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hackilyon Ask HN: How bad is it that rioters had physical access to Congress computers?

How much does being a part of the press protect someone when illegal activities are involved?

For example here, was this reporter already inside the Capitol reporting, or did he also enter the building together with the protestors?

hackilyon Clams filter the water and check whether the water is polluted or clean

That is to let them spit their sand out, and it only takes about 20 minutes.

If you want to let them spit overnight, you should put them into salt water, fresh water will kill them.

Most shellfish for consumption are farmed, and it's really important that they're grown in clean water to taste good, especially if the intent is to eat them raw.

hackilyon Show HN: Four years of profitable side-projects

Hi Cory, I've seen you post Place Card Me a couple times on the passive income project threads on HN. I'm really happy to see that your efforts on that project and others are paying dividends, and I find your story and stats here really inspiring! Thank you for sharing :)

hackilyon Estimated 1.56B face masks will have entered oceans in 2020

Many things could happen to the mask, even if you disposed of it in a proper location. The trash bin could be tipped over or rummaged in by wildlife, for instance. When the trash collector comes, the trash bag could rip and the contents spill out. Strong winds might cause small and light objects like masks to fly out.

hackilyon Google's 3-Word Plan to Help Avoid Burnout Is So Simple You Should Steal It

> We've decided to make December 28, 2020 to January 1, 2021 an official no meetings week across the company.

Sounds like a low key way to tell employees to take a break at the end of the year, without officially giving them vacation days.

People love to rag on unlimited vacation days as company perks, but such a perk makes it much easier to take time off, especially in cases like this.

hackilyon Effect of exercise training for five years on all cause mortality

Highly recommended. I don't go outside much, but I started pokemon go during covid-19, and it gives me a reason to head outside on a brisk walk to put a pokemon in a gym, or do a raid everyday. They doubled the distance you can reach gyms, so I can stand safely on the other side of the street from the gym and still be able to raid.

hackilyon Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

> If you have a Pixel 1-5, photos uploaded from that device won’t be impacted. Photos and videos uploaded in High quality from that device will continue to be exempt from this change, even after June 1, 2021.

All good things come to an end, but at least they still honor the promise they made with the Pixel phones.

hackilyon Doom on a Pregnancy Tester

An earlier teardown of the equate digital pregnant test revealed that the microcontroller was not reprogrammable. This is the key tweet that shows that while this is impressive, this cannot be done out of the box. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453246536028160?s=20

hackilyon Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them

This sounds suspiciously like the onboarding experience I had at my company.

In particular, Duo for 2 factor and LastPass, and the curl command to start downloading a bunch of stuff.

FWIW I thought it was pretty streamlined, better than what I'd had in the past.

hackilyon Olivia: An open source chatbot build with a neural network in Go

I find that chatbots are great for doing a search for a user that didn't bother to actually do a search.

For example, my team at work used to own a webcomponents library, but it didn't seem like people were actually reading our documentation.

I created a simple lambda function that triggered on a webhook when someone messaged our channel, and my function would parse through the message for some mention of "help" or "didn't work" "how", and if they mentioned one of our components. It would create response thread to that message and just link them to the documentation page.

There was no machine learning involved... but there didn't need to be.

hackilyon Microsoft Is Building Internet Explorer into Its New Chromium Edge

Will IE mode be available on the other platforms? OSX? Testing IE on non-windows devices is a pain in the unmentionables, maybe this can make it easier.

hackilyon A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

Do you have any sources that talk about these breaking issues? I wouldn't be entirely shocked that Google would be doing this, but I do want to see more than just one anecdote that it's ill intent rather than incompetence.

hackilyon Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack

Trillian isn't dead though. I still use it, despite the internet becoming more and more of a walled garden. Trillian still works just fine with Google hangouts, and facebook messenger too, as long as it's not a group chat.

hackilyon Lockheed Martin's new fusion reactor might change humanity forever

I remember reading about this 5 years ago.

I wonder how far progress has gotten today?

hackilyon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)

Thank you so much for those of you who have reached out! Some of you were not a fit, purely for administrative reasons, unfortunately.

For the positions available, at least on my team, we will not be sponsoring any work authorization visas.

There may be other teams within Capital One that may be able to, and I encourage you to take a look on our general careers site. The postings will clearly say if they do or do not provide sponsorship.

https://www.capitalonecareers.com/

hackilyon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)

CapitalOne | Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and above! | McLean, VA, DC Area | ONSITE | Full-Time

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.

Full Stack Software Engineer-Angular/Typescript/Javascript

I'm an engineer looking for people to join my team - we're looking to expand a lot this year!

Our current major tech push right now is to finish migrating our AngularJS frontend fully to Angular component by component using Angular Elements.

My talented coworker published an overview article on our Angular Elements approach a few weeks ago, please give it a read if you'd like! https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/capital-one-is-using-ang...

Experience: Ideally, you have at least 2 years of professional programming experience.

We have positions open for Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers, and Manager level Software engineers.

If my team (frontend) doesn't sound like a fit, there's plenty of other open positions!

We'd love to have you join us! Please reach out to me at neil.wang@capitalone.com

hackilyon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)

  Location: Virginia
  Remote: No
  Willing to relocate: Yes (Regions include: Seattle, Portland, Boulder, Bay Area/Silicon Valley, NYC, DC Area, Boston)
  Technologies: Node.js, Java, C#, AngularJS, React, 
  Résumé/CV: https://hackily.github.io/assets/misc/Neil%20Wang%20Resume%202017%20v1.2.2.pdf
  I'm a fullstack engineer, flexible with technologies, and willing to learn. I'm looking for a fast-paced environment, with a friendly cooperative culture, where the engineers love each other and their work.
  Email: neil.wang[at]alumni.unc.edu
  Website: https://hackily.github.io
  Github: https://github.com/hackily