasn't doing any spamming or helping spamming in any way.
These "what if" questions will always be relevant because of the nature of big (and small) tech companies. Creating a monopoly, data mining, and controlling the flow of information are simply irresistible - if not necessary - for tech companies like Google or Facebook. The only real solution is to have educated users that care about their privacy and security. In that case, if Google turns a free, open source protocol into a surveillance machine, the only solution is to step away from it and not use it. We cannot stop big tech companies from creating user-friendly, tempting malware.
GitHub is far bigger than Bitnami. IE the Github founders are all among the biggest individuals with equity in Microsoft just because of the acquisition. GitHub will likely be its own subsidiary under Microsoft for some time.
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> More on HVDC would be good.

Agreed. There's two things about HVDC worth mentioning:

It is High-Voltage because high voltage is efficient for transmission. On a first-order approximation, resistive losses are proportional to current, not power. Since P=VA, the resistive losses decrease for a given power as more of the power shifts from the A to the V.

Second, a neat property of DC transmission is it allows phase-decoupling between grids. For you to get a clean 120V, 60Hz power line at your outlet, all the transmission and distribution infrastructure needs to be tightly balanced. When that 60Hz starts to deviate by like 0.01%, alarm bells start going off at the utility. Now imagine keeping that AC stuff sync'd on a state-wide transmission line. If you make the line DC instead, you can transmit power willy-nilly across the length of the line and just make sure it syncs up at the ends when you change it back to AC.

We haven't traditionally used DC because it has higher transmission losses than AC until you get up to the ultra-high voltages (that's famously why Edison's AC system won out to Tesla's DC in NYC back in the day). My understanding is it's just been really hard to get up to the ultra-high voltages needed to make it work. 12V DC transmission barely works at even house-scale because of the resistive losses, but when you get up to 1MV like they're building in China, it starts to get attractive, especially when linking different sub-grids half a continent apart.
Can you make an FPGA out of an FPGA?
Is it really fair to describe a 10 yr government contract as "out-and-out regulatory capture"?
That seems awesome that you're going after big cable/ISP/wireless companies. Do you think consumers that are harmed by Comcast/Xfinity's abusive practices of bundling and zero-rating their own video services, but charging you for data overages if you use Netflix or other 3rd party video services have a strong position?

Would you help us go after them? I'd sign up in a heartbeat for that. When I moved from Connecticut where we have a relatively benign ISP (Cablevision) who doesn't have data caps, to California where we only have Comcast/Xfinity, my monthly price for Internet doubled and I have less than half the bandwidth available to me.
Literally none of those alternative methods listed worked on my moderate traffic wiki. Recaptcha (and before it went away, identify the dogs or cats from Microsoft) is literally the only solution that stopped us from getting spammed. I wonder how much experience the author of this article really has in this domain.

Recaptcha has saved the internet as far as I'm concerned.
Not really. MSC1228 is specifically about decoupling all the IDs in Matrix from DNS, switching to strictly key-based IDs - https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1228 is the MSC.

P2P Matrix could perhaps be layered on top of this, using some kind of overlay to route the traffic around such that you no longer have to trust any server. We have some ideas around this, but need to write up them up as an MSC. https://matrix.org/blog/2019/03/12/breaking-the-100-bps-barr... has some thoughts on what the transport could look like for this.
> Secondly and its been noted here before why are such clauses even legal?

It's legal because of a staggeringly overbroad reading of the Federal Arbitration Act that the Supreme Court has said is fine and Congress has refused to reign in.

> I really hope we can take the concept to court and murder it completely.

Many will enter, zero will win. Virtually every attempt at limiting the Federal Arbitration Act's scope in legal proceedings has been turned down by the Supreme Court.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...

* https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/american-express...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems_Corp._v._Lewis

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_v._Ferrer
Typical Wordpress sites that are built as a pure CMS are absolutely cacheable (not just JS, CSS, images), but the html can be cached of course. The problem occurs with commenting, and dynamic data features.
> That is until Lyft gets bored with it and axes it like Lime did to their bikes.

