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hotpotjunkieon PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018

The worry is that you have too many developers who don't consider HTML/CSS/JS a proper stack for a "real" engineer and there refuses to learn it.

hotpotjunkieon A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor

Maybe they mean it's not BGA?

hotpotjunkieon Aruba.it blind to malicious code hosting

There's basically nothing you can do besides notify their abuse desk and probably get ignored, because abuse desks pay little attention to one-off complaints like that. If they do get taken down, it'll be by one of the larger security companies who detect the page (for example, if that IP sends spam) and includes it in their feed of bad IP's to aruba.

hotpotjunkieon Ask HN: Is it age discrimination when a company recruits undergrads exclusively?

In theory, anyone can be named "Chen", "Nguyen", or "Mwangi" but try instituting a policy banning those people from an internship program.

hotpotjunkieon Apple Watch is hardcoded to block its gay pride watch face in Russia

Is there any human rights issue that Apple will take a stand on?

hotpotjunkieon The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and Bunks

$10k would barely get you a business class seat these days for long haul flights.

hotpotjunkieon Convincing engineers to join your team

Why would companies need to change anything? Every engineering job gets hundreds of applicants. Its an employers' market.

hotpotjunkieon Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers

Yeah, we believe you. wink wink nudge nudge.

hotpotjunkieon TLS 1.3 Is an Opportunity for Amazon, Google and Microsoft to End Censorship

Unless TLS 1.3 includes built-in stenography, it will do nothing for censhorship. Oppressive regions have historically used simple throttling/DoS to make encrypted protocols unusable.

hotpotjunkieon Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes

... what country?

hotpotjunkieon Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes

The eggs and milk that aren't the most expensive ones at whole foods? Also, whey powder.

hotpotjunkieon Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes

Stop buying the most expensive things at whole foods then.

hotpotjunkieon Launch HN: The Buttermilk Company (YC S18) – Homemade Indian Food in 5 Minutes

Step 1: live anywhere that isn't the SF bay area.

hotpotjunkieon When Security Compromises Security – The Caesars/Defcon debacle

I went to Vegas November last year, albeit just for a weekend of fun, and I didn't experience any of this. I wouldn't have known there was a shooting if it wasn't for the fences around Mandalay Bay that we drove by on our way in.

hotpotjunkieon Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lotus Notes system

When you can make $200k straight out of undergrad, yes, it is.

hotpotjunkieon Google Boots Open-Source Anti-Censorship Tool "Ahoy" from Chrome Store

I think so -- Apple didn't remove VPN apps worldwide, only in China (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

hotpotjunkieon Google Boots Open-Source Anti-Censorship Tool "Ahoy" from Chrome Store

Maybe Google is trying to get back into China and wants to show Winnie the Pooh that they are willing to play ball on the whole censorship thing.

hotpotjunkieon Launch HN: MAC'D (YC S18) – Fast-Casual, Build-Your-own Mac and Cheese

Is this a joke?

hotpotjunkieon Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lotus Notes system

who's debating that?

hotpotjunkieon Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lotus Notes system

So you're claiming studios are $6000 and 1BR's are $9000? You can get a 1000 sqft for < $3000 within a 1 hour commute of SOMA.

hotpotjunkieon Machine Learning in Google Bigquery

Good, I hope this trend of shoving ML into SQL (instead of the other way around) continues. I always thought it was silly that every "data wrangling" system like Pandas and R needed to (poorly) re-invent SQL.