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Protect grannies from fraud as a front-end developer at True Link
We're hiring a front-end developer with an eye for design. You will shape the core product and user experience of True Link's banking service for the elderly (a service especially designed to protect seniors from fraud and scams, a $100 billion / year problem).

Simple, intuitive UX is core to our value proposition, and you'll lead the charge to make this a reality.

Our world-facing site has three components:

- A cardholder website (think online banking) designed to be friendly, simple, and usable
-Static informational content
- Frequently-updated public educational materials, like a blog and forums
- To restate point one, an online banking experience that isn't terrible

Skills & Requirements

We're looking for someone who:

- Believes in the company's social mission
- Is excited to iterate based on extensive user-driven development and testing
- Can make things work in Javascript and HTML/CSS (or HAML/SASS)
- Is passionate about simplicity

About True Link

You'll be one of the first six members of our venture-backed team. We're scrappy and fresh, and our team includes top talent from Visa, MasterCard, SoFi, and Google, as well as backing by leading Silicon Valley investors, including Y Combinator.

You can expect a competitive salary and equity package, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and an office in downtown San Francisco. You can also expect lots of laughter and the opportunity to work with a world-class, mission-driven team.

Email jobs@truelinkcard.com to learn more.
For Twiddla, I make a point of giving free accounts to teachers and students (or basically anybody who bothers to write an email and ask for one).

This leads to tons of word-of-mouth referrals, and I'll sometimes watch as an entire school comes on board, one class at a time, over the course of a few weeks.

People tend to write about this (and they like the product), so it finds its way onto the radar of companies who do Online Tutoring. We have an API they can use to create and embed our whiteboards for use as online classrooms. That's the bit that costs money. It's a tiny fraction of our userbase, but it accounts for nearly all the revenue.
Keeps your friends close and your enemies closer.

In this case why not spy on the people who have the power to cut your funding. Even though its clearly wrong and sounds like something North Korea does.
4. Warn other consumers from buying Toshiba products.

5. Shame Toshiba into living up to their word.
But still, Facebook is priced for growth. Which is problematic for a company that's starting to see its userbase decline.

That, and it's easy to look good playing tech stocks in a year when the NASDAQ goes up by 34%. In another few years, I'm not so certain that a P/E of 140 for a company that seems to have hit its plateau will still look like such a fair valuation.
If this software is detecting currency, the obvious follow-up question we should ask is: what else is it detecting, how does it do this, and why?

Could it be that each image generated from Adobe Software also tags the image with unique identifying computer, timestamp information?
Early pictures of eventually successful products
BEP Idea Proposal: Bitcoin address support on .torrent files.
5 Conversion Rate Optimization Experts Fail
Ask HN: What is your resolution for 2014?
> Marketing better ideas of what government should be doing is the big thing that can be done to make it better.

Also known as "writing to your representatives" or "political activism" etc. But it doesn't work, and it doesn't matter. Does a slave master care about what his slave wants? They simply don't give a fuck.

Do you think the people in power do not know that Americans don't want to be detained indefinitely without due process or declared "enemy combatants" and shipped off to Guantanamo to be tortured on a whim?

If they do know, why is the NDAA in effect and why has it been renewed?

Do you think the people in power do not know that Americans don't want to pay for untold billions of dollars' worth of Wall Street's gambling losses?

If they do know, why are big banks given all those bail-outs?

And so on. The list of offences is practically endless.

> If there's not better ideas, or they aren't widespread enough to have a electorally-significant constituency that prioritizes them, voting isn't going to be able to effect much positive change.

