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martyhuon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

Prodigy | Various Engineering Roles | Remote (or Columbus, OH / San Mateo, CA) | Full Time

Prodigy is building the future for car buying. More than $1 trillion of cars are sold each year in the U.S., yet it consistently ranks as one of the worst consumer experiences in America. This is the perfect chance to get in early, help fix that, and make a big impact in one of the world’s largest industries.

We recently merged with Upstart, a leading AI leading platform, and are now better positioned than ever to deliver on our mission to create the world’s best car buying experience with cutting-edge auto-retail software.

If interested, you can reach me at marty@upstart.com

martyhuon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

Prodigy | https://getprodigy.com | San Francisco ONSITE | Full-Stack Engineer, Director of Marketing, Recruiter & People Ops, Product Support Specialist, Account Executive, VP of Sales, Sales Development Representative, Head of Product

Prodigy is a venture-backed startup building the future for car buying. We've been featured in Tech Crunch and Forbes 30 under 30 and have raised $5.4M to date from top valley investors including SV Angel, 8VC, Battery Ventures, and Crunchfund.

Apply here: https://angel.co/prodigy/jobs/. If you have any questions, email me: marty@getprodigy.com.

martyhuon AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3

I'd love to see something for plain vanilla FTP.

Many enterprises still use it, would love to see AWS support that as well.

martyhuon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

Prodigy | San Francisco | Full Time | ONSITE

Prodigy is a venture-backed startup focused on building the future for car buying. Our goal is out-engineer the entire industry of awful software in the car buying space in order to disrupt the $1.1 Trillion car sales market.

We're a small dev team (currently just me), and are looking for a hungry lead engineer who wants to write a lot of code and aspires to eventually assume leadership in a high-growth engineering environment. We believe that a few passionate engineers can accomplish A LOT, and I drink my own kool-aid.

We're running our infra with AWS, Postgres, and Salt. On the front-end we're using Isomorphic React, Flux, ES6 / Node.js, and Webpack.

Contact me directly (marty [at] getprodigy [dot] com) if interested.

martyhuon How Apple and Google will kill the password

The problem I see with this isn't having to carry your phone around everywhere - its the biometric system itself.

Biometric systems are much less usable than passwords. Users often fail them by doing things like putting their fingers in the wrong place on the sensor or by not looking directly into the camera.

I think probably that users will need to be somewhat trained in order for this to work well. Probably the hackers will train themselves too.

Stealing fingerprints from someone at a bar? Not so farfetched.

martyhuon As Egypt Erupts, Al Jazeera Offers Its News for Free to Other Networks

Al Jazeera is actually the only source that I generally read when I'm looking for actual news. They come off to me as not only significantly less biased, but also bring up issues that are missing from US newspapers. For example, I discovered on Al Jazeera that the US had begun its first stem cell test on humans.

FYI,http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/10/201010112...

martyhuon New PS3 firmware hacked in less than a day

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/29/hackers-obtain-ps3-privat...

"Sony didn't bother generating any random numbers to secure the blasted thing."

Not to bash Sony, but I think the interesting point here is that creating secure systems is actually a really hard problem. Creating usable secure systems is an even harder problem.

See Schneier: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/security_vs_us...

martyhuon Protein that destroys HIV discovered

Or some sort of data-driven machine learning algorithms to do the testing.

martyhuon No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup

Agreed. while exiting one startup may not be enough to retire, its a pretty good start for plowing it into your next one.

martyhuon Super-fast Gmail Search

I'd love to see a port to linux.

martyhuon "the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians"

I agree with this article that over the next 10 years, the internet may have a lot more data. But how much of that data will be privately owned?

Platform apps dominate an increasingly large fraction of the internet. Its hard to see them making their data public anytime soon.

martyhuon Tell HN: AeroFS - File Syncing Without Servers

What about performance? I assume since many routers these days use asymmetric dsl, download/upload from hosts may be poor if only a few hosts are involved, and the hosts use ADSL.

martyhuon The most thorough task execution I've ever seen (dude polishes car)

This guy's interested in drinking, cars, and football.

His job status is professional detailer. Nuff said.