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abhas9··on Show HN: Kekkai – a simple, fast file integrity monitoring tool in Go
You're right that FIM assumes the possibility of compromise, but that's exactly the point - it's a detection control, not a prevention control. Prevention (read-only mounts, immutable bits, restrictive permissions, etc.) is necessary but not sufficient. In practice, attackers often find ways around those measures - for example, through misconfigured deployments, command injection, supply chain attacks, or overly broad privileges.

File Integrity Monitoring gives you a way to prove whether critical code or configuration has been changed after deployment. That’s valuable not only for security investigations but also for compliance.

For example, PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) explicitly requires this. Requirement 11.5.2 states:

"Deploy a change-detection mechanism (for example, file-integrity monitoring tools) to alert personnel to unauthorized modification of critical content files, configuration files, or system binaries."

Sure, a "sufficiently advanced" attacker could try to tamper with the monitoring tool, but (1) defense in depth is about making that harder, and (2) good implementations isolate the baseline and reports (e.g. write-only to S3, read-only on app servers), which raises the bar considerably.

abhas9··on Optimizing your career for happiness
"Probably" this is the study being referred:

> Hospitals led by doctors outperform those run by non-medical managers. Universities, business schools and academic departments led by good scholars outperform those that are not. The best sports teams – using data from 15,000 basketball games and 60 years of Formula 1 racing – are led by great former players or run by racing specialists.

https://www.city.ac.uk/research/impact/case-studies/evidence...

abhas9··on The Red Herring of Red Flags: Why Resumes Are a Relic of the Past
IMO, Resumes attempt to solve a problem that precedes what some consider the actual hiring process: the need to quickly screen thousands of candidates.

Unfortunately, this approach has flaws. The person doing the initial screening may not have a deep understanding of the role and is often working with secondary information. This can sometimes lead to them becoming gatekeepers, filtering based on superficial criteria (like career gaps, job switches, etc)

abhas9··on The Red Herring of Red Flags: Why Resumes Are a Relic of the Past
IMO, resumes, while ideally intended as experience summaries, often function as gatekeeper proxies, filtering candidates based on arbitrary criteria rather than actual potential. Unfortunately, I too can't think of a good alternative solution that can scale well.
abhas9··on Show HN: Send a limited edition print as a postcard, free
Sounds amazing. Congrats for building this.

Looks like your website has a bug - try entering a house number which is non integer (Like say B-123) Submission fails with error: ``` {"statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request","message":"ValidationError","data":{"errors":{"houseNumber":["houseNumber must be a `number` type, but the final value was: `NaN` (cast from the value `\"B-123\"`)."]}}} ```

It's wrong to assume that a house number is always an integer. My address has an alphanumeric house number. I have been in apartments without a house number (Instead they may have an alphabetical name. Something like XYZ House)

abhas9··on JavaScript from 2001 on India's largest private bank site
Interesting to note that one of the consultants [1] who worked on this codebase 20 years back is now an architect in the same company.

```

25//2001 Gopi Yedla Changed code for new FD opening

```

Service company that wrote the code has changed it's name from i-flex to Oracle Financials.[2]

Imagine finding the code you wrote today in a random internet discussion in 2040.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopiyedla/

[2] https://www.firstpost.com/business/biztech/i-flex-solutions-...

abhas9··on GitHub is experimenting with personal READMEs
I would like to see improvement in the code search results. Just yesterday, I was looking for some example code.

It would be a huge plus for me if I can sort the code search results and get results from most starred repos on top.

Currently, we can only sort results by time and relevance.

abhas9··on India’s contact tracing app is going open source
Interestingly, some source code can be seen at https://github.com/ubuntulover09/aarogyasetu_android (forked from https://github.com/AarogyaSetu/aarogyasetu_android which is unavailable right now)

Did they accidentally publish and someone took a fork?

It also popped up in my GitHub search results as well:

https://twitter.com/Abhas9/status/1265337350755741698

abhas9··on Many YouTube channels promoting adult content disguised as Kids drawing videos
For the English speaking audience: All the videos with `Hindi` thumbnail have some very disturbing audio (taboo adult stories)
abhas9··on State of JavaScript 2019
Agreed. Anyone who has not tried Ember should check out their getting started guide: https://guides.emberjs.com/release/getting-started/quick-sta.... Also, I highly recommend `ember-concurrency: An Ember Addon that makes it easy to write concise, robust, and beautiful asynchronous code.`
abhas9··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)
Linkedin | Bangalore, India | Full-time | Onsite | Staff Software Engineer - UI (Frontend)

LinkedIn's Trust Engineering team is looking for Frontend developers who are eager to tackle the challenges of a rapidly growing web application with millions of daily visitors.