I can't help but wonder whether you're working for the government. But I'll wrap this up here.
My side project is gaining users slowly everyday.
It's called noteshred and it allows to you send people self shredding, encrypted notes with unique URLs, https://www.noteshred.com. I'm curious to know how you guys transitioned from a free tool to something that generated income.
I can't imagine advertisements wouldn't bring in much revenue, so how did you go about introducing a paid model?
Journalists for the most part are attention-whoring nobodies with no expertise in any particular subject, who hide behind overly aggressive and opinionated words. Watch pundits on any news channel, or read any massively circulated news source and it's pretty clear to confirm what I'm saying. They jiggle their jowls with such empty emotion and intensity.

May be harsh, but I think it's pretty accurate.
you guys are idiots - they unsubscribed because most its the start of 2014 and they have been meaning to fix their inbox spam a while and finally have the motivation to do it.
> People at MIT

But Aaron was at Harvard. He was not an MIT student or part of their faculty. At what point does MIT get to take charge of their own network against third parties?
not all python content was removed.

this account was specifically kept open as a service to the community: http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011

if anyone knows of other important pycon content that was deleted in the past few months, please email links or blip account names to support at blip tv.
Dogs poop in alignment with Earth's magnetic field
No, Apple requires apps to target at least iOS7, and as far back as is practical.
Ask HN: Suggestions for writing a new compiler?
I am a chemistry grad student and will be attending a graduate course in CS at my university in the coming weeks. The course is called "Programming languages and compilers" and its goal is to teach students about compilers by making them write one.

As I have never ventured into the world of compilers, I'm a bit lost as to where to start. I'm familiar with C, Python, HTML, Mathematica, FORTRAN 77, all of which I've used at different times and for different purposes, but haven't mastered any of them.

We (teams of 2) have the choice of either adding functionality to an existing compiler (suggestions include Gambit-C, Pascal-S, Tiny C, Small C) or write our own for any language or a subset thereof. If we choose to write our own compiler, it has to be written in Scheme, unless it can compile itself, in which case we can write it in any language. Coincidentally, I have begun reading Practical Common Lisp [0] last month and enjoy it.

The suggested textbook is "A. Appel, Modern compiler implementation in Java/ML/C". Other suggested readings are by Paul Graham.

Now my questions are:

1) Should I write my own compiler or extend an existing one?

2) Should I write a self-compiling compiler?

3) What language should I try to compile?

4) What books/resources will be helpful?

I'm asking these questions because I want to get the most out of this class. I think it's a great opportunity but that I could easily get lost. Almost everything written in the course plan I had heard of or read somewhere, so I am not completely out of the game.

Thanks in advance.

[0]http://gigamonkeys.com/book/
Yes, being "too busy" is bonkers.

However, there is a point about how saying "Oh, I'm keeping busy" has a status to it. "Oh wow, you're keeping busy. You must be important because you have so much to do".
Hey there, pre-welcome to Seattle! Seattle has a pretty active startup community, and most of the events are quite well captured on Startup Seattle's calendar: http://startupseattle.com/events/

Otherwise, let me know when you're in town, I'd be glad to show a fellow hacker newser around ;).
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I don't really think you need to solve this problem using crypto. I think a simpler solution would be to use the "hash it" solution, but restrict how many lookups each client can do. You can either do this by the using the client's phone number, IP or other unique information etc. This way an attacker would have a very hard time brute forcing this.

Additionally you could use captchas (or other humanity tests, such as SMS verification) to limit hackers creating automated accounts (in order to fight automated bots spamming and polluting the network).
Check out TicTocTrac (http://www.tictoctrac.com/). Open source watch that monitors when you check the time, and lets you track time perception whenever you want (instead of buzzing you every 5 minutes, you tap to start the test and then tap when you think X minutes have elapsed). You can save the data and use the site to visualize it later. The BOM comes to about $55.
Your Project Manager’s Being Replaced What Should You Do?
> Yet there's a huge amount of buzz around Docker and containerization in general. What am I missing?

Hi, I'm the creator of Docker. You are not the only one asking this question :) Here's a discussion on the topic between me and the author of a fairly critical blog post titled "docker vs reality: 0-1", which should give you an idea of his state of mind :) I left a comment at the end.

http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/docker-vs-reality-0-1
Apple did exactly the same thing in Europe (worse actually, they lied to make people buy AppleCare). In China too iirc.

