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Developer Community Manager Internships and Full-Time with Blockspring
We're looking for developers to help Blockspring organize the world's code and make it accessible to everyone.

We have a giant list of APIs and functions we'd like to get onto the Blockspring platform. You'll be writing functions or adding API wrappers in Python, Ruby, R, PHP, or Node, and creating / publishing blog posts to highlight your work!

Here's an example post we recently published: https://api.blockspring.com/blog/turn-twitter-into-a-spreads.... <-- that highlights ~10 functions created in Python. But the cool part is these functions enable just about anyone to get started with the Twitter API in 30 seconds (programmer or not)!

If you're interested in helping Blockspring organize the world's code and make it accessible to everyone - email paul@blockspring.com.

The internship position is unpaid and can be remote.

The full-time opportunity is available for experienced developer community managers in San Francisco. More info on that position here: https://jobs.lever.co/blockspring/814c7504-d6c9-42d5-9ab4-77...
Another London startup story: https://medium.com/@buro9/the-journey-of-a-london-startup-wh...

We had 50k users, some revenue (meeting our targets for that point) and the growth we had projected for that moment in time. We failed to raise money to get us past the end of our runway though.

Annoyingly, whilst the startup failed the product is still growing as an open source thing. It now has over 75k active users and has multiple installed instances.
SCAM ALERT: BTC Gaw scam is latest in long line of Bitcoin scams
-pedantic mode-

BMPEA is by definition not an amphetamine. Amphetamine is a contraction of Alpha-Methyl PHenEThylAMINE, BMPEA is beta-methyl.

But I guess saying 'Amphetamine' will get you more clicks than 'Phenethylamine', even though Phenethylamine is the wider class....
Yes was my thought also but put glasses on this workaround is even better, as it may scrow up more ssl certs from other domains.
7 Counterproductive Pranks You're Playing on Your VA and Remote Team
It's a very different kettle of fish. In the UK, investment in tech startups is pretty barren - investment tends to be placed more readily with traditional engineering ventures - weapons, aerospace, material products - but for software... not so much - or at any rate, not in the model of angel rounds, etc.

The scene in the UK is rather more "be bought" - people aren't anywhere near as willing to pour capital into a business, and instead prefer to buy equity from founders. Dragons Den is a good take - large amounts of equity, low valuations, founders selling chunks of their company far more for the expertise and connections and clients of the investor than for the money.

I'm not really too sure where this difference in culture arises from - I suppose in some ways business in the UK is far more conservative, less ebullient, and still dominated by an almost Victorian attitude to business relationships and social status.

Edit: Worth mentioning, I suppose - run a (not so startup any more, we're nine this year) in the UK, sold a minority stake a few years ago to a well aligned investor-partner who's a few years "up the curve" from us. Happened in the way these things do when they actually happen - we weren't looking, they approached us, we bit their arm off, and haven't looked back.
I Hate Paying by the Hour and Why You Should Pay Virtual Assistants a Flat Fee
What is shocking is that they still haven't found the way to properly fix it after 3 days.

I updated some SSL certificates last week (which even required contortions such as moving to a new issuer since some legacy software requires old-style SHA-1 signed ones which our current one doesn't provide), and it didn't take more than one (long) day of work.
> "Home server compatible" routers would be nice.

ASUS RT-N56U. Got one at home. It can update dynamic DNS for you (most unbranded routers can), but then goes on to add a USB port and a few "apps." One of them is a file storage host, and even file syncing (DropBox-like) app that runs from your own home.

Learn to say no to the equipment that your ISP offers you, the reason it's "free" is because it's trash.
>> Whether legalization will provide a net health benefit for American citizens is still a point of contention.

Might end up with a few less killed violently.
Might end up with more money to spend on social programs instead of militarised police.
Might end up with much more tax from economic activity brought out of the black market.
Might end up with less contaminated produce.

All of these could end up being better for the health of American citizens.

