Hacker News: getsat

New comment by getsat in "A Way to Detect Bias"

getsat — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 17:16:57 +0000

It's really more like this version of the image: http://i.imgur.com/DqKXPF3.png

New comment by getsat in "[dead]"

getsat — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 05:22:56 +0000

A URL shortener link to a thinly-veiled affiliate marketing page?

New comment by getsat in "Algorithmic surrealism: A slow-motion guide to high-frequency trading"

getsat — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:29:35 +0000

I see. Thanks for your side of the story. You are a very interesting person! I'm going to read more of your site later.

New comment by getsat in "Mongo BSON Injection: Ruby Regexps Strike Again"

getsat — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:19:52 +0000

Hey Homakov, I'm a big fan of yours. :)

No, money wasn't being stolen, but the validation error meant that clients' money was being spent and not being tracked. The company had to eat the costs.

New comment by getsat in "Algorithmic surrealism: A slow-motion guide to high-frequency trading"

getsat — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:17:49 +0000

I just spent 15 minutes Googling this guy because his site in his profile was interesting. He humblebrags about employability, but he's incapable of finding work. He also makes bomb threats: http://blog.up.co/2012/04/30/not-even-bmob-threats-could-det...

New comment by getsat in "A Constructive Look at TempleOS"

getsat — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:41:47 +0000

Nice, hadn't seen this one. Thanks!

New comment by getsat in "A Constructive Look at TempleOS"

getsat — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 22:27:46 +0000

I'd love to see a VICE-style documentary which interviews him and really dives into his story.

New comment by getsat in "Apple WWDC 2015"

getsat — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:05:25 +0000

Have you looked at C++14? It's a completely new beast.

New comment by getsat in "Apple's Tim Cook talks diversity, women, 'the future of our company'"

getsat — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 08:11:15 +0000

As much as I dislike using overly broad labels:

Liberals tend to favor equality of outcome while conservatives tend to favor equality of opportunity.

These kinds of diversity reports usually show that "white people are overrepresented" and "hispanic and black people are underrepresented". They usually do not mention that asians are GROSSLY overrepresented. It doesn't fit the agenda because, despite being the most successful ethnic group in the US in terms of income, they are not considered "powerful".

New comment by getsat in "Ask HN: I'm starting a new job as a PHP developer tomorrow"

getsat — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 02:17:54 +0000

>They said I have to use a VM. They also mentioned I can't bring my own hardware.

>Suggestions welcome.

Keep looking for a new job. I guarantee this is the tip of the nightmare iceberg you're about to hit.

I hope I am wrong, but I've seen this enough times before to know that I'm probably not.

New comment by getsat in "Tell HN: The usage of “ninja” in Who is Hiring? comments has been increasing"

getsat — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 09:11:30 +0000

No, it was a posting looking for "RUBY ON RAILS DRAGON SLAYERS" if I recall correctly.

New comment by getsat in "Mongo BSON Injection: Ruby Regexps Strike Again"

getsat — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 23:19:10 +0000

Actually, I am reminded of an error that happened which was similar to this. After I left a past company, an engineer flubbed a validation which allowed a subtle bug to go undetected for 10 days which cost the company $500,000.

$50,000/day is an expensive lesson!

New comment by getsat in "Tell HN: The usage of “ninja” in Who is Hiring? comments has been increasing"

getsat — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 17:11:15 +0000

Any openings for a "zen master"?

The most ridiculous one I've seen was "dragon slayer".

New comment by getsat in "Three months of Rust"

getsat — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:53:20 +0000

I ported a project to Rust and then ported it to C++14 (which is awesome!), but I only did that because Rust was in a state of massive flux at the time and I got tired of the project breaking every two days due to changes to the compiler/syntax/stdlib. I plan to reevaluate Rust once it's settled down a bit.

New comment by getsat in "Mongo BSON Injection: Ruby Regexps Strike Again"

getsat — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:48:47 +0000

It's not trivia. If someone doesn't know the difference, they're going to allow bad data into our database. Large webapps with poor model validations are security and maintenance nightmare.

New comment by getsat in "Mongo BSON Injection: Ruby Regexps Strike Again"

getsat — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:11:01 +0000

I use ^$ vs \A\z as an interview question for senior engineers. Sadly, it filters a lot of them out.

New comment by getsat in "An email template for candidates frustrated with unresponsive employers"

getsat — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:00:14 +0000

The reason you don't get a reply (in the US anyways) is for legal reasons. If you say anything which could be even remotely (mis)interpreted as some sort of bias, your company could lose lots of money/time and potentially go bankrupt due to a discrimination lawsuit.

It's sadly safer to just not reject candidates at all. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

New comment by getsat in "Why Not Use Port Knocking? (2012)"

getsat — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 23:10:40 +0000

It's not people, though. It's bots! While changing the ssh port adds a comically small amount of security (if any), it isolates you from 99.99% of automated attacks and keeps those logs clean, so I'd recommend it for everyone.

Just remember that the port argument to `scp` is -P and not -p like it is for `ssh`. :p

New comment by getsat in "Freedom Act Passes: What We Celebrate, What We Mourn, and Where We Go from Here"

getsat — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 23:09:11 +0000

>we have every reason to believe that President Obama will sign USA Freedom into law

His official Twitter account said he'll be signing it: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/605841647193030657

New comment by getsat in "Why Not Use Port Knocking? (2012)"

getsat — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 22:18:18 +0000

Changing the port to something other than the default (even to something obvious like 22222) will get rid of all the log spam. You could also use something like fail2ban, but changing the port is much simpler.