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mjhouse

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Software developer based out of Huntsville, AL.
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mjhouse··on Ask HN: How do you handle organization verification?
That's a good point about the OCR obfuscation. I'll try to find some more info about E-Verify- thanks man.
mjhouse··on Ask HN: How do you handle organization verification?
Maybe something like the following would work:

* The account creator provides a photo id and an EIN

* You verify that the id is valid (visual/ML inspection?)

* Extract the expiration date and make sure it's unexpired (OpenCV/Tesseract)

* Extract the name from the id image (OpenCV/Tesseract)

* Check to see if that id matches the registered agent for that EIN.

This assumes that there is a unified API for EIN/TIN lookup in the US and I don't know if there is.

mjhouse··on Ask HN: Is my side project something you could use?
I don't have the site live yet, so there isn't anything you can interact with.

The idea is that you can have different views for different jobs, but all the data stays the same. So if you're looking for a system administration job, you might leave out some of your robotics experience. If you're applying for a position working with hardware, you might want to include it.

The views are created as you need them, deleted when you don't- and you can revoke access to them at any time by re-generating the url.

mjhouse··on The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret
When I was in the Army, everyone hated the Red Cross, although the reasons shifted depending on who you ask. I've never heard about the doughnuts before. Most commonly, other soldiers claimed that they sold donated blood, although how true that is, I don't know.
mjhouse··on Reddit's user revolt is the best thing for Reddit and the internet
"All too often cries of "free speech!" are about not being able to say something that legitimately hurts or offends someone else"

This is exactly what free speech is. The freedom to say things that are wrong, hateful, misinformed, misleading, vicious, cruel and hurtful as long as no actual violent or criminal acts are incited.

mjhouse··on Poll: Are you a drinker or a teetotaler?
I was a heavy drinker for about two/three years. When I say heavy, I mean a fifth of rum every afternoon. I do my best not to drink like that any more, but I still have the habit. So if I'm not paying attention to what I'm doing, my beer will vanish in about a minute and a half, and I'll have another one, and another, and another etc.
mjhouse··on Unschooling: The Case for Setting Your Kids Into the Wild
Except I did this (almost exactly this) when I was a kid, and it left holes in my education that you could drive a bus through.
mjhouse··on Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup
especially for a product that is just hoping to break even on power generation.
mjhouse··on Show HN: I used Squarespace to build a site for my new game. Very pleased
You get distracted lining up <div> tags. :)
mjhouse··on Show HN: I used Squarespace to build a site for my new game. Very pleased
On the site? It looks good. You might consider adding an option to share the site via social at the bottom. It might drive more traffic to the site.

Also- icantthinkofone is right. You probably want a game info page with screenshots, video or a guide, you know.

mjhouse··on Show HN: ResMaps – See who is viewing your resume and what they are looking at
Something I thought of coming home from a birthday dinner this afternoon:

In order to get a better idea of what the viewer is focusing on, you might consider going to a vertical gradient instead of a pointer heat-map.

Most people don't read to the bottom of the page before they start scrolling. Imagine two lines on the screen- the bottom line is the point at which the viewer will begin to scroll. The top line is the point that the viewer wants their reading area to be located. The space in between the lines is your "target" area.

As the viewer scrolls down the page, you could average their scrolling speed, and increment the intensity for that area of the heat map only when they slow their scrolling speed drastically, or go back over an area.

Just from paying attention to my own scrolling habits, I think the top line would probably be just above the horizontal center of the screen, and the bottom line would probably be about an inch down. You could do some testing to find the average line positions.