And even if not you're bringing your problems in-house rather than shipping them off to poorer places and causing suffering there.
F--k. The Game
I wonder if browsers should for (say) a week after a cert has expired, show an error so alarms are raised, but allow the dialog to be dismissed with an OK instead of all the "Confirm Security Exception" that would go on for a more serious cert rejection.
Personally I don't get contracts when they aren't used for static verification.

It's much easier to use defensive coding techniques at runtime without having yet another framework in there that anyone who wants to read the code has to learn. Typing a few lines less is not really a benefit when it basically increases code complexity.
I know someone who does this. It works really well for him.

My friend Luke Crawford - no obvious relation - owns http://prgmr.com/ a Xen VM and colocation hosting service.

Most of his staff does tech support, but he also needs help setting up new VMs, dealing with stuff like live migration when he installs new boxen and takes old ones out of service.

One of his very best employees is a Vietnamese citizen. He worked for Luke in Silicon Valley for a while, then went back to Vietnam, where he works remotely.

A while back I stumbled across a picture of what Ho Chi Minh city looks like today.

My father was a US Naval Officer who did a tour of duty in Saigon, as well as served as a missile fire control officer aboard the USS Providence.

When I saw that recent picture of Ho Chi Minh City, I did not expect to see a whole bunch of gleaming skyscrapers.

The Vietnamese weren't really looking for Communism. What they were looking for, was independence. When they finally got that they became the very best friends with the West.
"I think the future may consist of Life-Work balance where one's life outside of work, is greater than their work."

Why future? A lot of people do that just now.
Read up on Jack3D and some of the substances it contains
When will we legalize the hard drugs? Treating drug users is better than criminalizing them. I always compare drugs being illegal to the alcohol ban in the 1930s and the mafia like Alcopone that rose during that time. Legalizing all drugs is the way forward. Drug money is corrupting police and financing weapons for terror organizations.
WTF, changing your PC date is not a solution! This will cause more issues.
Show HN: Sketching and messaging = Sketchat
Building a tabs component in Angular 2
Note that U.S. "legalization" != legalization either, since federal drug laws still apply.
To the mac guys in here, I thought that Fluid[0] was used a lot on the OSX world for creating chromeless apps for websites. Isn't that the case anymore?

[0]: http://fluidapp.com/
That is by far not the job of a browser to remind server administrators to renew there certs and display that message to random users.
I really miss jack3d's DMAA recipe. QQ
Linux Australia hacked, personal details exposed
Funny how i just spend a few minutes reading something about a company, followed a few links and all I know is that the founders like sunglasses. No idea what they are doing.
FBI warns of attacks against WordPress-based sites run by ISIS sympathizers
There is a link to download the music of the ASCII credits at the end ? I really like it.

Also, I would like to propose a little challenge. What do you think that could do you archive on this "virtual" computer :

- Specs : https://github.com/trillek-team/trillek-computer

- Implementation/Emulator : https://github.com/trillek-team/trillek-vcomputer-module

In a short resume :

- 32 bit RISC CPU running at 100KHz (to 1MHz)

- CGA like text mode, but can be remaped to any desired RAM address and the font can be changed on the fly. Fixed palette of 16 colours

- VSync interrupt + two timers

- 128KiB of RAM (to 1MiB)

- Floppy drive (max 1.2 MiB)

Extra : Displaying it against a Commodore 1084S monitor -> http://imgur.com/GuTVEdj
Yes, that would be very cool. And I say that as a happy OS X user. Competition in that space would be good for the customers. Unfortunately all the workstation companies went down the drain. SGI, Sun, etc. But who knows what the future holds in store?
How to Have a Successful Web Design Business
I agree. I think there was never a major iOS release that didn't break things in my app. Really basic stuff like a text input for example.
The issue is with HSTS. If you've visited the site before you've likely cached that SSL is required and your browser will refuse to connect. Using e.g. a 'private window' will allow it to be bypassed.
Indeed, what a silly workaround.
ahaha no way
Ah this brings back memories! I happened to go to the Be developer conference back in summer 1996 - didn't know anyone, wasn't even a developer, just a curious high schooler interning at a mac user group down in LA. Hopped on an airplane alone to come out to San Jose because why not?