These seem to be be "docked". Wasn't Lime's problem that they were "dockless" and wound up being trash everywhere?
I look forward to the day when SDRs are inside smartphones.
HN title is contentless and doesn't even match the linked site.
As someone actively blocked by Apple's restrictions on development, care to share a link to an up-to-date, working guide on how to do this?
I've worked in big piles of 3-phase power cables (though not quite as fat as in those other videos!). It's not bad. It's not any different than working with radiation, or at height, or around table saws, or crossing the street. You learn how it works, and how it can go wrong and hurt you. You practice good work habits, and learn to trust your equipment and training and coworkers. You recognize that it would take 2 or 3 things all going wrong at once for it to really fail, so you report any 1 issue right away.
Strangely, at least in the case of vital infrastructure like this, making the information public also poses a liability. I found it strange as I figure bad actors could surely find this very useful.
If your code doesn't need to be py 2/3 compatible it's fine to annotate using str. But if you do, typing.Text and bytes is better.
P theft, copycat tech, forced technology transfer, threatening US soldier, aggression toward US allies i.e. japan, taiwan, india
Is it a known phrase or your good sense of humour?
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This is not an article about Taoism but a short reflexion about how two conjugate rules, abstraction & application, which have some similarities with the Tao's Yin/Yang, can be used to gently introduce a functional programming language in a few lines trying to avoid grey areas. More (serious) explanations can be seen in the links given at the end. I'm sorry if the title, a little provocative, has misled you.
yeh a lot of people did this and none it worked. Now china has no allies in business
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You're not trying to make your site absolutely bot-proof. Someone deliberately targeting your site can figure out any such measures. (You want legitimate users to do so.) You're just trying to throw in enough friction that most common drive-by scripts won't succeed.

It's a "don't have to outrun the bear" situation, make yourself just difficult enough that some easier target gets snagged instead.
Yeah in retrospect I should have just put a drill bit through it. But at the time I was just very afraid and wanted to do "the right thing".
This one, I reckon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piQpLL5nD18
Yeah I totally want my relatives hacking my devices and browsing through a collection of furry porn.
I agree with pretty much everything you've said except the part about overlapping windows. I find Sticky Previews immensely helpful in Windows and sorely miss it when using other operating systems.

https://johnrockefeller.net/super-useful-windows-app-sticky-...
https://luminati.io/#pricing
Pwned Passwords uses tricky crypto to make sure his service never sees your full password. He could use trickier crypto to make sure that it does.
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Very interesting. I wonder if there's a killer feature that would appear when you follow that line of thought. So even if adoption looks like 60~70% users and 30~40% enterprise, if you're indispensable to either of them, it would still prevent a take over because of the network effect. And the fact that you have an API that developers can trust would solidify the position even more.
If that feature ever surfaces I hope it doesn't involve blockchain or machine learning.
1. I would whiteboard you and vet your previous clients/projects. This also assumes I have time. Make sure you're good on from a project pov and an algorithms pov. I've seen bad code from people who have made decent looking projects. When I looked deeper I just saw copy pastes from stackoverflow.

2. This makes it harder - just learn react, new ES stuff and webpack if you want to focus on front end, it doesn't take long, just run yourself through some tutorials and build a small project to familiarize yourself. Some people will ask you trivia.

3. You're being unrealistic.

I suggest you ask for referrals.
> In what world is a 28-core xeon with 1.5 TB of RAM and 2 dual GPUs (effectively 4 GPUs) not a powerful spec for a desktop? ... I don't bear any love for Apple, but this computer is still pretty cool.

Dell's Precision workstations and HP's Z8 workstations could already be configured to match or exceed that, well before Apple's announcement. What's so special about a configuration that is the same as existing workstations and is shaped pretty much the same as existing workstations? It's the same Intel CPU as everyone else uses, it's the same RAM as everyone else uses, etc.
Surveillance capitalism has changed that narrative imo. China is still more blatant but for how long?
Because they can let Uber/Lyft/et al do it, charge them a tax, and have none of the operational overhead or expenditures.
I wonder if it's from CloudFlare and not HN directly.
Believe it or not, this doesn't happen in Seattle. Sure there was a month or two when people were treating bikes like shit, because they were new, but now the conventions have been established and people are more respectful. What you're worried about happens rarely in Seattle.

Assuming you live in SF, I'm not sure why you're not worried more about the people peeing on your wall, tossing their shoes or random garbage on your driveway more. Bikes being dropped off at a public sidewalk sounds like less of a problem than these.
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Regulatory Capture is I imagine what the Poster is talking about, it’s happening right now with Facebook’s suggestion that perhaps more regulation is a good idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
The book itself is "Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency" [1]

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13537.html
The iPhone was definitely not radically new, it was a PDA with a much better touch interface.
Is the S&P 500 making a bearish pattern?
Most likely related to high-demand, limited run sneaker "drops", which people then resell on the secondary market. Sneaker-scalpers, if you will. It's a problem because it prevents legit buyers from getting in on the sale.
Congrats to Erica! Phenomenal executive - looking forward to seeing how she moves GitHub forward.
If you're willing to ditch iOS, Android has Messages for Web (an official service by Google) which lets you view/send SMS from any browser and supports file attachments etc. It's pretty great.
Actually, now that is think about it, Microsoft apps could only require a captcha if the username trying to log in doesn’t match the user’s previous iCloud user token.

I’m thinking about how Overcast uses a token linked to the user’s iCloud account and doesn’t require a username and password if you only use iOS devices. You can optionally add a username and password to access the web client.
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> From the speed figures ...

You know what software's like, though. What today takes the blood of a virgin and a dozen dribbly candles will be doable next week with a toothpick and three cc's of mouse blood.