Use your legal rights, and advertise what you did. If you don't know your rights you'll probably have a bad time.
So make contact discovery optional. My guess is most of your growth will come from that core of early adopters in the graph, and these folks have nice data plans / fast wifi and won't mind the 40MB download at all.

In the long term, where you're 10x or 50x where you are today, yes the filter size is a problem, but it's a "nice problem to have" as they say.

Side question: suppose I'm a less fortunate user of TextSecure, can I manually exchange keys with someone IRL? How does that work?
On a related note: many colour printers leave a tiny encoded pattern on each page (based on model/serial/etc), ostensibly to help track counterfeiters. [1] [2]

Unfortunately, they're printed all the time.

[1] https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...

[2] https://www.eff.org/issues/printers
Surely Aaron was aware at the time of any of the prior CFAA cases on the books. It's not as if he was the very first "network hacker" in U.S. legal history.

But either way even if he was not aware, that was a failure on his part, not the prosecutors. The law was not amended specifically for Aaron, it was on the books in substantially it's current form for more than enough time for Aaron to have researched it.
FISA Court Reauthorizes NSA Phone Metadata Collection
The traffic driving methods used are much more useful if you know the site/market they're being used for. I'd much rather people included the project URL than not.
Obtuse works too :):)
Google's Boulder office definitely has a more open plan. Fairly large cubicle areas, but still not private offices.
I see you are using Puma for your rack server, how do you find it performs compared to Unicorn?
Learn to ignore pressue and do what's best for you. Personally, I would rather crank on an app then hang out with my mother-in-law, but that's me.
Great article overall, but it seems to be a bit dismissive of music for productivity. It appears[1] the answer is a bit more nuanced: music is great for getting "in the zone" where you are mostly using existing knowledge to create something new. However, when you are really focusing on learning something new and difficult, silence is best.

Anecdotally this seems to match up with my experiences coding. Sometimes I'm more or less just churning out code, and music is great. If theres an ops crisis, or I'm trying out something new, music can hurt rather than help.

Edit, forgot the article:
[1] https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/be3172896a0f
Pretty cool to see you using CouchDB for this. I've always wondered how building analytics with CouchDB would be. Do you have any thoughts on that experience?
For Portland you should check out Calagator: http://calagator.org/
The secret service is under the treasury dept.
Corning and GTOC Announce Manufacturing Readiness for 3D-Shaped Gorilla Glass
Why would this be intrinsic to a free service?

"As of $date, our pricing tier no longer allows for $X GB of data. You have until $otherdate to upgrade before we delete the difference."

"We're shutting down so here's a refund. Oh, and we're going offline immediately. Bye!"

A subscription or paid option doesn't make a business solvent even a little bit. It might be easier, but the business model must still be sustainable & viable.
Called customer service for about 2 hours, they said that they made a mistake in printing the warranty card and that I would have to pay to repair the laptop.

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Ugg. Too bad for them but I wonder what the small claims court would have to say about it. Contract is what's advertised, not what you secretly thought.

...

Assuming there is an equivalent there, of course.
Somehow I think we overcomplicate stock market analysis. I live by the rule what goes up must come down. Eventually the market is going to crash. I absolutely guarantee that fact. I think it is a fairly well proven fact that economies cycle. It is just a matter of time before it crashes again. Are we in a bubble? The honest answer is that it doesn't matter.

All you need to know is that in 2008 the stock market crashed. More than likely within the next few years, before 2015 is out (~7 years later), all the investors who will the increasingly expect a crash, will get one. Oddly enough, I think that human greed, expectation and fears of loss drive the cycle.

All it needs is a trigger to start the mass sell off. Then Facebook shares won't be worth diddly squat. That's when you buy again.