I remember talking to some Apple exec sitting next to me in the presentation room as some Be people finished their speech. I asked about their prospects and he said something like 'yeah its been tough for us but Gil Amelio is going to turn things around'. Gil had just joined as CEO back in February. I remember thinking that the guy didn't sound like he really believed what he was saying though - there was a a certain resignation, or just a moment where he didn't feel he had to keep the 'everythings great' performance up for a high school kid. After the NeXT acquisition I remember thinking about this guy and that he probably didn't have a job anymore. Who knows, maybe that was actually Jonny Ive.

At the conference there was a whole group of Apple people checking things out and talking to everyone. I don't remember if it was public knowledge that they were negotiating with Be at the time, but it was no secret why they were there. There was a lot of excitement among the developers there, but also a lot of trepidation - there was just loose talk of being useful for really specialized AV fields but no path or believable / clear idea of how this could go to mass market. Even a 15 year old knew that. Plus, Microsoft was unstoppable back then. A fair amount of talk among the devs was about how this could be the next Apple OS, and I think that's what excited people. But everything hinged on acquisition.

Afterwards I think I exchanged a few emails with Dominic, because I was interested in BeFS. I didn't really know how to talk to him so I think I just offered him access to my mp3 server. Meanwhile when I got back to the mac user group, I installed the developer preview CD on some PowerComputing macs we had and they just transformed into beasts. BeOS was otherworldly, using it felt like you were 5 years in the future but in an alternative universe (full of tiny yellow title bars). Because all of the apps were just apps to show off Be's capabilities, it was also vaguely reminiscent of the 90s demoscene, with Be one-upping Future Crew by dropping an entire OS.

History shows NeXT was the right move. But Be... they were something special.
What do you mean? Are Apple not complying with the tax law?
I appreciate the feedback here. I agree that there are tons of services that will help you increase with dodgy followers. However, that's a different market.
I don't agree. If this happens, same rule should apply for domain name expiration.
On my view, probably the two main differences.

1- No unicorns

"Given the weak public market for young companies in Europe, the primary avenue for their exit is a trade sale (merger or acquisition) rather than an IPO. Moreover, there is compelling evidence that exits via trade sales are, in general, not as lucrative as exits via IPOs. Thus, it has been argued, a key reason why VC firms in Europe underperform their American counterparts is the absence of a stock market that is eager to trade the shares of new companies."

2- No former entrepreneurs VC's

"Success breeds success: many American venture capitalists have run start-ups themselves. European ones tend to be bankers and lawyers with little operational experience and less appetite for risk. That is why they have focused on more mature companies rather than on young start-ups… And it is why Europe’s new angels are determined to focus on infant firms."
Evolution of painting colors with R programming language
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It's just embarrassing.

I can only assume the sysop is on holiday.
RecordSure – artificial intelligence to restore trust to Pensions and Annuities
Thanks. that clarifies a lot.
Template for Business and Corporate Websites
The headline parses wrong. The sub-heading is correct:

FBI is warning that individuals sympathetic to the ISIS are running mass-hacking websites exploiting known vulnerabilities in WordPress.

(I.e. these attacked WordPress-based sites are not run by ISIS sympathizers; it's that ISIS sympathizers might attack just about any WordPress site that is vulnerable.)
Congress must end mass NSA surveillance with next Patriot Act vote
I can't help but notice the motto:

Enjoy the simplicity
Wikipedia:

>The Organization of American States estimated that the revenue for cocaine sales in the U.S. was $34 billion in 2013. The Office of National Drug Control Policy estimates that $100 billion worth of illegal drugs were sold in the U.S. in 2013

34 sounds more realistic to me
Any chance you could provide standard Debian builds rather than Ubuntu specific?
Carbon3d demonstrated a new 3D-Printer at the 2015 edition of the TED
That really doesn't come as a surprise in the U.S : one must only observe what happened at the Prohibition.
> Using e.g. a 'private window' will allow it to be bypassed

In Firefox, yes. But not in Chrome (in my experience).
I think the UK is catching up. TechCrunch has some good stats [0] -- from that piece: London startups received $1.35BN in VC in 2014; US-based Internet companies took $11.9BN that same year. A big gap, definitely, but I wouldn't say barren.