- 8+ years of hands on experience with semantic HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

- Ability and eagerness to program progressive, single-page applications (Ember / React / Angular / Backbone)

Job link: https://in.linkedin.com/jobs/view/staff-software-engineer-ui...

You may apply using the link above. For referrals connect @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tandonabhas/ to discuss

abhas9··on Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?
Happened to me too. I lost almost $500.And then you keep getting automated mails about the account ban for each ticket.
abhas9··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)
Janitri Innovations | Android developer | ONSITE | Full-time | Bangalore, India | Janitri.in

Every two minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. More than 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries. We are passionate about social healthcare and are working with a vision to see the world where no mother and newborn dies during the pregnancy period. We are working on innovative products to solve the grass root level problems related to maternal and child health-care.

If you are someone interested in end-to-end mobile application development and can translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code, please contact abhas [at] janitri.in - Send your resume with 'Hacker News' in subject line.

abhas9··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
Janitri Innovations | Android developer | ONSITE | Full-time | Bangalore, India | Janitri.in

Every two minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. More than 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries. We are passionate about social healthcare and are working with a vision to see the world where no mother and newborn dies during the pregnancy period. We are working on innovative products to solve the grass root level problems related to maternal and child health-care.

If you are someone interested in end-to-end mobile application development and can translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code, please contact abhas [at] janitri.in - Send your resume with 'Hacker News' in subject line.

abhas9··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)
Janitri Innovations | Android developer | ONSITE | Full-time | Bangalore, India | Janitri.in

Every two minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. More than 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries. We are passionate about social healthcare and are working with a vision to see the world where no mother and newborn dies during the pregnancy period. We are working on innovative products to solve the grass root level problems related to maternal and child health-care.

If you are someone interested in end-to-end mobile application development and can translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code, please contact abhas [at] janitri.in - Send your resume with 'Hacker News' in subject line.

abhas9··on Show HN: A minimal JavaScript library to set and get caret position
Thanks for pointing this out. There was a small typo in the demo code. I just fixed it. It should be working now.
abhas9··on GoogleMail.com
Also, xyz[at] googlemail.com → xyz [at] gmail.com
abhas9··on Show HN: Our app to help nurses conduct safe deliveries in developing countries
Till date, we have deployed the solution in 38 government hospitals across India.
abhas9··on Show HN: Our app to help nurses conduct safe deliveries in developing countries
Edited the description. Thanks for pointing this out and posting it here.
abhas9··on Notes on Data Structures and Programming Techniques
I read the Dynamic Programming section & I must say that it is very well explained.

Found a small issue. In Binary search section, it says ```{.c include=examples/binarySearch/binarySearch.h}```

Instead of the original code. I guess the page generator messed up a little.

abhas9··on Matcha – A framework for building iOS and Android apps in Go
Any reference link/source?
abhas9··on Ask HN: HNers who got their “Show HNs” on homepage, how is your site doing now?
My Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14782936) made it to the front page 7 days ago and stayed there for a couple of hours. We got 70 downloads and some very good feedback.

We are consistently getting a good rating in Play Store [1] and thanks to HN we now have around 50 daily active users playing 75-100 games. Meanwhile, we are developing the features that were suggested in the comments and we felt are required.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buildmyvoc... - Two-Player Vocabulary Game

abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
I don't know if it exists but my friend and I are thinking of making a VR app to help toddlers learn their first 100 words in a foreign language. Our idea is to use 360-degree images with annotations to teach words using Google cardboard or any other VR device.

There is a rich dataset of 360-images by MIT[1] if anyone is interested in taking up this project.

[1] http://people.csail.mit.edu/jxiao/SUN360/

abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
Thanks :) Happy to know that you liked it.

We will definitely work on these changes to fix the experience for people using it on the desktop. As you said, max-width, cursor: pointer and may be a loader will be the way forward.

abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
Thanks :)

We are thinking of integrating Quizlet. Quizlet has very rich content. Eg. https://quizlet.com/1321499/essential-french-vocabulary-flas...

It can add a lot of flexibility to the game and our users will be able to challenge each other on a variety of themes.

abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
Thanks for the feedback. Android version has a share feature which allows you to share the generated code with your friends.

Additionally, a feature to share score/game result will be fairly easy to implement and helpful.

abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
Thanks for your comments. Agree, chat feature between players would be interesting.

Are you aware of any libraries for this? Something like intercom which allows integrating chat between players in an easy plug to play manner?

abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
Thanks. Such comments really help us to stay motivated :)
abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
noted :) Thanks for the feedback.
abhas9··on Show HN: Multiplayer game to help non-native English speakers improve vocabulary
Happy to know that you liked it. This is the first basic release. Native Android UI is a little better than the hybrid web app.

We will definitely work on the UI in the coming version.

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