A tiny minority of investors can read the signs of impending doom. Lucky investors, including some Wall Street traders get lucky and sell before the crash. The vast majority of investors miss the boat and lose out big time.

The trick is knowing when to buy and when to sell. I think the whole thing is smoke and mirrors. 99% of it is probably luck.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/05/25/buy-when-th...
What Uber Will Do With All That Money From Google
I get 750k+ visitors per month. Nearly all of it from organic search (aka Google). It took years to build up this traffic organically to User Generated Content.

http://isitnormal.com

Great Ask HN. Thanks for posting.
Aren't you essentially just offering the users to download as much data as they want to reduce the probability of 'collateral uploads' to levels that are acceptable for them?
Inconsequential to you maybe.
Ugliest thing ever
I'm a bit curious though .... it is unclear, did you design the theme or was a 'pre-made' theme used ?
It's pretty clear they do not care about being honest on record. Nor do we do anything about it when we find them in a lie.
All registrars are required to do that currently as part of ICANN's WHOIS Data Reminder Policy: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/consensus-polic...

Those were basically a way to nudge name holders to ensure the details they provided were correct to minimise the chances to people lodging WHOIS inaccuracy complaints with registrars or directly with ICANN. See here: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/regi...

What's changed is that the Law Enforcement Agencies have pushed to make registrars be proactive in checking that any contact information is accurate rather than reactive in response to complaints. It's likely going to push up domain costs quite a bit. Here's what registrars on the 2013 RAA are required to do: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/raa/approved-wi...
No, you're actually making the mistake of conflating China with the rest of Asia. Japan, which also has a high-context culture, has paid upfront for games for decades. And it wasn't just that free-to-play games were popular in China first, it's that paid games could never turn a profit because people would pirate them. There's a huge difference between people not using a product and people using it without paying for it.

The primary reason why free-to-play games became popular in the West is because the $0.99 floor that Apple set for the App Store drove consumer psychology regarding app purchases, which made it difficult to turn a profit in any other way. Just take a look at Steam to see how much money is being made from non-freemium games.
They did the same with clojure videos a year ago.
Presumably they still reward good performance though, so writers are still incentivized to attempt to get good pageviews, even if they cannot know the exact numbers themselves (and they can probably get reasonable estimates by watching mentions in social media)
> The only things that have changed are access to such ideas and the volume of our records.

Both of those definitely changed; unlike some of the other things you say, this is not ridiculous. However, I can easily imagine finding in, say, the personal correspondence of Archimedes, a statement like "this idiot tried to show me another squaring-the-circle proof again". We do preserve personal correspondence in ancient records, and that sort of thing doesn't require a lot of access.

> No harm in being wrong on the internet.

http://www.mamapedia.com/article/mmr-vaccination

Money quote: "I have really close friends who swear that within 24 hours of the MMR their child had symptoms of autism"

> Politeness is more important than rightness as a rule to enforce.

It's better to be right. Enforcement of politeness greatly retards, and can prevent, the discovery / acknowledgement of rightness.

> Rightness sorts itself out among able and interested parties.

This can be tautologically true, depending on your definition of "able". It's very clear that rightness does not sort itself out among interested parties, and they can be harmed thereby.
Amen.

I would argue that it's not even clear how the market would respond to this, and yet the pro-neutrality camp paint a picture of corporate apocalypse. This seems reasonable to me:

Neutrality rules are repealed. Some ISPs begin discriminating against certain publishers that do not pay up, but can use the payments to subsidize reductions in cost of consumer access. The "multitudes" of neutrality proponents begin demanding undiscriminated connections, calling for boycotts, switching to providers that offer such connections. Neutrality activists develop tools to compare and publicize connection rates to different publishers through different ISPs. Small-time providers form associations to raise awareness of the issue as well. Ethical marketing comes into play as some ISPs and some big publishers reject connection rate differentiation. Some ISPs that also own publishing properties are caught or implied to be preferring their own content over competitors, drawing political attention. In some areas, net neutrality laws (not just "rules") are passed, which is a draw for startups. Meanwhile, many who had no home connectivity in the past are now able to afford the "subsidized/sponsored" service level.