In my experience, it's true that the UK tended more towards the "buy a stake in the business" mindset rather than the Valley-style "invest in this startup for a future exit" mindset... but that's been changing for a few years, and change is accelerating (more seed-stage funds, more tech-savvy angels). But yeah, the Valley-style mindset isn't evenly distributed yet.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/02/londons-startups-hit-a-high...
Strange that he mentions a 101 Dalmatians film in 1985. I can't remember that and wikipedia knows nothing about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_and_One_Dalmatians...

The 1961 film was actually rereleased in 1979. That fits better with my childhood memories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSF3qlTNbOA
Because it's kind of completely ridiculous; both the problem and the proposed solution.
i binge buy from amazon and i have eclectic tastes - i don't have a tv and i don't like reading from electronic devices YMMV. Looking up at my bookcase shelf: Triumph of the City - Glaus, Time Enough for Love - Heinlein, We The Navigators, Strength to Love - Martin Luther King, The Filmmakers Handbook, Schaums's Mathematica, Other People's Wars - Hager, What if?, The Fiery Trial, The Difference Engine, Robert's Rules of Order, The Swerve.

This should take me a couple months.
Fluidapp browser engine is old and doesn't support things like WebRTC, Web Workers, or modern HTML5 specs. NW.js is based on Chromium so it is basically riding the state-of-the-art wave... you can even pass chrome-flags during compilation for building experimental features.. It's much more powerful...

I'm halfway of building a nw.js FOSS version of fluidapp that acts as wrapper for modern webapps. =)
Can Former Entrepreneurs Sucessfully Compete in the Job Market?
GitHub #gitmerge Livestream
Take a look at https://letsencrypt.org/ which will (mid-year) let you get a cert from the command, for free!, and automatically renew it as well.
Well there is a link on the word 'startup' right at the beginning pointing to: http://www.goodaudience.com
This looks interesting. Couldn't figure it out right from the FAQ: If SSLMate is a single-command buy & install, where do the certificate details (company name etc.) come from? From my profile on the website?
There was a dry town in Oregon a while back:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth,_Oregon

My recollection is that there were accidents outside of town because students would drive somewhere else to drink and then drive back.
I understand where the EFF are coming from, but I wish they'd focus their efforts on things that matter, rather than on preserving toys.
I have three main concerns - one is that the original package authors get credit... Right now it looks like you're obscuring that by totally replacing the original import path with your own (leaving out the github username).

They get credit in README (the upstream path is there), on the website description of package, and, of course, their LICENSE, AUTHORS, CONTRIBUTORS files are all there. We do not want to take any credit from them.

Second is that I worry that bugs won't get filled against the original repos for people using your version.

We'll do it for them! When a StableLib subscriber reports a bug to us, after confirming it, we will file the bug upstream (possibly even a pull request fixing it), and: a) if the bug is critical or security related, and the patch is available — it gets applied to StableLib immediately, b) if the bug is minor or we couldn't figure out how to fix it ourselves, we wait until the upstream fixes it, and backport the fix to our version.

In fact, we will recommend ourselves as the first point of contact in case of a bug instead of upstream, and do all the upstream bug reporting/relations ourselves. This way upstream package authors won't be bothered if the bug report is invalid, or if the bug doesn't apply to their version.

Finally, I'd be worried about your version of packages drifting away from the original due to change in one or the other that the other party doesn't agree with.

I'd prefer to keep the package as close to the original as possible — it's in our best interest, as merges/backports are easier if it's so. In any debate, the author always wins (if their view won't damage security of package).

And then as a package author, it reflects badly on my project if your version of my library breaks, even if it's not my fault.

That's why StableLib subscribers would first report bug to us.

Thank you for your great points! This will help us with creating a FAQ.
Right connections or a good pitch? Which can take your startup further
Alas, in this imperfect world, phone calls from random users are how server admins are notified of cert expiry.
Yet a cookie warning pops up.
The only 'problem' now are the 'drug' dealers on so many corners of downtown Lisbon who sell fake drugs to tourists. They come up in your face and try to sell to you a few times per day and it's really annoying. Now, I spot them from far away and already make the no signal with my index finger w/o looking at them, but this doesn't always work. Once I was way in the back of a restaurant but with a clear view of the front door/street. One such dealer stopped at the entrance and pointed to his nose (to mimick snorting) until I shook my head so he'd go away. Since they sell fake drugs (basically to tourists but also they try with locals), the police can't do anything.

A minor problem, all in all, considering what has changed here regarding decriminalization, but thought I'd share.
How Flipkart, Mu Sigma and Inmobi are making the transition into the big leagues
Why do you think current employees don't get stock?
The new secret to preventing a heart attack?
Show HN: Android app to run your chitfund business
Why forbid trade?
You can crash someone's browser, but that's actually already pretty easy to do with some javascript that eats a bunch of resources. Chrome doesn't even consider DoS to be a security issue because there's just nothing they'll ever be able to do about it anyhow

They could implement resource limits and stop consuming more resources once those limits are reached.
how about when I have the game but cannot play it on my current machine because the OS doesn't support it any longer? Example, many games require Rosetta to be available on OS X but that support was dropped ages ago.

If they can modify at any time my usage of the game then as consumers why would we not simply modify the situation to never pay them for their products?
Thank you, I will check with this configuration.

Edit: should be fixed now.
Because people are forgetting that the first rule of Hacker News is that no fun is allowed.
What the founders of Baazee, Indiagames and redBus are doing after their exits
Like so many things, I found that by accident.

I also found editing you command and search history in vim by accident.

:q will quit the editor.

q: will open a buffer with a history of your vim commands, which are navigable and editable. Edit a command, then enter and it's executed.

In command history edit mode, :q to exit that mode.

q/ works for searches.
Haven't been to Hackathon but Defcon.

This is just my personal guide upon arrival:

1>Turn OFF wifi

2>Turn OFF bluetooth

3>If someone touched me, check immediately if something strange attached.

4>Never connect to Defcon Wifi,

5>Make sure my dial tone is mule if I have to call,

6>Make sure you have fun. Most people there are nice and knowledgeable.
"Having no soul" is considered a required attribute for a managing roles in some companies.
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You touched the exact reason I don't use stackoverflow careers. Everybody there expects higher quality developers and all of them offer a "competitive salary". Why would I waste my time applying.

If you want better quality, offer something better in return. Offer an amazing salary. Double the market. Triple. Fuck it, a truckload of money and 72 new virgins every day. Something that justifies your increased demands and expectations. Until then, the traditional route works better for me too. Because I get the exact same "competitive offer", but employer expectations are normal instead of stupid.
That was, at one time, the way it was commonly done.

Now we have the App Store.

My gripe about the App Store, is that were I to publish my iOS App there, then for someone to download it from the App Store would be to promote Apple's business interests far, far more than my own.

No doubt you've all seen "Download it at the App Store" or "Get It A Google Play" graphic links. No doubt many of you use such links to promote your own products. No doubt many of you earn some coin by doing so.

But those links are increasing Apple's and Google's link popularity - their SEO.

While strictly speaking, your pages on the app stores will have links to your own website. How many referrals do you actually get? How much pagerank do you get as a result?

I'm quite close to finishing Warp Life, an iOS App, but I am hesitant to publish it at all for this specific reason. Really what I might do is to publish only the source code, as well as instructions for installing it on your own device.
Yeah, right next to Waldo :D
A bit of context: these models are used in countless of computer graphics publications. Try a image search for "Stanford Bunny" for example.
For domain validated certificates those details are often ignored, only the domain name is part of the final certificate.
We are also using backbone + marionette combo successfully and still very happy to do so.
In this "imperfect" world nowadays eveyone try to ship his responsability to someone else.