What irks me about the middle-class idealogues raising a fuss about this now is that they arbitrarily draw the line of equality around big corporations, with little attention given to the fact that service is tiered at all. If it doesn't make sense for small publishers to be penalized for not ponying up, it should make even less sense for certain individuals in society to be penalized for not being able to afford anything more than dial-up or basic DSL. Going further, it should be more appalling that the most financially under-resourced can't even afford the most basic service level, and live without any internet participation. Instead, they prefer corporations to carry the costs of keeping the level field artificially level, while doing nothing to help those below them have the same level of access they do.
If you purchased this with a credit card, you may be able to use the card's warranty. Many credit cards come with an extended warranty service and dispute resolution/fraud protection as a customer incentive (in addition to their points/frequent flier miles/whatever). Even if this is not covered under your card's extended warranty, talking with your credit card company may allow you get the charges reversed.
I had my laptop searched during this time by a CBP officer at the US border in Calgary airport. There was no documentation of the event and the only 'receipt' I got was a pamphlet telling me that it was legal and what my rights were (none really).

My point is I highly doubt the extent is as little as 1,000 as most searches are not logged.

(I'm not a US Citizen, so my rights were further limited given US had no obligation to let me in)
Well the soviet sleepers where trying to make Friends and contacts with people in government so if a congressman or Senator had an "aide" like "Katia" Zatuliveter an Aide to the MP for Portsmouth who is on the defense committee

I bet the FBI counter espionage guys would be interested

And in the Past MI5 did catch a US diplomat working for the nazi's s well as catching an MP spying for the opposition John Stone House for the STB.
ICANN charges 22 cents per domain. What would you propose the price be lowered to?
Things people say at early stages of tech companies:

Facebook... it's just a way to create a profile of yourself and share pictures and messages. Color me unimpressed!

Tumblr... it's just a basic blogging platform... nothing new? Color me unimpressed!

Twitter... it's a 140 character status updates? Color me unimpressed!
I think the point it to avoid having to trust the server. If you can trust the server not to do malicious things with the data, then you can do any number of techniques.

This post is about how to do contact lookup without having to trust the server to maintain privacy.
6 things SaaS founders should keep in mind in 2014
They get a really high CPM for the ads they place, so it's not all about the pageviews. If you wrote a bunch of linkbait or put a few slideshows up there, they might not have the same audience, and therefore wouldn't get the same CPMs they're getting now.

So not knowing the pageview count might actually help in the case of PandoDaily.
In a similar vein, I remember a class trip on a Ferry from Seattle to Vancouver back in the 80s. There was a change machine that would give you four quarters for a dollar so that you could play video games.

It seemed smart, as it would give you the same four quarters if you used a Canadian Dollar or an American one. Or maybe not, as one kid found out when he stuck a $5 bill in and got 4 quarters.

Being 12, and therefore far more clever than the designers of this machine, the kids then proceeded to cut our a few thousand little rectangular strips of paper, roughly dollar sized, and clean that poor machine out.

And being 12, and having Ms PacMan machines as the only way of disposing of that giant sack of quarters, when it became apparent that there was no way to spend them fast enough, it naturally degenerated into a game of "Throw the quarter in the Ocean".
The BlackBerry Q10[1] is the most unique smartphone on the market due to it's touch display and physical keyboard. And although I'm now rocking a Z30, the Q10 is still probably my favorite.

[1]http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-q10.html
I said the point was to have an answer on record. The point is not to have the truth on record; that has never been useful.
Can that rate of progress be sustained or is this a 'path dependence' sort of thing where niches get filled early on? I have no idea but would appreciate views